+Tiger66261 General: ''Are you beginning to understand now, Mandrake?'' Mandrake:(realizing the general is stark staring mad,,and has laid the groundwork for world war) ''why-ah-yes..'' and crazily giggles as a substitute for crying
I would not describe that as truly british consedering how I was in a similar (not as threatening) SItuation once and acted exactly like Mandrake and I'm german
Sellers' body language when Sterling Hayden puts his arm around him is wonderfully British and sells the scene better than any of his lines. Supposedly, Hayden didn't realize it was a comedy and just played it straight.
Hayden was an interesting guy. In WW2 he served in the OSS, the forerunner of the CIA. Then got into movies by accident and made a decent living. They tried to make him a leading man, but he was always a character actor at heart. He is absolutely perfect in Strangelove. The word on the set was that Sellers couldn't get thru the fluoridation scene without bursting into laughter, so they had him avoid any eye contact with Hayden and he finally made it on the 10th take. Great movie.
Hayden and Sellers both had incredible difficulty filming the couch scene because they kept cracking each other up. You can still sense Hayden is really struggling to hold back a laugh at some points while Sellers wove it into his performance.
i still listen bruh he ain't stopped since he got banned from an AOL chat room after some pretty personal back-n-forths following the oj simpson verdict circa 1999
@@jimmy2k4oheroin blows coke out of the water. Well, it really depends on what kind of night you're trying to have. But for real never try heroin, it stole 3 years of my life and is always hungry to steal more. Coke is fine though as long as you only do it like once or twice a month at most. Also getting it tested is smart since so many idiots are accidentally getting it contaminated with fentanyl
Both actors are amazing in this clip, I particularly love Peter Sellers’ brilliant embodiment of polite discomfort as Mandrake when Ripper has his arm round him at the beginning of the scene. The way he furtively glances down at the hand round his shoulder and how he whimpers “oh god” when Ripper says “do you realise that 70% of you is water”, it cracks me up 🤣
@@andrewfusco8580he wasn’t a communist. He briefly joined the Communist Party in 1946 but that was just because he was a commando in WW2 and parachuted in behind enemy lines where he worked with Yugoslav communist partisans. He joined the party because he deeply respected them, but he then realized it wasn’t what he actually believed. He was just a normal leftie actor
@@asherhayes2429 as much as I'd like to believe your interpretation of Sterling Hayden's career choices, I think his choice to take a sensibly conservative position about water fluoridation and make a joke out of it rather gives lie to what you are saying.
@ Water fluoridation being bad for your health is a sensible position, water fluoridation being a communist conspiracy meant to sap and impurity our precious bodily fluids is in no way sensible.
I knew how insane this movie was long before I saw it, but the moment Ripper pulled a Browning and belt out of a golf bag propped in the corner of his office, I knew it was the MOST insane movie I had ever seen. 3rd favorite film of all-time.
The script and direction of this movie are unbelievable. So dense with satire. Not a word is spared. The acting is amazing. Sellers' fabulous improvisations. The great movie of the 1960s. IMHO, nothing really compares to it until The Life of Brian.
The editing is so good. I mean waaaaaay ahead of it's time, and the dialogue, too. Like at 3:13 when Mandrake explains why he can't get up to Ripper, you hear the interrupted, off-screen "Your what?" from Ripper and Mandrake continues talking anyway. Super realistic. The devil's in the details.
@@Zodroo_Tint Yeah, I think I meant I liked the natural rhythm of the dialogue exchange, hence it felt like editing. I’m getting a lot of notifications for these half-baked ramblings I made years ago and now have to suffer the cringe lol
Yeah, it's without a doubt one of the funniest scenes in the entire movie. I don't know why, it's just so absurd that his excuse for why he can't help Ripper is that there's some kind of string in his leg he's never told anyone about that's suddenly an issue and he can't get up. And Ripper's genuinely confused response and the timing... lol
Toadster I think, from a British point of view, that it was most likely a reference to the artificial limbs that a number of wounded WW2 RAF pilots were fitted with to replace those that had to amputated due to wounds etc. The most famous of these was Douglas Bader, although he actually lost his legs in a pre war crash when showing off! Nevertheless he, against all the odds and through sheer “bloody mindedness” survived the double amputation of his legs and went on to relearn how to walk on “Tin Legs” then a very new and pioneering branch of medicine. When WW2 broke out, in 1939, he somehow managed, with two tin legs, to talk his way back into the RAF, back into fighters, despite being three years too old for fighter training and would go on to be one of the RAF’s most famous a decorated Aces of WW2. Throughout the war many other valuable pilots would be “repaired” and put back into service with artificial legs/hands/arms etc. These early artificial limbs often operated with the use of strings, elastic bands and springs etc. While I’m sure that Mandrake is 100% whole, I think that, in the rather extreme situation that he finds himself in, this is what he is referring to, in a desperate act to convince Jack that the “string” that makes his artificial leg work, the leg that he “lost” in WW2 and has been too proud to tell anyone about, has gone/ been shot away etc. This would have been a very much more obvious reference to a 1964 audience, thousands of wounded WW2 veterans been alive and a part of everyday life, than it is today. When seen in its context I think that Mandrake’s attempt to use this as an excuse is even funnier, and would have been seen as such at the time!
