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[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Then he went on to make lemonade with strawberries and heavy water. Deuterium, you get me? Strawberry fusion lemonade.

[–] portuga@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No I don’t get it. But I would like to. Is this one of those scenarios where three physicists walk into a bar, each one tells a joke but none of it are funny so no one gets it?

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The moment I wrote it, I was hearing it in the voice of Benny Safdie in his first scene as weirdo Edward Teller, in "Oppenheimer".

[–] portuga@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Didn’t watch the movie, probably why it went over my head. Sorry 🤷‍♂️

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No Oppenheimer?!!
Your geek credentials are hereby revoked until further notice!
Or until you atone!

[–] areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Oppenheimer is a mainstream movie though. It's not that geeky.

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's a movie about physics, with characters like Niels Bohr featured prominently, which just so happened to be made for general audiences and it was a hit, by a director whose other historical film was about Dunkirk.

Before these movies were made, the subjects were pretty much obscure to the mainstream. Films like these are regarded as risky for large studios, and it's widely acknowledged that Christopher Nolan is on the very short list of directors with the blessing to do absolutely whatever they want at large studio scale and budget and that is not part of a franchise. And by "very short list" I mean people like Stanley Kubrick.

The "mainstream" label on Oppenheimer is incidental, after the fact.