20 Movie Scenes That Should've Been Cut

Christopher Nolan's Oscar-winning triumph Oppenheimer is an outstanding cinematic accomplishment for so many reasons, but as is typical for Nolan it also has a few unintentionally silly moments that don't quite work.

In this case Nolan gets the worst scene out of the way early, with a clumsy invocation of J. Robert Oppenheimer's iconic quote, "I am become Death, destroyer of worlds," itself lifted from the Hindu scripture The Bhagavad Gita.

Though in public life Oppenheimer famously spoke the phrase while reflecting on the Trinity Test, Nolan decided to feature it in a wholly different, wildly unexpected context - at the end of a sex scene.

Moments after Oppy and Jean Tatlock (Florence Pugh) have finished their lovemaking, she picks up the Ghagavad Gita from his bookshelf and asks him to read from it, at which point he drops the quote.

It's unintentionally comical to toss the quote into the film so randomly, almost as though Nolan felt that recreating Oppenheimer's famous interview would be too obvious, instead trying a little too hard to subvert expectations.

If this was the only place Nolan felt he could fit the quote in, maybe he just shouldn't have bothered at all.