[Lost, almost*]
Jul. 13th, 2023 07:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
roaming_kate23I forgot to mention the other day that Los Alamos, where the Manhattan Project was headquartered, was also where the remake of Let The Right One In, Let Me In, was set.When I heard they were doing a remake I thought “where in the U.S. is as remote seeming as Sweden?” New Mexico comes pretty close though Wyoming or Montana would have worked too.
I forget where I read this but it was heavily implied that the parents of the kids in the movie, a lot of them, worked for LANL*,*if not their grandparents. And of course the setting is during the Cold War.
In the Oppenheimer trailer there-is a comment about “why would you go to the middle of nowhere?”There wasn’t much to Los Alamos before the Manhattan Project and it’s still a bit isolated . They needed that space because of what they were doing.You notice that when they did the testing for the nuclear bomb they did it in the most out of the way places ,away from lots of people.
*The nickname some working on the Manhattan Project had for Los Alamos.
*Los Alamos National Laboratory.
I forget where I read this but it was heavily implied that the parents of the kids in the movie, a lot of them, worked for LANL*,*if not their grandparents. And of course the setting is during the Cold War.
In the Oppenheimer trailer there-is a comment about “why would you go to the middle of nowhere?”There wasn’t much to Los Alamos before the Manhattan Project and it’s still a bit isolated . They needed that space because of what they were doing.You notice that when they did the testing for the nuclear bomb they did it in the most out of the way places ,away from lots of people.
*The nickname some working on the Manhattan Project had for Los Alamos.
*Los Alamos National Laboratory.
