@@duellingscarguevara "Jessica Tandy, asking “how many, varieties of communists in congress”, in the Manchurian Candidate"-- do you mean Angela Lansbury?
@@sartorious56 sorry yes, one of the funniest lines In film. I think autocorrect did that, I know the “fly on little yellow bird” lady well enough, (from the portrait of Dorian Grey). The boys are editing my posts. An earlier one is altogether gone. (They can do it, quite legally).
Ha! In this film the world is destroyed thanks to a lunatic rogue general, despite the best efforts of a sensible president. From January 2025 the lunatics are in the White House.
i even use to say many of gen. rippers shit-phrases until this days, some people immediately say ,,whaaaat,, It's even funnier if you see the irritated faces of people because they actually think that I made this up myself, especially with young punks or hip hopers, you immediately look like an ayed-in-the-wool politician from another time
"Women sense my power and they seek the life essence." I know this to be true!! They melt in my mere presence and wish to become one with me!!! But Mwhahhhaaahaaaaaa!!! Semen retention is empowering!!! Fuck a sexy feminist good but deny her empowerment. She wants to be empowered she's gotta obey my every command!!!!
I just realized on another level how ludicrous and awesome this movie is. The world is completely annihilated in nuclear holocaust because this crazy general felt empty after having sex and drew the conclusion that the reason was an international communist conspiracy.
Sounds more like he lost his erection during sex. He says "during" not "after" and seems embarrassed to talk about it and proud of the fact it hasn't happened again.
@@BlindBosnian why would you think I w as questioning that...? Because of the hearts...? Wow. Just... wow. Have another drink Pack another bowl Burn another spoon Whatever you do yo get high you should prolly stop but I ain't one to judge or tel you what to do. I will, however, give you some advice: look before you leap
Kubrick was such a masterful director. This scene is so effective with the camera angle, lighting, etc. The fact that this film was made right after the Cuban missile crisis makes the film even more daring.
@@davisworth5114 no the film was filmed before the Kennedy Assassination. The first test screening of the movie was actually suppose to be November 22nd, 1963, the day Kennedy was killed. So the film release was pushed back to January 1964. So it was already done by the time of kennedy’s death but released after
I love Mandrake's attempts to humour and calm Ripper and his eventual realization that he has gone batshit insane. C'mon, why dont you and i put our guns down and just talk it over. Yes, Jack!
*"Women sense my power - and they seek the life essence"* ~ General Jack D. Ripper . . . Easily one of the top 5 films of all time - Kubrick was a genius - imho -
sidDkid87 I wonder back in the 60’s and the 70’s with all the end of the world fear mongering and duck & cover and Kennedy death is when are country started to fall a part.
Funny thing is that it's not acting. He is desperately trying not to laugh. His choked whimpers was kept in the clip since it sounds nervous, but it wasn't scripted.
Hollywood has often talked of a remake. Some movies can never be remade. To remake this film is like saying the incredible and unique talents of Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Slim Pickens, and of course Stanley Kubrick didn't make it the classic it was and always will be.
aachelabelaaron Will that have fluoridated water in it ? She is probably so full of commy fluids that she won't notice. Best to put in Nitric acid and go for the witches eyes....
A common strain among these crazy militias popping up all over is that they don’t allow themselves to masturbate because they must “preserve their bodily fluids.”
@@politicalpartyagnostic268 Lol not even close, are you crazy? You have no sense of the context this movie was made. Nothing today compares to the Cuban Missile Crisis, to name just one.
How do you know the chemicals are making the frogs gay? Maybe they were gay before, maybe its a frog lifestyle choice and just like people in the 70's, a certain segment of the amphibian is proudly coming out and declaring their identity. If a frog wants to be gay what business is it of yours?
The final line of that speech drops in out of nowhere,, like an ice cube down the back of the neck. And Sellers whimpering noises responses during the "essence" bit are utterly genius
One of the greatest films ever made. You will go far to find another comedy as well directed as this one. Plus the case is spot on, especially Scott, Sellers and Peter Bull.
What a great performance. I love the slow burn as you realize this guy goes from military crazy, to McCarthyite crazy, to totally batsh*t insane crazy.
