Oppenheimer is a 2023 drama/thriller movie. It is set during World War II. It
follows Lt Gen Leslie Groves and physicist Robert Oppenheimer in developing and
designing the atomic bomb.
I chose Oppenheimer as it was the third highest
grossing film in the box office earning $939 million worldwide in 2023.
Curren and Seaton theory is about power in the media. The main point of this
theory is that the media is controlled by a small number of companies which are
mainly driven by profit and power, the media generally limits or inhibits variety
creativity and quality. The last point of this theory is that more socially diverse
patterns of ownership help to create more varied and adventurous media
productions.
Oppenheimer is directed and written by Christopher Nolan. Christopher has a
specific style of filmmaking which is about exploring different concepts including
time. He has created two war films, Oppenheimer and Dunkirk. Curren and
Seaton may say that Oppenheimer is a more creative film via Christopher being
creative in his films. This proves that being owned by Syncopy Inc Atlas
Entertainment which are smaller companies compared to Warner's brothers that
the media products are more creative as they can be mor experimental with what
they produce. Oppenheimer does covey what Curren & Seaton says by diverse
ownership.
However, Oppenheimer does not convey to Curren & Seaton as the theory fails to
recognize that the media limits creativity and quality. As Oppenheimer, being
distributed by Universal Pictures shows that a big company can distribute a film
differently to what has been released in the past few years and have it succeeded
whilst being out at the same time with Barbie.
Overall, I think that Oppenheimer does support Curren and Seaton power theory
as the smaller production company has released a creative film which succeeded
in the box office which not many people thought wouldn’t happen as their budget
might have not been as big compared to Disney or Warner's Brothers.
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