Cindy S 94 At least in our world Americans only need to worry about PotUS going crazy and ordering a strike for no good reason; in this world, a whole bunch of regional generals have that power too, and they explicitly can lie and say that a chunk of usa has ALREADY been nuked by the enemy and the president ALREADY dead so now they just gotta avenge the government!
This is when I almost pissed myself laughing "I am sorry as you are Dimitri, Do not say that your are more sorry then I am, because I am capable of being as sorry as you are. So we are both sorry, all right ?
Sellers was indeed phenomenal, but there was a recent Harper's article displaying drafts of the script confirming that most of this is actually written by Terry Southern.
Yes. Distilled to its essence (of all things) in that the term was widely used in that era; I grew up in the '60s. My parents had taken me to see Dr. Strangelove when I was eight years old.
@@chrisgross5409 ...not to mention the large amount of gum George chewed throughout this movie was genius! It was like he was smoking one cigarette after another but chewing the tar out of each pack of gum instead!
Many takes of Scott were the funniest expression that Kubrick could find on his face during filming, he didn't know Kubrick would have use them, so he was very angry because of that.
I laughed when he said "One of our men went a little bit funny in the head. You know, just a little funny." It''s funny how he treats an attacking situation so calmly.
"Vladimir, one of our men went a little funny in the head. You know, just a little funny. No Vlad, it wasn't an air force base commander, it was the president. Joe Biden went a little funny in the head."
'...it's a friendly call, of course it's a friendly call...Listen, if it wasn't friendly...you probably wouldn't have even got it" LMAO!!!!! Classic black comedy, doesn't get better than this!
***** 1. It's the continuation of the trope that the President is sharing useless pleasantries while the world is about to end. 2. If the President launched a nuclear strike against Russia and wasn't being friendly about it, he never would've called Russia in the first place. An extension of Turgidson's fanatical surprise attack plan. He inadvertently calls out General Turgidson here.
This was not only my favorite scene in the whole movie, but probably the funniest scene in the movie as well. It's amazing how this movie still manages to be hilariously funny even 52 years after it's release. Rest in peace stanley kubrick. You will be forever missed and remembered.
3:36 “I am as sorry as you are Dimitri, don’t say that your more sorry than I am because I’m capable of being just as sorry as you are. So we’re both sorry.”- one of the best quotes 😂👌
Perfect commentary. In real life, the Cold War could be seen as two men playing chicken, with the rest of the world as their hapless passengers. Both of them probably would be rather sorry if they ended the world. Paved with good intentions etc. "I'm sorry Dimitri..."
The Phone Company...Directory Assistance...Operators, etc. controlling the situation are a running gag in this movie. See also the scene with Group Captain Mandrake, Col. Bat Guano, and the phone booth.
And the reaction of The President of the USA when he openly admitted to the Soviet Premier that one of his Air Force General went rogue and order his bomber squadron to nuke the Soviet Union.
Talking to a pissed up Premier....."The bomb Dimitri.........the hydrogen bomb" and then followed by "Well, I'll tell you what he did, he ordered his planes... to attack your country. Well let me finish, Dimitri. Let me finish, Dimitri." The pause before he almost chokes saying "to attack your country" kills me every time I see it.
And the expression on his face changes. You forget what a magnificently talented actor Peter Sellers is because you get lost in how extreme the Dr. Strangelove character is, but Sellers is also subtle and detailed.
It reminds me of a guy speaking to his wife. "Please let me finish, Dmitri. How do you think I feel about? Of course, I like to speak to you. Don't say you're more sorry than I am because I can be as sorry as you are."
The implication, though, is that while Muffley is always this much of a feelings type, the Soviet leader is only so because he's drunk. I imagine a blubbery, unrestrained man at the other end.
Fishslap 33 The story I heard was that Sellers has a mishap during filming and was unable to play the role of Maj. T.J. "King" Kong, and that's when Slim Pickens was brought in.
+gbushimprov Haha Jesus I mean what was their plan? To only ever show 1 actor at a time? I mean if Peter Sellers was supposed to play every role they wouldn't be able to show more then 1 person at a time correct? I don't see how he would even be able to make the movie then because all he should have been able to do there is only show one face at a time and have everyone else with their back to him... I mean were well before the technology was capable of putting faces on different actors like we can currently do right when this film was made right?