That's the point they're all basically the same. All of the people have crippling insecurity, weird sexual pathology and are constantly in fear. That's what drives the pseudo religious anti communist zeal
I love how coherent he is _right_ up until he mentions the fluids. Once he mentions the fluids, it all breaks down into absurdity, and its clear that he's out of his mind.
At the very start, he seems very convicing, i thought he was going to continue to bluff the collaboration of the the president and pentagon, but then once he says " there is no possibility of returning the wing, there will be only one course of action open. total commitment." After he says that you realize he did this himself, and hes a certain type of crazy. But then when he mentions fluids you realize hes totally insane and absurd.
+Rick O'Shay - He's making a joke about both the General's and Alex Jone's paranoid obsession with chemicals in our water sapping our masculinity, not just about any old conspiracy. Jones said "What do you think tap water is? It's a gay bomb, baby... I don't like 'em putting chemicals in the water that turn the freakin' frogs gay!" Meanwhile, General Ripper claims that commies don't drink water because fluoridation is a commie conspiracy to sap our "essence".
@@marquisewilliams3904 You know I really do hate the Americans that are so fixated on the whole tap water thing. In my country, we do not at all have acces to purified water. We have to buy at absurd prices from independant water purifiers. Because the goverment cannot afford, to provide free and purified water to anyone. In America, they have it for free and pure and then they claim it's got chemicals that makes them gay. What freakin' gives?
Sterling Hayden was a very interesting dude. He never studied acting, looked at acting as just another job, and let the directors direct him and boom. Some reporters asked what his secret was and he replied, "I just learn the lines and do as I'm told." Hayden was actually a sailor, loved boats and loved the sea and acted only as a means to support that lifestyle and maintain his boat. When he was sailing no amount of money could lure him back to shore.
@tedwojtasik8781 he also fought with Tito's partisans in Yugoslavia. He was a communist himself but was coerced by the FBI to giving up the names of other known communists in Hollywood. His career was essentially over , at least for major roles, until Kubrick begged him to play the part. The idea that Hayden is even playing this role was a joke in itself, and one of the best casting bets ever made.
Reportedly Peter Sellers himself had trouble keeping a straight face during these scenes with Sterling Hayden. There is another scene where General Ripper is cajoling Mandrake, putting his arm around him, and the latter is laughing very nervously at Ripper’s total insanity and his own inability to do anything about it. This was actually Sellers struggling to keep it together because he found Hayden so absurdly hilarious that he was on the verge of breaking the whole time, which Hayden was aware of and so was deliberately trying to wind Sellers up. It made for an amazing scene.
Yeah, longer cuts make the actors more motivated to put in their all. Better cinematography too, in many cases. Movies like Roman Holiday, To Kill a Mockingbird, Night of the Hunter, even old ones like Modern Times and the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari--shot as if the cameraman was painting a picture! Stunning!
They did it in longer cuts and in less takes because they had to use physical film and had fewer cameras. You can't really just point to the few good, memorable movies from back in the day and say old movies are better, because we've simply forgotten the bad ones, just like we'll forget the bad, modern movies in due time. Long cuts are still in use today, as well. See the church scene in A Knight's Tale, or most scenes in a Tarantino film.
You mean this take was finished in one sitting but he had to do this scene 40 plus times, he talks about it on an interview, he says it was the worst day in his film career.
Actually, according to Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers and also was involved in US nuclear "readiness" plans, Dr. Strangelove is a documentary; that is, a base commander could (and maybe still can, Ellsberg is not sure) start WWIII on his/her own.
hollywood could use a few Sterling Haydens. He left school at sixteen and went to sea. By the time he was 21 he had his captain's papers and was skipper of a cargo schooner that he took around the world. He tried acting and made two movies right before WW2 started. He quit to go to war. In WW2 he was a marine who was recruited into the OSS (precursor to the CIA). He spent the war in Yugoslavia behind Nazi lines where he commanded fishing boat that was used to rescue downed fliers and smuggle them to safety, deliver weapons to the resistance and conduct recon voyages of Naxi held waters. After the war he returned to movies and carved out a unique career that lasted three decades.When he got fed up with Hollywood nonsense he'd take to the water again and sail wherever his whims led. He lived...really lived and brought all of that to the screen.
It wasn't actually impotence - you'll notice he mentions "a sense of fatigue" after giving his women "his life essence". i.e. tired after cumming, like every other guy on the planet.
