This is definitely going to anger Christopher Nolan... on more than one level!
The Dark Knight trilogy director’s latest film, Oppenheimer, is now in theaters, and the critically-acclaimed biopic contains some fairly graphic (at least for a mainstream release) sex scenes between Cillian Murphy's titular scientist and Florence Pugh's character, Jean Tatlock.
Now, it's come to light that these sequences have been edited in some countries in Asia. We're not sure what changes were made to the sex scenes themselves, but a CGI black dress has been added to one shot of Pugh sitting naked on a chair!
We thought this might be a fake at first, but it appears to be legit (you can check out an NSFW version here... purely for comparison's sake, of course)
Apparently, this version of the film now contains the only fully CGI shot that was utilized to bring the bleak drama to life.
The scene in question had already sparked controversy in India, because, at one point, Tatlock pauses during intercourse to ask her lover to read from the Bhagavad Gita (the iconic "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds" quote).
"The Bhagwad Geeta is one of the most revered scriptures of Hinduism. Geeta has been the inspiration for countless sanyasis, brahmcharis and legends who live a life of self-control and perform selfless noble deeds," India’s Information Commissioner and Save Culture Save India Foundation founder Uday Mahurkar said in a statement via USA Today. "We do not know the motivation and logic behind this unnecessary scene on life of a scientist."
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