Sterling Hayden - highly underrated and misused as an actor. A real character with an amazing backstory. Born out of his time: Should have been a frigate captain in the war of 1812.
Well, he also played Dix in Asphalt Jungle. He lived and worked exactly as he wanted, and lived out his last years on a boat in Sausalito Harbor. Just not a Joe Hollywood....
My dad, physician age70, have recently come to worship water, repeating that "worshiping water and drinking it will grow hair." similar to this general.
stanley kubrick and his scenes made me realize that certain directors are just extremely underrated philosophers in modern human life (ok, james cameron too (and the matrix, WOW))
"Mandrake, in the name of Her Majesty and the Continental Congress come here and feed me this belt boy... Mandrake, come over here the Red Coats are coming!" - General Ripper LMFHO (Laughing my F^cking Head Off), this has to be one of the most funniest quotes from this movie.
Fluoridation: Now you know why I only drink grain alcohol with pure, distilled water, or rainwater. Then Gen. Jack Ripper pulls the .50 cal out of the golf bag and sets it up. "Mandrake, come over here, the Redcoats are coming! Come on!"
I find it hilarious how a Mandrake is fiddling with that piece of gum for like the entire spiel! It just totally sells how nervous he is being around this cookie General!
Sellar's used to work with my late mum at Combined Ops, entertainments unit in 1946. (they were both corporals in the RAF) She said he was hillarious...always ringing her up impersonating some high ranking officer. She said he was that good, that you just could not be totally sure it was Peter or the officer! He got his ideas for Mandrake from his time in the RAF.
This clip is my universal response whenever people start ranting about fluoridation conspiracies. It doesn't convince them they're wrong, but it makes me chuckle.
Indeed, I remember when fluoride was introduced into our city water where I lived, there were a lot of parents in the neighborhood that didn't want it. That was around 1960. You won't find any record on the Internet, unless you searched local newspaper archives for many days to find a clipping to verify my memory. But for me, because I remember that adults were alarmed about fluoride around 1960, I get quite a different meaning from this clip form Stanley Kubrick's DR STRANGELOVE. Many are still conned to think Kubrick was trying to help us. He wasn't. The purpose of the character "Col. Jack Ripper" was to make people stop questioning fluoride in the water, by having his character question it, and make it seem like a crazy thing to say.
I never drank fluoridated water and I'm a more or less average human. Probably lunacy. But I wouldn't rule out the idea that the stuff is in our water as a way to dispose of industrial waste. Maybe it's okay to drink fluoride in small quantities. Doesn't make it sensible to do it every day. Water is fine without it. And cavities? In a society that allows for the sale of alcohol and tobacco, I can't take that argument seriously.
The acting in this scene is brilliant. Sterling Hayden plays Gen. Ripper's lunacy as casually as if he were discussing the previous day's baseball scores, and Peter Sellers subtle giggling and body language shows how much of an effort of will it's taking Mandrake not to collapse into pure hysteria. That little mumbled "Oh good god..." just before he starts giggling really sells it.
"Come over here and help me with this belt!" "I haven't had much experience with those machines. I've only ever pressed a button in my old spitfire" If you can't find the sexual undertones in this scene played off by Peter Sellers to be absolutely brilliant, then I feel sorry for you.
Of all PETER SELLERS great roles in this film the one of him as MANDRAKE with the crazy General I like the most.The discomfort in his acting having to listen and respond to the weird sexual overtones in the GENERALS bizzare speeches is some of the most sublime,memorable humor in the movie !!