@@nmatavka and why do you think guys get that way? Because all of your energy is spent ejaculating, so in a way, Ripper is not only right. But has the correct solution to the problem. Deny them your esscence
I struggle to decide whether this is the best Kubrick gets. Sure, it's a deeply comical scene, but it's also just about the most succinct presentation of the central theme running through all Kubrick's work, of the fundamental confusion within human nature between love and violent struggle.
He said in another interview that he muffed his lines , like 48 times straight , was freaked out and dripping sweat about this, when Kubrick finally calmed him down, and told him his panicked state of fear(the look in his eyes) may be exactly what they were looking for in the character! He went to a nearby bar , had 2 or 3 double shots of Black Label scotch, came back and was able to finish the scenes as we can see in this magnificent film. One of the more memorable acting performances in history- albeit a little crazed and over the top.
aww, you didn't have my favorite Ripper quote " Why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk, ice cream? Ice cream, Mandrake? Children's ice cream!..."
It would have been impossible for me to not Crack Up saying those lines. Hayden said he went on a break to a local bar and took 2 double shots. After, he did his lines spot on.
Pure genius, Hayden lived life like he acted, bad ass. He did tours in WWII running dangerous missions in Yugoslavia and Croatia unlike that coward John Wayne who dodged the draft all of WWII.
Wayne's World War II status was more complicated than that. He was a family man, which classified him as III-A (deferred on grounds of family dependency). By the time men initially classified as III-A started being drafted, Wayne was beyond the draft age limit. He repeatedly said he wanted to volunteer after "one or two more pictures" but his studio threatened to sue him for breach of contract if he tried to enlist.
My understanding is that Hayden took roles like this because he felt terrible for ratting on communists in Hollywood. He also played a corrupt, authoritarian cop. My theory is just a theory, but I think it makes sense.
"get the coordinates to an ISIS training base to have Russians bomb them" except that Ruski never bomb ISIS, they fought rebels. Also, "Americans are collecting Russian biomaterial for a biological weapon" Putin Huilo, 2017. Look it up. For all your crazy conspiracies blaming USA for stuff, there are Russians ACTUALLY being like that.
Although a black comedy Strangelove is still the best movie about the casual insanity of the Nuclear cold war, this scene played with absolute deadpan perfection by Sterling Hayden is one of the most frightening things I've ever seen, anybody else old enough to remember the 60's and 70's will agree, we were told to dive under our desks at school, duck and cover, it was all lies. The threat of Isis is but a pimple on the ass compared to the total extinction of ALL life on our Planet.
The threat is not the same for everyone. The US might just blow any weapon out of the sky, on general principals. I'm not really sure what our policy there is? We do have the capability to do that today though.
ShinXari While nuclear weapons have been proven in ideal test situations war is rarely an ideal circumstance. Under that manner of harsh conditions technological artifacts tend to break down frequently too. It is actually shocking how poorly some weapons systems work in battle compared to when tested. 90% can go down to 10%. That is usually attributed to operator stress. People panic, and make mistakes.
+Paul Fredrick It still does not change the fact that there are still enough nukes in the world that even a single percent of them could easily wipe out most life on the earth :(.
"feed me Mandrake". a Thorazine-Haldol cocktail injection after securing him in an extra snug-fitting straitjacket would solve part of the problem. R.I.P. Mr. Sterling Hayden, an icon of cinematic history and Indelible in American nostalgia forever. we miss you sir.
@Suffer No Fools I'm not the one claiming that the guy who wants to blow up the world is a model of clear-headed rationality. "muh SJWs on college campuses, let's set off the nukes to trigger the libs"
@@emperorpalpatine6239 The point of the movie is one thing. Whether the point that movie is trying to make being true or not is another. Just like this character actually being right is it's separate thing. It's something that should be pretty easy to understand, yet it somehow escaped you.
Great camera angle. Some of the best movie dialog -- ever. Kubrick is a genius. I wonder what Joe McCarthy and J. Edgar Hoover would have thought of this flick?
My God, when I first read about the QAnon theories and the mad 'plandemic' theories, it was this that came to mind. America has a true talent for utterly barking mass hysteria, and they have 'gifted' these ideas to the rest of the world, God help us!
"War is too important to be left to the politicians. They neither have the time, nor the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought." I unironically agree.
