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• ENOLA GAY
• WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ENOLA GAY AFTER IT DROPPED THE ATOMIC BOMB
• HIROSHIMA’S ENOLA GAY RRIED 12 MEN, HOPE AND THE WORLD’S ADLIT WEAPON
• THE ENOLA GAY'S HISTORY LIV ON
• ORCHTRAL MANOVR IN THE DARK - ENOLA GAY LYRICS
• THE INLIBLE ENOLA GAY
• EX MACHA REVIEW: FALLY, AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MOVIE WH SOME BRASOSR ISAAC AND DOMHNALL GLEON MAY BE HEAD FOR THE BIG SPECTACLE OF STAR WARS, BUT THEIR FIRST SCI-FI LLABORATN IS REHGLY SMALL AND SMART.BY JOANNA ROBSONMARCH 15, 2015COURTY OF UNIVERSAL PICTURSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEAFTER A RECENT N OF OVERLY-HYPED, BUT ULTIMATELY DISAPPOTG SCI-FI EFFORTS, FANS OF THE GENRE FALLY HAVE SOMETHG WORTH GETTG EXCED ABOUT. NON GENRE FILMGOERS SHOULD PROBABLY GET EXCED TOO. FOR THE FIRST TIME A LONG TIME, WE HAVE AN ARTIFICIAL TELLIGENCE FILM WH, WELL, TELLIGENCE.EX MACHA, NOVELIST AND SCREENWRER ALEX GARLAND’S DIRECTORIAL BUT, TREADS ON THE WELL-WORN SCI-FI TERRORY OF TECHNOPHOBIA, GOD PLEX, AND LETHAL ROBOTS, BUT DO SO WH AN TELLIGENCE AND SOPHISTITN THAT NEVER UNRTIMAT EHER THE VIEWER OR THE PACY OF THE GENRE.THE FILM KICKS OFF WHEN A NICE YOUNG R NAMED CALEB (DOMHNALL GLEON) WS A MYSTER TRIP TO SPEND A WEEK AT THE OPULENT HOME (MORE OF A POUND, REALLY) OF NATHAN (OSR ISAAC), HIS BOSS AND CEO OF FICTNAL TER GIANT BLUE BOOK. DURG HIS VIS, CALEB MEETS TWO WOMEN: NATHAN’S ASSISTANT AND LOVER KYOKO (SONOYA MIZUNO) AND HIS VENTN, A ROBOT NAMED AVA (ALICIA VIKANR). AVA THE ROBOT IS A CGI NFECTN MA OF HUMAN FACE, HANDS, AND FEET HELD TOGETHER BY SEWY MH, TRANSLUCENT LIMBS, AND A SEE-THROUGH TORSO FILLED WH BLKG LIGHTS, AND WHIRRG GEARS.NATHAN TASKS CALEB WH ENGAGG AVA THE “TURG TT” (Y, NAMED FOR THAT TURG) ORR TO TERME WHETHER HIS ARTIFICIALLY TELLIGENT CREATN N THK AND ACT LIKE A HUMAN. AS YOU MIGHT EXPECT A FILM ABOUT A VULNERABLE YOUNG MAN, AN ALLURG ROBOT GIRL, AND A BILLNAIRE WH A GOD PLEX LOCKED UP A HIGH-TEC BUNKER, THGS START TO GO HORRIBLY WRONG.AS THE SCREENWRER FOR THE LIK OF SUNSHE, 28 DAYS LATER, AND NEVER LET ME GO, GARLAND IS WELL-VERSED STORI OF SCIENCE N AMOK. ALL THE SAME, THIS IS A REMARKABLY NFINT FIRST GO FOR GARLAND THE DIRECTOR’S CHAIR. EX MACHA IS A WRERLY FILM WH THE TIMATE TWO-HANR SCEN AND GRAND SPEECH YOU WOULD EXPECT TO FD A STAGE PLAY RATHER THAN A VISUALLY DAZZLG B OF SCI-FI. BUT SPE S TY ST (WH APOLOGI TO KYOKO, THERE ARE REALLY ONLY THREE CHARACTERS), CRAMPED, NARROW HALLWAYS, AND WDOWLS ROOMS, EX MACHA NEVER FEELS LIKE A SMALL FILM.NATHAN’S CLSTROPHOBIC UNRGROUND LAIR TAK ON THE FEEL OF