For costume designer Ellen Mirojnick, “Oppenheimer” isn’t a biopic of theoretical physicist J.
Robert Oppenheimer.
Nor is it a period piece about the Manhattan Project and the unsteady aftermath of an American political class grappling with who gets to be responsible for the power to destroy the world.
The Christopher Nolan film is a portrait — and one she found to be remarkably consistent over the course of the scientist’s life.The very structure of the film implies that Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) was always the man haunted by the building blocks of our universe, always the man who would reach out and try to touch the fire burning at the center of creation.
Mirojnick, accordingly, reflected that consistency in how she chose to dress Oppenheimer throughout the film.“Oppenheimer never changed his silhouette from the time he began at Berkeley through the decades.
That was a very, very important note to zero in on,…
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