Christopher Nolan’s latest blockbuster movie “Oppenheimer” has sparked controversy among the Hindu-right in India, with some calling for a boycott and demanding the removal of a sex scene in which the titular character utters a famous line from the religion’s holy scripture.

Christopher Nolan’s latest blockbuster movie “Oppenheimer” has sparked controversy among the Hindu-right in India, with some calling for a boycott and demanding the removal of a sex scene in which the titular character utters a famous line from the religion’s holy scripture.

  • another_lemming@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Pugh stops during intercourse and picks up a copy of the Bhagavad Gita, one of Hinduism’s holiest scriptures, and asks Murphy to read from it.

    “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds,” Oppenheimer’s character says, as they resume intercourse.

    It’s fucking Morbius meme but for real. I don’t know how it fits the movie but it sound hilariously stupid out of context. Like wha-?