Movies with Epigraphs
ep·i·graph
/ˈepəˌɡraf/
noun
1. an inscription on a building, statue, or coin.
2. a short quotation or saying at the beginning of a book or chapter, intended to suggest its theme.
Epigraphs are common in books either at the beginning of the book or the beginning of a chapter. Sometimes epigraphs can be found in movies, too. Usually at the beginning, but sometimes at the end of a film. Here are some films that have epigraphs either at the beginning or end.
/ˈepəˌɡraf/
noun
1. an inscription on a building, statue, or coin.
2. a short quotation or saying at the beginning of a book or chapter, intended to suggest its theme.
Epigraphs are common in books either at the beginning of the book or the beginning of a chapter. Sometimes epigraphs can be found in movies, too. Usually at the beginning, but sometimes at the end of a film. Here are some films that have epigraphs either at the beginning or end.
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- DirectorTerrence MalickStarsBrad PittSean PennJessica ChastainThe story of a family in Waco, Texas in 1956. The eldest son witnesses the loss of innocence and struggles with his parents' conflicting teachings."Where were you when I laid the foundations of the Earth?….When the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?"
--Job 38: 4, 7 - DirectorMel GibsonStarsJim CaviezelMonica BellucciMaia MorgensternDepicts the final twelve hours in the life of Jesus of Nazareth, on the day of his crucifixion in Jerusalem."He was wounded for our transgressions, crushed for our inequities; by His wounds we are healed".
--Isaiah 53. 700 B.C. - DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsWillem DafoeHarvey KeitelBarbara HersheyThe life of Jesus Christ, his journey through life as he faces the struggles all humans do, and his final temptation on the cross."The dual substance of Christ--the yearning, so human, so superhuman, of man to attain God...has always been a deep inscrutable mystery to me. My principle anguish and source of all my joys and sorrows from my youth onward has been the incessant, merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh...and my soul is the arena where these two armies have clashed and met."
--NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS
From the book
"The Last Temptation Of Christ" - DirectorMel GibsonStarsGerardo TaracenaRaoul Max TrujilloDalia HernándezAs the Mayan kingdom faces its decline, a young man is taken on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppression."A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within."
--W. Durant. - DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsRobert De NiroCathy MoriartyJoe PesciThe life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it."So, for the second time, [the Pharisees]
summoned the man who had been blind and said:
'Speak the truth before God.
We know this fellow is a sinner.'
'Whether or not he is a sinner, I do not know.'
the man replied.
'All I know is this:
once I was blind and now I can see.'
--John IX. 24-26
The New English Bible" - DirectorEthan CoenJoel CoenStarsJeff BridgesMatt DamonHailee SteinfeldA stubborn teenager enlists the help of a tough U.S. Marshal to track down her father's murderer.The wicked flee when none pursueth. . . . "
--Proverbs 28:1 - DirectorTerrence MalickStarsAugust DiehlValerie PachnerMaria SimonThe Austrian Franz Jägerstätter, a conscientious objector, refuses to fight for the Nazis in World War II.“For the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been is half owing to the number who have lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
--George Elliot, "Middlemarch." - DirectorGeorge MillerStarsTom HardyCharlize TheronNicholas HoultIn a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a woman rebels against a tyrannical ruler in search for her homeland with the aid of a group of female prisoners, a psychotic worshiper and a drifter named Max."Where must we go… we who wander this Wasteland in search of our better selves?"
--"The First History Man.
(The First History Man is from within the Mad Max universe, which means the director George Miller created this quote for the film.). - DirectorMark HermanStarsAsa ButterfieldDavid ThewlisRupert FriendThrough the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a German concentration camp, a forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences."Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows."
--John Betjeman - DirectorOliver StoneStarsCharlie SheenTom BerengerWillem DafoeChris Taylor, a neophyte recruit in Vietnam, finds himself caught in a battle of wills between two sergeants, one good and the other evil. A shrewd examination of the brutality of war and the duality of man in conflict."Rejoice O Young Man in your Youth"
--Ecclesiastes - DirectorOliver StoneStarsAnthony HopkinsJoan AllenPowers BootheA biographical story of former U.S. President Richard Nixon, from his days as a young boy, to his eventual Presidency, which ended in shame.“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, but lose his soul?"
