Now they are complaining about a warship gap with China. Just for the record we have a tonnage lead, but it just goes to show human nature never changes.
"It would be absolutely vital that our top government and military men be included........ to foster and impart the required principles of leadership and tradition......." Right arm immediately goes up into a Nazi salute.
Dr. Strangelove fighting his own right hand that is trying to choke him at 2:40 is about as creative as any comic can be. Peter makes it look so freaking real, which only adds to the comedy.
Totally agree, Ashley, it's brilliant. Peter Bull doesn't have the benefit of being in full shadow and at [2:08] is barely holding it together, doing his best not to laugh. Trying to play it straight when you have Peter Sellers really going for it couldn't ever have been easy.
I never looked at the background actors. But now that you mention it, I'm sure they struggled to remain in character. I read that Kubrick always filmed with at least four cameras going at all times so he could choose what he wanted in the editing room. Also, he wanted to be sure that if an actor had a really good take... he got it on film.
@@MrDiddyDee - love this observation. Peter Bull's character, juxtaposed against George C Scott's character, set amidst an array of "central casting" military and senior government types with their seriously bland faces... pure gold.
The Russian diplomat around 2.07...imagine Kubrick behind the camera and Sellers in full flow... How would you not crack up larfing...!! I know Kubrick was hard work but don't tell me he wasn't struggling not to fall off his stall👉😷👉🇬🇧💎
This scene is brilliant as it is, but watching Peter Bull as the Russian Ambassador, trying to not laugh showcases that even professionals were not immune from the absolute genius that was Peter Sellers.
I've seen this movie probably 50 times from start to finish, and this scene in particular 100-200 times, and I just noticed that now. Kubrick was known to be a bit hard on actors that break down laughing during filming of his films (see Shelley Duvall, lol) and you could see the actor doing everything in his power to not make this take a wash. But yeah, I just noticed this for the first time. Good catch.
Good catch! I was so fixated on watching Sellers that I never looked up at the other people. It looks like he came within one hair of bursting out in wild laughter.
@Alchemist Actually, the accuracy of this "fiction" is so uncanny that some people who did nuclear planning for the USG have called this their favourite documentary. There is nothing in here that doesn't correspond to reality, except for the final outcome.
Alchemist Of course it’s fiction. Every twat, idiot, boob, ...(your favorite insult HERE)...on the planet knows that Doctor Strangelove is fiction. But so is the “nuclear football” and that idiotic Oval Office “big button” that occasionally gets referenced. The term “documentary” was commonly assigned to this film at the time, as a form of gallows humor by many at the RAND Corporation and Pentagon with intimate knowledge of USA vs USSR nuclear war plans as well as remote yet known flaws in “command and control” systems of the period. Strangelove’s character...depicted in comic satire...was not so loosely based on the John von Neumann, the father of MAD... and the highly classified existence of nukes around the world that had the potential of being delivered in error from airplanes DID exist during this period. The concept of “nuclear winter”... which would essentially create conditions similar to that of a “doomsday machine”...was not introduced and validated until the early 1980s.
@alexanderbretta "You probably think COVID-19 is purely accidental too" That's certainly one way to destroy your own credibility in a single sentence; ironic too, that you began by calling someone an idiot and then immediately followed it with that dross, hahah. Also, don't use words that you can't define (I.e. gaslighting), especially when the person that you accuse is doing essentially the opposite of what you say (gaslighting is manipulating a person to doubt their own sanity; Alchemist was only really reiterating that this is a work of fiction, which I'd say promotes sanity).
