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tTuto bombastickou stránku spravuje Monika Fornousová KM2
A VAST SPHERE OF FIRE, the fire of a thousand suns, slowly
eats the night-time desert. A line of black type appears:
PROMETHEUS STOLE FIRE FROM THE GODS AND GAVE IT TO MAN.
And the sound of DOZENS OF FEET STAMPING RHYTHMICALLY...
FOR THIS HE WAS CHAINED TO A ROCK AND TORTURED FOR ETERNITY.
ROILING PLASMA expands, the sound of STAMPING GROWS
OPPRESSIVE, the STAMPING FASTER and FASTER OVERA FACE. Gaunt, tense, EYES TIGHTLY SHUT. The face SHUDDERS the sound CEASES AS MY EYES OPEN,STARING INTO THE CAMERA:
Peer into my soul- J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER, aged fifty, closecropped greying hair. The gentle sounds of bureaucracy...
SUPER TITLE: "1. FISSION"
VOICE (O.S.)
Dr Oppenheimer, as we begin, I
believe you have a statement to
read into the record?
I glance down at my notes.
OPPENHEIMER
Yes, your honour
SECOND VOICE (O.S.)
We’re not judges, doctor.
OPPENHEIMER
No. Of course.
(I start reading)
Members of the Security Board, the
so-called derogatory information in
your indictment of me cannot be
fairly understood except in the
context of my life and work. This
answer is a summary of relevant
aspects of my life in more or less
chronological order...
SENATE AIDE (V.O.)
How long did he testify?
INT. SENATE OFFICE -- DAY (BLACK-AND-WHITE SEQUENCE)
CLOSE: on a prosperous sixty-three-year-old man, LEWIS
STRAUSS, as he takes a cup of coffee from a SENATE AIDE...
SUPER TITLE: "2. FUSION"
STRAUSS
I forget. Three days, or so. The
whole hearing took a month.
SENATE AIDE
An ordeal.
STRAUSS
I’ve only read the transcripts, but
who’d want to justify their whole
life?
SENATE AIDE
You weren’t there?
STRAUSS
As Chairman, I wasn’t allowed to
be. Are they really going to ask
about it? It was years ago.
SENATE AIDE
Four years ago. Oppenheimer still
divides America- the committee will
want to know where you stood.
(checks his watch)
Ready?
INT. CORRIDOR, SENATE BUILDING -- MOMENTS LATER (B&W)
The Senate Aide leads Strauss along the corridor.
SENATE AIDE
Senator Thurmond asked me to say
not to feel you’re on trial.
STRAUSS
I didn’t, till you said that.
SENATE AIDE
Really, Mr Strauss-
STRAUSS (CONT’D)
Admiral.
SENATE AIDE (CONT’D)
Admiral Strauss, this is a
formality
SENATE AIDE (CONT’D)
President Eisenhower’s asked you to
be in his cabinet, the Senate has
no choice but to confirm you.
They arrive at the door.
STRAUSS
And if they bring up Oppenheimer?
SENATE AIDE
When they bring up Oppenheimer,
answer honestly and no senator can
deny that you did your duty. It’ll
be uncomfortable...
(smiles)
Who’d want to justify their whole
life?
The door to the VAST committee room opens- they enter,
FLASHBULBS POPPING as PRESS and PUBLIC see Strauss.
ROBB (V.O.)
Why did you leave the United
States?
CUT TO:
INT. ROOM 2022, ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION -- DAY (COLOUR)
The room is SMALL, SHABBY. Surprised, I look up from my
statement at the prosecutor, Roger ROBB. Then turn to the
THREE BOARD MEMBERS (GRAY, EVANS, MORGAN).
OPPENHEIMER
I wanted to learn the new physics.
GRAY
Was there nowhere here? I thought
Berkeley had the leading
theoretical physics department
OPPENHEIMER
Yes. Once I built it. First I had
to go to Europe. I went to
Cambridge to work under Patrick
Blackett.
ROBB
Were you happier there than in
America?
INSERT CUT: A YOUNG ME (TWENTY-ONE) LIES IN BED STARING UP,
CRYING... PARTICLES WITH THE VASTNESS OF THE STARS MOVE LIKE
FIREFLIES...
OPPENHEIMER
No. I was homesick. Emotionally
immature... troubled by visions of
a hidden universe...
INT. LABORATORY, CAMBRIDGE -- DAY
The young ME, frazzled demeanor, STRUGGLES with equipment.
OPPENHEIMER (V.O.)
...useless in the lab.
I drop a beaker, it SHATTERS. PATRICK BLACKETT looks over,
FROWNING. He picks up an APPLE and takes a LARGE BITE.
BLACKETT
(through apple)
Christ, Oppenheimer, have you had
any sleep? Start again.
YOUNG OPPENHEIMER
I need to go to the lecture.
BLACKETT
Why?
YOUNG OPPENHEIMER
(pleading)
It’s Niels Bohr.
Blackett checks his watch- starts packing up
BLACKETT
Damn, completely forgot. Let’s go.
I start to pack up with the other students.
BLACKETT (CONT’D)
Not you Oppenheimer. Finish coating those
plates.
I clean up as Blackett and the other students leave- one
leaves an APPLE for Blackett- GREEN WITH STEM AND TINY LEAF.
I pause at a bottle: "Potassium Cyanide"... CLUMSY HANDS
SHAKING, I draw CYANIDE into a syringe. I INJECT the apple...
EXT. QUADRANGLE, CAMBRIDGE -- EVENING
I HURRY across the quad. A lonely figure.
BOHR (V.O.)
Quantum physics isn’t a step
forward...
INT. LECTURE HALL, CAMBRIDGE -- CONTINUOUS
I sneak into the back of the auditorium. Standing,
SPELLBOUND, as NIELS BOHR, a charismatic Dane, lectures.
