"Peace is our profession" on the wall at the beginning and on the outdoor during the shooting.... I am european over the years I heard it was/is the motto of the US Strategic Air Command, if true I will say how could they not see the irony.
@@isabelsilva62023 A slogan (reputedly) created by Curtis LeMay who was the target of the parody figure of General Turgidson and his maundering about 'acceptable losses". LeMay was responsible for the mass bombing of Japan during WWII that killed many many many more people than Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. LeMay also argued with JFK to conduct a mass bombing of Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis, stating the loss of US lives was 'acceptable' if it meant the end of Russian nuclear expansion. Cold War militaristic mindset in one grab.
@@isabelsilva62023 Actually, there isn't an irony. Their job was to maintain Peace by threatening to destroy the world if the enemy attacked. If the enemy had no chance of "winning", or if they did "win" they would be far better off not to have played, then they would be deterred from attacking in the first place. Nuclear War must be rendered Unthinkable. The only way to do that was to ensure that Everyone Would Lose if it happened. Truly, they performed their jobs to maintain the Peace. Being from Indiana, I never did Duck and Cover drills in the late 1960s and early 1970s in elementary school. My wife, from California, did.
@@jamesalexander5623Sellers was cast as Major Kong too and some filming had been done, but Sellers got injured - broke bone I think - that prevented the completion of filming, so Slim Pickins was recast in the role.
Strangelove's Nazi arm trying to strangle him is one of the craziest, most brilliant pieces of physical comedy ever captured on film. Glad you guys got a chance to check this out. Still my favorite Kubrick.
What I love is when he beats on his arm clinging to the chair wheel, you see the russian ambassador trying desperately to contain his laughter (and fails right before the cut)
Strangelove standing up from his wheelchair and crying out 'Mein Fuhrer, I can walk!' is one of the greatest pieces of ad libbing in movie history. It was not part of the script and Peter Sellers forgot he was supposed to be wheelchair bound and the rest...is history.
I agree, but there are some that are close. If you go back and look at some of the Silent Era Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd films you will find some real gems.
The guy playing the Russian Ambassador couldn't keep it together during that scene. They shot it dozens of times and he would laugh harder each time. Watch that scene over again, and keep your eye on the Ambassador!
There is a straight drama made in the same year as "Dr. Strangelove" (1964) with the same general premise starring Henry Fonda (of "12 Angry Men") called "Fail Safe". I highly recommend it!
And then there's the 1964 movie "Seven Days in May." If I remember correctly, Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Ava Gardner, Frederic March, and others star.
Story goes that the executives at Columbia Pictures gave Kubrick a heads-up that the folks making FAIL-SAFE wanted their film to be released first, due to the dramatic nature of their project. Thus, giving theater going audiences a chance to process the extremes of similar plots. Sadly, real world events essentially forced Kubrick to acquiesce. The assassination of John F. Kennedy directly affected 2 pivotal scenes. Slim Pickens, portraying Major Kong, went back to redubb a line that mentions Dallas. He eventually says Vegas instead The second scene was actually the ending. Turns out, the staff members in the war room get into a pie fight. When the American President gets hit by a pie, George C. Scott was to go over him and announce: OUR YOUNG PRESIDENT HAS GONE BEFORE HIS TIME. Needless to say, that line would not have gone down well in 1964, with respect to the assassination still be fresh in everyone's mind...❤
What you witnessed was possibly the single most brilliant tour de force comic performance/s in film history. The guy plays three completely divergeant parts in ONE movie,.... and they STILL don't give him the Oscar. He gives another singularly brilliantly understated performance near the end of his life,.... and they STILL don't give him the Oscar. It was a travesty of film history.
Great movie + reaction! Watch the russian ambassador while dr. stangelove rants at the end, he's almost laughing at Sellers' antics :) Another great movie 'Fail Safe' (1964), came out the same year, and is very similar to 'Dr. Strangelove', but done in a more realistic, dramatic way. 👍
This film is a masterpiece of satire. It came out in 1964. The "Cuban Missile Crisis" was in 1962.That crazy General is actually based on a real life military figure, Curtis LeMay. The movie (which used to be all over television in the 80's) takes me back to the last couple decades of the "Cold War" when the Russians were portrayed as the "bad guys" in a lot of films. That of course would never happen now ... ::Chokes on the irony of it all::
On the DVD there is a feature about the making of the movie. Stanley Kubrick and his writing partner sat down to write a serious drama about a possible nuclear conflict that was set off by a rogue commander. But when they started to write it, they would start cutting up and suggesting silly situations like, if a toilet got clogged in the war room bathroom, would they just call in a local plumber? Or if they got hungry plotting WW3, would they just send out for pizza? They found out they couldn't write a drama, the whole scenario of nuclear war and M.A.D. (mutually assured destruction) was so ridiculous, they changed over to make it a comedy. I love that story.
Peter Sellers was nominated for best actor for the Academy Awards by playing three different characters. He was nominated again in 1979 for his role in "Being There", as Chance, a simpleminded, sheltered gardener (forced out of the only home he's ever known after the death of his employer) becomes an unlikely trusted advisor to a powerful tycoon and an insider in Washington politics. Great movie, the next to the last movie Sellers made.
Great performances from Sellars, Scott, Pickins and Haydn. As a kid in the 60's watching this was both scary and funny at the same time. The absurd is sometimes too close to reality for comfort.
Fun Fact: If it looks like the visual and the soundtrack of the end of Major Kong's reading of the checklist of stuff doesn't sync up well, there's a reason for that. After going through the checklist, the line Kong's supposed to say is "Shoot, a fella can have a helluva weekend in Dallas with all that stuff" . However, during post production while the film was being readied for a Christmastime 1963 release, JFK was assassinated in Dallas. Kubrick and the other producers felt it was too soon after the tragedy to have "Dallas" in that line; hence having Slim Pickens ADR the line but with "Vegas" instead. The assassination also forced them to change the ending of the movie. Originally, after Strangelove's cry of "Mein Fuhrer, I can walk!!!" , everybody in the War Room was to eventually have a massive food fight with all of that spread on the long table the Russian ambassador walks by in his first scene. Then at some point, someone would've thrown a pie into the face of President Muffley, prompting Gen. Turgeson to go "look gentlemen; our President has been cut down in the prime of his youth!" . Again, the assassination made things feel inappropriate, so that scene was scrapped in favor of the montage of nuclear explosions with Vera Lynn's "We'll Meet Again" song accompanying it.
"Alien hand syndrome or Dr. Strangelove syndrome is a category of conditions in which a person experiences their limbs acting seemingly on their own ..." From the wikipedia article. Seemingly a real thing !
How hilarious Sellers expression is when he as Dr Strangelove answers Turgidson's question about the abandonment of the monogomous sexual relationship, in saying "each man will be required to do prodigious service..."
