Oppenheimer Film Score - Check out an Official Behind the Scenes Featurette for Oppenheimer starring Cillian Murphy!
US Release Date: July 21, 2023
Starring: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr.
Director : Christopher Nolan
Synopsis: Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer works with a team of scientists to develop the atomic bomb.
US Release Date: July 21, 2023
Starring: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr.
Director : Christopher Nolan
Synopsis: Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer works with a team of scientists to develop the atomic bomb.
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00:00 This is a national emergency.
00:02 Detonator's charged!
00:04 As soon as I read the script, I'm putting the pieces together in my mind.
00:16 For Oppenheimer, we had a meeting and we started talking about
00:24 different approaches and
00:26 different types of
00:28 musical ideas.
00:30 The film score grew very organically, very gradually from the smallest elements and I
00:36 had no preconceptions about the music for the film.
00:39 Sometimes you have an idea for the soundscape of the world or the rhythm of it and sometimes you don't and in this case all
00:43 I had that I gave a little bit was the idea of basing the score on the violin.
00:47 There's so much in the performance of the violin, but within seconds you can go from something
00:57 beautiful to something completely horrifying. And there's a tension to the sound in a way that I think fits the highly strong
01:04 intellect and emotion of Robert Oppenheimer very well.
01:07 And that's just the organic part of it, that's just the strings. And then what comes on later is the production and the synthesizers.
01:26 I think every process of scoring is different if it's to be tailored
01:31 correctly to the demands of a new project. And this was a type of film I hadn't made before and it was a type of music
01:37 that I hadn't worked with before.
01:39 A lot of things you do in the beginning is about experimenting and see where you can take things.
01:45 We would take his experiments and we would put them to picture and edit them and try different things and
01:51 show it to Ludwig and he would go and bring more things to the table.
01:55 Oppenheimer is a visual
01:57 masterpiece, you know, I'd never seen that kind of intimate portrayal of a character on IMAX.
02:03 That's the sixth of Oppenheimer theme. I felt like this movie was really pushing the boundaries in so many different fields.
02:11 So I wanted to see how we can do that with music as well.
02:20 I think Ludwig's work in the film is both deeply personal and
02:24 historically expansive. I think it really achieves an
02:28 enormous amount of the effect of drawing the audience into the emotional dilemmas of the characters.
02:34 I think he's really put together a very remarkable score.
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