One of the most memorable films with great scenes between Sellers and Hayden. The moniker of precious bodily fluids has found it's way into our lexicon.
This STILL asks the question: "Do you really know what's in our drinking water?" I love the camera angle. What's in Ripper's cigar? Mandrake's response is one of total disbelief, as he shelves his true thoughts -- he also just goes along with Ripper (knowing full-well the General is insane). It's kinda like this every four years, when we vote.
This is one of those movies my dad made sure I watched but didn't actually explain to me. It took me years to figure out what bodily fluid he was referring to.
In the war room, General Ripper declared, His precious bodily fluids, he cared, He rambled, he raved, And his sanity waned, A conspiracy, the nation was snared.
I remember watching this film as a kid. The last thing I could have imagined back then was that the whole thing about water fluoridation was not a crazy rant made up by the writers to show that Gen. Ripper was several cards short of a deck: it was an actual conspiracy theory doing the rounds during the Red Scare, and thousands of people bought it. This is one of those instances in which knowing the context actually makes the joke less funny.
Depends how you look at it. The Red Scare itself got pretty ludicrous at times. I recall hearing about an experiment conducted by a certain magazine of the period, may have been the Reader's Digest. They sent people around with vague 'petitions' that used charged language lifted word for word from things like the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Most people they asked refused to sign the flyers, afraid that do so would be to support Communism. And that was AFTER they had read them!
So is chlorine, and we also put it in the water supply. So is *everything*, if the dose is more than your body can handle: you can poison yourself by drinking too much coffee. But those guys would have you believe that the water fluoridation program was a Communist plot to deliberately poison the population. Seriously.
ArkadiBolschek You fool go read the back of a vial of toothpaste it even has a warning not to ingest more than a pea-sized amount to call the poison control center immediately. One pea sized amount contains about 1/4 of a milligram of fluoride the same amount as in a glass of fluoridated tap water. So shut the fuck up and go drink your fluoride.
One of the most funny movies ever. This is the stuff organizations like The Onion are made of. Give it amazing cinematography and you have a classic comedy.
Failsafe is also a fantastic movie. It is the "serious" Dr. Strangelove. Largely a performance of Henry Fonda and a very young Larry Hagman, this movie conveys how deadly serious the Cold War actually was.
Let an older fellow provide a bit of perspective: I saw this movie when it first came out. Now, it is a great comedy. Then it was still a comedy, but also terrifying. It references several things that younger people might not know. 1. Gen Ripper is not just some individual nut case. His profile is that of the "John Birch Society", which at the time, was fairly strong. They saw a vast conspiracy against democracy, and produced a book called "None Dare call it Conspiracy." Unfortunately they saw the conspiracy as communist, and they did promote the idea of fluoridation as a Communist plot, including the idea that it was "sapping our precious bodily fluids", which would eventually destroy us from within. There were many Birchers in the U.S. military leadership. 2. Peace was kept by an insane and flawed doctrine known as MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction). The idea that no one could survive, or win a nuclear war, would function as a deterrent, and make nuclear war impossible. However The USSR (Russia), was way behind the U.S in building nuclear missiles. Many in the U.S. military and CIA pushed for the idea of a "Pearl Harbor-like" preemptive nuclear strike, to take out the USSR, in a surprise attack, before it could obtain parity, and the "opportunity" might disappear. Discussions were held, as to what would be "acceptable losses" for the U.S., including entire cities, and numbering in the millions. Documents declassified in the 1990's, show that President Kennedy was being pushed in that direction. We came closer in the Cuban Missile Crisis, than most of us imagine. So, insanity ruled on many levels, and the danger of starting a nuclear war by miscalculation, was real, as it is today, in the ongoing "demonization" of Russia.
Nailed it. No fan of Putin here, but the Ukrainian government is no different than the Russian government. Both corrupt as all hell cabals. And the common people are stuck in the middle, chewing on it.
"Luckily, I was able to interpret these feelings correctly."
One of my favorite lines in movie history.
First ever film to depict post-nut clarity
It was a magical era...Angela Lansbury asking “how many, varieties of communists in congress”, in the Manchurian Candidate is up there.
@@romilrh No, sorry.
@@duellingscarguevara "Jessica Tandy, asking “how many, varieties of communists in congress”, in the Manchurian Candidate"-- do you mean Angela Lansbury?