THAT CLASSIC SCI-FI SETTG: THE SPACHIP. BUT WI EXTERR SHOTS (FILMED ON LOTN NORWAY) OF LH FORTS AND ONE PARTICULARLY STUNNG GLACIER PLAY THE ROLE OF OUTER SPACE, PUTTG MAN’S SMALL, TECHNOLOGIL ACPLISHMENTS THE NTEXT OF NATURE’S VAST SPLENDOR.THAT BLURRED RELATNSHIP BETWEEN THE ANIC AND ANIC –– ED TO BT EFFECT AVA’S ELEGANT FLH AND MH SIGN –– CROPS UP THROUGHOUT EX MACHA TO UNRLE THE NOTN OF ARTIFICIAL TELLIGENCE AS THE NEXT, EVABLE PHASE OUR EVOLUTN. VIKANR’S FACE MOV ROBOTILLY, Y, BUT ALSO TAK ON A CUR BIRD-LIKE QUALY –– BRIGHT EY BLKG AND QUISIVE HEAD TILTG.AVA, ENHANCED BY VIKANR’S ETHEREAL PERFORMANCE, IS THE FILM’S VISUAL MARVEL, AND GLEON IS EFFORTLSLY SYMPATHETIC AS OUR DIENCE PROXY, CALEB. YET ’S OSR ISAAC’S VERY HUMAN PERFORMANCE THAT BREATH LIFE TO THE FILM. NATHAN MAY BE A MEGALOMANIAC TYPE WE’RE ALL FAIAR WH (DR. FRANKENSTE BY WAY OF BLUEBEARD), BUT ISAAC PLAYS THE CHARISMATIC, CEREBRAL SCIENTIST WH AN UNEXPECTED EARTHY HEFT. HE MAY BE A MENTAL MANIPULATOR OF THE FIRST GREE, ABLE TO GIVE IMPROMPTU SOPHISTITED SPEECH ON JACKSON POLLOCK OR A.I.’S ROLE THE EVOLUTNARY PROCS, BUT WHEN ISAAC LAYS TO A PUNCHG BAGS, DROPS VULGARI, OR GNTGLY HEFTS A BARBELL, THERE’S LTLE DOUBT AS TO WHO THE “KNUCKLE-DRAGGG APE” IS THIS SCENAR. AND NATHAN’S TENNCY TO PUNCTUATE HIS SENTENC WH “DU” MAK EASY TO TRACE HIS EVOLUTNARY LEAGE BACK TO THE BROGRAMMERS OF SILIN VALLEY.EX MACHA CERTALY ISN’T THE ONLY SUCCSFUL ARTIFICIAL TELLIGENCE FILM OUT THERE, AND VIKANR’S CRACKLG HONEY VOICE AND SCTIVE MEANOR MAKE THE PARISON TO SRLETT JOHANSSON HER PRETTY EVABLE. BUT WHILE SPIKE JONZE’S FILM WAS ALL HEART, EX MACHA IS JT BRIMMG WH BRAS. FOR EVERY OBV CULTURAL REFERENCE TO SCIENTIFIC DISASTER (YOU BET ROBERT OPPENHEIMER GETS QUOTED), THERE’S A SUBTLE ONE, LIKE SNIPPETS OF ORCHTRAL MANOVR IN THE DARK’S 1980S ANTHEM “ENOLA GAY.” AND GARLAND NEVER LETS HIS MERA LGER TOO LONG ON ONE OF EX MACHA’S VISUAL PUNCH LIKE A FULLY HUMANOID ROBOT DRSED ALL WHE PSG ONT OF KLIMT’S INIC PORTRA OF MARGARET STONBOROUGH WTGENSTE.THGS DO GET PHYSIL, AND ALSO VLENT, BUT EX MACHA IS FOR THE MOST PART A THREE-WAY MENTAL BATTLE. WH ALL THE OVER-BLOWN, BUT EMPTY SCI-FI OFFERGS OUT THERE, WOULDN’T YOU PREFER A NICE GAME OF CHS?MOST POPULARWH MATRO, LEONARD BERNSTE’S LEGACY AND LOV FALLY H THE BIG SCREENBY REBEC FORDTHE BOOK OF CLARENCE IS A BOMBASTIC JOURNEY BACK TO THE BIBLIL ERABY REBEC FORD25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSBY HILLARY BISJOANNA ROBSON
• ENOLA GAY
• WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ENOLA GAY AFTER IT DROPPED THE ATOMIC BOMB
• HIROSHIMA’S ENOLA GAY RRIED 12 MEN, HOPE AND THE WORLD’S ADLIT WEAPON

