SPOILER ALERT: Details from the movie "Oppenheimer" are revealed below.
J. Robert Oppenheimer's grandson, Charles, has said his "least favorite part" of the biopic from director Christopher Nolan is the scene with the poisoned apple.
At one point in the film, J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) is seen injecting poison into his professor's apple, but later changes his mind and goes and throws it away.
Nolan relied heavily on the 2005 biography American Prometheus, which suggested that Oppenheimer might have been the killer, but noted that such a claim was dubious because there was no historical evidence that the event had happened
“When I talked to Chris Nolan, at one point he said something like, 'There's going to be parts that you have to dramatize a little bit and parts that are going to be changed. As family members, I think you're going to like some parts and not like others,” Charles Oppenheimer told TIME.
"There are parts I don't agree with, but not because of Nolan. My least favorite part is this poison apple reference. If you read 'American Prometheus' carefully, the authors say: 'We don't really know if it happened.' There is no indication that he is trying to kill anyone. This is a serious charge indeed. There is not a single enemy or friend of Robert Oppenheimer who heard this in his lifetime and believed it to be true.”
Charles Oppenheimer added that he would have removed the apple scene, but stressed that it was not up to him to influence Nolan. “I can't imagine myself giving advice to Nolan about movies. He is an expert, he is an artist and a genius in this field," he said.
Oppenheimer tells the story of Julius Robert Oppenheimer, the scientist who led the Manhattan Project, the research initiative that led to the production of the first nuclear weapons, during World War II.
The film explores the mind of the scientist, his ideologies, regrets, thoughts and how the state uses brilliant minds in its own interest. The man who was in charge of the "Manhattan Project" and who developed the world's first atomic bomb, rose into the sky and then crashed for a few moments, brutally to the ground.