It's great that the President was made to resemble Adlai Stevenson -- a strong, able, and intelligent man who nevertheless came across as a bit wimpy. Image is everything.
Adlai Stevenson saved the world when he came up with the idea for Kennedy of US standing down nukes in Turkey in exchange of Soviets standing down in Cuba. Khrushchev agreed, and threat of end of world was ended.
+Blue .Effigy The decision to put the camera right down at table-level, and shoot through the arms of the actors helps as well - despite being set in a really big room the scene is very claustrophobic. When it clicks to the wide shot at 03:46 and they dial up the reverb you suddenly realise how small the president is.
I remember my parents and uncles and aunts watching this movie in the den during a family get-together & just laughing hysterically. Peter Sellers was a master with personas and accents. Kubrick..... so ballsy to do a movie about nuclear war as a comedy? George C. Scott was such a great actor
Gorbachev wasn’t a big drinker, at least in a Russian perspective. Neither was Kruschev. They both drank, just not a ton compared to the others. Yeltsin definitely had drinking issues, but so did several of the Soviet General Secretaries/Premiers. Brezhnev was a renowned piss tank, just as bad as Stalin, perhaps even worse. Andropov and Chernenko also liked to partake in vodka, which is partially why they all died younger than normal (in perspective). Russia (and the Soviet Union) and her republics always had and still have a serious alcohol problem, especially in regards to vodka. There are a few interesting documentaries on it and I recommend viewing them. And it goes back a long, long ways.
I personally think that Dr Strangelove is one of the best films ever made. It’s just pure genius from start to finish. I must’ve watched dozen times. Dialogue is just absolutely fantastic and so funny. One of the best lines from the film was “what’s cooking on the big boards”
Has anyone ever noticed the running joke in this film? That is, how the phone and the phone company are pivot points and controls over the characters and their fortunes? (Dimitri, do you happen to have the phone number?...Try Omsk 411?...Mandrake needing exact change in the phone booth to avert nuclear war, etc.) Pure, satirical genius!
Did you know that in the UK, government civil servants were provided with pennies for use in a public phone box should they need to contact an aircraft base during a nuclear crisis?
Still like it? I sometimes think how scary Nuclear war must have been for my dad. But when a gun is pointed at your head 24/7 when do you.stop noticing it. What is like is we are born with.the gun pointed at our head. Do we ever eve.n see it. I think it’s a. Einstein quote that goes something like: “Man can be expected to walk a tight rope from time to time but now we must walk it for all time. Because although I cannot tell you what weapons will be used in WWIII I can tell you that WWIV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
@@orsonwelles4254 Actually it's mostly true and is pretty well-known. It's said that he improvised much of his dialogues, and caused a lot of retakes due to the crew laughing. I said mostly true because I don't recall reading about Kubrick himself laughing and causing the retakes.
@@orsonwelles4254 It might not be true but this has a quality to it that suggests a lot of the wonderful details and mannerisms were improvised by a talented comedian/performer rather than written by a screenwriter.
@@salestraining8775 No, it was implied the Soviet Prime Minister said that in response to the US President's informing him about the approaching American bombers. Scott later just demonstrated how 'hot dog' American bomber pilots were and what that Kong's bomber's chances were of executing its mission.
@@salestraining8775 He never said "I know those are our boys." The American president was talking to the Soviet PM on the phone and when he requested the Soviets to shoot down the US bombers, the Soviet PM said something back, then the president said, "I know they are our boys." Implying that the Soviet PM was shocked when the president asked him to shoot down the B-52s, probably saying "But they are YOUR boys!"
"Well now, what happened is ah, one of our base commanders , he had a sort of ..he went a little funny in the head & he went and did a silly thing." LOL
This scene is great. Sellers is a legend. I love how the lines in this scene and all of Sellers lines were ad-libbed after the first line of the script that he spoke. I wonder how the dialogue of Sellers characters actually went in the script. Probably not as good as what he said in the film, but it probably was good, it was co-written by Kubrick after all, but I wonder what was originally written before Sellers put his genius to the lines. Why Sellers didn't get an Oscar for this is beyond me.
It’s an old vaudeville act called “telephone”.. And I think everything about it was intentional, including the ad-libing.. I’m sure there are videos of Bob Newhart doing skits like this on UA-cam.. Check them out, he’s hilarious..