--Mark 8:36” - DirectorTom TykwerStarsFranka PotenteMoritz BleibtreuHerbert KnaupAfter a botched money delivery, Lola has 20 minutes to come up with 100,000 Deutschmarks.At the end of our exploring we shall not cease from exploration . . . and the end of all of our exploring will be to arrive where we started. . . and know the place for the first time.“
-- T.S. Eliot
“After the game is before the game.”
-- Sepp Herberger - StarsLeelee SobieskiChad WillettPeter O'TooleSpurred by divine voices and visions, fifteenth century teen Joan d'Arc leads French forces against the English."France will be lost by a woman and saved by a virgin from the oak forests of Lorraine."
--Attributed to Merlin (yes, Merlin the Magician of Arthurian legend). - DirectorDan CurtisStarsTed DansonChristopher PlummerBrian DennehyA dramatized account of the hidden sexual abuse and scandal that shook the foundation of the Catholic Church, and the characters, events, and policies that brought the abuse and scandal into existence."For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad."
--Jesus to his disciples.
--Luke 8:17. - DirectorTerry GilliamStarsBruce WillisMadeleine StoweBrad PittIn a future world devastated by disease, a convict is sent back in time to gather information about the man-made virus that wiped out most of the human population on the planet."...5 billion people will die from a deadly virus in 1997....The survivors will abandon the surface of the planet....Once again animals will rule the world."
--Excerpts from the interview with clinically diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic, April 12, 1990.
--Baltimore County Hospital.
(Epigraph created for the film.). - StarsGary SiniseMolly RingwaldJamey SheridanAfter a deadly plague kills most of the world's population, the remaining survivors split into two groups - one led by a benevolent elder and the other by a malevolent being - to face each other in a final battle between good and evil.This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but with a wimper.
--T.S. Eliot. - DirectorMichael RadfordMassimo TroisiStarsMassimo TroisiPhilippe NoiretMaria Grazia CucinottaA simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet, and then uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.And it was at that age... Poetry arrived
in search of me. I don’t know, I don’t know where
it came from, from winter or a river.
I don’t know how or when,
no, they were not voices, they were not
words, nor silence,
but from a street I was summoned,
from the branches of night,
abruptly from the others,
among violent fires
or returning alone,
there I was without a face
and it touched me.
--Pablo Neruda. - DirectorEthan CoenJoel CoenStarsMichael StuhlbargRichard KindSari LennickLarry Gopnik, a Midwestern physics teacher, watches his life unravel over multiple sudden incidents. Though seeking meaning and answers amidst his turmoils, he seems to keep sinking."Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you."
--Rashi - DirectorCarroll BallardStarsCharles Martin SmithBrian DennehyZachary IttimangnaqA government researcher, sent to research the "menace" of wolves in the north, learns about the true beneficial and positive nature of the species.I think over again my small adventures,
... My fears,
Those small ones that seemed so big.
For all the vital things I had to get and to reach.
And yet there is only one great thing,
The only thing.
To live to see ... the great day that dawns
And the light that fills the world.
--Old Inuit song - DirectorJean-Jacques AnnaudStarsTchéky KaryoBart the BearYouk the BearAn orphan bear cub hooks up with an adult male as they try to dodge human hunters."The greatest thrill is not to kill but to let live."
--J.O. Curwood - DirectorGreta GerwigStarsSaoirse RonanLaurie MetcalfTracy LettsIn 2002, an artistically inclined 17-year-old girl comes of age in Sacramento, California.“Anybody who talks about California hedonism has never spent a Christmas in Sacramento.”
--Joan Didion. - DirectorQuentin TarantinoStarsUma ThurmanDavid CarradineDaryl HannahAfter awakening from a four-year coma, a former assassin wreaks vengeance on the team of assassins who betrayed her."Revenge is a dish best served cold."
--Old Klingon Proverb - DirectorJohn MiliusStarsArnold SchwarzeneggerJames Earl JonesMax von SydowA powerful warrior seeks to avenge the genocide of his people and the murder of his parents at the hands of a snake cult."That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
--Fredrick Nietzche - DirectorKathryn BigelowStarsJeremy RennerAnthony MackieBrian GeraghtyDuring the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work.The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug.
– Chris Hedges - DirectorJohn HughesStarsEmilio EstevezJudd NelsonMolly RingwaldFive high school students meet in Saturday detention and discover how they have a great deal more in common than they thought.....And these children
that you spit on
as they try to change their worlds
are immune to your consultations.
They're quite aware
of what they're going through...