@@sartorious56 sorry yes, one of the funniest lines In film. I think autocorrect did that, I know the “fly on little yellow bird” lady well enough, (from the portrait of Dorian Grey). The boys are editing my posts. An earlier one is altogether gone. (They can do it, quite legally).
This is one of my favorite speeches by Robert Kennedy Jr.
Ha! In this film the world is destroyed thanks to a lunatic rogue general, despite the best efforts of a sensible president. From January 2025 the lunatics are in the White House.
@@theobot2000 Who will be the doctor ?
@@jojojojo4332 Some rightwing weirdo who likes rockets.
"...Luckily I was able to interpret these feelings correctly."
Story of my life.
i even use to say many of gen. rippers shit-phrases until this days, some people immediately say ,,whaaaat,, It's even funnier if you see the irritated faces of people because they actually think that I made this up myself, especially with young punks or hip hopers, you immediately look like an ayed-in-the-wool politician from another time
@Suffer No Fools Ripper is 100% Alpha
lol
In the 2020s, he would interpret them as not wearing a face mask, not getting a vaccination, denying an electoral loss, and storming Congress.
That camera angle was absolute genius.
Absolutely. This isn't just funny as hell, it's also an impeccable work of filmmaking.
Oh my god, ikr?!
Kubrick was always amazing with the camera, angles, and playing with light. A true genius.
He is truly a magnificent genius, when you see the movies you understand why Kubrick was so called a perfectionist, he was very commited to his art
Even though he's sitting below Mandrake, the angle looks like he's towering :O
"I do not avoid women, Mandrake. But I do deny them my essence."
And hence no little bastards running around!
"Women sense my power and they seek the life essence." I know this to be true!! They melt in my mere presence and wish to become one with me!!! But Mwhahhhaaahaaaaaa!!! Semen retention is empowering!!! Fuck a sexy feminist good but deny her empowerment. She wants to be empowered she's gotta obey my every command!!!!
".... Communist subversion, communist infiltration, and the international communist conspiracy to sap and impify all our precious bodily fluids!"
+Thomas Begen All that cigar smoking made him impotent.
Poppycock, 999klondike. General Ripper did not inhale or impurify his precious bodily fluids.
This man had the most intense post-nut clarity of all time.
no nut. He's not afraid of women. But he does deny them his life essence.
your mothers really damaged you guys, didn't they?
@@rvkice23 That one time, though.
Moron, he was practicing semen retention.
Haha
I just realized on another level how ludicrous and awesome this movie is. The world is completely annihilated in nuclear holocaust because this crazy general felt empty after having sex and drew the conclusion that the reason was an international communist conspiracy.
Brilliant you discovered the wheel....must be under 30.
+Electric Wolf and he's smoking a cigar and of course it can't have anything to do with that -
Maybe it's because he's denying women his essence...
Undoubtedly a "turgid" fellow.
Sounds more like he lost his erection during sex. He says "during" not "after" and seems embarrassed to talk about it and proud of the fact it hasn't happened again.
"There will only be one course of action... *Total commitment.* "
♡♡♡
Кристина Дождь I love that line. It's really impactful.
He's talking about war, not love, you know
@@BlindBosnian why would you think I w as questioning that...? Because of the hearts...? Wow. Just... wow.
Have another drink
Pack another bowl
Burn another spoon
Whatever you do yo get high you should prolly stop but I ain't one to judge or tel you what to do.
I will, however, give you some advice: look before you leap
Kubrick was such a masterful director. This scene is so effective with the camera angle, lighting, etc. The fact that this film was made right after the Cuban missile crisis makes the film even more daring.
no, it was made after JFK was killed.
@@davisworth5114 no the film was filmed before the Kennedy Assassination. The first test screening of the movie was actually suppose to be November 22nd, 1963, the day Kennedy was killed. So the film release was pushed back to January 1964. So it was already done by the time of kennedy’s death but released after
It wasn't very popular when it came out lol
I love Mandrake's attempts to humour and calm Ripper and his eventual realization that he has gone batshit insane.
C'mon, why dont you and i put our guns down and just talk it over. Yes, Jack!
fredfinks He is most sane person in whole movie
@@ksztyrix In all fairness Prez Mufley is pretty on the level too.