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake - played by Peter Sellers President Merkin Muffley - played by Peter Sellers Dr. Strangelove - played by Peter Sellers Your reaction, start to end, is hilarious to watch. Many reactors fail to roll with the screamingly subtle jet black humor. I think it's because many Americans think a B-52 was a new wave rocker from the 1970s.
If you look closely in the background during the final scene with Dr. Strangelove you can see some of the cast struggling to stay in character because of Sellers performance. He is one of only two actors Kubrick ever worked with where Kubrick gave full license to improvise his performance. The other was R. Lee Ermey in Full Metal Jacket.
I deeply approve of this reaction video. The movie is a dissection of what I've heard called "terminal military brain." where a single-minded focus on strategy and victory overrides all other priorities. It's also heavily oriented toward sex; the aerial refueling at the start is a hint, as are the names "Gen. Buck Turgidson," "Merkin Muffley," "Gen. Jack D. Ripper," "Stains," and so on. Their names are also indicative of their personalities: Turgidson is aggressive, Muffley is portrayed as weak, Ripper is a madman and hostile toward women.
Peter Sellers had not told anyone that he intended to include a fascist salute in his portrayal of the mad scientist. Just for devilmen I suppose to tease the other actors. You can see the actor who played the russian ambassador was unable to keep a straight face in the scene.
Hi Guys, great to see you react to this classic comedy film. This was the 2nd film where Peter Sellars showed off his ability to portray multiple characters. His 1st was (The Mouse That Roared) a British film from 5 yrs earlier. Although, he was already known for creating different voices for different characters, in the long-running (The Goon Show) on the radio in the `50`s. I believe he admired Alec Guinness, who had done multiple characters in his 1949 British Crime Black comedy film, (Kind Hearts & Coronets). Both of which, I would love to see you react to in the future sometime. :)
Peter Sellers was a genius! And Stanley Kubrick's part of that visionary generation of directors, "the auteurs" who changed cinema. Frederico Fellini's *8 1/2* (1963) is another big 60s classic worth reacting to, also a black comedy.
Dr. Strangelove was a former Nazi that escaped to America after the war. He couldn't control his arm that did the Nazi salute. Hilarious, Kubric was a genius.
In answer to your query...no, this came out in 1964 so was not before the Cuban Missile Crisis...it was after it, and was really a kind of response to it. However, the book upon which it was loosely based was published in 1958...on a side note, the author was kind of horrified that Kubrick made his serious story into a comedy. .45 "Automatic" is just a plain old semi auto .45...and those "pep" pills he was talking about was were the amphetamine pills that Air Force crews on long distance flights really had access to until at least the 1960s. Really good spot, Julien...yes, the barrel of that machine gun would have been VERY hot if he had been really shooting bullets. Though I am not sure if it would really get hot if he was firing blanks through it...but that was a good catch. And if the plane crashes, the bombs would almost certainly NOT go off...there have been quite a few crashes of planes with nukes on board, and while a couple of them were close calls, it is really really hard to set off a nuke by accident. Even if the explosives go off, if they do not go off in the specific millisecond order that is required, then nuclear detonation will not happen...the bomb just blows apart in a radiological explosion, not fission or fusion.✌
It does start out a bit slow but this is a brilliant and hilarious movie. Apparently, there was an alternate ending where it ended in a pie fight. Kubrick thought that it was too funny and cut it to keep a little more of an ominous tone.
It was taken out because in between the end of filming and the movie's release JFK was assassinated. They considered the original ending to be in too poor of taste for the timing. They also dubbed over one of Slim Pickens lines due to the same event. He actually says "A guy could have a pretty good weekend in Dallas" but they dubbed in Vegas instead of Dallas due to the assassination.
I found it amusing that Kubrick cast James Earl Jones in this movie, and later David Prowse in A Clockwork Orange. So he had already cast the two halves of Darth Vader in two different movies, long before Star Wars. I'm not sure that I got what connection you were trying to make between General Jack D Ripper's (get it? 😂) water fixation and the doomsday device. Or that the ambassador set off the device. Ripper was clearly acting completely on his own accord, and had no knowledge of the device. Would it have mattered if he knew? The ambassador was just photographing the War Room like Turgidson said he would. I can't see that it would do anyone any good anyway, at this point. The doomsday device went off automatically, as a result of the attack on a military base, as per its programming. The ambassador had nothing to do with it. The glove that Peter Sellers was wearing as Dr. Strangelove belonged to Kubrick. It was for handling hot equipment on the set, but Sellers thought it looked suitably menacing. When his hand appears to have its own will, look at the ambassador. He clearly has a very hard time keeping a straight face. 😊
When the pilot says "could have a pretty good time in Vegas ..." he actually said DALLAS but the assassination was still super fresh ! You can read his lips.Also ,the FBI investigation team got into why the cockpit and controls were just about perfect...It was all guessed. Imagine that.
@@lesliespears8918- True. You can also hear that the tone of his voice and the ambient noise is a little different during that one sentence, revealing that it was recorded later. They had one handbook with a picture from inside the B-52. Mostly it showed a pilot with the window in the background, but you could see the edge of the control panel, and they just extrapolated from that. And they apparently got pretty close.
Maybe the greatest Dark Satire film ever! What's also interesting is the movie "Fail Safe" came out the same year but it was this film and serious. As we say here in Texas; Y'all be safe.
Don't laugh ... this is both real right now (the Cold War never ended) and this reflects on how helpless the British "feel as our third wheel." Several times from the 50s to the 80s this nearly happened ... and in the last 12 months we get ever closer to The End.
Just a great movie a dark masterpiece. One of my favorite references to this movie is when Steve Buscemi (Rockhound) straddles the nuclear warhead in Armageddon
Watch the scene where Sellers is fighting his arm...Next to him, you can see the actor playing the Russian ambassador holding back laughing. "Miss Scott" is also the centrefold in the Playboy magazine in the plane.
“Peace is our profession” is the legit slogan of the SAC Strategic air command. And the characters represent real people. Buck turgidson is Curtis le may Dr Strangelove is Werner von Braun. Jack d ripper is Jack the Ripper Also the movie is a metaphor for sex and sexual insecurity in men. Opening scene is a love scene between planes. Ripper’s impotence causes the apocalypse. Buck splitting his attention to his secretary Kong riding the bomb making it look like a huge sexual organ, the bombs are metaphors for the men’s insecurities. The plan with women in the mines. 10:1 The names: Jack d ripper - killed prostitutes Buck turgidson - “buck” and “turgid Captain mandrake- mandrake is a male aphrodisiac President merkin muffly- merkin is a pubic wig, muffly is self explanatory. Kong…..well Kong was a lady’s man, and also a huge dangerous animal.