I do agree also with Alchemist, even though he was unnecessarily rude, as this is not a documentary, it is a work of fiction designed for entertainment before it is anything else. A documentary is based on the documentation (clue is in the name) of real events, thus, there's no such thing as a fictional documentary; it's either based on actual evidence, or it's not, and this film is clearly not. I'm not denying that there is inspiration from real life, obviously there is, but I'm denying the legitimacy of SuperKizHabib and 165Dash's claims of unsourced anecdotal evidence about a film that was made 56 years ago. I think you'd have listed sources if you had them, and the fact you didn't leads me to believe you don't have any. I certainly don't buy that SKH knows anything about the opinions of "nuclear planners" on this film, neither do I buy that 165Dash knows anything about the reception of this film, or the intricacies of the time period it was made in either (again, if you have sources, why did you not list them?). Just accept things for their own merits, don't bullshit and try to inflate their importance just because you, personally, like it. It's a great film, but it's nothing close to a documentary; don't continue to defend that weak assertion, just accept you used an incorrect term to describe it and move on.
My parents took me to see this and Fail Safe (1964) when I was eight years-old. Both films' dark themes went _way_ over my little head save for the scenes when airplanes ✈ were featured. I appreciate both movies now beyond how words can describe and I appreciate my forward-thinking parents for bringing me along.
The George C. Scott character is reminiscent of General Curtis LeMay, who upbraided JFK at the end of the Cuban missile crisis for missing the opportunity to destroy the Russians once and for all.
They carry on their plan to this day.. Executing coldly. This satire should be evident in todays reality. Only it is not with nukes but rather it's with a "Plandemic". And their "solution" complete with "boosters" are the nuclear missiles. Much more efficient and it does not destroy the infrastructure.
@@barrybarnes96 Pardon me but this has to be said, Correction: Rather it's the Left wing morons. Because the left wing nuts are the true "useful idiots".. The one's at the top who are carrying out their long held plans even now, as i send this comment are just: plain evil. There's no other party they belong to but with Evil.
I am not an intellectual, just your average 65 yr old citizen of America who remembers how the ending of this movie was terrifying in that these people thought that a Russian nuclear attack was survivable. When I see this scene, I always remember the running joke in school in the early 60s, which went, when the air raid sirens sound, don't go to the nuclear shelters, don't hide under your desk, but what you should do is sit down on the floor, put your head between your legs, and kiss your ass goodbye. Those were the times we lived in back then, think about it, and have a nice day.
Charles Canterbury - This may be a cinema myth, but I heard that Kubrick had Scott read the lines seriously, then Kubrick asked Scott to go WAY over the top - and those were the scenes that ended up in the movie. I bet this movie helped make Scott a seriously hot commodity. This showed his amazing range - without typecasting him in the slightest. Scott was awesome! I have to figure that Sellers improvised a lot of the totally insane stuff, that also ended up in the final cut.
At 2:08 watch the Russian character Alexi de Sadesky (Peter Bull) almost break character and start laughing when Sellers punches his own arm. God I love this movie.
I've got to say, and I didn't notice this before, the idea that a computer algorithm will decide who lives and who dies is incredibly prescient for a film from the sixties.
George C. Scott was told to warm-up by acting wildly. He did not realize that Kubrick would use the takes he did for warm-up, which ended up pissing off Scott a great deal. There probably were very serious takes, but clearly, not all of them were used.
What a fantastic film. Resulting to living underground due to overreacting about current events then going straight to overreacting of possible future events.
It's sad but true. Thank goodness for these lizards in suits that walking into rooms such as these with their shaved faces, all to plot doom in every imaginable way possible. I think.
A true Black Comedy. It's scary and prophetic about the way that procedures and systems, 'Plan R', and sheer technology, 'The Doomsday Machine', can take over from human command and control.
For context, in the 1960 US presidential election the John F. Kennedy campaign made a lot of hay about the United States having a "missile gap' with the Soviet Union, the notion that the US had less nuclear missiles than the Soviets.
I saw this movie when i was 17. i usually went alone to the movies and always sat in an aisle seat. I remember watching this scene and laughing so hard that I actually fell out of my seat into the aisle doubled over with laughter. I never laughed so hard in my entire life. My sides ached. Eventually (I would estimate about 30 seconds), I settled down enough to climb back into my seat. I was still laughing, but had control enough not to fall out of my seat again. I would say that was the funniest scene I have ever seen. Sellers said he based the character on the German rocket scientist Wernher Von Braun who America brought over after the war to run America's space program. Damn, what I wouldn't give to feel that way again! Pure joy.
