Oppenheimer’s grandson criticises apple scene in Christopher Nolan film
nme.comChristopher Nolan‘s biopic is the scene with the poison apple.At one moment in the film, J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) is seen injecting an apple intended for his professor with poison, before having a change of heart and throwing it away.Nolan drew heavily from the 2005 biography American Prometheus, which suggests Oppenheimer could have been a murderer, but admits it is uncertain and there is no historical record of it happening.“When I talked to Chris Nolan, at one point he said something roughly like, ‘I know how to tell a story out of this subject.
There are going to be parts that you have to dramatize a bit and parts that are changed. As family members, I think you’re going to like some parts and dislike some parts,'” Charles Oppenheimer told TIME.“That’s probably led into my acceptance of the movie, even though I saw it very late, just when it came out.
As a dramatized representation of the history, it was really largely accurate. There are parts that I disagree with, but not really because of Nolan.He continued: “The part I like the least is this poison apple reference, which was a problem in American Prometheus.
If you read American Prometheus carefully enough, the authors say, ‘We don’t really know if it happened.’ There’s no record of him trying to kill somebody.
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