Amazing classic Dr. Strangelove directed by Stanley Kubrick starring by Peter Sellers and George C. Scott. "Gentlemen you can't fight here this is the War Room". Thank you guys great reaction if you like reacts more Peter Sellers films please reacts The Party
As someone below mentions (Arrow 1) - check out Failsafe, it is the "straight" version of Dr Stranglove, where only the President has the authority to drop the bomb. Its a pure drama, and the ending is both intelligent (and the only reasonable action) and horrific at the same time. I have both movies on bluray of course, since I love classic movies (that rules out anything made in the last 15 yrs IMO - sadly). FAILSAFE - its the same movie without the comedy, and filmed at the same time - released in theaters only 6 months after Dr Stranglove. ------- honourable mentions: "7 Days in May" is another one dealing with the same topic WW3 that dates to the same time. newer movies about ww3 include the russian movie "letters from a deadman" and my personal favorite (most realistic - and will remove 2 weeks of life from anyone veiwing it) - "Threads" and horric ww3 movie made in 1984 by the brits.
14:40 "Shoot, a fella could have a nice weekend in Vegas with all that." If you notice, his mouth said "Dallas". They changed it as this film released shortly after the Kennedy assassination.
Really enjoyed your reaction of this movie! So many little quips of comedy in this. When Sterling Hayden has the belt-fed machine gun and wants Mandrake to come help him, he says "come over here and help me, the Redcoats are coming." Mandrake is British Air Force - he IS a Redcoat. For Julien, the barrel of the MG has the perforated guard that allows you to hold it bare-handed. It will eventually get too hot, but not right away. When George C. Scott was saying the Ambassador was tricking them with the doomsday, he tripped and rolled over, up and into his next line without pause, it was not scripted - he genuinely tripped but it was so good Kubrick left it in. In the aircraft crew was also a very young Dennis Hopper, who leaves a long legacy of important parts, plus some strange ones, in many movies. Pilot Slim Pickens (his stage name) was also a fixture in movies and TV, especially Westerns so his character played right into it. He did rodeo in his younger days, and is in the Rodeo Hall of Fame, as well as the Hall of Great Western Performers.
Most Air Force large Aircraft have a small Galley containing two convection ovens a refrigerator and two insulated water jugs, plus some slots for a number of stainless steel trays. You or the Loadmasters would usually pick up either hot meals which fit in the convection ovens or box lunches which had to be eaten within five hours (For Safety). You could also bring a few snacks. And Yes, it was not uncommon for crewmembers to bring along Girly Magazines.
Not sure if you noticed the crazy General's name.. General Jack D. Ripper ! When George C. Scott trips and falls down in the War Room.. he wasn't supposed to trip. Kubrick kept it in. Near the end, when Dr Strangelove is fighting with his right hand, the guy playing the Russian Ambassador couldn't keep a straight face. You see him burst out laughing. I've read that they shot the scene between 20 and 40 times and he would laugh harder each time.
Great reaction! The ambassador didn't set off a bomb at the end--he was taking pictures again with that clock-camera, basically saying 'Fuck you guys, you'll never change' after Buck Turgidson starts ranting "We can't allow a MINESHAFT GAP!" (the bomb ridden by Slim Pickens activated the Doomsday Machine.) That's one level of brilliance of this film: if people refuse to learn from their mistakes and near-tragedies, then the world is better off coming to an end!
right - the ruskie and turg were still playing thier roles even while ww3 was starting. there as a statment being made by those two guys still being the same with thier same fears/actions even while the world was being blown up.
Asolute classic satire and a masterpiece performance by Sellers. One of Kubrick's best (amongst some of the best ever). Released just after the Cuban Missile Crisis, it was so topical and effective in cinemas at the time.
Great reaction guys! This film has so many layers, script & casting was spot on. Have a couple of suggestions for follow-up movies; a humorous take along the same lines is "No Time For Sergeants"...also has quite a few notable names throughout, & "Soldier in the Rain" ...which is one of my absolute favorite films (stars the King of Cool Steve McQueen). Hope all the guys can watch both, think you will really enjoy them.
Cuban Missile Crisis: October 1962. The First Test Screening for the film movie was scheduled for November 22, 1963 == the Day of the JFK Assassination. So that screening was cancelled. Kubrick & Studio elected to delay film release until January 29, 1964. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Strangelove - Peter Sellers called Kubrick … he could not do the B-52 pilot (exhaustion & couldn’t get Texas accent in time). Stanley choosing Slim Pickens was great casting (and James Earl Jones as B-52 crewman).
A major reason for delaying the film’s release was that Major Kong says that a guy could have a pretty good time in “Dallas” with all this stuff. Given that the assassination had just occurred in Dallas, it would have been a painful reminder so Pickens was overdubbed saying “Vegas” to replace it, if you watch carefully you can tell that his lip movements don’t match.
Glad both of you lost it over the Dr. Strangelove arm goofiness. If you watch this movie again and get to that final scene in the War Room, watch Peter Bull (the actor who plays the Soviet ambassador). At times when there's a shot with people behind Strangelove as he battles his arm, you can see Bull at times coming to the brink of completely breaking character and busting out laughing.
Dr Strangelove was released two years after the Cuban missile crisis and 10 months after John F Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. The story was based on a book called Red Alert that was made into a dramatic movie called Fail Safe. The prospect of a mad general ordering a nuclear attack on the USSR was only acknowledged as a genuine risk due to the release of both movies. The Fail Safe protocol (viz for B52 bombers to proceed to bomb their targets after passing a no-return point, ignoring any command to turn back) was real. The automation of a Russian nuclear response was (is?) real. The most frightening aspects of the movie were all too real, though the prospect of a rogue army officer was small fry compared to a mistake (look up 9 November 1979 for an example of ). Dr Strangelove is the perfect parody of the dominance of military 'thinking' during the Cold War, when the US/NATO and the USSR spent well over 10% of total budget expanding nuclear arsenals to an impossible total of 66 000 nuclear weapons that could be deployed.
This movie is always a bit hit or miss for a lot of reactors, particularly young folks who have not lived through the US/USSR Cold War. But I feel like these guys will get it...and we will just have to see if they notice Peter Sellers is playing 3 different parts. There are just too many iconic stories about this very iconic movie, from how Slim Pickens ended up getting Peter Sellers 4th part, how Scott's fall was an accident that stayed in the movie, James Earl Jones in his first speaking role....and so many more.
The ultimate irony is that for all the satire regarding incompetence, it is actually the extreme competence of Major Kong and his crew that leads to the end of the world. They overcome a missile strike, improvise a new target of opportunity, and Kong even manages to repair the bomb door circuitry under extreme time pressure.
Mark 33:43. It isn't just that, but there's also the factor of, "MAD"! ("Mutually Assured Destruction"!) At a certain point, automatic programming takes over, when the people are unable to provide input. At least in the movies! 😁 By the way! Actor Larry Hagman, is in the original, B&W version of, "Fail-Safe". He is also in, "Superman: The Movie". So his, "I Dream of Jeannie", character is not his only military role. But all three are in the, "USAF"! Actor George Clooney, has a role in the color remake of, "Fail-Safe". I haven't seen all of it yet.