I read a bunch of reviews for this movie to gain insights into it. One said, and I think it was Ebert, that Strangelove's speech should have been placed before the fall of the bomb. I disagree, though, because I think the bombing pushes us over the falls emotionally. It gives this final scene a resignation that makes Strangelove's optimism incredibly off-putting. It also digs the film's thematic knife all the way to the hilt. It exposes not only the most far-flung, wacko plans these weirdos formulated years in advance, but their cheerful presumptions about how readily a populace will go along with them. Another reviewer described this disturbing aspect very well by saying that none of these men seem capable of mourning what is about to be lost. I understand the need for preparedness, to keep calm in a crisis, to keep moving and always try to survive, but if you can't break down at the end of the freaking world, I'd say that something is missing from you.
This scene highlights the absurdity of time to the criminals that run the world. In this scene, amongst other things, they are discussing a "solution" that will take months, if not years, to implement, while they only have minutes to find a solution.
Probably Sellers' finest performance. Mind you, George C Scott was excellent as well. And so was the guy who played General Ripper, whose name I can never remember.
@@pmw8000 thanks! That's very interesting. He would have had quite a feel for that particular part then. So funny where Ripper has found himself evidently impotent, and has to find something to blame it on. So he hits on fluoridation, a dastardly commie plot!
So glad Kubrick played George C Scott because without that we would not have gotten one of the greatest (unintentional) comedic acts as a parody of a gung-ho military man.
Sellers at his best, he based this on a real life character who was a full Nazi and a war criminal wanted for the murder of several thousand innocent civilians, but the Americans let him off because of his rocket building capabilities, Werner Von Braun.
Take a look at the character playing the Russian diplomat around 2.07....Put Kubrick behind the camera and Sellers in front WOW!! You've gotta hand it to Sellers..and of course Kubrick that it will never come again... Pure gold👉😷👉🇬🇧👉💎👈
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The emphasis he gives to "SLAUGHTERED" gives away the beast within.
can i pet him ?
Also the edit to the closer shot just makes it all the more hilarious
What about his eugenics based recovery plan? 🤣
@@ja3482 which is why his nazi right arm is doing the hitler salute
idk i'd say it's the fact that he is physically fighting to stop himself doing a nazi salute at any given time tbh
“Wouldn’t that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called sexual monogamous relationship?”. Sellers: “ regrettably yes“. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
"Animals could be bred and *SLAUGHTERED"* The delivery of that line NEVER fails to make me crack a smile at minimum.
A mineshaft gap? Priceless! I used to hear a lot about gaps during the JFK era. Missile gap, tank gap, warship gap.
Now we have trumpism gap.
@@marjanp lolwut
We must not allow a spy balloon gap!
Now they are complaining about a warship gap with China. Just for the record we have a tonnage lead, but it just goes to show human nature never changes.
"It would be absolutely vital that our top government and military men be included........ to foster and impart the required principles of leadership and tradition......." Right arm immediately goes up into a Nazi salute.
Just like today. The slink off to their rat holes and leave the rest of us to turn to dust.
Damn, I've watched this movie twice, good eye
This is literally, in my opinion, the single funniest line in any movie or TV show ever. It's fucking perfect.
"It would not be difficult, Mein Fuhrer!" - lost it! LEGENDARY!
Dr. Strangelove fighting his own right hand that is trying to choke him at 2:40 is about as creative as any comic can be. Peter makes it look so freaking real, which only adds to the comedy.
What's funny (and probably tragic if you suffer from it) is that "Dr. Strangelove Syndrome" (also called Alien Hand Syndrome) is a real thing.
@@ja3482 😒
Love how deadpan and unreactive everyone is
George C Scott's facial expressions.... Fantastic actor
Exactly ! - @ 1:30 to 1:45 - did much without saying a word.
I love watching the people on the back because if you watch closely you can see some of them struggling to not laugh while Peter acts.
Totally agree, Ashley, it's brilliant. Peter Bull doesn't have the benefit of being in full shadow and at [2:08] is barely holding it together, doing his best not to laugh. Trying to play it straight when you have Peter Sellers really going for it couldn't ever have been easy.