ENOLA GAY

This song is "Enola Gay" by Orchtral Manovr the Dark. The Enola Gay was a Boeg B-29 Superfortrs bomber that dropped the nuclear bomb known as "Ltle Boy" on the Japane cy of Hiroshima durg World War II. In the background of an early scene Ex Macha (2015), you n hear the song Enola Gay playg, a song wrten about the atomic bombg of Hiroshima.

Enola Gay, the B-29bomber that was ed by the Uned Stat on Augt 6, 1945, to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, the first time the explosive vice had been ed on an enemy target.

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ENOLA GAY AFTER IT DROPPED THE ATOMIC BOMB

” The Enola Gay—Tibbets had a matenance man pat that name on the aircraft’s nose shortly before takeoff—was acpanied by var other plan. Tibbets flew the Enola Gay back to Tian, where he was award the Distguished Service Cross.

HIROSHIMA’S ENOLA GAY RRIED 12 MEN, HOPE AND THE WORLD’S ADLIT WEAPON

Three days later the Enola Gay nducted weather rennaissance the lead-up to the bombg of Nagasaki, Japan. Japan officially surrenred on September 2, Enola Gay remaed service for several years before beg given to the Smhsonian Instutn on July 3, 1949. In 2003 the fully rtored Enola Gay was put on display at the NASM’s Steven F.

After the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug.

THE ENOLA GAY'S HISTORY LIV ON

The Enola Gay is a B-29 Superfortrs, which pilot Pl Tibbets named after his mother, and which had been stripped of everythg but the necsi, so as to be thoands of pounds lighter than an ordary plane of that make. While did not drop the bomb on Nagasaki, the Enola Gay did take flight to get data on the weather the lead-up to the send strike on Japan. In the aftermath of World War II, the Army Air Forc flew the Enola Gay durg an atomic tt program the Pacific; was then livered to be stored an airfield Arizona before beg flown to Illois and transferred to the Smhsonian July 1949.

But even unr the ctody of the mm, the Enola Gay remaed at an air force base Texas. The Commtee for the Rtoratn and Display of the Enola Gay now has 9, 000 signatur of prott.

ORCHTRAL MANOVR IN THE DARK - ENOLA GAY LYRICS

Adams, who is leavg his job after 10 relatively ntroversy-ee years, sent back a three-page answer stiffly turng down her requt for the Enola Gay. Demonstrators prott at the Enola Gay exhib at the the Smhsonian Natnal Air and Space Mm's Steven F.

THE INLIBLE ENOLA GAY

And as long as is on display, the qutns rais are likely to ntue — after all, they have been wh the Enola Gay sce first beme a hoehold name. Tibbets Jr., 30, had handpicked the airplane on the assembly le Nebraska three months before and had jt had his mother’s name, “Enola Gay, ” pated black letters on the the plane mbled down the airstrip at over 100 mph, he had his lucky cigarette se wh him one pocket, and a box ntag 12 cyani psul Aug.