PPS: "Merkin Muffley"! (The name of the president!) Now that's a pun! Back when women having, pubic hair, still meant something to people, prostitutes, et cetera, that had it removed for whatever reason, would wear "wigs" down there, that are called, "merkins"! Also, fur muffs, were fashion accessories, worn by women that didn't want to wear, mittens or gloves. That's how or why their, pubic hair, was called a, "muff", or said to be, "muffy"! 😁 I suppose that in the movie's context, the name was saying that he's, "cowardly"? 🤔😁
Mark 23:02. That's the title of one of, Lassie's color episodes or movies. While her owner is busy with, "SAC", duty aboard his, bomber, as part of an exercise, she is left with someone else. She discovers a mother bird with her babies, in a nest made on top of a, missile silo. She's able to convince the, Humans, to delay the tests, and save the birds! Because after all, "Peace is our profession!", says her owner. Yes, that's a real, motto!
What always surprises me is the fact that none of the video makers are surprised that a missile detonating a mile away does not cause astonishment at the strength of the weapon effect. Every normal thinking person must be aware that the weapon head of the AA missile is a nuclear warhead. And since there are various reaction videos to the film, I watched a few too. No one shows surprise at the use of nuclear weapons against an airplane... And what most Americans fail to grasp is that the character of Dr. Strangelove, a hard-hitting reference to how many Nazi scientists and experts (e.g., Nazi intelligence officers) were ruthlessly used by the US for its own technological development. The best known of all is probably Wernher von Braun and his team. Without these German rocket specialists with decades of experience, the Soviets would surely have won the race to the moon...
This film's legacy is just amazing, and led to an embarrassing moment for Ronald Reagan when he became president. When they were showing him around he asked where the War Room was. When he told them "the one in that movie", they had to explain to him that it was a totally fictional location just made for the movie and anything that could be considered a "war room" was basically an underground concrete bunker not nearly as impressive.
Odd bit of trivia: The Soviet Union was terrified of Singing in the Rain Apparently because it showed working class people owning their own cars and being able to succeed through personal effort.
6:15 There is no problem sleeping when the plane is in Cruise. The airplane only need two pilots when they are doing a maneuver. When its going to cruise control only one of the pilots are needed. This is standard practice in multi seat bombers to this day. Even in a B2, when the plain is cruising, typically only one of the pilot is awake. 14:40 The lipsticks and nylon stockings was part of the survival pack in the 50 and 60s. The point of it was to bribe any women that may find them in helping them. It was proven to be very effective. 23:30 There is a showed preventing him from burning his hand
The doomsday machine went off as designed, automatically when the nuclear bomb exploded. (The ambassador didn't set it off.) This movie had a huge plot hole for that period's technology: the three-letter code prefix. Either the prefix is part of the attack Plan R or it's sent as part of the command. Beginning with the nineties and public-key encryption, that would not be a problem. When I first saw the movie (the same year I saw "The Day After") I thought I recognized Darth Vader's voice. Sure enough, he was that actor. The colonel invading the base also played the villainous businessman Alonzo Hawk in at least three Disney movies from the fifties to the seventies.
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"You can't fight in here, this the war room!"
"Peace is our profession" on the wall at the beginning and on the outdoor during the shooting.... I am european over the years I heard it was/is the motto of the US Strategic Air Command, if true I will say how could they not see the irony.
@@isabelsilva62023 Yes, that was the motto of SAC. The old joke used to be "Peace is our profession, war is just a hobby".
@@isabelsilva62023 A slogan (reputedly) created by Curtis LeMay who was the target of the parody figure of General Turgidson and his maundering about 'acceptable losses". LeMay was responsible for the mass bombing of Japan during WWII that killed many many many more people than Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. LeMay also argued with JFK to conduct a mass bombing of Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis, stating the loss of US lives was 'acceptable' if it meant the end of Russian nuclear expansion.
Cold War militaristic mindset in one grab.
@@isabelsilva62023 Actually, there isn't an irony. Their job was to maintain Peace by threatening to destroy the world if the enemy attacked. If the enemy had no chance of "winning", or if they did "win" they would be far better off not to have played, then they would be deterred from attacking in the first place. Nuclear War must be rendered Unthinkable. The only way to do that was to ensure that Everyone Would Lose if it happened.
Truly, they performed their jobs to maintain the Peace.
Being from Indiana, I never did Duck and Cover drills in the late 1960s and early 1970s in elementary school. My wife, from California, did.
@@isabelsilva62023 The motto of the Soviet/Russian strategic rocket forces is just as good.
After us - Silence
The President, Dr. Strangelove, and Captain Mandrake were all played by the same actor, the amazing Peter Sellers!
He was originally going to play Maj. Kong but Sellers thought it might be too much. He also felt he might not be able to pull off a Southern Accent!
and The President is named Merkin Muffley. where do you think 'Merkin' came from?
@@jamesalexander5623Sellers was cast as Major Kong too and some filming had been done, but Sellers got injured - broke bone I think - that prevented the completion of filming, so Slim Pickins was recast in the role.
Strangelove's Nazi arm trying to strangle him is one of the craziest, most brilliant pieces of physical comedy ever captured on film. Glad you guys got a chance to check this out. Still my favorite Kubrick.
What I love is when he beats on his arm clinging to the chair wheel, you see the russian ambassador trying desperately to contain his laughter (and fails right before the cut)
Strangelove standing up from his wheelchair and crying out 'Mein Fuhrer, I can walk!' is one of the greatest pieces of ad libbing in movie history. It was not part of the script and Peter Sellers forgot he was supposed to be wheelchair bound and the rest...is history.
I agree, but there are some that are close. If you go back and look at some of the Silent Era Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd films you will find some real gems.
@@tallyp.7643my favorite part of the movie.
The guy playing the Russian Ambassador couldn't keep it together during that scene. They shot it dozens of times and he would laugh harder each time. Watch that scene over again, and keep your eye on the Ambassador!
There is a straight drama made in the same year as "Dr. Strangelove" (1964) with the same general premise starring Henry Fonda (of "12 Angry Men") called "Fail Safe". I highly recommend it!
I don’t!.. Most disturbing ending ever!..
And then there's the 1964 movie "Seven Days in May." If I remember correctly, Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Ava Gardner, Frederic March, and others star.
I much prefer Dr. Strangelove for the hilariousness. But "Fail Safe" is a seriously quality drama *very* worth watch. I second the recommendation!
Story goes that the executives at Columbia Pictures gave Kubrick a heads-up that the folks making FAIL-SAFE wanted their film to be released first, due to the dramatic nature of their project. Thus, giving theater going audiences a chance to process the extremes of similar plots.
