In Memento black/white are for Forward, color are for Backward.
But I can't understand the logic of black/white for Oppenheimer. It seem black/white mostly occur when RDJ on screen.
Just one of many techniques used by filmmakers. Some movies the director will use 5 - 10 of these techniques, sometimes they do it really well too. In Platoon, for example. Oliver Stone used both the camera dolly and black/white to color fade in after the last battle. Heck, Stone may have used almost every common film technique in Platoon such as establishing shot, cross-cut, eyeline match, extreme close up/long shot, master shot, hand-held shot, and on and on.
Black/White for Oppenheimer just seems appropriate, at least appropriate to the director.
I too was confused as hell about the sporadic use of B&W scenes. Usually they're used for flashbacks but it seemed to be the opposite in this movie, and even then only some of the time which made it even more confusing. Stupid.
shareFrom interview of Nolan, he said color is for subjectivity, black/white is for objectivity.
It's dumb, because no one can tell the difference unless they read the interview.
because they took place in Oppenheimer's future. Are you all stupid or something?
shareBecause there are two separate stories going on, what’s going on with Oppenheimer and what’s going on with Straus. The black and white is to differentiate between the 2.
shareIt was just that overrated hack trying to be creative.
shareBudget issues?
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