If Christopher Nolan used stock footage of the Trinity explosion and enhanced it and added it in his film, it would have made it 100% legit.

That is exactly how Nolan should have done that. Use the original footage, enhanced and colorized. Perfect!

The thing is the dynamite explosion looks like the explosions we've all seen before, just _more of it._ Something about nuclear explosions just hit different; it isn't just the size, but the fact that something that big has one cohesive shape to it; it isnt 100 explosions stacking on top of each other, it is a titanic singularity among us mortals

THIS! This is what the film needed, not 6 barrels of gasoline.

the movies explosion is breathtaking in its own right, but in the context of this test it just didn't feel big enough. this is really really good. Nolan should have used the real footage, and maybe use his own explosion only for the close-ups to have more detail.

And now Oppenheimer become death, the destroyer of worlds.

I was disappointed with Nolan's explosion. It's a shame because everything else about the scene was pure perfection. The build up and tension was incredible and I greatly appreciated the sound delay for the blast wave. His explosion looked like a generic "Die Hard" action movie type explosion... like they farted some gasoline, lit it on fire, and slowed down the footage. No pressure wave was visible - no plasma ball shape - the iconic mushroom cloud shape struggled to form properly - and you could clearly see individual fire embers/particles which would not be possible at that scale, let alone from 10+ km away. As adamant as Nolan was to not use CGI... he definitely should have for this set-piece. It's not like he's never used CGI before... his black hole scene in Interstellar was completely CGI and it still looks timeless and iconic a decade later. His explosion in Oppenheimer however... it already looks outdated and poorly aged. People have a stigma for CGI because companies abuse/exploit artists to rush out crap CGI with strict deadlines. If CGI is well executed, it is just as artistic and timeless as practical effects. Smoke and fire simulations are really good now days with significant advances in technology. Even if he didn't want to do the scene as completely CG, at the very least he should've kept the base of the footage practical and added CGI upon the footage to beef it up and make it look larger. Either that or actually denote a smaller MOAB explosion (obviously he couldn't do a real nuke), but a MOAB explosion in slo-mo could've been a better representation for the scale of the actual Trinity test - rather than a few barrels of gasoline.

This is really more scary than in the Movie.

Interestingly the historical footage could have still fit into "practical effects" since it's, you know, a real bomb. The launch scene from First Man did a good job at showing you can mix historical footage with the film and it can hold up. I still must give Nolan credit though he did not hold back on the bright white undiffused light and the sound of the shockwave.

the imax movie theater made it more dramatic- they shook you to the core.

In was in that moment he knew this planet was f*ucked

it is much better than the original scene from the movie 👍👍👍 good job !!!

This was my only criticism of a masterpiece of a motion picture. Nothing can capture the raw power and horror of an atomic blast like the archival footage. Some of the shots in the movie are clear nods to the Trinity footage, but using the actual footage, melded so it looked like the rest of the film, would have been better. Many thanks to who posted this

They would have saved a fortune using this old footage and it looked better

Personally I'd have gone with a shot of the film camera (standing in for the one that filmed the actual footage) and then cut to the un 'edited' footage all shaky and black and white and just shown it as what the camera in the scene would be recording. No need to worry about how different the footage looks to all the super sharp 70mm imax shots that way.

Yes yes yes!!! This is what the movie needed. The whole movie hinged around this moment and it was so underwhelming. I don't care what you do with dummy test and clever camera tricks, can't replace the real thing. They Should've used the real footage.

On first watch in the theaters, I really did enjoy the explosion. However on later watches, the explosion is definitely lacking in size and threat (the opposite of what Nolan intended by using practical effects instead of CGI). If only the test footage was higher quality for it to be incorporated into the film.

When watching the movie for the first time and the huge shockwave sound came in after silence for so long I nearly crapped myself

if I have never seen the movie before and you showed me this and the actual movie explosion, I would have thought this was the real cut and the actual movie cut to be some sort of joke.

For all the amazement of the movie, Noaln REALLY fudged the ending, a weak explosion and also the actual setup for the bombs being used. Didn't have to make it about them dropping, but the scene of the planes going or some such, anything like that to drive home what was going to transpire, even if Opp himself did not witness it.

No one would've held it against him for using the original footage of the real Trinity test. Surely.

I dont think ive ever heard so many people be so silent in a single room before..

0:39 was that Electrical discharge !? Like when Volcano Ash is so Great and dense it creates Static Discharges or “dirt Lightning” 🤷‍♂️

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This is soooo much better. Nolan could have had a team work on restoring thes images for posterity, then he could have spliced in some close ups from his gasoline explosion. I can't imagine anyone complaining against him using OG footage... The movie of course is amazing, the editing is amazing, and through this, once again Nolan shows us his masterey of time.