@@ksztyrix Ah yes, always blame the Jews.
Mandrake almost had problems with Coca Cola company
@@lordpendragon4867 It's on accounta them pre-versions.
*"Women sense my power - and they seek the life essence"* ~ General Jack D. Ripper . . . Easily one of the top 5 films of all time - Kubrick was a genius - imho -
awesome
That and the raven
Forevermore
sidDkid87 I wonder back in the 60’s and the 70’s with all the end of the world fear mongering and duck & cover and Kennedy death is when are country started to fall a part.
+sidDkid87 "I was overcome with a profound sense of fatigue"
Those little whimpers from Sellers are an absolutely masterful piece of understated acting.
Funny thing is that it's not acting. He is desperately trying not to laugh. His choked whimpers was kept in the clip since it sounds nervous, but it wasn't scripted.
The look on Peter Seller's face as he subtly realizes that Sterling Hayden has gone insane
And the thing is, some say that Sellers was fairly bonkers in real life.
@@773SleepyHollow To do his whole thing it's probably essential to be insane.
Even better the discomfort on his face as Jack sits down on the couch next to him 😂
The sense of how uncomfortable he is through his voice. Kinda like talking to alot of people today that kinda what I sound like
Back when you weren't bombarded with dramatic music every damn scene
What music would work here?
@@Kunsoo1024 none, is perfect the way it is
Watch Day of the Jackal (original!)
@@Kunsoo1024 cardi B probably
@@Kunsoo1024 'Magical Mystery Tour`
Hollywood has often talked of a remake. Some movies can never be remade.
To remake this film is like saying the incredible and unique talents of Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Slim Pickens, and of course Stanley Kubrick didn't make it the classic it was and always will be.
I dunno bro. that general is key lol
Let's hope, no, lets pray no one is stupid enough to attempt to "re-boot" a movie as perfect as this one is.
*****
Agree, and it's just so perfect as is, the very definition of "black comedy"..
They could remake the "theme" of this movie, but it would be entirely different, and awful.
+Robert Smith ...and don't forget Keenan Wynn with the Coca Cola Company line.
The last 20 seconds sums up my approach to romance. They'll never get my bodily fluids.
hahaha!
Is that because they never give you the chance?
Hillary is coming to get your fluids and your guns.
aachelabelaaron Will that have fluoridated water in it ?
She is probably so full of commy fluids that she won't notice.
Best to put in Nitric acid and go for the witches eyes....
aachelabelaaron In a "Stay Behind Force" the answer is yes.
Everything is adaptable for use in Goo Rilla warfare.
Dr. Strangelove is as relevant a warning today as when it was made.
Perhaps more so.
Yep
A common strain among these crazy militias popping up all over is that they don’t allow themselves to masturbate because they must “preserve their bodily fluids.”
@@politicalpartyagnostic268 Lol not even close, are you crazy? You have no sense of the context this movie was made. Nothing today compares to the Cuban Missile Crisis, to name just one.
@@LordVader1094 you the guy who bet his life on it ?
I first became aware of it mandrake during the physical act of love. This line always cracks me up no matter how many times i hear it.
Thankfully I was able to interpret these feelings correctly. LOL
He will never allow himself to feel vulnerable again.
Of course that was way before he became a Brigadier, back then he was known a “Major Droopy”
They're putting chemicals in the water that turn the friggin' frogs gay.
It’s true tho, look up the effects of endocrine disruptor on wildlife it fuck up their organism
They are. Atrazine (made by Syngenta, now wholly owned by the communist chinese). Atrazine is banned in the EU but not in the United States.
@@ivan8960 The Red Chinese are attacking the masculinity of our frogs. This is only the first step.
@@ivan8960 I think its the way that sentence interprets environmental pollution as some sort of crack pot conspiracy which makes it rideculous.
How do you know the chemicals are making the frogs gay? Maybe they were gay before, maybe its a frog lifestyle choice and just like people in the 70's, a certain segment of the amphibian is proudly coming out and declaring their identity. If a frog wants to be gay what business is it of yours?
The final line of that speech drops in out of nowhere,, like an ice cube down the back of the neck. And Sellers whimpering noises responses during the "essence" bit are utterly genius
One of the greatest films ever made.
You will go far to find another comedy as well directed as this one.