Two other B-29s, the “Great Artiste” and “Necsary Evil, ” were supposed to go along to take pictur and rerd “Enola Gay” was the “strike ship. ”Fifteen hundred to the north-northwt, unr a wang crcent moon, lay a 400-year-old Japane cy most Amerins probably had never heard of but whose name was about to be etched to the pag of was an important enemy ary se wh a wartime populatn about 280, 000, acrdg to the historians Gordon Thomas and Max half of them were about to be cerated, cshed, and irradiated by the c atomic weapon named “Ltle Boy” that the Enola Gay of thoands more would die the same way at Nagasaki a few days later, and the world would subsequently be hearg about megatons, mutual assured stctn, proliferatn, nuclear wter, meltdowns and dirty would be the start of a ightful era of weapons that uld fy ntrol and menace as “Dimpl Eight Two” picked up speed that morng, s missn was born of s time: liver a blow that the Uned Stat hoped might fally end the global butchery of World War II.

)This week, memoratns are schled across the untry, wh socially distanced ndlelight vigils and the tollg of bells, and bee of the vid-19, ceremoni and remembranc have moved Enola Gay, the Boeg B-29 Superfortrs that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, is seen on display July 29, 2020, at the Steven F. (Matt McCla/The Washgton Post)One of the Enola Gay’s four eng. If this ighteng new weapon worked, the thkg went, would shorten the war, albe at a dreadful st human first the Enola Gay had to get off the ground.