Mandrake in the name of Her Majesty and the continental congress come here and feed me this belt boy! Mandrake, come over here...The Redcoats are coming, come on!
This scene is what inspired the art name I've been using since 1978. And yes, I know that I misspell 'fluoride.' I noticed that the 2nd time I wrote it down.
They are all freaking insane but that is the whole point of the movie, which is still one of the best movies ever made. And also shows the more serious sides of Peter Sellers talent as an actor. I Dr. Strangelove he plays three roles,
Did anyone notice how the personal space expectations and contact expectations were different back then? You could be forgiven for thinking Mandrake was Jack's son.
I think the idea on Kubrick's part is more that Ripper, in his deluded paranoia, is so monomaniacally intense that he's getting all up in Mandrake's space to tell him about it. Mandrake looks extremely uncomfortable, but because Ripper has him gripped around the shoulders so tightly, he can't do anything but sit and laugh and make bewildered small talk, contrasted with Ripper's detailed theories on fluoridation. It's like Mandrake is speaking to a religious zealot. The point of the scene is to show how ridiculous yet hair raising the whole situation is from the vantage of someone unwillingly trapped in it
I myself dont drink fluoridated water, its up for debate whether the sharpness to my awareness of being gaslit by the entire human race was really worth it.
This portion of the film was specifically created to ensure the public would fall for the fake consensus opinion created by it. The "precious bodily fluids" line is used regularly, even today, to create the psychological impression that anyone who debates the problems of fluoride is outside the mainstream opinion. This has been a particularly effective pro-fluoride piece of propaganda over the years. Thanks for posting.
Apparently, Sellers called up the BBC and gave himself a glowing reference in the voices of several famous actors of the day. This landed him a job with Spike Milligan and Harry Secombs on the Goon Show.
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"Mandrake, come over here, the Red Coats are comming!" possibly one of the most under appreciated lines of the movie.
Spoken to a redcoat as well
@@Peoples_Republic_of_DevonshireThats the joke
I think you are quite right there. It’s a great line.
What's most funny is the fact that they did end up doing all of this fluoridation worldwide.
Mandrake trying to act as polite as possible while he cries inside... brilliant
+Tiger66261 General: ''Are you beginning to understand now, Mandrake?''
Mandrake:(realizing the general is stark staring mad,,and has laid the groundwork for world war) ''why-ah-yes..'' and crazily giggles as a substitute for crying
I would not describe that as truly british consedering how I was in a similar (not as threatening) SItuation once and acted exactly like Mandrake and I'm german
Sellers' body language when Sterling Hayden puts his arm around him is wonderfully British and sells the scene better than any of his lines.
Supposedly, Hayden didn't realize it was a comedy and just played it straight.
Like the rest of the world looking at America today.
like when you notice the person next to you on the tube is a weirdo !! ~~ And you giggle nervously to avoid making it worse !!
Hayden was an interesting guy. In WW2 he served in the OSS, the forerunner of the CIA. Then got into movies by accident and made a decent living. They tried to make him a leading man, but he was always a character actor at heart. He is absolutely perfect in Strangelove. The word on the set was that Sellers couldn't get thru the fluoridation scene without bursting into laughter, so they had him avoid any eye contact with Hayden and he finally made it on the 10th take. Great movie.
He was also a POS who ratted out people he suspected of being communists. Along with Burl Ives, Lee J. Cobb and Elia Kazan.
He died such an ignominious death, shot in the head and throat in a NY Italian restaurant by the third son of a Mafia don.
"As human beings you and I need fresh, pure water to replenish our precious bodily fluids."
Crazy but true.
Yes, Jack
@@icecreamforcrowhurst lol
I love how Ripper tells a British officer that "the red coats" are coming. Mandrake would have been happy if they were.
Well, at least Continental Army was there to save his redcoat back.......
"Mandrake, come over here. The Redcoats are coming! Come on!"
holy f*** sh**. that's really funny.
defiantly one of the best lines I heard in this movie along with "Gentleman you cant fight in here. This is the War room."
@johnmburt1960 He would be in the RAF though, aren't they blue?
don't forget to have the Continental soldiers sieze all the airfields.
@johnmburt1960 Yep RAF is blue, Royal Navy is a darker Navy blue. The red coats today are only worn by the Army guards regiments.