BOHR
...It’s a new way to understand
reality. Einstein’s opened a door,
now we’re peering through, seeing a
world inside our world... a world
of energy and paradox that not
everyone can accept.
I RAISE my hand to ask a question...
INT. SENATE COMMITTEE HEARING ROOM -- DAY (B&W)
Strauss sits facing the Committee, COUNSEL beside him, PRESS,
CAMERAS and PUBLIC behind...
SENATOR MCGEE
Admiral Strauss, I’m interested in
your relationship with Dr J. Robert
Oppenheimer. You met in 1947?
STRAUSS
Correct.
SENATOR MCGEE
You were a commissioner of the
Atomic Energy Commission?
STRAUSS
I was, but I met Robert in my
capacity as board member of the
Institute for Advanced Study at
Princeton. After the war he was
world-renowned- the great man of
physics...
EXT. INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY, PRINCETON -- DAY (B&W)
Strauss, younger, fifty-one, bustles out of the Institute
STRAUSS (V.O.)
...I was determined to get him to
run the Institute.
-to welcome the rail-thin figure of Oppenheimer (fortythree), emerging from a TAXI in HAT and coat, PIPE in mouth.
ICONIC.
STRAUSS
Dr Oppenheimer, an honour.
OPPENHEIMER
Mr Strauss.
STRAUSS
It’s pronounced 'straws'.
OPPENHEIMER
'Oh-ppenheimer', 'aw-ppenheimer'-
any way you say it they know I’m
Jewish.
STRAUSS
I’m a proud member of Temple
Emmanuel- 'straws' is the Southern
pronunciation. Welcome to the
Institute. I think you could be
very happy here.
OPPENHEIMER
Oh?
STRAUSS
Well, you’ll love the commute- the
position comes with that house for
you and your wife.
Strauss points along an avenue of trees to Olden Manor...
STRAUSS (CONT’D)
And your.. Is it two children?
OPPENHEIMER
Yes, two.
Oppenheimer nods as he follows Strauss into the Institute.
INT. INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY, PRINCETON -- CONTINUOUS
(B&W)
Strauss leads Oppenheimer through the Institute.
STRAUSS
I’m a great admirer of your work.
OPPENHEIMER
You’re a physicist by training, Mr
Strauss?
STRAUSS
No, I’m not trained in physics, or
anything else. I’m a self-made man.
OPPENHEIMER
I can relate to that...
STRAUSS
Really?
OPPENHEIMER
(dry)
My father was one.
INT. PRESIDENT’S OFFICE, INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY --
MOMENTS LATER (B&W)
Strauss shows Oppenheimer into the well-appointed office.
STRAUSS
This would be your office.
Oppenheimer drifts to the windows- a LAWN rolls down to a
POND. He spots a FIGURE- long grey hair poking from under his
hat
STRAUSS (CONT’D)
I’m told he’s there most
afternoons.
The figure gently tosses a stone into the water.
STRAUSS (CONT’D)
I’ve always wondered why you didn’t
involved him in the Manhattan
Project.
Oppenheimer turns to Strauss, interested.
STRAUSS (CONT’D)
The greatest scientific mind of our
time?
OPPENHEIMER
Of his time. Einstein published his
Theory of Relativity more than
forty years ago, but never embraced
the quantum world it revealed.
STRAUSS
'God doesn’t play dice.'
OPPENHEIMER
Precisely. You never thought of
studying physics formally?
STRAUSS
I had offers. But I chose to sell
shoes.
OPPENHEIMER
Lewis Strauss was once a lowly shoe
salesman?
STRAUSS
No. Just a shoe salesman.
(opens the door)
I’ll introduce you
OPPENHEIMER
No need. I’ve known him for years.
Strauss, awkward, stays in the doorway and WATCHES...
FROM AFAR: as Oppenheimer approaches, Einstein’s HAT BLOWS
off his head, unleashing a MESS OF GREY HAIR, hat rolling
across the grass to where Oppenheimer SCOOPS it up, and we...
OPPENHEIMER
I struggled badly trying to
visualize this new world...
CUT TO:
INT. ROOM 2022, ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION -- DAY (COLOUR)
I flip a page. Continue reading my statement.
INT. ROOMS AT CAMBRIDGE -- DAY
The Young Me lies on the bed, STARING UP.
OPPENHEIMER (V.O.)
...you had to retool your mind to
see things hovering just out of
site...
INSERT CUT: POINTS OF LIGHT MOVE LIKE SPARKS, BUT IN A WAVE.
OPPENHEIMER (V.O.)
...then you could unlock forces
never before imagined...
I wipe TEARS from my eyes.
INSERT CUT: STARS. SPARKS FROM A CAMPFIRE. I PAT THE NOSE OF
A HORSE IN THE DARKNESS AS I FEED IT AN APPLE.
I grow calm, my eyelids lowering...
INSERT CUT: AN APPLE- GREEN WITH STEM AND A TINY LEAF...
I open MY EYES- JUMP out of bed- SCRAMBLE to dress
EXT. QUADRANGLE, CAMBRIDGE -- MOMENTS LATER
I RUN, DESPERATE, AGAINST the crowdINT. LABORATORY, CAMBRIDGE -- DAY
I BURST in- Blackett LOOKS UP. ANOTHER MAN has his back to
me. Between them on the workbench- the POISONED APPLE...
BLACKETT
You alright?
I nod awkward, trying to control my BREATHING...
BLACKETT (CONT’D)
Niels, meet J. Robert Oppenheimer.
The other man TURNS, offers his hand- Niels Bohr.
BOHR
What does the 'J' stand for?
BLACKETT
Nothing, apparently.
Bohr takes me in- this strange, BREATHLESS young man...
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