Every outstanding actor in this memorable, 54 year old classic is dead. Peter, George Stirling, Slim, Kennen, and a host of the secondary supporting actors that made this film a treasure. They all now belong to the ages.
Man, Kubrick knows exactly when to cut to a wide shot just to remind the audience how ridiculous this whole situation is.
TheSMLIFfilms Kubrick had a godlike purview of the silly lies and hypocrisy of human beings. He was practically a character in his movies.
He also cut away to help with the edit of the dialogue as a lot of it was improvised.
Yep, love the reverbed sound in wide shot shot as well, perfectly match the subject
Yes absolutely to that.
It looks like an alien thing hoovering over the silly conversation. Almost horror style. Amazing cut
"I agree with you, it's great to be fine, ha ha ha. "
that 'ha ha ha' is so funny and weird..creepy laughter :D i love it
KABOOOOOOOMM!!!
This always gets me 😭
Kubrick and Sellers. Name me a better duo. You can't.
@@AmericanDreamer He’s so nervous & fake. It’s excellent.
Politics: The art to be able to explain nuclear holocaust as "he went a little funny in the head and just did a silly thing".
Probably fitting.
And that's all it would take. Insane system.
Cindy S 94 At least in our world Americans only need to worry about PotUS going crazy and ordering a strike for no good reason; in this world, a whole bunch of regional generals have that power too, and they explicitly can lie and say that a chunk of usa has ALREADY been nuked by the enemy and the president ALREADY dead so now they just gotta avenge the government!
Diplomacy more than politics.
Politics is spiteful but diplomacy is exceedingly polite.
Yeah, Peter Sellers had predicted how the Orange Moron would do politics in the future.
"Of course I like to speak to you! Of course I like to say hello!"
"I'm capable of being just as sorry as you are."
...not NOW, but any time Dimitri...
So were both sorry allright? Allright.
“Listen, if it wasn’t friendly...You probably wouldn’t have even got it..”
I love that line xD
The conversation goes exactly as if it were a love relationship. Brilliant.
A man dealing with his wife.
The first time I saw the movie I was tripping on acid and I really thought he was just phoning his gay partner
This is exactly how my first marriage ended
The whole film is about sex. Even the map board in the background depicts sperm and an egg
David I’ve heard the recording from that. Reagan was a true gentleman in that call.
This is when I almost pissed myself laughing
"I am sorry as you are Dimitri, Do not say that your are more sorry then I am, because I am capable of being as sorry as you are. So we are both sorry, all right ?
Nalan Sertkaya one of our generals went a little funny in the head LOL
ALMOST CLOUSEAU LIKE, IN TONE.
Me too.
"He went and did a silly thing." Sellers is pure genius. And he improvised this whole phone conversation.
Brandon Allen Sellers was the only person allowed to improvise for Stanley Kubrick. :)
Wow
Not true. R Lee Emery improvised almost all of his scenes in Full Metal Jacket
Sellers was indeed phenomenal, but there was a recent Harper's article displaying drafts of the script confirming that most of this is actually written by Terry Southern.
Did he really? This scene is brilliant!
The look on the Russian ambassador's face during the conversation is priceless.
I loved Turgidson's face as well lol
THIS ^^^^^^^^^^
@@alexamerling9363 With you--Scott's face--and the gum chewing--are priceless.
very Soviet -Cold War expression
>:[
"The bomb Dimitri...The HYDROGEN bomb..." Great!
Oh shit, I thought a sex bomb!
Yes. Distilled to its essence (of all things) in that the term was widely used in that era; I grew up in the '60s. My parents had taken me to see Dr. Strangelove when I was eight years old.
@Max William Lauf Well, listen, how do you think I feel about it!???
It was literally getting to that part when I read this comment.
@Max William Lauf great line.
"He went and did a silly thing..."
lmfao
Not only is Peter Sellers great, but George C Scott's reactions, without saying a word, are absolutely brilliant.
Totally! When he gives Dimitri the flight plans. So funny.
@@chrisgross5409 ...not to mention the large amount of gum George chewed throughout this movie was genius! It was like he was smoking one cigarette after another but chewing the tar out of each pack of gum instead!