Sadly, real world events essentially forced Kubrick to acquiesce. The assassination of John F. Kennedy directly affected 2 pivotal scenes. Slim Pickens, portraying Major Kong, went back to redubb a line that mentions Dallas. He eventually says Vegas instead
The second scene was actually the ending. Turns out, the staff members in the war room get into a pie fight. When the American President gets hit by a pie, George C. Scott was to go over him and announce:
OUR YOUNG PRESIDENT HAS GONE BEFORE HIS TIME.
Needless to say, that line would not have gone down well in 1964, with respect to the assassination still be fresh in everyone's mind...❤
They remaid Fail Safe in 2000. It is pretty good.
What you witnessed was possibly the single most brilliant tour de force comic performance/s in film history. The guy plays three completely divergeant parts in ONE movie,.... and they STILL don't give him the Oscar. He gives another singularly brilliantly understated performance near the end of his life,.... and they STILL don't give him the Oscar. It was a travesty of film history.
Is your second reference "Being There"? Another one of my favorite films, strongly recommend!
This movie is endlessly re-watchable for me, it just never gets old.
Dr. Strangelove is the darkest, funniest, and most terrifying black comedy ever made. Period.
I grew up in the 60's and this movie was scary we really thought a nuclear war was going to happen any day.
And to think, if Viagara had been invented decades earlier, Gen. Ripper wouldn't have destroyed the world.
Great movie + reaction! Watch the russian ambassador while dr. stangelove rants at the end, he's almost laughing at Sellers' antics :)
Another great movie 'Fail Safe' (1964), came out the same year, and is very similar to 'Dr. Strangelove', but done in a more realistic, dramatic way. 👍
This film is a masterpiece of satire. It came out in 1964. The "Cuban Missile Crisis" was in 1962.That crazy General is actually based on a real life military figure, Curtis LeMay. The movie (which used to be all over television in the 80's) takes me back to the last couple decades of the "Cold War" when the Russians were portrayed as the "bad guys" in a lot of films.
That of course would never happen now ...
::Chokes on the irony of it all::
Only the cigar part of Ripper is LeMay...Turgidson is a much more direct shot at LeMay.
From other reactors and commenters, the USAF was upset, concerned, about how accurate the B-52 inner workings were.
Our precious bodily fluids...
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Have you guys seen War Games with Matthew Broderick? Very similar feel, but 80s hacker kid starts it all.
On the DVD there is a feature about the making of the movie. Stanley Kubrick and his writing partner sat down to write a serious drama about a possible nuclear conflict that was set off by a rogue commander. But when they started to write it, they would start cutting up and suggesting silly situations like, if a toilet got clogged in the war room bathroom, would they just call in a local plumber? Or if they got hungry plotting WW3, would they just send out for pizza? They found out they couldn't write a drama, the whole scenario of nuclear war and M.A.D. (mutually assured destruction) was so ridiculous, they changed over to make it a comedy. I love that story.
Yes! She's Attractive .... She's also the Girl Major Kong was looking at in the Playboy Magazine!
Peter Sellers was nominated for best actor for the Academy Awards by playing three different characters. He was nominated again in 1979 for his role in "Being There", as Chance, a simpleminded, sheltered gardener (forced out of the only home he's ever known after the death of his employer) becomes an unlikely trusted advisor to a powerful tycoon and an insider in Washington politics. Great movie, the next to the last movie Sellers made.
Being There is a smart funny movie , the audience today would hate the slow pace and miss most of the humor.
He played three in "The Prisoner of Zenda" as well.
"I like to watch."
@@kellyfehr5240 - And in The Mouse That Roared.
Great performances from Sellars, Scott, Pickins and Haydn. As a kid in the 60's watching this was both scary and funny at the same time. The absurd is sometimes too close to reality for comfort.
Fun Fact: If it looks like the visual and the soundtrack of the end of Major Kong's reading of the checklist of stuff doesn't sync up well, there's a reason for that. After going through the checklist, the line Kong's supposed to say is "Shoot, a fella can have a helluva weekend in Dallas with all that stuff" . However, during post production while the film was being readied for a Christmastime 1963 release, JFK was assassinated in Dallas. Kubrick and the other producers felt it was too soon after the tragedy to have "Dallas" in that line; hence having Slim Pickens ADR the line but with "Vegas" instead.
The assassination also forced them to change the ending of the movie. Originally, after Strangelove's cry of "Mein Fuhrer, I can walk!!!" , everybody in the War Room was to eventually have a massive food fight with all of that spread on the long table the Russian ambassador walks by in his first scene. Then at some point, someone would've thrown a pie into the face of President Muffley, prompting Gen. Turgeson to go "look gentlemen; our President has been cut down in the prime of his youth!" . Again, the assassination made things feel inappropriate, so that scene was scrapped in favor of the montage of nuclear explosions with Vera Lynn's "We'll Meet Again" song accompanying it.
Another one of the "older" ones that I greatly enjoyed. Thanks!
"Alien hand syndrome or Dr. Strangelove syndrome is a category of conditions in which a person experiences their limbs acting seemingly on their own ..." From the wikipedia article. Seemingly a real thing !
How hilarious Sellers expression is when he as Dr Strangelove answers Turgidson's question about the abandonment of the monogomous sexual relationship, in saying "each man will be required to do prodigious service..."
Dr. Strangelove is one of the greatest films in movie history. Laugh out loud funny and quite frightening at the same time.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake - played by Peter Sellers
President Merkin Muffley - played by Peter Sellers
Dr. Strangelove - played by Peter Sellers
Your reaction, start to end, is hilarious to watch. Many reactors fail to roll with the screamingly subtle jet black humor. I think it's because many Americans think a B-52 was a new wave rocker from the 1970s.
seriously - FAILSAFE is a movie you guys need to watch to compare with this one - both excellent films.
If you look closely in the background during the final scene with Dr. Strangelove you can see some of the cast struggling to stay in character because of Sellers performance. He is one of only two actors Kubrick ever worked with where Kubrick gave full license to improvise his performance. The other was R. Lee Ermey in Full Metal Jacket.
I deeply approve of this reaction video.
The movie is a dissection of what I've heard called "terminal military brain." where a single-minded focus on strategy and victory overrides all other priorities. It's also heavily oriented toward sex; the aerial refueling at the start is a hint, as are the names "Gen. Buck Turgidson," "Merkin Muffley," "Gen. Jack D. Ripper," "Stains," and so on. Their names are also indicative of their personalities: Turgidson is aggressive, Muffley is portrayed as weak, Ripper is a madman and hostile toward women.
This was James Earl Jones first film.
Peter Sellers had not told anyone that he intended to include a fascist salute in his portrayal of the mad scientist. Just for devilmen I suppose to tease the other actors. You can see the actor who played the russian ambassador was unable to keep a straight face in the scene.
funny you mention James Earl Jones as 'Darth Vader', as the man in Vader's suit, Dave Prowse, is in Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange movie.