EX MACHA REVIEW: FALLY, AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MOVIE WH SOME BRASOSR ISAAC AND DOMHNALL GLEON MAY BE HEAD FOR THE BIG SPECTACLE OF STAR WARS, BUT THEIR FIRST SCI-FI LLABORATN IS REHGLY SMALL AND SMART.BY JOANNA ROBSONMARCH 15, 2015COURTY OF UNIVERSAL PICTURSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEAFTER A RECENT N OF OVERLY-HYPED, BUT ULTIMATELY DISAPPOTG SCI-FI EFFORTS, FANS OF THE GENRE FALLY HAVE SOMETHG WORTH GETTG EXCED ABOUT. NON GENRE FILMGOERS SHOULD PROBABLY GET EXCED TOO. FOR THE FIRST TIME A LONG TIME, WE HAVE AN ARTIFICIAL TELLIGENCE FILM WH, WELL, TELLIGENCE.EX MACHA, NOVELIST AND SCREENWRER ALEX GARLAND’S DIRECTORIAL BUT, TREADS ON THE WELL-WORN SCI-FI TERRORY OF TECHNOPHOBIA, GOD PLEX, AND LETHAL ROBOTS, BUT DO SO WH AN TELLIGENCE AND SOPHISTITN THAT NEVER UNRTIMAT EHER THE VIEWER OR THE PACY OF THE GENRE.THE FILM KICKS OFF WHEN A NICE YOUNG R NAMED CALEB (DOMHNALL GLEON) WS A MYSTER TRIP TO SPEND A WEEK AT THE OPULENT HOME (MORE OF A POUND, REALLY) OF NATHAN (OSR ISAAC), HIS BOSS AND CEO OF FICTNAL TER GIANT BLUE BOOK. DURG HIS VIS, CALEB MEETS TWO WOMEN: NATHAN’S ASSISTANT AND LOVER KYOKO (SONOYA MIZUNO) AND HIS VENTN, A ROBOT NAMED AVA (ALICIA VIKANR). AVA THE ROBOT IS A CGI NFECTN MA OF HUMAN FACE, HANDS, AND FEET HELD TOGETHER BY SEWY MH, TRANSLUCENT LIMBS, AND A SEE-THROUGH TORSO FILLED WH BLKG LIGHTS, AND WHIRRG GEARS.NATHAN TASKS CALEB WH ENGAGG AVA THE “TURG TT” (Y, NAMED FOR THAT TURG) ORR TO TERME WHETHER HIS ARTIFICIALLY TELLIGENT CREATN N THK AND ACT LIKE A HUMAN. AS YOU MIGHT EXPECT A FILM ABOUT A VULNERABLE YOUNG MAN, AN ALLURG ROBOT GIRL, AND A BILLNAIRE WH A GOD PLEX LOCKED UP A HIGH-TEC BUNKER, THGS START TO GO HORRIBLY WRONG.AS THE SCREENWRER FOR THE LIK OF SUNSHE, 28 DAYS LATER, AND NEVER LET ME GO, GARLAND IS WELL-VERSED STORI OF SCIENCE N AMOK. ALL THE SAME, THIS IS A REMARKABLY NFINT FIRST GO FOR GARLAND THE DIRECTOR’S CHAIR. EX MACHA IS A WRERLY FILM WH THE TIMATE TWO-HANR SCEN AND GRAND SPEECH YOU WOULD EXPECT TO FD A STAGE PLAY RATHER THAN A VISUALLY DAZZLG B OF SCI-FI. BUT SPE S TY ST (WH APOLOGI TO KYOKO, THERE ARE REALLY ONLY THREE CHARACTERS), CRAMPED, NARROW HALLWAYS, AND WDOWLS ROOMS, EX MACHA NEVER FEELS LIKE A SMALL FILM.NATHAN’S CLSTROPHOBIC UNRGROUND LAIR TAK ON THE FEEL OF THAT CLASSIC SCI-FI SETTG: THE SPACHIP. BUT WI EXTERR SHOTS (FILMED ON LOTN NORWAY) OF LH FORTS AND ONE PARTICULARLY STUNNG GLACIER PLAY THE ROLE OF OUTER SPACE, PUTTG MAN’S SMALL, TECHNOLOGIL ACPLISHMENTS THE NTEXT OF NATURE’S VAST SPLENDOR.THAT BLURRED RELATNSHIP BETWEEN THE ANIC AND ANIC –– ED TO BT EFFECT AVA’S ELEGANT FLH AND MH SIGN –– CROPS UP THROUGHOUT EX MACHA TO UNRLE THE NOTN OF ARTIFICIAL TELLIGENCE AS THE NEXT, EVABLE PHASE OUR EVOLUTN. VIKANR’S FACE MOV ROBOTILLY, Y, BUT ALSO TAK ON A CUR BIRD-LIKE QUALY –– BRIGHT EY BLKG AND QUISIVE HEAD TILTG.AVA, ENHANCED BY VIKANR’S ETHEREAL PERFORMANCE, IS THE FILM’S VISUAL MARVEL, AND GLEON IS EFFORTLSLY SYMPATHETIC AS OUR DIENCE PROXY, CALEB. YET ’S OSR ISAAC’S VERY HUMAN PERFORMANCE THAT BREATH LIFE TO THE FILM. NATHAN MAY BE A MEGALOMANIAC TYPE WE’RE ALL FAIAR WH (DR. FRANKENSTE BY WAY OF BLUEBEARD), BUT ISAAC PLAYS THE CHARISMATIC, CEREBRAL SCIENTIST WH AN UNEXPECTED EARTHY HEFT. HE MAY BE A MENTAL MANIPULATOR OF THE FIRST GREE, ABLE TO GIVE IMPROMPTU SOPHISTITED SPEECH ON JACKSON POLLOCK OR A.I.’S ROLE THE EVOLUTNARY PROCS, BUT WHEN ISAAC LAYS TO A PUNCHG BAGS, DROPS VULGARI, OR GNTGLY HEFTS A BARBELL, THERE’S LTLE DOUBT AS TO WHO THE “KNUCKLE-DRAGGG APE” IS THIS SCENAR. AND NATHAN’S TENNCY TO PUNCTUATE HIS SENTENC WH “DU” MAK EASY TO TRACE HIS EVOLUTNARY LEAGE BACK TO THE BROGRAMMERS OF SILIN VALLEY.EX MACHA CERTALY ISN’T THE ONLY SUCCSFUL ARTIFICIAL TELLIGENCE FILM OUT THERE, AND VIKANR’S CRACKLG HONEY VOICE AND SCTIVE MEANOR MAKE THE PARISON TO SRLETT JOHANSSON HER PRETTY EVABLE. BUT WHILE SPIKE JONZE’S FILM WAS ALL HEART, EX MACHA IS JT BRIMMG WH BRAS. FOR EVERY OBV CULTURAL REFERENCE TO SCIENTIFIC DISASTER (YOU BET ROBERT OPPENHEIMER GETS QUOTED), THERE’S A SUBTLE ONE, LIKE SNIPPETS OF ORCHTRAL MANOVR IN THE DARK’S 1980S ANTHEM “ENOLA GAY.” AND GARLAND NEVER LETS HIS MERA LGER TOO LONG ON ONE OF EX MACHA’S VISUAL PUNCH LIKE A FULLY HUMANOID ROBOT DRSED ALL WHE PSG ONT OF KLIMT’S INIC PORTRA OF MARGARET STONBOROUGH WTGENSTE.THGS DO GET PHYSIL, AND ALSO VLENT, BUT EX MACHA IS FOR THE MOST PART A THREE-WAY MENTAL BATTLE. WH ALL THE OVER-BLOWN, BUT EMPTY SCI-FI OFFERGS OUT THERE, WOULDN’T YOU PREFER A NICE GAME OF CHS?MOST POPULARWH MATRO, LEONARD BERNSTE’S LEGACY AND LOV FALLY H THE BIG SCREENBY REBEC FORDTHE BOOK OF CLARENCE IS A BOMBASTIC JOURNEY BACK TO THE BIBLIL ERABY REBEC FORD25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSBY HILLARY BISJOANNA ROBSON

