00:00 This is a national emergency.
00:02 Detonators charged!
00:04 As soon as I read the script, I'm putting the pieces together in my mind.
00:16 For Oppenheimer, we had a meeting and we started talking about different approaches
00:26 and different types of musical ideas.
00:30 The film score grew very organically, very gradually from the smallest elements.
00:36 And I had no preconceptions about the music for the film.
00:39 Sometimes you have an idea for the soundscape of the world, or the rhythm of it,
00:42 and sometimes you don't.
00:43 And in this case, all I had that I gave Ludwig was the idea of basing the score on the violin.
00:47 There's so much in the performance of the violin.
00:55 Within seconds, you can go from something beautiful to something completely horrifying.
01:00 And there's a tension to the sound in a way that I think fits the highly strong intellect
01:06 and emotion of Robert Oppenheimer very well.
01:08 And that's just the organic part of it. That's just the strings.
01:13 And then what comes on later is the production and the synthesizers.
01:18 (Piano playing)
01:21 I think every process of scoring is different if it's to be tailored correctly
01:32 to the demands of a new project.
01:34 And this was a type of film I hadn't made before.
01:37 And it was a type of music that I hadn't worked with before.
01:40 A lot of things you do in the beginning is about experimenting
01:44 and see where you can take things.
01:46 We would take his experiments and we would put them to picture and edit them
01:50 and try different things and show it to Ludwig.
01:52 And he would go and bring more things to the table.
01:55 Oppenheimer is a visual masterpiece.
01:59 I'd never seen that kind of intimate portrayal of a character on IMAX.
02:04 That's the sixth of Oppenheimer theme.
02:07 I felt like this movie was really pushing the boundaries in so many different fields.
02:11 So I wanted to see how we can do that with music as well.
02:15 (Music)
02:18 I think Ludwig's work in the film is both deeply personal and historically expansive.
02:26 I think it really achieves an enormous amount of the effect of drawing the audience
02:32 into the emotional dilemmas of the characters.
02:35 I think he's really put together a very remarkable score.
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