Many takes of Scott were the funniest expression that Kubrick could find on his face during filming, he didn't know Kubrick would have use them, so he was very angry because of that.
Scott was great in this film!
The genius of Peter Sellers. No one else alive could have pulled off that scene like he did. NO ONE!
not even peter sellers himself ;)
I laughed when he said "One of our men went a little bit funny in the head. You know, just a little funny."
It''s funny how he treats an attacking situation so calmly.
In 1973 here in Chile we got a General went a little bit funny in the head. You know, just a little funny.
@@filmacionsubmarinaal MI GENERAL!
PUEDO ANDAR WN QLIAO!
The scariest thing is that this is exactly how it'd probably go down.
I mean, it’s not that he’s actually calm, it’s just that he’s trying to be as casual as he can about it so even more drama doesn’t ensue
"Vladimir, one of our men went a little funny in the head. You know, just a little funny. No Vlad, it wasn't an air force base commander, it was the president. Joe Biden went a little funny in the head."
'...it's a friendly call, of course it's a friendly call...Listen, if it wasn't friendly...you probably wouldn't have even got it" LMAO!!!!! Classic black comedy, doesn't get better than this!
***** If you've a problem with dark humour, this movie simply isn't going to work for ya ;)
***** 1. It's the continuation of the trope that the President is sharing useless pleasantries while the world is about to end.
2. If the President launched a nuclear strike against Russia and wasn't being friendly about it, he never would've called Russia in the first place. An extension of Turgidson's fanatical surprise attack plan. He inadvertently calls out General Turgidson here.
Eric Kane
Thanks for the detailed reply man!
'Well he ordered his planes... to attack your country" the way he delivers this is pure genius.
Why Peter Sellers never got the Oscar for Best Actor for this film is beyond me! This is one of the greatest performances of all time.
my leg is little game-y?
@@Redmenace96 Three great performances. Not getting the award was an international Commie Conspiracy! They denied him his essence!
He was busy.. practicing piano
"Just ask Omsk Information"... there are dozens of hilarious, surreal lines like this. Brilliant.
This was not only my favorite scene in the whole movie, but probably the funniest scene in the movie as well. It's amazing how this movie still manages to be hilariously funny even 52 years after it's release. Rest in peace stanley kubrick. You will be forever missed and remembered.
And RIP to all of the great actors of this true classic.
"Heart attack" *wink *wink
3:36 “I am as sorry as you are Dimitri, don’t say that your more sorry than I am because I’m capable of being just as sorry as you are. So we’re both sorry.”- one of the best quotes 😂👌
Perfect commentary. In real life, the Cold War could be seen as two men playing chicken, with the rest of the world as their hapless passengers. Both of them probably would be rather sorry if they ended the world. Paved with good intentions etc. "I'm sorry Dimitri..."
This was extremely funny the way he delivered this one like he's talking to his wife and trying to convince her to come back.
Captures incompetence and bureaucracy perfect when he goes "So who should we call?".
"Do you happen to have the phone number on you, Dmitri?" lmbo
The Phone Company...Directory Assistance...Operators, etc. controlling the situation are a running gag in this movie. See also the scene with Group Captain Mandrake, Col. Bat Guano, and the phone booth.
GHOST BUSTERS!
@@alecfoster6653 they're gonna have to answer to the coca cola company.
50 years on and it's still as funny as hell.
Nearly 60 now. Still true.
11 people were not as sorry as President Muffley.
"Well, I'll tell you what he did."
The greatest comedy ever made. Smart. Funny. Insightful. Beautifully directed. Superior acting.
100% agreed.
And it's got one of my favorite lines in any movie ever
"No fighting in the War Room!"
***** my personal favorite "and the international communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious, bodily fluids.
What's funny about this conversation is that it seems extremely plausible.
This is what makes it hilarious.
And the reaction of The President of the USA when he openly admitted to the Soviet Premier that one of his Air Force General went rogue and order his bomber squadron to nuke the Soviet Union.
Not so plausible. No URSS lider could speak English at that time. For instance, Khrushchev could not remember the letters of Latin alphabet.
@@VSP4591 good to know all american presidents are fluent in Russian
@@VSP4591 They have interpreters standing next to them.
11 people need to replenish their precious bodily fluids
+TheKirk15 I replenish my girlfriend with my precious bodily fluids.
