Christopher Nolan explains why you might struggle to hear the dialogue in ‘Oppenheimer’
nme.comChristopher Nolan has explained why some audience members may have difficulty hearing the dialogue in Oppenheimer.The movie, which stars Cillian Murphy as Robert J.
Oppenheimer — the real-life American physicist who played a pivotal role in the creation of the atomic bomb — has received rave reviews and become a box office hit, but some fans have raised complaints about the film’s sound quality.Nolan’s films have long been criticised for hard-to-hear dialogue, with The Dark Knight Rises and Tenet being two notable examples.
However, the director has now revealed that there are a couple of reasons why you may struggle to hear some of the speech in his films.Firstly, Nolan uses large IMAX cameras, which aren’t fully soundproof.
Speaking to Insider, the director explained that improvements have been made to the technology in recent years, but that they haven’t been fully perfected yet in terms of their noise levels.“There are certain mechanical improvements,” said Nolan. “And actually, IMAX is building new cameras right now which are going to be even quieter.
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