I never looked at the background actors. But now that you mention it, I'm sure they struggled to remain in character. I read that Kubrick always filmed with at least four cameras going at all times so he could choose what he wanted in the editing room. Also, he wanted to be sure that if an actor had a really good take... he got it on film.
@@MrDiddyDee - love this observation. Peter Bull's character, juxtaposed against George C Scott's character, set amidst an array of "central casting" military and senior government types with their seriously bland faces... pure gold.
The Russian diplomat around 2.07...imagine Kubrick behind the camera and Sellers in full flow... How would you not crack up larfing...!! I know Kubrick was hard work but don't tell me he wasn't struggling not to fall off his stall👉😷👉🇬🇧💎
Sellers had Kubrick rolling over laughing while directing.
3:15 "Each man would be required to do prodigious...
- Gloved hand grabs *something* below the frame -
…service along these lines..."
Lmao I’ve never noticed that
lol i figured something down there started moving
"To foster and impart the required principles of leadership and tradition"- *Immediately* *performs* *Nazi* *salute*
*Use nearly all his might to will his other arm to retrieve the saluting arm*
To me Peter Sellers has always been the comic-version equal of Marlon Brando. Pure genius at work.
“MEIN FURHER! I CAN WALK!” - Love that line.
You did that entire thing, you might as well have just gone all the way to the ending.
We never did find out if Dr. Strangelove could walk.
@@TheNavyShark he would probably goosestep everywhere he went.
The Russian almost breaks at 2:05
This scene is brilliant as it is, but watching Peter Bull as the Russian Ambassador, trying to not laugh showcases that even professionals were not immune from the absolute genius that was Peter Sellers.
I've seen this movie probably 50 times from start to finish, and this scene in particular 100-200 times, and I just noticed that now. Kubrick was known to be a bit hard on actors that break down laughing during filming of his films (see Shelley Duvall, lol) and you could see the actor doing everything in his power to not make this take a wash. But yeah, I just noticed this for the first time. Good catch.
@@QuarrellaDeVil I completely agree. Mother of god, what a special and unique actor he was. We will never see his like again.
Good catch! I was so fixated on watching Sellers that I never looked up at the other people. It looks like he came within one hair of bursting out in wild laughter.
Which is interesting for a Kubrick movie, you would think he would have redone it with how much of a perfectionist he was.
One of the greatest and most frightening documentaries in US history.
@Alchemist Actually, the accuracy of this "fiction" is so uncanny that some people who did nuclear planning for the USG have called this their favourite documentary. There is nothing in here that doesn't correspond to reality, except for the final outcome.
Alchemist
Of course it’s fiction. Every twat, idiot, boob, ...(your favorite insult HERE)...on the planet knows that Doctor Strangelove is fiction. But so is the “nuclear football” and that idiotic Oval Office “big button” that occasionally gets referenced. The term “documentary” was commonly assigned to this film at the time, as a form of gallows humor by many at the RAND Corporation and Pentagon with intimate knowledge of USA vs USSR nuclear war plans as well as remote yet known flaws in “command and control” systems of the period. Strangelove’s character...depicted in comic satire...was not so loosely based on the John von Neumann, the father of MAD... and the highly classified existence of nukes around the world that had the potential of being delivered in error from airplanes DID exist during this period. The concept of “nuclear winter”... which would essentially create conditions similar to that of a “doomsday machine”...was not introduced and validated until the early 1980s.
@Alchemist No, this really happened
@alexanderbretta "You probably think COVID-19 is purely accidental too"
That's certainly one way to destroy your own credibility in a single sentence; ironic too, that you began by calling someone an idiot and then immediately followed it with that dross, hahah.
Also, don't use words that you can't define (I.e. gaslighting), especially when the person that you accuse is doing essentially the opposite of what you say (gaslighting is manipulating a person to doubt their own sanity; Alchemist was only really reiterating that this is a work of fiction, which I'd say promotes sanity).