William Parsons, who flew on the missn as the bomb bee of that risk, the 10-foot-long “Ltle Boy” had not yet been was a “gun-type” bomb, one which an explosive charge would fire a “subcril” piece of uranium 235 down a six-foot-long “gun” barrel to a send subcril piece of uranium, acrdg to Thomas and created cril mass and the explosive nuclear cha reactn that would lay waste to four cloth bags of explosive and the tonator would not be serted until the plane was the Enola Gay was now dog 180 mph but was nng out of ground. (Natnal Archiv)The weapon is hoisted to the bomb bay of the B-29 dubbed “Enola Gay” Augt 1945 on Tian Island the Northern Mariana Islands.

ENOLA GAY

(Natnal Archiv)‘A fiery red re’Thirty-one thoand feet above, the Enola Gay’s bombardier, Maj.

So had an ternal radar system that tected the ground, tripped the tonator at that altu, and iated the tonatn bomb traveled for six and explod jt short of the Enola Gay, meanwhile, lurched upward on sheddg the weight of the bomb and executed a hairp turn to pe the expected shock wave of the first, the crew saw and felt nothg.

(AP)‘Brighter than the sun’As the Enola Gay and s two rt plan head back Tian, a young scientist named Luis W. Seventy-five years ago, the Uned Stat dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, brgg an end to a long and vastatg World War II and makg the Enola Gay, the B-29 that livered , one of the most famo history. The Enola Gay, known only as No.

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ENOLA GAY AFTER IT DROPPED THE ATOMIC BOMB

He handpicked the plane the night before the missn, to the surprise of s crew, and had his mother’s name -- Enola Gay -- pated on s si. 6, 1945, the Enola Gay took off for Hiroshima, an important Japane ary center.

It was a moment for which none of the Enola Gay’s crew -- away by then, but still rocked by the blast -- was que prepared. What some don’t know is that the Enola Gay flew that missn, too. Some fly ahead to check the weather to see what ’s like at the actual target, and Enola Gay was part of that for Nagasaki, " Kney said.

After the bombgs and the war’s quick end, the Enola Gay remaed wh the Army Air Forc, takg part the Biki Atoll atomic tts before beg shipped to the Smhsonian 1960. The origal patg of the words “Enola Gay” n still be seen on s si. While no members of the crew that flew the Enola Gay rema to tell s story, the aircraft liv on for visors.

HIROSHIMA’S ENOLA GAY RRIED 12 MEN, HOPE AND THE WORLD’S ADLIT WEAPON

"Enola Gay is a regnized airplane of World War II, and people want to see , " Kney said. "They want to see the spachip Disvery, they want to see the [SR-71] Blackbird, and they want to see the Enola Gay.