+뿡뿡! ^__^ LMFAO!
+뿡뿡! ^__^
Don't do it!
Its part of the great communist fluoridation conspiracy!
You have to deny her your precious bodily fluids!
Don't just give away your life essence like that.
Lamb Sauceror it's true, in Chinese medicine and Eastern cultures, women live longer because they sap us of our Jing.
"He went and did a silly thing"
I cannot believe I never realized that the actor plays BOTH, the President AND DR. Strangelove!
Sellers also played the British Officer :)
And Mandrake 😆
Talking to a pissed up Premier....."The bomb Dimitri.........the hydrogen bomb" and then followed by "Well, I'll tell you what he did, he ordered his planes... to attack your country. Well let me finish, Dimitri. Let me finish, Dimitri." The pause before he almost chokes saying "to attack your country" kills me every time I see it.
My "killing moment" is 3:24. The sound the president makes is hilarious :-D.
Just ask for Omsk information.
And the expression on his face changes. You forget what a magnificently talented actor Peter Sellers is because you get lost in how extreme the Dr. Strangelove character is, but Sellers is also subtle and detailed.
I allways wondered how the rest of the actors didn't just break up in this scene, Pure comedic genious by Sellers
the greatest conversation by phone EVER! "i'm capable of being just as sorry as you are" - hilarious!!!
The laugh he does after "It's great to be fine," @ 0:46 always cracks me up.
1:15 "went a little funny in the head" the best and most accurate definition of someone's behavior!!!!!
“You know . . . just a little funny” 🤣
It reminds me of a guy speaking to his wife. "Please let me finish, Dmitri. How do you think I feel about? Of course, I like to speak to you. Don't say you're more sorry than I am because I can be as sorry as you are."
The implication, though, is that while Muffley is always this much of a feelings type, the Soviet leader is only so because he's drunk. I imagine a blubbery, unrestrained man at the other end.
First time seeing this scene.
One of the best scenes from a comedy I've ever seen. Now I'm going to go watch the rest of the film.
Sellers was supposed to play all the parts but refused because he couldn`t get the hang of the Texas accent.
Fishslap 33 The story I heard was that Sellers has a mishap during filming and was unable to play the role of Maj. T.J. "King" Kong, and that's when Slim Pickens was brought in.
***** That sounds like Kubrick, all right.
+gbushimprov Haha Jesus I mean what was their plan? To only ever show 1 actor at a time? I mean if Peter Sellers was supposed to play every role they wouldn't be able to show more then 1 person at a time correct? I don't see how he would even be able to make the movie then because all he should have been able to do there is only show one face at a time and have everyone else with their back to him... I mean were well before the technology was capable of putting faces on different actors like we can currently do right when this film was made right?
***** Really interesting man. Thanks for that! I'm gonna check it out
You can't fight here! This is the War Room!!
"...well, let me finish, Dmitri..." God, that's brilliant!
It's great that the President was made to resemble Adlai Stevenson -- a strong, able, and intelligent man who nevertheless came across as a bit wimpy. Image is everything.
He does remind one of Adlai Stevenson.
Adlai who was absolutely Iron clad during the Cuban Missile crisis. Adlai Stevenson is fucking Batman.
Adlai Stevenson saved the world when he came up with the idea for Kennedy of US standing down nukes in Turkey in exchange of Soviets standing down in Cuba. Khrushchev agreed, and threat of end of world was ended.
Peter Sellers is brilliant in this, but George C. Scott's physical comedy is incredible as well.
Of couse it's a friendly call Vladimir....
The editing of this scene is incredible. Also being in black and white, it totally puts the viewer at the table with the actors.
+Blue .Effigy The decision to put the camera right down at table-level, and shoot through the arms of the actors helps as well - despite being set in a really big room the scene is very claustrophobic. When it clicks to the wide shot at 03:46 and they dial up the reverb you suddenly realise how small the president is.
"Mein früher!! I can walk"
I'm 70. This is my favorite movie, ever.
Favourite scene in the whole film. Peter Sellers is magnificent. One of many of Kubrick's masterpieces.
The wide shots while Sellers is giving the most absurd, hilarious explanation in history are priceless.
I'm just calling up to tell you something terrible has happened lol. Let's be honest, ninety percent of this video is quotable.