I do agree also with Alchemist, even though he was unnecessarily rude, as this is not a documentary, it is a work of fiction designed for entertainment before it is anything else.
A documentary is based on the documentation (clue is in the name) of real events, thus, there's no such thing as a fictional documentary; it's either based on actual evidence, or it's not, and this film is clearly not.
I'm not denying that there is inspiration from real life, obviously there is, but I'm denying the legitimacy of SuperKizHabib and 165Dash's claims of unsourced anecdotal evidence about a film that was made 56 years ago. I think you'd have listed sources if you had them, and the fact you didn't leads me to believe you don't have any.
I certainly don't buy that SKH knows anything about the opinions of "nuclear planners" on this film, neither do I buy that 165Dash knows anything about the reception of this film, or the intricacies of the time period it was made in either (again, if you have sources, why did you not list them?).
Just accept things for their own merits, don't bullshit and try to inflate their importance just because you, personally, like it. It's a great film, but it's nothing close to a documentary; don't continue to defend that weak assertion, just accept you used an incorrect term to describe it and move on.
My parents took me to see this and Fail Safe (1964) when I was eight years-old. Both films' dark themes went _way_ over my little head save for the scenes when airplanes ✈ were featured. I appreciate both movies now beyond how words can describe and I appreciate my forward-thinking parents for bringing me along.
"In order to breed more prodigiously than we do"
You can see Peter Bull desperately trying to suppress his laughter at Sellers' crazed performance!
The George C. Scott character is reminiscent of General Curtis LeMay, who upbraided JFK at the end of the Cuban missile crisis for missing the opportunity to destroy the Russians once and for all.
George C. Scott was brilliant.
Same. it's him when i think of this movie and guy in B52 bomber.
I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed!
Five. . .
Still the greatest satirical film ever made. Captures the evil absurdity of the military industrial complex brilliantly. And still way too timely
and the right wing morons.
"We'll meet again,
Don't know where, don't know when,
But I know creepy old Joe pushed up the day..."
@@barrybarnes96 , the famous " right wing morons " of USSR
They carry on their plan to this day.. Executing coldly. This satire should be evident in todays reality. Only it is not with nukes but rather it's with a "Plandemic". And their "solution" complete with "boosters" are the nuclear missiles. Much more efficient and it does not destroy the infrastructure.
@@barrybarnes96 Pardon me but this has to be said, Correction: Rather it's the Left wing morons. Because the left wing nuts are the true "useful idiots"..
The one's at the top who are carrying out their long held plans even now, as i send this comment are just: plain evil. There's no other party they belong to but with Evil.
I am not an intellectual, just your average 65 yr old citizen of America who remembers how the ending of this movie was terrifying in that these people thought that a Russian nuclear attack was survivable. When I see this scene, I always remember the running joke in school in the early 60s, which went, when the air raid sirens sound, don't go to the nuclear shelters, don't hide under your desk, but what you should do is sit down on the floor, put your head between your legs, and kiss your ass goodbye. Those were the times we lived in back then, think about it, and have a nice day.
I personally think Scott steals every scene, his facial expressions are hilarious. For my money, the greatest American Actor ever.
Charles Canterbury - This may be a cinema myth, but I heard that Kubrick had Scott read the lines seriously, then Kubrick asked Scott to go WAY over the top - and those were the scenes that ended up in the movie.
I bet this movie helped make Scott a seriously hot commodity. This showed his amazing range - without typecasting him in the slightest. Scott was awesome!
I have to figure that Sellers improvised a lot of the totally insane stuff, that also ended up in the final cut.
Agreed ✋
“SLAUGHTERED”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Lmfao
At 2:08 watch the Russian character Alexi de Sadesky (Peter Bull) almost break character and start laughing when Sellers punches his own arm. God I love this movie.
Definitely a favorite, and outlandishly hilarious.
Out of context this feels like a god damn snl skit
Mineshaft gap keeps me awake at night...
Cold War logic in a nutshell.
Peter, one of the greatest performances of all time.