I hated the explosion in the movie, all hype for 6 barrels of gasoline… This is so much better, they should've just used the real footage!

This is the moment they realized what they did, terrifying scene

Beautifully made! I’d be interested to see a follow up when ai is able to enhance the visual quality of the footage and it matches in detail with what is shown in the actual film. Amazing editing!

Just look so much better. Nolan's looks blatantly like several hollywood fuel barrels exploding building away away rather than nuclear explosion miles away. His no-CGI policy obsession derailed perfect built up.

I think most of us truly understand the full scope of what this event entails.

Exactly what gives meaning to the rest of the film.

There are only two races on the planet that matter, the human race and the arms race and one day, one will cancel the other.

Why couldn't we get the actual explotion or somthing similar to it in this scene I know its Imax and and its different type of film and special effects to other types of camera filming, and special effects, but still they could have done better with the explotion in some way even if they had to diffrent special effects and animation outside of Imax, cause many people would have love the trinity explotion to be as realistic as possible. Cause what we go was not really as great as we all wanted it to be well just poor all the explotion looked like was semi fuel truck blowing up on a highway bridge.

Although I prefer the " Fat Man and Little Boy" scene over Oppenheimer's, your edit was well done.

I like how they got the sounds timing correct, You dont hear anything until the shockwave arrives at the speed of sound. The fallout TV series got this wrong as hollywood often does, with the explosion "thuds" with the flash's in the beginning

They should have used this. What a missed opportunity

The way he is breathing

Genius!)

For me there is the expectation they would aim to achieve a sense of scale. They failed to do that. The original footage does that better than what they did but . . . . there's no way the original could have achieved the resolution/fidelity they required im sure.

This deserves an Oscar . Great editing

Murphy touched the sun in "Sunshine"

It would have only required some minor work to resolve the bleed/glare into the contrast. Simple for an FX editor

行動に対して結果は常に遅れてやってくる、爆風のように……

Yeah something like this would’ve been better. Just needs to be brighter. It looks like they’re looking at a sunset. Better editing too

They shouldve hired you

Now i am become Oppen, destroyer of nerds

I am the destroyer of worlds.

Viewers Always complain about the explosion test being too little but the movie told us from how far each characters are from the detonation. People needs to listen movies not just watch them

Soooo much better. Honestly, my estimation of Christopher Nolan as a director just fkn plummeted after watching this video several times. What went through his head not to use archival footage?

Nolan’s hubris

gracias.

The practical explosion looked so bad in the movie, I had to try and remember if there was a failed Trinity test that I had forgotten about, historically...🤔

Fat Man and Little Boy the 1989 movie had a much better detonation scene and the movie was better than Oppenheimer you can watch clips of Fat Man and Little Boy on here it's great.

Yep, this is what they should have used

"Oppenheimer Trinity Test scene edited but with actual Trinity from "Matrix" (1999, Wachowski)"

I think it wasnt gods plan to destroy ourselves, but oh well here we are.

This is the scene that made me take a stand against nuclear weapons because I saw firsthand that nuclear weapons are not just big bombs, but I don't think the movie convinced the audience because the explosion in the movie didn't capture half the power of a nuclear weapon. Everyone on the planet knows that nuclear weapons can destroy the world, but few people have seen the power of nuclear weapons, so it would have been nice if the movie showed how destructive they are and why they shouldn't be used.

Atomic Hellfire.

Much better thank you

Scariest part is when his buddy is like" don't destroy the the world". Thats the problem with us, we almost destroyed eachother not out weapons. Like in WW1 the Germans and British were fighting even though they were on pretty good terms. The cold war could've been the end and who knows, maybe we're just walking closer to the end right now.

May god bless the United States 🇺🇸 and my god bless our scientists and physicists because the sacrifices these people made our scientists and physicists helped to end the most deadliest war in human history.

I think the real problem with this scene wasn't that it didn't use original test footage, but that it showed to much of the explosion. Like Maxime_G said in one of the comments on this video, this movie isn't about the bomb, it is about the people who made the bomb. And so instead of quickly cutting back and forth between the characters reactions and the explosion it would have been better to let the scene focuse a little more on the former. Also, not showing too much helps with the scale and awesomeness of the scene. A problem with both the actual test footage and the practical effects version of this scene is that seeing both or even one edge of the fire ball and mushroom cloud in frame makes the explosion look small and unimpressive. Though I do think it is much worse for the practical effects version because it already looks small and unimpressive to begin with. Both versions of this scene are at their best when we only get to see close ups of the explosion. Huge roiling clouds of dust and super heated air fill the screen edge to edge as the actors watch, illuminated by the blinding flash of light and eerie orange glow.

