Oppenheimer got off to a flying start with Barbie. The new film by Christopher Nolan (Tenet, Interstellar) has also been in German cinemas since last Thursday. In the run-up, the biopic made, among other things, with a sex scene talk about yourself. Sex and nudity are almost never present in Nolan’s work.
In India, for example, it stays the same: Oppenheimer is shown there in a censored version and it takes on absurd traits.
This scene in Oppenheimer was censored in India
J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) was romantically involved in real life and on screen with Jean Tatlock, played by Florence Pugh. In the middle of the blockbuster, a longer sequence with various sex and nude scenes was created. Screenshots of a nude scene are circulating on Twitter (or, more recently, “X”), as apparently the Indian audience, among others, got to see:
At this point you will find external content from Twitter, which complements the article. You can show it and hide it again with one click.
Pugh’s character was “dressed up” here with a black CGI dress. In the original, both characters, Jean Tatlock and J. Robert Oppenheimer, are nude.
A similar or the same version appears to have been used in Indonesia. The social network names Pakistan as another country where only a censored version of Oppenheimer is running.
At this point you will find external content from Twitter, which complements the article. You can show it and hide it again with one click.
The critic and journalist Bilge Ebiri wrote: “This must infuriate Nolan on so many levels.”
At this point you will find external content from Twitter, which complements the article. You can show it and hide it again with one click.
It’s quite possible that the director doesn’t jump in the air because of it. After all, he doesn’t usually use CGI in his film. However, the censorship was probably voluntary.
What is behind the Oppenheimer censorship
Whether Nolan gave his blessing is not known. At IGN, however, there is talk of self-censorship. The change is apparently a very short-term emergency solution. The film was initially released in India for ages 18+. He received a so-called A certificate. This certificate was issued just two days before launch on a u.a changed. This means that younger viewers are also allowed into the halls and the film can reach a larger audience.
more on the subject
Appropriate modifications were made to Oppenheimer to meet the conditions for this release. The nudity and the sex disappearedbut nothing changed in the runtime, as IGN notes.
Instead, audiences see blurry images and black bars when scenes violate regulations, as reported by this viewer. be it “pointless” to see Oppenheimer in India.
At this point you will find external content from Twitter, which complements the article. You can show it and hide it again with one click.
After all, the most important thing in Oppenheimer should also be able to do without a censorship bar in India: the nuclear explosion.
What is Oppenheimer about?
J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) is a theoretical physicist and, like his biologist wife Kitty (Emily Blunt), a scientist through and through. As part of the Manhattan Project, as director of the Los Alamos Laboratory, he develops an unprecedentedly dangerous weapon: the atomic bomb.
Men like General Leslie Groves (Matt Damon) and Lewis Strauss (Robert Downey Jr.) from the US Atomic Energy Commission look over his shoulder. But does Oppenheimer risk destroying the earth with his invention, or does he deliver his work the other way around to save the world from itself?