I've got to say, and I didn't notice this before, the idea that a computer algorithm will decide who lives and who dies is incredibly prescient for a film from the sixties.
Considering Stranglove's policies, replace the uniforms and then you got a room full of nazis. This cracked me up.
Or Elon Musk.
“I must confess you have an astonishingly good ideia there doctor…” - …”thank you, sir!” 😂😂😂
Mr. President WE MUST NOT ALLOW A SPY BALLOON GAP
The Russians must have laughed their asses off when this film made its way over to the black market in the Soviet Union.
And that's how Vault-Tec was created!
He sounds like Kermit trying a German accent 😂
Sellers Strangelove is a kind of like Edward Teller meets Henry Kissinger.
Dr. Henry "Strangelove" Kissinger
I think the 'Nazi scientist working for the USA' trope leans more heavily on Werner von Braun.
How the cast and crew got through this without cracking up is amazing.
I have to confess as well, but that is a brilliant idea.
This was one if not the most brilliant movies ever made!
0:08 buck all snuggled up to the prez. lol
Yet and still. Different actors but same script.
We had a talent show in high school 50 years ago and a guy did the bit on this scene . He brought the house down.
George C. Scott was told to warm-up by acting wildly. He did not realize that Kubrick would use the takes he did for warm-up, which ended up pissing off Scott a great deal. There probably were very serious takes, but clearly, not all of them were used.
Best line in a movie FULL of great lines!
Damn,
This movie is definitely the prequel to Fallout.
The only thing missing would be the power armor, the FVE and the Enclave.
pure brilliance...a great loss.....true comic genius
A master piece.
Never gets old... unfortunately.
What a fantastic film.
Resulting to living underground due to overreacting about current events then going straight to overreacting of possible future events.
"So called monogamous relationship"
No mine shaft gap....I agree....that could be disastrous in the long run....good thinking General
It's sad but true. Thank goodness for these lizards in suits that walking into rooms such as these with their shaved faces, all to plot doom in every imaginable way possible. I think.
When he strangles himself.... Sellers was never better than in this scene, fantastic support cast too.
Klaus Schwab, Dr. Strangelove minus the wheelchair.
Peter Sellers manages to make the character of Dr. Strangelove both sinister and hilarious. He was truly a comic genius.
so this is essentially what Captain America: Winter Soldier was going for?
yeah, but his arm worked a lot better than Strangelove's - must've grabbed all the better German engineers
Love how the Russian ambassador is doing all he can to keep from breaking character.
"Sir, I have a plan. I...Mein Fuer! I can walk!"
Mein Fuhrer, I can walk!!!!
The Black Hand!
By far, my favorite character in Dr. Strangelove.
@2:08 you can see Peter Bull cracking up. Who couldn't watching Peter Sellers in this?
A true Black Comedy. It's scary and prophetic about the way that procedures and systems, 'Plan R', and sheer technology, 'The Doomsday Machine', can take over from human command and control.
For context, in the 1960 US presidential election the John F. Kennedy campaign made a lot of hay about the United States having a "missile gap' with the Soviet Union, the notion that the US had less nuclear missiles than the Soviets.
At 2:06, you can see the Soviet ambassador trying not to crack up at Peter Sellers.
First time I say this, I thought the ambassador was the one who actually set off the bomb
When you think the movie is almost over it becomes the meanest and funniest...
He seems so excited at the prospect of making a computer that picks who lives and who dies.
I saw this movie when i was 17. i usually went alone to the movies and always sat in an aisle seat. I remember watching this scene and laughing so hard that I actually fell out of my seat into the aisle doubled over with laughter. I never laughed so hard in my entire life. My sides ached. Eventually (I would estimate about 30 seconds), I settled down enough to climb back into my seat. I was still laughing, but had control enough not to fall out of my seat again. I would say that was the funniest scene I have ever seen. Sellers said he based the character on the German rocket scientist Wernher Von Braun who America brought over after the war to run America's space program.
Damn, what I wouldn't give to feel that way again! Pure joy.
and then everyone clapped and obama gave you a medal.