Of course its a friendly call. Listen, if it wasn't friendly you probably wouldn't have even got it.
Gentleman, you can't fight in here. This is the war room.
I did this scene in highschool acting class. Loved ot
"If it wasn't friendly, you probably wouldn't have even got it." - very fair point
I remember my parents and uncles and aunts watching this movie in the den during a family get-together & just laughing hysterically. Peter Sellers was a master with personas and accents. Kubrick..... so ballsy to do a movie about nuclear war as a comedy? George C. Scott was such a great actor
So much is brilliant here, probably most hilarious is the whole "I DO like to call Dimitri" and you just know the Premier is drunk
foreshadow? Gorbachev or Yeltsin? drunk half the day?
Gorbachev wasn’t a big drinker, at least in a Russian perspective. Neither was Kruschev. They both drank, just not a ton compared to the others. Yeltsin definitely had drinking issues, but so did several of the Soviet General Secretaries/Premiers. Brezhnev was a renowned piss tank, just as bad as Stalin, perhaps even worse. Andropov and Chernenko also liked to partake in vodka, which is partially why they all died younger than normal (in perspective).
Russia (and the Soviet Union) and her republics always had and still have a serious alcohol problem, especially in regards to vodka. There are a few interesting documentaries on it and I recommend viewing them. And it goes back a long, long ways.
@@oilersridersbluejays and then of course there is Putin, who only drinks the blood of his enemies
This shoud be showed in all schools across the U.S
"Do you suppose you can turn the music down just a little?" LOL LMAO
2018 & your in university now. hope you still like this classic movie. cheers
That’s one of the funniest line ever
I personally think that Dr Strangelove is one of the best films ever made. It’s just pure genius from start to finish. I must’ve watched dozen times. Dialogue is just absolutely fantastic and so funny. One of the best lines from the film was “what’s cooking on the big boards”
Love the line in the film when Sellers shouts 'Gentlemen you cant fight in here this is the war room!'
"hello Vlad ? .......can you hear me ? .....Fine .
"I can't hear too well. Do you suppose you can turn the music down just a little?" hahaha...
The whole long scene by himself! Pure genius!!!!
"Of course it's a friendly call! Listen, if it wasn't friendly...you probably wouldn't have even got it." xD
I'm just as sorry as you are. We are both sorry! Funny as feck!
One of the best movie monologues.
Has anyone ever noticed the running joke in this film? That is, how the phone and the phone company are pivot points and controls over the characters and their fortunes? (Dimitri, do you happen to have the phone number?...Try Omsk 411?...Mandrake needing exact change in the phone booth to avert nuclear war, etc.) Pure, satirical genius!
and then having to answer to the Coca Cola company to get it...
Did you know that in the UK, government civil servants were provided with pennies for use in a public phone box should they need to contact an aircraft base during a nuclear crisis?
Scott's reactions are priceless.
Hello, Wladimitri!
Notice how all the key events in this film hinge on the phone company and/or directory assistance? LOL
"well he went a little funny in the head...and he went and did a silly thing...."
God i love this movie!! thanks for sharing!
Demitri: Don't you like to speak with me? Don't you like to say Hello?
The sad thing is, I'm always quoting this movie but nobody at my school understands what the hell I'm talking about.
Don't be sad. You've got good taste and one up on all of 'em!
MissBooful
Yeah, your totally right!
If you like this film and you're still in school, there is hope for our future generations yet (Y).
I know how you feel. I've been trying to get my friends to watch it for ages
me too at work
My favorite movie ever. I'm 30 and have loved this movie since I saw it 15 years ago
"Gentlemen, you can't fight here . . . This is the War Room!"
“Funny in the head!” - the essence of this movie!
Sellers really nailed that mid-century American cadence. Reminds me of TV shows and movies growing up, so comforting!
They talk like an old married couple i fucking love it
Let’s all hope that tomorrow’s call between Biden and Putin goes better.
So brilliant in every way. Kubrick really had the eye for editing and letting his actors just "go".
I think "Just ask for Omsk information" is my favorite line in the whole movie.
My all time favourite film Peter sellars absolutely outstanding and the rest of the cast
I'm in 9th grade and I love this film.
Collin Wehr SENIOR MY GUY
I'm in 6th
How'd high school go?
