10 More Insanely Accurate Movie Details You Never Noticed

3. The Crowd Grows - Oppenheimer

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The great Christopher Nolan is a director known for not wasting a single inch of a frame when it comes to the making of each of his captivating pictures - and last year's Oppenheimer was no different.

For example, if you really focus on the gripping Lewis Strauss Senate hearing scenes in particular, you'll actually be able to catch a quite brilliant and historically accurate detail Nolan masterfully dropped in that had secretly been staring you in the face.

While you were probably and rather understandably too busy being completely mesmerised by the performances being produced by the likes of Robert Downey Jr. as Strauss and Rami Malek as David L. Hill to notice on a first watch, the crowd in the background of these scenes gradually gets bigger as the film goes on (via r/MovieDetails).

This was seemingly Nolan's way of accurately reflecting how the Strauss hearing had ultimately grown into a national story by the time the aforementioned Hill testified in 1959 - a scathing and superbly acted on-screen testimony that also contained a number of lines that were lifted right from the real-life transcript of the Senate hearing.

Put simply, Nolan managed to not just make what could have been rather dull sit-down Senate sequences remarkably thrilling, he also subtly injected a ton of highly accurate elements into them, too.

 
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