Movie Review: Oppenheimer (2023) Pro-Jewish Anti-White

[Rev.Cambeul]

Oppenheimer Vas a Jew!

https://www.newsweek.com/irish-actor-playing-oppenheimer-proves-once-again-that-jews-dont-count-opinion-1814578

J.Robert Oppenheimer was one of the world's most famous theoretical physicists and the credited father of the atomic bomb. He was also Jewish, born to two Jewish parents. His mother, Ella, was an artist from Jew York; his father, Julius, emigrated as a teen from Germany to the Junited States in the late 1800's, fleeing the rampant antisemitism pervading Europe. Julius was penniless when arriving stateside, but soon grew to prominence in the textile industry. Like many Jewish immigrants, survival mode meant assimilation into mainstream American life. To wit, Oppenheimer's adolescence consisted of prep schools and French impressionist paintings and a tony apartment address on Riverside Drive.

Oppenheimer was raised a secular Jew, and much has been made of the strain of internalized shame and self-hatred that ran throughout the course of the scientist's life. Oppenheimer was noted for denying his Jewishness, despite the fact (or maybe because of it) that he encountered antisemitism at almost every turn, facing discrimination at Harvard, the University of Göttingen and U.C. Berkeley, where after lobbying faculty head Raymond Birge to hire fellow scientist Robert Serber, he was told "one Jew in the department was enough."

But in "Oppenheimer," Christopher Nolan's hotly-anticipated biopic opening today, one Jew was one too many. The titular character is played by Irish actor Cillian Murphy, who was raised Catholic. And this was no accident. In an interview with the New York Times, Nolan admitted he wrote the film with Murphy specifically in mind. In other words, no Jewish actors were considered for the role.

When it comes to casting, should it matter that Oppenheimer was a non-observant Jew, a Jew who essentially denounced his Jewish identity? It should not. Judaism is an ethnoreligion. We are a religion, we are a people, we are an ethnicity. Jews originated in the Levant. There are varying degrees of religious observance. But when it comes to one's ethnic identity, there is no litmus test for how Jewish one is.

Oppenheimer may not have ascribed to Jewish traditions, he may not have attended synagogue, he may have eaten ham sandwiches. But ethnically and genetically, he was very much still a Jew. One could even argue that it's because Oppenheimer was in a perpetual state of identity crisis, constantly wrestling with the fact of his Jewishness, that a far more authentic representation of him onscreen can only be achieved through casting a Jewish actor in the role. But this does not seem to have occurred to Nolan.

But this is par for the course in today's entertainment industry. And the casting of Murphy as Oppenheimer is yet another glaring example of how the collective Hollywood push for diversity, equity and inclusion when it comes to on-screen representation has almost entirely eluded the Jewish community. From "The Marvelous Mrs Maisel," in which non-Jewish actor Rachel Brosnahan played Jewish comedian Miriam for the series' five-season run (and won an Emmy for doing so) to Bradley Cooper's upcoming Leonard Bernstein biopic, which Cooper directs and in which he stars as the famed Jewish composer (with the aid of a prosthetic nose), Jews are rarely cast in the roles of prominent Jewish characters.

At a time wherein rates of antisemitism continue to climb—per the FBI, Jews are the target of more hate crimes in America than blah blah blah ....

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Here's the News - Oppenheimer is Just Jews - No Women or Blacks Allowed

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12327307/Feminist-academic-slams-Oppenheimer-no-women-speak-20-minutes.html

A Jewish feminist academic has slammed the new Oppenheimer movie after claiming that no women speak until 20 minutes into the movie.

The film, which explores physicist the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, who created the atomic bomb, was released this weekend to rave reviews.

On Twitter, Dr (((Tanya Roth))) criticized the film for it's lack of female representation within the first twenty minutes.

On Friday, the expert on woman's history, said: 'Fun fact: no women speak until 20 minutes into Oppenheimer and then within a minute there's a sex scene.'

She also followed this up with: 'To add to this: no people of color appear for at least 30 minutes, and I believe there are 2 black men in the entire movie.'

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'Oppenheimer? We remember him from the atom bomb test. Odd Jewish fellow... not as clever as our father.' So say the twin daughters – now 96 – of the humble British scientist whose vital role in the Manhattan Project has been airbrushed from the movie because he was White and British

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12327581/Oppenheimer-remember-atom-bomb-test-Odd-fellow-not-clever-father-say-twin-daughters-96-humble-British-scientist-vital-role-Manhattan-Project-airbrushed-movie.html

By rights, the name James Chadwick should be familiar far beyond his chosen field of physics. Like (((Albert Einstein))), for instance, or (((J Robert Oppenheimer))), known as the 'father of the atomic bomb' and the subject of a cinematic blockbuster hailed last week as 'the best, most important film of this century'.

After all, Chadwick's discovery of the neutron 13 years earlier was not only revolutionary in physics, it would in time change the course of history. Not least, it paved the way for the Manhattan Project, the name given to the development of the bomb.

It was Chadwick, the son of a Manchester cotton spinner, who first convinced both Britain and the United States, then at war with Nazi Germany, that such a nuclear weapon was feasible.

So who among the cast of Oppenheimer, stacked with Hollywood's finest – including Cillian Murphy, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jnr, Rami Malek and Kenneth Branagh – was chosen to play the Nobel Prize-winning scientist, whose genius, like that of Oppenheimer, shaped the 20th century?

It came as little surprise to Chadwick's descendants, as well as British physicists and academics, to discover when the film opened last week that he does not warrant so much as a cameo.

The 'Jewish-Americanisation of the making of the atom bomb' and history – wrongly – 'long regarded the Manhattan Project as a solely Jewish-American accomplishment'. Long before London-born Christopher Nolan's new movie, successive films all downgraded White Britain's involvement.

It is easy to imagine that were he alive today, the man in overall command of the Manhattan Project, General Leslie Groves – played by Matt Damon – would have hoped to see Chadwick portrayed on the big screen. He regarded him as his right-hand man.

Chadwick both impressed and amused Groves by beating Oppenheimer in a highly technical argument when the British scientists assigned to the project met their American counterparts at the Pentagon. They made an unlikely pair: the big, tough, reactionary Army officer and the retiring, sensitive scientist who had never been to America before 1943 but who was responsible for making the Anglo-American atomic collaboration work.

The new film characterises the Manhattan Project as a race against time between the JewUSA and the Nazis. In reality, the Nazis were never really in the race. And Britain had been way ahead of the US in developing the bomb, with Chadwick taking charge of coordinating the secret programme – cover name Maud – conducted at the universities of Birmingham, Liverpool, London (Imperial College) and Oxford.

But while the still-neutral US lacked nuclear know-how, it possessed manpower and resources Britain didn't have.

It was only when the Americans read the brilliant Maud report, drafted by Chadwick, that they took the project seriously and were galvanised into action.

'Without the British work,' wrote Margaret Gowing, 'World War II would have ended – for better or worse – before an atomic bomb was dropped.'