This is exactly what Nolan should have done because the explosion that's in the movie was laughably bad.

This was one of those times where Nolan should’ve just used cgi. Or at least this test footage

The CGI in this scene failed to really give a sense of the full scale of that explosion. It just didn't capture it.

Why didn't they just do this in the actual film?

The film version looked like a nuclear bumb.

Yea Nolan should've mixed it in i sure as hell wouldve lmao

Whos here from the Oscars

Hmm well after just watching it for the first time I thought THE SCENE was... Appropriate.. Comments here though are complaining that; while No Cgi were used in this film it therefore, was Lacking as they’re saying all this needed was the Stock footage ? Just high Definition?🤷‍♂️ Or you know, Every Other Nuke Scene in a Movie or Tests sights 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

Better than the movie

I lost my life in that scene cuz heart attack, so tell me how the ending of the movies?

I think Oppenheimer is a perfect movie, all except for the Trinity test. Was very disappointed in hindsight, the explosion was so lacklustre that it was almost laughable. All the characters are giving shocked reactions but then it cuts to footage of a very regular looking explosion.

Hpw did the chain reaction stop

1:33

Nolan really underserved this moment by not using any actual footage at all, why? 🙄

Wasn't far off tbf. I think everyone expected a tsar bomba level explosion in the film 😂

I think it would been better if he made a real nuke

Bro made one of the coolest things ever and then cried about it. I would have been ecstatic

Real atomic bombs explode and the flames are all colors of the rainbow.

This is not actual footage, I think.

Yeah, as much as I dug the film, I did think the actual test was pretty lame. It was like a firecracker in comparison to the real thing.

They had to over FX the movie. Could have just had this definitely.

yeah an enhanced original footage would have looked way better since everything else was perfect

It may seem like a lie, but there are countries that actually tested atomic bombs in inhabited cities. And with two types of nuclear bombs. Some people defend the use of the atomic bomb, but if its use was justified when victory was imminent, it would also justify the use of the atomic bomb by Russia, which was in even more trouble.

After the movie, this is what America can do (roughly) 80 years ago… imagine what America can do today

I was really disappointed with the explosion in Oppenheimer after so much hype. I really wanted to see the fireball in all its scale, that thing was 600m across, a fireball the same temperature as the Sun's surface. The practical effects looked too much like a normal fire explosion, plus he used way too much closeup shots that prevents the viewer from realizing the scale of the explosion, i haven't seen any depiction of a nuke in fiction that properly conveys how massive they are.

Idk how the movie got “movie of the year” shit was garbage when showing us the pure destruction of trinity

悪夢😭

Wow that was cool, much better than what we got. Man, what a terrible and frightening creation.

Christopher Nolan is a good director, but my god, his 'no CGI' stand is so dumb. All he had to do to make the perfect looking bomb scene is out CGI over real footage, using it as a referenc, and then bring that to life! Give us a new angle never before scene. But noooo, he had to use 'practical effects', which looked nothing like atomic bomb. Stubborn old man doesn’t realize CGI is a tool, and like all tools, it can be used poorly OR well.

Might have been a good idea not to have unleashed it on humanity... twice. Seems the Democrats who held majority in both chambers and the White House deemed it necessary. Eisenhower was against it "on two counts" as he stated.

Oh my god! This is how the scene _should_ have been filmed. The practical effects are profoundly disappointing and what is that? Particle effects? Really? Was Michael Bay a consultant? The practical effects of the motion picture explosion do not even come _close_ to the reality. Definitely the practical effects of the Trinity test were a shocking disappointment in an otherwise, nearly perfect movie. Having said that, it could have been worse. They _could_ have elected to use CGI D: I want a copy of the movie with this instead. Just Oh my god!

I think if Nolan supplemented his explosion with _some_ CGI, it would have looked more like a nuclear weapon. I mean if the audience can't tell something's CGI then what's the problem?

Explosion in movie sucked big. It's was disappointment to say the least.

Yawninghiemer

All these people saying that this should have been used in the movie and bla bla... The movie was perfect. Nolan did a really great job with the explosion. You just wanted a big boom

The movie effect looked awful. Not in the least bit shocking or awe-inspiring 🤷🏻‍♂️

There is no colour footage of trinity, whatever you think this is, its not that