It’s going to knock people out,” he adds. It feels sometimes like a biopic, sometimes like a thriller, sometimes like a horror. “I don’t like watching myself – it’s like, ‘Oh, fucking hell’ – but it’s an extraordinary piece of work. But he relaxes when I ask if he’s pleased with Oppenheimer. Murphy loathes interviews, looks visibly tortured at points. The only background noise is the low hum of a wine refrigerator. The room is dark, the sun shining through a solitary Velux lighting his features like a Géricault. So, yes, here we sit in an empty upstairs room of a restaurant near his house in Monkstown, Dublin, working out how to do this. Nolan? The studio? The US government? All I know is that as well as Murphy being gagged by hefty NDAs, I am not allowed to see it (“bit unfortunate”, he concedes). It’s not clear who issued these instructions. Which is awkward when you’ve flown to his home in Ireland to interview him specifically about playing the physicist who oversaw the creation of the atomic bomb, later detonated over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Murphy is under “strict instructions” not to talk about the content. A Half-Life edit posted by YouTube user Murtle on August 27th, 2020, received over 510,000 views in two months.Cillian Murphy is struggling with what he can and can’t say about his title role in Oppenheimer, the latest Christopher Nolan epic, such is the secrecy surrounding this film. For example, a Minecraft version posted by YouTube user Digital Novad on May 12th, 2020, received over 550,000 views in five months. The format regained popularity in parodies starting in late Spring 2020, with multiple viral versions being posted on YouTube and Twitter. On March 2nd, 2019, YouTube user SalamanderAndSon uploaded a live-action parody of the scene which received over 3.7 million views (shown below, right). On January 9th, 2019, YouTuber kmlkmljkl posted a 9 + 10 = 21 meme based on the scene that received over 157,100 views in two years. On December 24th, 2018, YouTube user ArgDoesStuff posted the earliest video parody of the original, a Mass Effect parody that received over 116,400 views in two years (shown below, left). The parody format started gaining spread after on December 19th, 2018, YouTube user Sage Maneja uploaded the video of the successfully completed quick time event which received over 800,000 vies in two years. The tweet received over 570 retweets and 1,200 likes in three years (shown below). On November 25th, 2017, Twitter user posted the earliest known meme based on the scene, Castlevania parody. On December 4th, 2015, YouTube user Sage Maneja uploaded the footage of the failed quick time event, with the upload gaining over 3.6 million views as of August 12th, 2020, and over 8.5 million views as of October 15th, 2020. On February 17th, 2012, YouTuber MonotoneTim uploaded a one-hour version of the scene. The rediscovery of the game resulted into several scenes from it, including Give Me A Drink, Bartender, attaining a meme status. In 2011, the The Town With No Name was rediscovered by YouTube audience following a full playthrough posted by World of Longplays and a humorous commentary on that playthrough made by YouTuber resuprae. If the player fails the quick time event, the glass sent by the bartender will slide past him and crash behind the counter (successful and failed versions shown below). In one in-game location, the main protagonist can ask the local bartender to give him drink, upon which a quick time event starts. In October 1992, video game The Town With No Name was released for Commodore CDTV.
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