Great Great movie from the '60s. Slim Pickens riding the bomb is forever etched in my brain.
General Jack Ripper....get it?
Hi Guys, great to see you react to this classic comedy film. This was the 2nd film where Peter Sellars showed off his ability to portray multiple characters. His 1st was (The Mouse That Roared) a British film from 5 yrs earlier. Although, he was already known for creating different voices for different characters, in the long-running (The Goon Show) on the radio in the `50`s.
I believe he admired Alec Guinness, who had done multiple characters in his 1949 British Crime Black comedy film, (Kind Hearts & Coronets). Both of which, I would love to see you react to in the future sometime. :)
Peter Sellers was a genius! And Stanley Kubrick's part of that visionary generation of directors, "the auteurs" who changed cinema. Frederico Fellini's *8 1/2* (1963) is another big 60s classic worth reacting to, also a black comedy.
@Sir Watchalot we actually reacted to yojimbo previously. It was a great movie.
Best dark comedy ever made.
THIS kind of film you react to is why I became a PATREON Member to you guys!
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"There's nothing so much like a god on earth, as a General on a battlefield."
For more Peter Sellers "Being There" and the Pink Panther series of comedies where he's brilliant as Chief Inspector Clouseau.
Also, (The Mouse That Roared) a 1959 British Satirical comedy where he first portrayed multiple characters on film. :)
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The nomination springboarded Sellers to the part of Clouseau when Ustinov bailed.
Dr. Strangelove was a former Nazi that escaped to America after the war. He couldn't control his arm that did the Nazi salute. Hilarious, Kubric was a genius.
In answer to your query...no, this came out in 1964 so was not before the Cuban Missile Crisis...it was after it, and was really a kind of response to it. However, the book upon which it was loosely based was published in 1958...on a side note, the author was kind of horrified that Kubrick made his serious story into a comedy.
.45 "Automatic" is just a plain old semi auto .45...and those "pep" pills he was talking about was were the amphetamine pills that Air Force crews on long distance flights really had access to until at least the 1960s.
Really good spot, Julien...yes, the barrel of that machine gun would have been VERY hot if he had been really shooting bullets. Though I am not sure if it would really get hot if he was firing blanks through it...but that was a good catch.
And if the plane crashes, the bombs would almost certainly NOT go off...there have been quite a few crashes of planes with nukes on board, and while a couple of them were close calls, it is really really hard to set off a nuke by accident. Even if the explosives go off, if they do not go off in the specific millisecond order that is required, then nuclear detonation will not happen...the bomb just blows apart in a radiological explosion, not fission or fusion.✌
My favorite film of all time, hysterical!! Seller's in all three roles, phenomenal!!!
A masterpiece. Peter Sellers, baby. Try the Pink Panther movies.
It does start out a bit slow but this is a brilliant and hilarious movie. Apparently, there was an alternate ending where it ended in a pie fight. Kubrick thought that it was too funny and cut it to keep a little more of an ominous tone.
It was taken out because in between the end of filming and the movie's release JFK was assassinated. They considered the original ending to be in too poor of taste for the timing. They also dubbed over one of Slim Pickens lines due to the same event. He actually says "A guy could have a pretty good weekend in Dallas" but they dubbed in Vegas instead of Dallas due to the assassination.
I found it amusing that Kubrick cast James Earl Jones in this movie, and later David Prowse in A Clockwork Orange. So he had already cast the two halves of Darth Vader in two different movies, long before Star Wars.
I'm not sure that I got what connection you were trying to make between General Jack D Ripper's (get it? 😂) water fixation and the doomsday device. Or that the ambassador set off the device. Ripper was clearly acting completely on his own accord, and had no knowledge of the device. Would it have mattered if he knew? The ambassador was just photographing the War Room like Turgidson said he would. I can't see that it would do anyone any good anyway, at this point. The doomsday device went off automatically, as a result of the attack on a military base, as per its programming. The ambassador had nothing to do with it.
The glove that Peter Sellers was wearing as Dr. Strangelove belonged to Kubrick. It was for handling hot equipment on the set, but Sellers thought it looked suitably menacing. When his hand appears to have its own will, look at the ambassador. He clearly has a very hard time keeping a straight face. 😊
When the pilot says "could have a pretty good time in Vegas
..." he actually said DALLAS but the assassination was still super fresh ! You can read his lips.Also ,the FBI investigation team got into why the cockpit and controls were just about perfect...It was all guessed. Imagine that.
@@lesliespears8918- True. You can also hear that the tone of his voice and the ambient noise is a little different during that one sentence, revealing that it was recorded later.
They had one handbook with a picture from inside the B-52. Mostly it showed a pilot with the window in the background, but you could see the edge of the control panel, and they just extrapolated from that. And they apparently got pretty close.
Maybe the greatest Dark Satire film ever! What's also interesting is the movie "Fail Safe" came out the same year but it was this film and serious.
As we say here in Texas; Y'all be safe.
I love how Julian has a Dr. Strangelove glove on.
that was actually an arthritis glove lmao!!
I hope you watched FAIL SAFE first. Dr. Strange Love is basically of a spoof. PLEASE WATCH IT.
Yes, Darth Vader was in this film.
So was "Mr. Feeney" (Boy Meets World / "John Adams" (1776). He was a member of Kong's crew.
This is my favorite film of ALL TIME!! Seller's is phenomenal, all 3 parts!
Ahhhh...
Peter sellers.
Genius!.
By the way, Darth Vader’s in this movie.
Yeah, that black guy in the plane…that’s fucking James Earl Jones. 🤯
Don't laugh ... this is both real right now (the Cold War never ended) and this reflects on how helpless the British "feel as our third wheel." Several times from the 50s to the 80s this nearly happened ... and in the last 12 months we get ever closer to The End.
Just a great movie a dark masterpiece. One of my favorite references to this movie is when Steve Buscemi (Rockhound) straddles the nuclear warhead in Armageddon
Watch the scene where Sellers is fighting his arm...Next to him, you can see the actor playing the Russian ambassador holding back laughing. "Miss Scott" is also the centrefold in the Playboy magazine in the plane.
“Peace is our profession” is the legit slogan of the SAC
Strategic air command.
And the characters represent real people.
Buck turgidson is Curtis le may
Dr Strangelove is Werner von Braun.
Jack d ripper is Jack the Ripper
Also the movie is a metaphor for sex and sexual insecurity in men.
Opening scene is a love scene between planes.
Ripper’s impotence causes the apocalypse.
Buck splitting his attention to his secretary
Kong riding the bomb making it look like a huge sexual organ, the bombs are metaphors for the men’s insecurities.
The plan with women in the mines. 10:1
The names:
Jack d ripper - killed prostitutes
Buck turgidson - “buck” and “turgid
Captain mandrake- mandrake is a male aphrodisiac
President merkin muffly- merkin is a pubic wig, muffly is self explanatory.
