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Sheril Kirshenbaum Aug 2, 2023

"Christopher Nolan's #Oppenheimer explores the work of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer & colleagues to create the atomic bomb.

Yet, the film fails to depict a key part of the story, using 2 female scientists as stand-ins for ALL of the women who contributed."

Hundreds of women were essential to the Manhattan Project, including Nobel Prize winning physicist Maria Goeppert Mayer. But they are largely absent in the #film.

https://www.businessinsider.com/women-manhattan-project-christopher-nolan-oppenheimer-completely-ignored-2023-7 #HistoryRemix #science #history

The women that Nolan's new film 'Oppenheimer' completely ignored

Women serving in key roles like explosion techs, librarians, and hematologists were essential to the Manhattan Project.

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TheLastStraw Aug 2, 2023

@Sheril I'm probably too stupid in modern terminology to understand this point. Wasn't the movie about physicist Robert J Oppenheimer? So understandably it would be about Oppenheimer and his contribution to the Manhattan project no?

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Dan Herbert

@Custmzir @Sheril I think the criticism is that this film purportedly claims to be authentic and mostly historically accurate. By reducing all women on the project to a few stand-ins, it's yet another historical drama that makes it seem like women weren't really present. Nolan's films tend to have a lot of cultural influence so it has a big impact on people's memory of the event.