Still like it? I sometimes think how scary Nuclear war must have been for my dad. But when a gun is pointed at your head 24/7 when do you.stop noticing it. What is like is we are born with.the gun pointed at our head. Do we ever eve.n see it. I think it’s a. Einstein quote that goes something like: “Man can be expected to walk a tight rope from time to time but now we must walk it for all time. Because although I cannot tell you what weapons will be used in WWIII I can tell you that WWIV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
I'm sorry too Dimitri...
It's a perfect call!
0:44 I LOVE the way Seller's throws in that little forced chuckle. So much in character, and it HAD to be unscripted.
Amazing. Noone would think, he improvised the whole scene!
Gifted guy.
the whole monologue was improvised too. Kubrik kept laughing and they had to shoot it several times.
Bullshit. People would just say anything nowadays
@@orsonwelles4254 Actually it's mostly true and is pretty well-known. It's said that he improvised much of his dialogues, and caused a lot of retakes due to the crew laughing. I said mostly true because I don't recall reading about Kubrick himself laughing and causing the retakes.
@@orsonwelles4254 It might not be true but this has a quality to it that suggests a lot of the wonderful details and mannerisms were improvised by a talented comedian/performer rather than written by a screenwriter.
Cade Johnson Nope. Never happened
He didn't improvise it but it was a great performance
(sniff) Dmitri cares about our air crews. He's a good man.
He seems like a friendly and outgoing person who you'd like to have a drink with.
@@AudieHolland George C Scott’s face when the President offers to help shoot down the planes and says “I know those are our boys” is priceless.
@@salestraining8775 No, it was implied the Soviet Prime Minister said that in response to the US President's informing him about the approaching American bombers.
Scott later just demonstrated how 'hot dog' American bomber pilots were and what that Kong's bomber's chances were of executing its mission.
@@AudieHolland Why do you say “No”. You don’t think George C Scott’s expression is funny?
@@salestraining8775 He never said "I know those are our boys."
The American president was talking to the Soviet PM on the phone and when he requested the Soviets to shoot down the US bombers, the Soviet PM said something back, then the president said, "I know they are our boys."
Implying that the Soviet PM was shocked when the president asked him to shoot down the B-52s, probably saying "But they are YOUR boys!"
This film is just sheer genius!
"Well now, what happened is ah, one of our base commanders , he had a sort of ..he went a little funny in the head & he went and did a silly thing." LOL
I love how they don’t know who to call or what the phone number is…just ask Omsk information
It's the bit about turning the music down that always cracks me up.
"I'm capable of being just as sorry as you are" is a hilarious parody of Mutual Assured Destruction
“I’m sorry. And I’m sorry that you’re sorry.”
This scene is great. Sellers is a legend. I love how the lines in this scene and all of Sellers lines were ad-libbed after the first line of the script that he spoke.
I wonder how the dialogue of Sellers characters actually went in the script. Probably not as good as what he said in the film, but it probably was good, it was co-written by Kubrick after all, but I wonder what was originally written before Sellers put his genius to the lines.
Why Sellers didn't get an Oscar for this is beyond me.
It’s an old vaudeville act called “telephone”.. And I think everything about it was intentional, including the ad-libing..
I’m sure there are videos of Bob Newhart doing skits like this on UA-cam.. Check them out, he’s hilarious..
The look of awkward despair on Sellers' face when he says "you know, just a little, funny...." is utter genius.
The Russian diplomat's expression hits this scene out of the ballpark.
George C Scott’s facial expressions are priceless
I bet that this is exactly where Robot Chicken got the idea for the phone scene with Emperor Palpatine
Every outstanding actor in this memorable, 54 year old classic is dead. Peter, George Stirling, Slim, Kennen, and a host of the secondary supporting actors that made this film a treasure. They all now belong to the ages.
His whole delivery is fucking hilarious.
"I know they're our boys"
Best scene in movie history.
Pink Floyd is the Best Band of All Time. crazy 88 scene in kill Bill?
the surgeon Not anywhere close to this masterpiece. The only other thing that could beat this is the army general tirade in Full Metal Jacket.
Pink Floyd is the Best Band of All Time. Not even the Courts scenes from to kill a mockingbird
the surgeon That was pretty good. But no where close to those.