Kong…..well Kong was a lady’s man, and also a huge dangerous animal.
Patton was mentioned. The producers of Patton liked George C. Scott so much as General Turgetson that they gave him the roll of Patton.
Amazing classic Dr. Strangelove directed by Stanley Kubrick starring by Peter Sellers and George C. Scott. "Gentlemen you can't fight here this is the War Room". Thank you guys great reaction if you like reacts more Peter Sellers films please reacts The Party
You should check out the movie Fail-Safe. Dr Strangelove is sort of an answer to it
Good Movie, but I wouldn't call it a good time.
As someone below mentions (Arrow 1) - check out Failsafe, it is the "straight" version of Dr Stranglove, where only the President has the authority to drop the bomb. Its a pure drama, and the ending is both intelligent (and the only reasonable action) and horrific at the same time.
I have both movies on bluray of course, since I love classic movies (that rules out anything made in the last 15 yrs IMO - sadly).
FAILSAFE - its the same movie without the comedy, and filmed at the same time - released in theaters only 6 months after Dr Stranglove.
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honourable mentions:
"7 Days in May" is another one dealing with the same topic WW3 that dates to the same time.
newer movies about ww3 include the russian movie "letters from a deadman" and my personal favorite (most realistic - and will remove 2 weeks of life from anyone veiwing it) - "Threads" and horric ww3 movie made in 1984 by the brits.
14:40 "Shoot, a fella could have a nice weekend in Vegas with all that." If you notice, his mouth said "Dallas". They changed it as this film released shortly after the Kennedy assassination.
Funny movie, but Operation Paperclip was real. Thank you for doing it!
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Really enjoyed your reaction of this movie! So many little quips of comedy in this. When Sterling Hayden has the belt-fed machine gun and wants Mandrake to come help him, he says "come over here and help me, the Redcoats are coming." Mandrake is British Air Force - he IS a Redcoat. For Julien, the barrel of the MG has the perforated guard that allows you to hold it bare-handed. It will eventually get too hot, but not right away. When George C. Scott was saying the Ambassador was tricking them with the doomsday, he tripped and rolled over, up and into his next line without pause, it was not scripted - he genuinely tripped but it was so good Kubrick left it in. In the aircraft crew was also a very young Dennis Hopper, who leaves a long legacy of important parts, plus some strange ones, in many movies. Pilot Slim Pickens (his stage name) was also a fixture in movies and TV, especially Westerns so his character played right into it. He did rodeo in his younger days, and is in the Rodeo Hall of Fame, as well as the Hall of Great Western Performers.
Slim Pickens carried a large part of this movie IMO - it would not be nearly as good without him.
Plus these two would also know Slim Pickens as the guy who played Taggart in "Blazing Saddles" .
A very young James Earl Jones (the voice of Darth Vader) is also among the B-52 crew.
@@gaffo7836 I was waiting for 'What in the Wide Wide World of Sport is going on here?'
Most Air Force large Aircraft have a small Galley containing two convection ovens a refrigerator and two insulated water jugs, plus some slots for a number of stainless steel trays. You or the Loadmasters would usually pick up either hot meals which fit in the convection ovens or box lunches which had to be eaten within five hours (For Safety). You could also bring a few snacks. And Yes, it was not uncommon for crewmembers to bring along Girly Magazines.
Dark comedy is as dark comedy does :)
Not sure if you noticed the crazy General's name.. General Jack D. Ripper !
When George C. Scott trips and falls down in the War Room.. he wasn't supposed to trip. Kubrick kept it in.
Near the end, when Dr Strangelove is fighting with his right hand, the guy playing the Russian Ambassador couldn't keep a straight face. You see him burst out laughing. I've read that they shot the scene between 20 and 40 times and he would laugh harder each time.
Great reaction! The ambassador didn't set off a bomb at the end--he was taking pictures again with that clock-camera, basically saying 'Fuck you guys, you'll never change' after Buck Turgidson starts ranting "We can't allow a MINESHAFT GAP!" (the bomb ridden by Slim Pickens activated the Doomsday Machine.) That's one level of brilliance of this film: if people refuse to learn from their mistakes and near-tragedies, then the world is better off coming to an end!
right - the ruskie and turg were still playing thier roles even while ww3 was starting. there as a statment being made by those two guys still being the same with thier same fears/actions even while the world was being blown up.
Great reaction love you channel y'all should check out smoke and the the bandit with burt Reynolds and Jackie Gleason 1977 it's really funny
Asolute classic satire and a masterpiece performance by Sellers. One of Kubrick's best (amongst some of the best ever). Released just after the Cuban Missile Crisis, it was so topical and effective in cinemas at the time.
Great reaction guys! This film has so many layers, script & casting was spot on. Have a couple of suggestions for follow-up movies; a humorous take along the same lines is "No Time For Sergeants"...also has quite a few notable names throughout, & "Soldier in the Rain" ...which is one of my absolute favorite films (stars the King of Cool Steve McQueen). Hope all the guys can watch both, think you will really enjoy them.
Cuban Missile Crisis: October 1962.
The First Test Screening for the film movie was scheduled for November 22, 1963 == the Day of the JFK Assassination. So that screening was cancelled.
Kubrick & Studio elected to delay film release until January 29, 1964.
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Peter Sellers called Kubrick … he could not do the B-52 pilot (exhaustion & couldn’t get Texas accent in time).
Stanley choosing Slim Pickens was great casting (and James Earl Jones as B-52 crewman).
A major reason for delaying the film’s release was that Major Kong says that a guy could have a pretty good time in “Dallas” with all this stuff. Given that the assassination had just occurred in Dallas, it would have been a painful reminder so Pickens was overdubbed saying “Vegas” to replace it, if you watch carefully you can tell that his lip movements don’t match.
The way the interior of the jet was designed was so close to reality that the military stepped in to question them.
Glad both of you lost it over the Dr. Strangelove arm goofiness. If you watch this movie again and get to that final scene in the War Room, watch Peter Bull (the actor who plays the Soviet ambassador). At times when there's a shot with people behind Strangelove as he battles his arm, you can see Bull at times coming to the brink of completely breaking character and busting out laughing.
Dr Strangelove was released two years after the Cuban missile crisis and 10 months after John F Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. The story was based on a book called Red Alert that was made into a dramatic movie called Fail Safe. The prospect of a mad general ordering a nuclear attack on the USSR was only acknowledged as a genuine risk due to the release of both movies. The Fail Safe protocol (viz for B52 bombers to proceed to bomb their targets after passing a no-return point, ignoring any command to turn back) was real. The automation of a Russian nuclear response was (is?) real. The most frightening aspects of the movie were all too real, though the prospect of a rogue army officer was small fry compared to a mistake (look up 9 November 1979 for an example of ).