– David Bowie - DirectorTerry GilliamStarsJohnny DeppBenicio Del ToroTobey MaguireAn oddball journalist and his psychopathic lawyer travel to Las Vegas for a series of psychedelic escapades.He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
– Dr. Samuel Johnson - DirectorBob PersichettiPeter RamseyRodney RothmanStarsShameik MooreJake JohnsonHailee SteinfeldTeen Miles Morales becomes the Spider-Man of his universe and must join with five spider-powered individuals from other dimensions to stop a threat for all realities."That person who helps others simply because it should or must be done, and because it is the right thing to do, is indeed without a doubt, a real superhero."
--Stan Lee - DirectorChuck RussellStarsHeather LangenkampRobert EnglundCraig WassonA psychiatrist familiar with knife-wielding dream demon Freddy Krueger helps teens at a mental hospital battle the killer who is invading their dreams."Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them."
--Edgar Allan Poe - DirectorRenny HarlinStarsRobert EnglundRodney EastmanJohn BeckmanFreddy Krueger returns once again to terrorize the dreams of the remaining Dream Warriors, as well as those of a young woman who may be able to defeat him for good."When deep sleep falleth on men, fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake."
--Job IV, 13-14 - DirectorRachel TalalayStarsRobert EnglundLisa ZaneShon GreenblattDream-haunting Freddy Krueger returns once again to prowl the nightmares of Springwood's last surviving teenager, and of a woman whose personal connection to Krueger may mean his doom."Do you know the terror of he who falls asleep? To the toes he is very terrified, because the ground gives the way under him, and the dream begins..."
--Fredrick Nietzche
"Welcome to the prime time, bitch."
--Freddy Krueger - DirectorSpike LeeStarsDanny AielloOssie DavisRuby DeeOn the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence."Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by destroying itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers."
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
"I think there are plenty of good people in America, but there are also plenty of bad people in America and the bad ones are the ones who seem to have all the power and be in these positions to block things that you and I need. Because this is the situation, you and I have to preserve the right to do what is necessary to bring an end to that situation, and it doesn't mean that I advocate violence, but at the same time I am not against using violence in self-defense. I don't even call it violence when it's self- defense, I call it intelligence."
--Malcolm X - DirectorMike NicholsStarsTom HanksJulia RobertsPhilip Seymour HoffmanA drama based on a Texas congressman Charlie Wilson's covert dealings in Afghanistan, where his efforts to assist rebels in their war with the Soviets have some unforeseen and long-reaching effects."These things happened. They were glorious and they changed the world... and then we fucked up the end game."
--Charlie Wilson - DirectorMarc WebbStarsZooey DeschanelJoseph Gordon-LevittGeoffrey ArendAfter being dumped by the girl he believes to be his soulmate, hopeless romantic Tom Hansen reflects on their relationship to try and figure out where things went wrong and how he can win her back.Author's Note: The following is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental. Especially you Jenny Beckman. Bitch.
- DirectorQuentin TarantinoStarsJohn TravoltaUma ThurmanSamuel L. JacksonThe lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster and his wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.pulp n. 1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass of matter. 2. a magazine or book containing lurid subject matter and being characteristically printed on rough, unfinished paper.
--American Heritage Dictionary
New College Edition. - DirectorLucio FulciStarsCatriona MacCollPaolo MalcoAnia PieroniA New England home is terrorized by a series of murders, unbeknownst to the guests that a gruesome secret is hiding in the basement."No one will ever know whether the children are monsters or the monsters are children."
--Attributed to Henry James, but created by the film's director Lucio Fulici. - DirectorJames CameronStarsEd HarrisMary Elizabeth MastrantonioMichael BiehnA civilian diving team is enlisted to search for a lost nuclear submarine and faces danger while encountering an alien aquatic species."...when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you."
--Fredrick Nietzche - DirectorAntoine FuquaStarsDenzel WashingtonMarton CsokasChloë Grace MoretzA man who believes he has put his mysterious past behind him cannot stand idly by when he meets a young girl under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters."The two most important days in your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why."
--Attributed to Mark Twain - DirectorAdam McKayStarsChristian BaleSteve CarellRyan GoslingIn 2006-2007 a group of investors bet against the United States mortgage market. In their research, they discover how flawed and corrupt the market is."It ain't what you know that gets you in trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so."
--Mark Twain - DirectorPhilip GröningAn examination of life inside the Grande Chartreuse, the head monastery of the reclusive Carthusian Order in France."O Lord, you have seduced me and I was seduced."