Hayden and Sellers both had incredible difficulty filming the couch scene because they kept cracking each other up. You can still sense Hayden is really struggling to hold back a laugh at some points while Sellers wove it into his performance.
"Luckily, I was able to interpret these feelings correctly."
Hayden had actually been a card-carrying Commie, and he snitched at the McCarthy hearings.
Peter Sellers completely improvised, "The string in my leg's gone." Genius.
@Daniel S Peter Sellers played three roles in this movie, he was a comic genius.
WWI and WWII prosthetic limbs were moved with strings. That's what it's getting at.
@@keggs73and he wasn't even really trying lol, he was pissed when he found out Kubrick used the not serious takes
“That’s nice shooting soldier!” Credit where it’s due... mark of a true gentleman 💯
"Have you ever seen a Commie drink a glass of water?"
This movie has held up well over the decades. Still viciously funny.
holy crap it's me and dad when hes drunk
I'm sorry you have had that experience. I hope you are well.
So true lol
He was trying to tell you something. About his own guilt and self disappointment. Should have listened.
i still listen bruh he ain't stopped since he got banned from an AOL chat room after some pretty personal back-n-forths following the oj simpson verdict circa 1999
your dad rules
"In the name of Her Majesty and the Continental Congress, come here and feed me this belt, boy!"
Dark Eternal Mandrake get over here. The redcoats are coming.
Dark Eternal One of the funniest lines ever.
That's exactly the only swear words I will use now.
"'Feed me,' you said, Jack, and I fed you!"
His character is both funny and cool at the same time.
This is perfect! Classic British politeness in the face of madness and imminent nuclear annihilation.
Sterling Hayden should have, got an, academy award. superb comedic acting,from both.
A little, too many, commas in your comment there, man
And Sellers too.
The "special relationship" between the USA and the UK summed up in just 3 minutes. :-D
TRUE
" I only pressed a button in my old Spitfire, Jack..."
It doesn't get better than Dr. Strangelove.
until you watch more Kubrick
The Loved One is on an even keel with it.
Try coke,
But not really.
@@jimmy2k4oheroin blows coke out of the water. Well, it really depends on what kind of night you're trying to have.
But for real never try heroin, it stole 3 years of my life and is always hungry to steal more. Coke is fine though as long as you only do it like once or twice a month at most. Also getting it tested is smart since so many idiots are accidentally getting it contaminated with fentanyl
"In the name of her majesty and the continental congress, come here and feed me this belt, boy"
I can't believe that one slipped by me all this time. This movie is just classic genius.
In this movie, Mandrake was an RAF officer. You overthought it.
The Frog A masterpiece!
I love how a Colgate toothpaste commercial popped up for me whilst watching this.
Both actors are amazing in this clip, I particularly love Peter Sellers’ brilliant embodiment of polite discomfort as Mandrake when Ripper has his arm round him at the beginning of the scene. The way he furtively glances down at the hand round his shoulder and how he whimpers “oh god” when Ripper says “do you realise that 70% of you is water”, it cracks me up 🤣
Sterling Hayden was one of the most underappreciated actors of his time.
He was quite the Commie himself in real life, but damn if he wasn't brilliant in this movie.
@@andrewfusco8580 He was. Perfect for the role.
@@andrewfusco8580he wasn’t a communist. He briefly joined the Communist Party in 1946 but that was just because he was a commando in WW2 and parachuted in behind enemy lines where he worked with Yugoslav communist partisans. He joined the party because he deeply respected them, but he then realized it wasn’t what he actually believed. He was just a normal leftie actor
@@asherhayes2429 as much as I'd like to believe your interpretation of Sterling Hayden's career choices, I think his choice to take a sensibly conservative position about water fluoridation and make a joke out of it rather gives lie to what you are saying.
@ Water fluoridation being bad for your health is a sensible position, water fluoridation being a communist conspiracy meant to sap and impurity our precious bodily fluids is in no way sensible.
I simply can't watch this scene and not start laughing... Peter Sellers was a genius.
One of my favorite movies, and definitely my favorite comedy.
"In the name of the Continental Congress and Her Royal Majesty, get over here boy!" lolol gonna use that one with my future kid.
"get over here and feed me that belt boy!"
I knew how insane this movie was long before I saw it, but the moment Ripper pulled a Browning and belt out of a golf bag propped in the corner of his office, I knew it was the MOST insane movie I had ever seen. 3rd favorite film of all-time.
