Oppenheimer Trailer
“Oppenheimer” centers around the legacy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Murphy), who is credited as the inventor of the atomic bomb. Based on the biographical novel “American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer,” the film follows the physicist as he works alongside a team of government scientists to develop nuclear weapons in the early 1940s.It looks at the key players of the Manhattan Project, as portrayed by a star-studded cast including Cillian Murphy, Florence Pugh, Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr., Matt Damon, Leslie Groves Jr. and Tom Conti, who appears briefly as a somber looking Albert Einstein.
Transcript
00:00 This is a national emergency.
00:02 Detonator's charged.
00:05 We're in a race against the Nazis.
00:20 And I know what it means...
00:24 if the Nazis have a bomb.
00:27 If the Nazis have a bomb.
00:29 We have a 12-month head start.
00:33 Eighteen.
00:34 How could you possibly know that?
00:36 We've got one hope.
00:38 All America's industrial might and scientific innovation connected here.
00:43 A secret laboratory.
00:45 Keep everyone there until it's dark.
00:49 Let's go recruit some scientists.
00:55 Build a town, build it fast.
00:57 If we don't let scientists bring their families, we'll never get the best.
01:01 Why would we go to the middle of nowhere...
01:05 for who knows how long?
01:08 Why? Why?
01:11 How about because this is the most important thing to ever happen in the history of the world?
01:16 You're the great improviser, but this...
01:22 you can't do in your head.
01:24 Are we saying there's a chance that when we push that button...
01:28 we destroy the world?
01:31 Chances are near zero.
01:33 Near zero.
01:35 What do you want for the theory of love?
01:37 Zero would be nice.
01:39 This is a matter of life and death.
01:46 I can perform this miracle.
01:51 World War II would be over.
01:53 Our boys would come home.
01:55 That's happening, isn't it?
01:58 The world...
02:03 will remember this day.
02:06 Our work here...
02:10 will ensure a peace mankind has never seen.
02:14 Until somebody builds a bigger world.
02:20 I'm not going to let you do that.
02:22 You are the man who gave them the power to destroy themselves.
02:29 And the world is not prepared.
02:32 Eight...
02:41 seven...
02:43 six...
02:45 five...
02:47 four...
02:49 three...
02:50 Truman needs to know what's next.
02:51 two...
02:52 What's next?
02:53 one...
02:54 (dramatic music)
02:56 [BLANK_AUDIO]