—Jeremiah, 20:7. - DirectorAntoine FuquaStarsBruce WillisCole HauserMonica BellucciA Special-Ops commander leads his team into the Nigerian jungle in order to rescue a doctor who will only join them if they agree to save 70 refugees too."All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
--Attributed to Edmund Burke - DirectorRoland JofféStarsRobert De NiroJeremy IronsRay McAnallyEighteenth-century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal."The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it."
--John 1:5. - DirectorHenry KingStarsJennifer JonesCharles BickfordWilliam Eythe14-year-old Bernadette Soubirous, living in a small town in the south of 1850s France, claims to have seen a divine vision, prompting extreme skepticism, concern from her family, and religious and political turmoil.“For those who believe in God, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not believe in God, no explanation is possible.”
- DirectorAlbert HughesAllen HughesStarsJohnny DeppHeather GrahamIan HolmAfter five ritualistic murders are committed in 1888 London, Inspector Abberline's assignment is to investigate the "Jack the Ripper" murders. Along with a string of mutilated prostitutes, he uncovers a conspiracy involving the government."I gave birth to the 20th Century."
--Jack the Ripper (allegedly). - DirectorKrzysztof ZanussiStarsEdward ZentaraChristoph WaltzArtur BarcisThe story of Catholic saint Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941), who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz.There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
--John 15:13 - DirectorTim BurtonStarsAmy AdamsChristoph WaltzDanny HustonA drama about the awakening of painter Margaret Keane, her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed credit for her works in the 1960s.“I think what Keane has done is just terrific. It has to be good. If it were bad, so many people wouldn't like it.”
--Andy Warhol - DirectorJordan PeeleStarsDaniel KaluuyaKeke PalmerBrandon PereaThe residents of a lonely gulch in inland California bear witness to an uncanny and chilling discovery."I will cast abominable filth upon you, make you vile, and make you a spectacle."
--Nahum 3:6 - DirectorJim JarmuschStarsJohnny DeppGary FarmerCrispin GloverOn the run after murdering a man, accountant William Blake encounters a strange Native American man named Nobody who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.“It is better not to travel with a dead man”
-- Henri Michaux. - DirectorBrenda ChapmanSteve HicknerSimon WellsStarsVal KilmerRalph FiennesMichelle PfeifferEgyptian Prince Moses learns of his identity as a Hebrew and his destiny to become the chosen deliverer of his people."Never again did there arise in Israel a prophet like Moses, Whom the Lord singled out face to face..." (Hebrew Bible--Deuteronomy 34: 10)
"[Moses] was sent to their ruler and delivered by God himself..." (New Testament--Acts 7:5)
"And call to mind that through this divine writ, Moses. Behold he was a chosen one, and was an apostle [of God], a prophet." (Qu'ran--Surah 19:51). - DirectorRobert AltmanStarsDonald SutherlandElliott GouldTom SkerrittThe staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and high jinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.And then there was... KOREA
" I have just left your fighting sons in Korea. They have done their best there, and I can report to you without reservation that they are splendid in every way.
"I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty.
"Good Bye."
--General Douglas MacArthur
"I will go to Korea"
--Dwight D. Eisenhower - DirectorCurtis HarringtonStarsDennis HopperLinda LawsonGavin MuirA young sailor is attracted to a mysterious mermaid performing at a carnival, but soon suspects that the girl is actually a siren who draws men to their watery deaths during the full moon."And so, all the night tide, I lie down by the side of my darling - my darling - my life and my bride, in her sepulchre there by the sea, in her tomb by the sounding sea."
--Edgar Allan Poe - DirectorJohn Michael McDonaghStarsBrendan GleesonChris O'DowdKelly ReillyAfter he is threatened during a confession, a good-natured priest must battle the dark forces closing in around him.“Do not despair; one of the thieves was saved. Do not presume; one of the thieves was damned."
- DirectorCatherine HardwickeStarsKeisha Castle-HughesShohreh AghdashlooOscar IsaacA drama that focuses on the period in Mary and Joseph's life where they journeyed to Bethlehem for the birth of Jesus."Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely."
--Jeremiah 23: 5-6 (ESV) - DirectorRichard DonnerStarsGregory PeckLee RemickHarvey StephensMysterious deaths surround an American ambassador. Could the child that he is raising actually be the Antichrist? The Devil's own son?"Here is Wisdom.Let him that has understanding count the number of the beast: it is a number of a man; and his number is 666."