Oh is that what that was? Holy shit, good eye. That is totally nuts, haha.
What are your other two? I'm curious.
No build up or exposition, either. He just pulls it out as naturally as if to say, "well, what did you _think_ I kept in there?"
The British officer must be thinking I'm stuck with an effing lunatic!
I love how Mandrake is like "oh shit, oh shit, oh shit, get your hands off me"
The script and direction of this movie are unbelievable. So dense with satire. Not a word is spared. The acting is amazing. Sellers' fabulous improvisations. The great movie of the 1960s. IMHO, nothing really compares to it until The Life of Brian.
The editing is so good. I mean waaaaaay ahead of it's time, and the dialogue, too. Like at 3:13 when Mandrake explains why he can't get up to Ripper, you hear the interrupted, off-screen "Your what?" from Ripper and Mandrake continues talking anyway. Super realistic. The devil's in the details.
I think you don't know what "editing" or "ahead of time" means.
@@Zodroo_Tint Yeah, I think I meant I liked the natural rhythm of the dialogue exchange, hence it felt like editing. I’m getting a lot of notifications for these half-baked ramblings I made years ago and now have to suffer the cringe lol
"..Jack I'd love to come but what's happened you see is the string in my legs gone..." lol
Soooo many great quotes in this movie.
Who keeps a .30 caliber machine gun in their golf bag? Gen Jack Ripper does!
An M1919 at that, he has good taste
This is why Ripper is not, as everyone claims, crazy but is in fact 100% sane and correct
Kubrick tried to warn us.
"The string in my leg is gone:" What?? "The String. Maybe one of the silliest and funniest things ever said under friendly fire.
I believe he meant tendant
yes, but when he said "string" everyone off-camera nearly fell out and they kept it
Yeah, it's without a doubt one of the funniest scenes in the entire movie. I don't know why, it's just so absurd that his excuse for why he can't help Ripper is that there's some kind of string in his leg he's never told anyone about that's suddenly an issue and he can't get up. And Ripper's genuinely confused response and the timing... lol
I though he was referring to his ham-string...still, a funny way to refer to it...
Toadster
I think, from a British point of view, that it was most likely a reference to the artificial limbs that a number of wounded WW2 RAF pilots were fitted with to replace those that had to amputated due to wounds etc. The most famous of these was Douglas Bader, although he actually lost his legs in a pre war crash when showing off! Nevertheless he, against all the odds and through sheer “bloody mindedness” survived the double amputation of his legs and went on to relearn how to walk on “Tin Legs” then a very new and pioneering branch of medicine. When WW2 broke out, in 1939, he somehow managed, with two tin legs, to talk his way back into the RAF, back into fighters, despite being three years too old for fighter training and would go on to be one of the RAF’s most famous a decorated Aces of WW2.
Throughout the war many other valuable pilots would be “repaired” and put back into service with artificial legs/hands/arms etc. These early artificial limbs often operated with the use of strings, elastic bands and springs etc. While I’m sure that Mandrake is 100% whole, I think that, in the rather extreme situation that he finds himself in, this is what he is referring to, in a desperate act to convince Jack that the “string” that makes his artificial leg work, the leg that he “lost” in WW2 and has been too proud to tell anyone about, has gone/ been shot away etc. This would have been a very much more obvious reference to a 1964 audience, thousands of wounded WW2 veterans been alive and a part of everyday life, than it is today. When seen in its context I think that Mandrake’s attempt to use this as an excuse is even funnier, and would have been seen as such at the time!
One of the best film scenes of all times.
Thank you for this post of one of my favorite movies of all time..
What is also funny is the arm round the shoulder and simultaneously the hand on the knee.
pix046 mandrake is so clearly uncomfortable ahahah
Ripper is touching his own knee unfortunately, but it does look like that
This movie never gets old
The special relationship is shown rather well here
Yes - Greatest movie ever made.
LOL I own this on DVD. My favorite movie ever. :)
Sterling Hayden - highly underrated and misused as an actor. A real character with an amazing backstory. Born out of his time: Should have been a frigate captain in the war of 1812.
I've read that he was Spielberg's first choice for Quint in 'Jaws'.
@@JohnSmith-kz8yo I believe that is correct
He would have been perfect!
@@JohnSmith-kz8yo
I was thinking he would've been good on Saturday Night Live.
Well, he also played Dix in Asphalt Jungle. He lived and worked exactly as he wanted, and lived out his last years on a boat in Sausalito Harbor. Just not a Joe Hollywood....
