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Fat Man and Little Boy
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Fat Man and Little Boy is a 1989 historical drama film directed by Roland Joffé (The Killing Fields).In the early days of American involvement in World War II, General Leslie Groves (Paul Newman), a U.S. Army engineer, finishes his assignment to build the Pentagon and hopes to go fight in the Pacific theater against the Japanese. Instead, he is given a project he doesn't want: spearheading the development of the atomic bomb. To wrangle the scientists, Groves hires Robert Oppenheimer (Dwight Schultz), a brilliant physicist and administrator who leans more than a little to the left. Groves and Oppenheimer set up a laboratory outside the remote town of Los Alamos, New Mexico and recruit physicists and engineers from all over the U.S. to work on their secret project. One such recruit is Michael Merriman (John Cusack), an idealistic young physics student who narrates much of the film through unsent letters to his father.See also Oppenheimer. | |
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The Mistress | |
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The Mistress: Jean Tatlock (Natasha Richardson) for Oppenheimer. It doesn't end well. | |
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You Are Already Dead: Merriman says this almost verbatim about himself after the accident with the Demon Core. | |
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Hospital Hottie: Kathleen Robinson, courtesy of being played by Laura Dern. | |
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The Proud Elite | |
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The Proud Elite: Oppenheimer has shades of this, especially early on; however, the military men seem to expect it from the physicists much more than the physicists actually act this way. See Tall Poppy Syndrome below. | |
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Manipulative Bastard | |
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Manipulative Bastard: Both Groves and Oppenheimer. Oppenheimer opines early on that he'll have Groves eating out of his hand within a week, but if anything, Groves manipulates Oppenheimer more successfully than vice versa. | |
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Butt-Monkey: Dr. Schoenfield (John C. McGinley) just can't catch a break. | |
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Body Horror: Merriman after the accident with the Demon Core. | |
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Artistic License – History | |
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Artistic License – History: The movie is fairly accurate for the most part, but it has its issues: Groves and Oppenheimer wax philosophical while standing in front of the bombs' casings on V-E Day, about a month before the Little Boy casing was completed. The incidents that inspired Merriman's accident with the so-called Demon Core both happened after the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. | |
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Names to Run Away from Really Fast: The "Demon Core". It lives up to its name when an accident leads to Merriman touching it for a single second and becoming fatally irradiated. | |
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Hell Is That Noise | |
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Hell Is That Noise: The Geiger counters ticking away in the background during the "tickling the dragon's tail" experiment and the experiment with the Demon Core. | |
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Being Watched | |
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Being Watched: Why Merriman doesn't mail his letters to his father. Many of the physicists object to this, with Enrico Fermi pointing out to Groves that it was why he left Italy. Truth in Television. | |
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Tall Poppy Syndrome | |
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Tall Poppy Syndrome: Groves' aide opines that Oppenheimer "has more brains than are decent". | |
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Speed Demon | |
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Speed Demon: In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment, while the scientists are tooling about in a convertible, it's Oppenhemier's wife who feels the need for speed. | |
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Contemplate Our Navels | |
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Groves and Oppenheimer wax philosophical while standing in front of the bombs' casings on V-E Day, about a month before the Little Boy casing was completed. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: Merriman doesn't hesitate to run into danger during an explosives accident early in the movie, prefiguring his accident with the Demon Core. | |
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Soundtrack Dissonance | |
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Soundtrack Dissonance: The fateful Trinity test was prologued by music from the "Nutcracker" by Tchaikovsky as a result of a ground station broadcast from elsewhere beyond the testing site. The cheery tunes from the 'Toy Flutes' piece contrasted the otherwise grim and serious atmosphere of the test, up until it was abruptly cut off by the detonation of the Trinity device. | |
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Red Scare | |
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Red Scare: Much of the conflict between Groves and Oppenheimer derives from suspicions about Oppenheimer's past associations with American Communist sympathizers. In Real Life, this eventually resulted in Oppenheimer losing his security clearance and position, as noted in the "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue. | |
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Nuke 'em | |
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Nuke 'em: Groves and much of the military establishment take this position, even after V-E Day. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
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Oh, Crap!: Merriman's reaction when he realizes he looked away at the worst moment possible during the Demon Core experiment. | |
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"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue | |
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"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: The movie ends with one of these after the success of the Trinity test. | |
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Market-Based Title: Released as Shadow Makers in several territories outside the US. | |
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Composite Character: Michael Merriman is a composite of two Los Alamos physicists, Harry Daghlian and Louis Slotin. Both died because of massive accidental radiation exposure during experiments with the Demon Core, as Merriman does in the movie. | |
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