--Book of Revelation Chapter 13 verse 18. - DirectorDon TaylorMike HodgesStarsWilliam HoldenLee GrantJonathan Scott-TaylorDamien the Antichrist, now about to turn thirteen years old, finally learns of his destiny under the guidance of an unholy disciple of Satan. Meanwhile dark forces begin to eliminate all those who suspect the child's true identity."For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.”
—2 Corinthians 11:13 - DirectorGraham BakerStarsSam NeillRossano BrazziDon GordonThe now adult Antichrist plots to eliminate his future divine opponent while a cabal of monks plot to stop him."Behold, the Lion of Judah! The Messiah, who came first as a child, but returns not as a child, but now as King of Kings, to rule in power and glory forever! 'And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.'”
— Revelation 21:4 (Beginning with "And God shall wipe away...). - DirectorJohn HoughStarsRoddy McDowallGayle HunnicuttPamela FranklinA physicist, his wife and two mediums are hired to investigate the Belasco House, where 27 guests had inexplicably died in 1927, along with most of a team of paranormal investigators that was sent in the early 1950s.Although the story in this film is fictitious, the events depicted involving psychic phenomena are not only very much within the bounds of possibility, but could well be true.
--Tom Corbett
Clairvoyant and Psychic Consultant to European Royalty. - DirectorRobert WiseStarsBoris KarloffBela LugosiHenry DaniellA ruthless doctor and his young prize student find themselves continually harassed by their murderous supplier of illegal cadavers."It is through error that man tries and rises. It is through tragedy that he learns. All the roads of learning begin in darkness and go out into the light."
--Hippocrates of Kos - DirectorJacques TourneurStarsSimone SimonTom ConwayKent SmithAn American man marries a Serbian immigrant who fears that she will turn into the cat person of her homeland's fables if they are intimate together.[From the opening credits] "Even as fog continues to lie in the valleys, so does ancient sin cling to the low places, the depression sin the world consciousness." - "The Anatomy of Atavism" - Dr. Louis Judd
[From the closing credits] "But black sin hath betrayed to endless night. My world, both parts, and both parts must die." - "Holy Sonnets" - John Donne - DirectorMark RobsonStarsKim HunterTom ConwayJean BrooksA woman in search of her missing sister uncovers a Satanic cult in New York's Greenwich Village and finds that they could have something to do with her sibling's random disappearance.I runne to death, and death meets me as fast, and all my pleasures are like yesterday.
--Holy sonnet #VII
--Jonne Donne - DirectorMarco PontecorvoStarsJoaquim de AlmeidaGoran VisnjicStephanie GilThree young shepherds in Fátima, Portugal report visions of the Virgin Mary, inspiring believers and angering officials of the Church and the government, who try to force them to recant their story. Based on historical events.There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
--Albert Einstein - DirectorDavid HellingStarsDaniel da SilvaNicolas MouawadSara SeyedAfter being called on by the Lord, Abraham's faith is tested on his three day journey to sacrifice his son.At the beginning of the film.
"Abraham rejoiced to see my day; he saw it and was glad."
“Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am."
--Jesus Christ 30A.D. (John 8:56 and 59)
Right before the credits.
"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."
--John 3: 16
After the credits.
"for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God."
--Romans 3:23
"For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."
--Romans 6:23
"God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God."
--2 Corinthians 5:21
"Christ died for our sins
According to the Scriptures
He was buried....
And...He Rose Again on the Third Day
According to the Scriptures...
1 Corinthians 15: 3-4
"If you declare with your mouth, 'Jesus is Lord,' and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved."
--Romans 10: 9
"What does Scripture say? 'Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.'"
--Romans 4:3
- DirectorMerian C. CooperErnest B. SchoedsackStarsFay WrayRobert ArmstrongBruce CabotA film crew goes to a tropical island for a location shoot, where they capture a colossal ape who takes a shine to their blonde starlet, and bring him back to New York City.And, lo, the beast looked upon the face of beauty, and beauty stayed his hand. And from that day forward, he was as one dead.”
--Arabian Proverb (In actuality this was not a Arabian Proverb but contacted by one of the films co-directors.) - DirectorChristopher NolanStarsCillian MurphyEmily BluntMatt DamonThe story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to man. For this he was chained to a rock and tortured for eternity.