Two can play at this game soldier. That's nice shooting soldier.
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My dad, physician age70, have recently come to worship water, repeating that "worshiping water and drinking it will grow hair." similar to this general.
Perhaps your father has been reading misinformation online
It's a satirical masterpiece that's still relevant today; how is it that no one in my family has heard of it?
ryon harrison I saw it as a kid with my parents! I had cool parents!
One of the most classic scenes for my of the iconic movies of all times
stanley kubrick and his scenes made me realize that certain directors are just extremely underrated philosophers in modern human life (ok, james cameron too (and the matrix, WOW))
It's an amazing film with perfect acting by all 10/10
"Mandrake, in the name of Her Majesty and the Continental Congress come here and feed me this belt boy... Mandrake, come over here the Red Coats are coming!" - General Ripper
LMFHO (Laughing my F^cking Head Off), this has to be one of the most funniest quotes from this movie.
Fluoridation: Now you know why I only drink grain alcohol with pure, distilled water, or rainwater. Then Gen. Jack Ripper pulls the .50 cal out of the golf bag and sets it up. "Mandrake, come over here, the Redcoats are coming! Come on!"
this is my favorite scene of a movie, all time. so awesome!
I find it hilarious how a Mandrake is fiddling with that piece of gum for like the entire spiel! It just totally sells how nervous he is being around this cookie General!
Hayden had a long career but to our generation he will always be known for this role and Cpt. McCloskey in the Godfather.
Poor Mandrake. I don't think he knew whether to laugh or cry!
"The string in my leg..." Gets me every time
"In the name of her majesty and the Continental Congress!"
Sellar's used to work with my late mum at Combined Ops, entertainments unit in 1946. (they were both corporals in the RAF) She said he was hillarious...always ringing her up impersonating some high ranking officer. She said he was that good, that you just could not be totally sure it was Peter or the officer! He got his ideas for Mandrake from his time in the RAF.
The Greatness of Stanley Kubrick knows no bounds.
In the Midst of Utter madness he hides the truth about Fluoride.
Stanley was hiding the truth of fluoridation?? What do you mean?
@@JohnDuraSSB , it means SgtGriffiths allowed his precious bodily fluids to get too low and hasn't been heard from in over eight years.
Flouride naturally occurs in most springs in italy and helps protect enamel
This clip is my universal response whenever people start ranting about fluoridation conspiracies. It doesn't convince them they're wrong, but it makes me chuckle.
+Digscomics thanks for trying...
Indeed, I remember when fluoride was introduced into our city water where I lived, there were a lot of parents in the neighborhood that didn't want it. That was around 1960.
You won't find any record on the Internet, unless you searched local newspaper archives for many days to find a clipping to verify my memory. But for me, because I remember that adults were alarmed about fluoride around 1960, I get quite a different meaning from this clip form Stanley Kubrick's DR STRANGELOVE.
Many are still conned to think Kubrick was trying to help us. He wasn't. The purpose of the character "Col. Jack Ripper" was to make people stop questioning fluoride in the water, by having his character question it, and make it seem like a crazy thing to say.
I never drank fluoridated water and I'm a more or less average human. Probably lunacy. But I wouldn't rule out the idea that the stuff is in our water as a way to dispose of industrial waste. Maybe it's okay to drink fluoride in small quantities. Doesn't make it sensible to do it every day. Water is fine without it. And cavities? In a society that allows for the sale of alcohol and tobacco, I can't take that argument seriously.
Fluoride is poison it makes you lose brain cells harvard IQ study look it up.
have you drank it? that would prove you right, what a pickle!
Shit, even Kubrick knew you fuck up your Pineal Gland with Fluroid^^
getyapaper he made fun of that retarded theory 50 years ago and people still believe it today
gotta love that truth in the movies lies in the news.
one of best scenes of a great movie
Peter and Sterling two great actors
I knew it! Damn government making me come early! It ain't my fault!
This is at once the funniest and most frightening scene ever put on film.
Only a few will understand that, it went over the sleeping dead's head since it was released in the theaters.
"Don't you think we'd be better off on the other side of the room away from all this flying glass ?"
brilliant film--love the dialogue--classic satire
one of the best movies ever made...