Dr Strangelove is the perfect parody of the dominance of military 'thinking' during the Cold War, when the US/NATO and the USSR spent well over 10% of total budget expanding nuclear arsenals to an impossible total of 66 000 nuclear weapons that could be deployed.
This movie is always a bit hit or miss for a lot of reactors, particularly young folks who have not lived through the US/USSR Cold War. But I feel like these guys will get it...and we will just have to see if they notice Peter Sellers is playing 3 different parts. There are just too many iconic stories about this very iconic movie, from how Slim Pickens ended up getting Peter Sellers 4th part, how Scott's fall was an accident that stayed in the movie, James Earl Jones in his first speaking role....and so many more.
It's a testament to Peter Sellers's acting that we did not notice that he played 3 different roles. I laughed so hard.
@@RKnights Did you catch that the name of the US President is "Merkin Muffley"? Do you get the double joke in that name?
Later in 1964, another movie on the the same topic was released, but was not a comedy. Fail Safe starred Henry Fonda and Walter Matthau.
@@curtduval481 Absolutely...definitely a must see...especially since they like 12 Angry Men so much, and Failsafe was also made by Lumet. 💯
Mein Fuhrer! Salute....grab....struggle....
There are several movies and TV shows that pay homage to the OPE code.
The ultimate irony is that for all the satire regarding incompetence, it is actually the extreme competence of Major Kong and his crew that leads to the end of the world. They overcome a missile strike, improvise a new target of opportunity, and Kong even manages to repair the bomb door circuitry under extreme time pressure.
My American hero, Major Kong the best bomber pilot ever! And Miss Scott the best secretary ever!
Mark 33:43. It isn't just that, but there's also the factor of, "MAD"! ("Mutually Assured Destruction"!) At a certain point, automatic programming takes over, when the people are unable to provide input. At least in the movies! 😁
By the way! Actor Larry Hagman, is in the original, B&W version of, "Fail-Safe". He is also in, "Superman: The Movie". So his, "I Dream of Jeannie", character is not his only military role. But all three are in the, "USAF"!
Actor George Clooney, has a role in the color remake of, "Fail-Safe". I haven't seen all of it yet.
PPS: "Merkin Muffley"! (The name of the president!) Now that's a pun! Back when women having, pubic hair, still meant something to people, prostitutes, et cetera, that had it removed for whatever reason, would wear "wigs" down there, that are called, "merkins"! Also, fur muffs, were fashion accessories, worn by women that didn't want to wear, mittens or gloves. That's how or why their, pubic hair, was called a, "muff", or said to be, "muffy"! 😁
I suppose that in the movie's context, the name was saying that he's, "cowardly"? 🤔😁
you guys saw that the british guy, strangelove, and the president were all peter sellers...right?
Yes
I grew up in that time. We were too frequently being told that the world could begin ending in 30 minute from any moment in time, day or night.
When Ronald Reagan became president he wanted to see the War Room and was shocked to find out that no such place existed.
That was after he saw Wargames.
Mark 23:02. That's the title of one of, Lassie's color episodes or movies. While her owner is busy with, "SAC", duty aboard his, bomber, as part of an exercise, she is left with someone else. She discovers a mother bird with her babies, in a nest made on top of a, missile silo. She's able to convince the, Humans, to delay the tests, and save the birds! Because after all, "Peace is our profession!", says her owner. Yes, that's a real, motto!
You both may recognize Peter Sellers, as Dr. S, and Mandrake; and Sterling Hayden, Gen. Ripper, as McCluskey, the crooked cop, in " Godfather 1 "
What always surprises me is the fact that none of the video makers are surprised that a missile detonating a mile away does not cause astonishment at the strength of the weapon effect. Every normal thinking person must be aware that the weapon head of the AA missile is a nuclear warhead. And since there are various reaction videos to the film, I watched a few too. No one shows surprise at the use of nuclear weapons against an airplane...
And what most Americans fail to grasp is that the character of Dr. Strangelove, a hard-hitting reference to how many Nazi scientists and experts (e.g., Nazi intelligence officers) were ruthlessly used by the US for its own technological development. The best known of all is probably Wernher von Braun and his team. Without these German rocket specialists with decades of experience, the Soviets would surely have won the race to the moon...
This film's legacy is just amazing, and led to an embarrassing moment for Ronald Reagan when he became president. When they were showing him around he asked where the War Room was. When he told them "the one in that movie", they had to explain to him that it was a totally fictional location just made for the movie and anything that could be considered a "war room" was basically an underground concrete bunker not nearly as impressive.
Odd bit of trivia:
The Soviet Union was terrified of Singing in the Rain
Apparently because it showed working class people owning their own cars and being able to succeed through personal effort.
Check out 'Atomic Cafe'
It's the perfect companion piece to 'Dr. Strangelove'
26:13 - That was not product placement for Coca Cola. That phenomenon did not exist in 1964 for movies, plus this was a Stanley Kubrick movie.
REALLY?!? wow never knew that.
True. This scene was intended to be a joke about americans traditional mindset of high respect for the big corporations.
6:15 There is no problem sleeping when the plane is in Cruise. The airplane only need two pilots when they are doing a maneuver. When its going to cruise control only one of the pilots are needed. This is standard practice in multi seat bombers to this day.
Even in a B2, when the plain is cruising, typically only one of the pilot is awake.
14:40 The lipsticks and nylon stockings was part of the survival pack in the 50 and 60s. The point of it was to bribe any women that may find them in helping them. It was proven to be very effective.
23:30 There is a showed preventing him from burning his hand
21:00 Sure, it's a golf club. You have the Chipper, the Putter, the 3 Iron, the Driver, and the Browning M1919A4 30-caliber belt-fed machine gun.
The doomsday machine went off as designed, automatically when the nuclear bomb exploded. (The ambassador didn't set it off.)
This movie had a huge plot hole for that period's technology: the three-letter code prefix. Either the prefix is part of the attack Plan R or it's sent as part of the command. Beginning with the nineties and public-key encryption, that would not be a problem.
When I first saw the movie (the same year I saw "The Day After") I thought I recognized Darth Vader's voice. Sure enough, he was that actor. The colonel invading the base also played the villainous businessman Alonzo Hawk in at least three Disney movies from the fifties to the seventies.
*With the exception of General Ripper, everyone was doing what they were supposed to do.*
You guys were so much fun.
I strongly suggest watching Seven Days in May. It was made around the same time, and is also relevant today. Thanks, and keep up the good work.
really enjoyed watching with you guys..!
Love your reaction, you are getting it, This is one of my favorite movies.
A CLASSIC !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
George cloony and psychics, watch The Men Who Stare at Goats.
Peter Sellers and George C.Scott are such great actors.
The movie makes me think of the tabletop role playing game Paranoia.
Major Kong is Slim Pickens was awesome
20:23 Gentlemen, would you please stop shooting at my office?! I'm taking a long bath in my own paranoia and I expressly wish not to be disturbed!