@@sarcasticstartrek7719 JFK gave me the medal. Obama was three years old when Dr. Strangelove was released.
Animals could be bred and ssssssllaaaauughtered.
U can see the wheels turning in the Generals head in 1:43
Best. Anti-war. Movie. Ever. . .
Dr. Strangelove was a spoof on Dr. Edward Teller, the father of the hydrogen bomb.
Still waiting for a Director to even come close to this film's unique sense of humor. This^^ right here is freakin' hilarious!!
Greatest comedic performance EVER!
When Dr strangelove has a spastic attack at 2:16 check out the Russian ambassador he can hardly keep a straight face.
I read a bunch of reviews for this movie to gain insights into it. One said, and I think it was Ebert, that Strangelove's speech should have been placed before the fall of the bomb. I disagree, though, because I think the bombing pushes us over the falls emotionally. It gives this final scene a resignation that makes Strangelove's optimism incredibly off-putting. It also digs the film's thematic knife all the way to the hilt. It exposes not only the most far-flung, wacko plans these weirdos formulated years in advance, but their cheerful presumptions about how readily a populace will go along with them.
Another reviewer described this disturbing aspect very well by saying that none of these men seem capable of mourning what is about to be lost. I understand the need for preparedness, to keep calm in a crisis, to keep moving and always try to survive, but if you can't break down at the end of the freaking world, I'd say that something is missing from you.
This scene highlights the absurdity of time to the criminals that run the world. In this scene, amongst other things, they are discussing a "solution" that will take months, if not years, to implement, while they only have minutes to find a solution.
Probably Sellers' finest performance. Mind you, George C Scott was excellent as well. And so was the guy who played General Ripper, whose name I can never remember.
Sterling Hayden. Fun fact: At the outbreak of WWII he was a commando in the COI, which morphed into the OSS and then the CIA.
@@pmw8000 thanks! That's very interesting. He would have had quite a feel for that particular part then. So funny where Ripper has found himself evidently impotent, and has to find something to blame it on. So he hits on fluoridation, a dastardly commie plot!
@@pmw8000 Sterling Hayden also played the Policeman who got shot by Al Pacino in The Godfather.
Reminds me of daily statements from the US government.
Dark funny and Brilliant from start to end and if you listen and watch you can see how this sort of logic would ultimately went out let that sink in
At about 2.10 Peter Bull can't stop himself laughing at Sellers' antics in the wheelchair.
So glad Kubrick played George C Scott because without that we would not have gotten one of the greatest (unintentional) comedic acts as a parody of a gung-ho military man.
this is so fucking brilliant and hilarios
The way Peter Sellers fights with his right arm reminds me of Jim Carrey in Liar Liar and 'the pen is blue' scene
Watch the face of the Soviet ambassador (Peter Bull) starting at the 1:51 mark, he is trying not to crack up.
Love to see strangelove meet the mohel from Seinfeld.which line is better, Slaughtered or like an animal.
Pure genius
Love how the Russian ambassador almost busts a gut in the background
At 2.08 Peter Bull is doing his best not to laugh! Great performance from Peter Sellers.
Seleres best acting!
Sellers at his best, he based this on a real life character who was a full Nazi and a war criminal wanted for the murder of several thousand innocent civilians, but the Americans let him off because of his rocket building capabilities, Werner Von Braun.
Why oh why did you edit this scene there???? You clipped off the general and then Dr Strangelove's final truly memorable part. Have another go Sir.
They don't make them like that anymore.
The best Peter Seller's character in this film is Col. Mandrake
Yes, it leaves me a bit disappointed there's never a call back to him
VICE News 1% Survival Bunker story brought me here
Why did George c Scott make funny face with his eyes closed and lifted his body up when he asked doctor about the ratio of relationship
Take a look at the character playing the Russian diplomat around 2.07....Put Kubrick behind the camera and Sellers in front WOW!! You've gotta hand it to Sellers..and of course Kubrick that it will never come again... Pure gold👉😷👉🇬🇧👉💎👈
...Peter Sellers...pure...genius...lol...
They have to warn us.