The acting in this scene is brilliant. Sterling Hayden plays Gen. Ripper's lunacy as casually as if he were discussing the previous day's baseball scores, and Peter Sellers subtle giggling and body language shows how much of an effort of will it's taking Mandrake not to collapse into pure hysteria. That little mumbled "Oh good god..." just before he starts giggling really sells it.
Actually Sellers giggling and "oh God" is him breaking character, yet it comes across as nervous hysteria in context.
"Come over here and help me with this belt!"
"I haven't had much experience with those machines. I've only ever pressed a button in my old spitfire"
If you can't find the sexual undertones in this scene played off by Peter Sellers to be absolutely brilliant, then I feel sorry for you.
Of all PETER SELLERS great roles in this film the one of him as MANDRAKE with the crazy General I like the most.The discomfort in his acting having to listen and respond to the weird sexual overtones in the GENERALS bizzare speeches is some of the most sublime,memorable humor in the movie !!
Me trying to be polite to my hippie friend, saying my pineal gland is calcified due to fluoride.
This scene was the first thing that popped to my mind when I read about bill H.R 6437 Secure America from Russian Interference Act of 2018.
Mandrake in the name of Her Majesty and the continental congress come here and feed me this belt boy!
Mandrake, come over here...The Redcoats are coming, come on!
@Benson Caisip that's ironically genius
Best scene in the best film.
This but unironically.
i read that they had to do this take over a few times because sellers had hayden laughing so hard in this scene
A great advertisement for a home water distiller. I bought one myself because of this video.
That's bad for your teeth, and your kidneys
Two great conspiracies for the price of one!
"I am the liquor" -Lahey
Fuck off Lahey I ain't got time for your bullshit today.
make like a tree and fuckooof Lahey
Frig off Mr. Lahey
*Whips out .50 Cal out of nowhere from Golf bag* Mandrake! Get over her! -LOL that's why i love Kubrick.
Many a Truth is said in Jest!!!
Some of my favorite movie dialog. Sterling Hayden was perfect as Ripper.
I think Sellers almost lost it when he put his arm around him.
This scene is what inspired the art name I've been using since 1978. And yes, I know that I misspell 'fluoride.' I noticed that the 2nd time I wrote it down.
They are all freaking insane but that is the whole point of the movie, which is still one of the best movies ever made. And also shows the more serious sides of Peter Sellers talent as an actor. I Dr. Strangelove he plays three roles,
An they wanted him to fly the plane as well
Timeless 🙌
Did anyone notice how the personal space expectations and contact expectations were different back then? You could be forgiven for thinking Mandrake was Jack's son.
I think the idea on Kubrick's part is more that Ripper, in his deluded paranoia, is so monomaniacally intense that he's getting all up in Mandrake's space to tell him about it. Mandrake looks extremely uncomfortable, but because Ripper has him gripped around the shoulders so tightly, he can't do anything but sit and laugh and make bewildered small talk, contrasted with Ripper's detailed theories on fluoridation. It's like Mandrake is speaking to a religious zealot.
The point of the scene is to show how ridiculous yet hair raising the whole situation is from the vantage of someone unwillingly trapped in it
Precious bodily fluids. Great line
"Luckily, I was able to interpret these feelings correctly."
I myself dont drink fluoridated water, its up for debate whether the sharpness to my awareness of being gaslit by the entire human race was really worth it.
In the name of her majesty and the continental congress come feed this belt boy!
This has to be the darkest comedy ever made. The absoute chaos that flows from the choices of one man with the weirdest post nut clarity ever.
Insults are easy with no substance. Any dope can do it.
" you calling me jack ? "
Come over here! The Redcoats are comin!
2:10 Two can play that game soldier!
Mandrake: "oh god I'm trapped in this room with a crazy person :("
Mandrake, low key channeling every liberal southerner ever.
Many comments here! You present the obvious to everyone's surprise! Thank you for continuing to do your part!
That general would fit right in with 2020's conspiracy crowd.
RFK Jr's favorite scene
This portion of the film was specifically created to ensure the public would fall for the fake consensus opinion created by it. The "precious bodily fluids" line is used regularly, even today, to create the psychological impression that anyone who debates the problems of fluoride is outside the mainstream opinion. This has been a particularly effective pro-fluoride piece of propaganda over the years. Thanks for posting.
Apparently, Sellers called up the BBC and gave himself a glowing reference in the voices of several famous actors of the day. This landed him a job with Spike Milligan and Harry Secombs on the Goon Show.