Plus the case is spot on, especially Scott, Sellers and Peter Bull.
This movie will make you a goddamn sexual tyrannosaurus. And purify your precious bodily fluids.
Just like me.
"Yeah, strap this on your "sore ass", Blain."
We ain’t got time to bleed
What a great performance. I love the slow burn as you realize this guy goes from military crazy, to McCarthyite crazy, to totally batsh*t insane crazy.
Project venona
Curtis LeMay levels of crazy.
That's the point they're all basically the same.
All of the people have crippling insecurity, weird sexual pathology and are constantly in fear. That's what drives the pseudo religious anti communist zeal
Sterling Hayden was largely underappreciated. If you liked his dleivery in this movie, go watch him in Johnny Guitar, opposite Joan Crawford
@@pattate9636 His character was based directly off of Curtis Lemay, right down to the cigar chomping. Crazy fuck
I love how coherent he is _right_ up until he mentions the fluids. Once he mentions the fluids, it all breaks down into absurdity, and its clear that he's out of his mind.
and that one additional comment is used to undermine all the *lucidity* that came before it...
Had your vaccine yet?
At the very start, he seems very convicing, i thought he was going to continue to bluff the collaboration of the the president and pentagon, but then once he says " there is no possibility of returning the wing, there will be only one course of action open. total commitment." After he says that you realize he did this himself, and hes a certain type of crazy.
But then when he mentions fluids you realize hes totally insane and absurd.
@Jim C. you dont know fuck all about medications
dude, he is straightforward paranoid nutcase from the beginning
I live by his teachings.
Decades before Alex Jones ...
Hehe your joke from 2 years ago just made me chuckle. Inception.
+Rick O'Shay - He's making a joke about both the General's and Alex Jone's paranoid obsession with chemicals in our water sapping our masculinity, not just about any old conspiracy.
Jones said "What do you think tap water is? It's a gay bomb, baby... I don't like 'em putting chemicals in the water that turn the freakin' frogs gay!"
Meanwhile, General Ripper claims that commies don't drink water because fluoridation is a commie conspiracy to sap our "essence".
If only Precious Bodily Vitality existed...
@@marquisewilliams3904 You know I really do hate the Americans that are so fixated on the whole tap water thing. In my country, we do not at all have acces to purified water. We have to buy at absurd prices from independant water purifiers. Because the goverment cannot afford, to provide free and purified water to anyone.
In America, they have it for free and pure and then they claim it's got chemicals that makes them gay. What freakin' gives?
Crazy people have been around long before alex jones...
Hilarious. So brilliantly understated and so hilariously funny. What a masterpiece of comedy.
god how did the guy playing Ripper deliver this with a straight face. Brilliant.
he was being serious, didnt even know he was being filmed actually.
Sterling Hayden was a very interesting dude. He never studied acting, looked at acting as just another job, and let the directors direct him and boom. Some reporters asked what his secret was and he replied, "I just learn the lines and do as I'm told." Hayden was actually a sailor, loved boats and loved the sea and acted only as a means to support that lifestyle and maintain his boat. When he was sailing no amount of money could lure him back to shore.
@tedwojtasik8781 he also fought with Tito's partisans in Yugoslavia. He was a communist himself but was coerced by the FBI to giving up the names of other known communists in Hollywood. His career was essentially over , at least for major roles, until Kubrick begged him to play the part. The idea that Hayden is even playing this role was a joke in itself, and one of the best casting bets ever made.
@@nononononononono379extremely sad that someone who fought with Tito got squeezed by McCarthyism but what a cathartic role it must have been to play
Reportedly Peter Sellers himself had trouble keeping a straight face during these scenes with Sterling Hayden. There is another scene where General Ripper is cajoling Mandrake, putting his arm around him, and the latter is laughing very nervously at Ripper’s total insanity and his own inability to do anything about it. This was actually Sellers struggling to keep it together because he found Hayden so absurdly hilarious that he was on the verge of breaking the whole time, which Hayden was aware of and so was deliberately trying to wind Sellers up. It made for an amazing scene.
Ripper kind of reminds me of one of my old co-workers. Mandrake's reactions are pretty much the same as mine.
+Digscomics hang on brother. we are with you
This is one of my favorite movie scenes of all time. I can't help but grin when I watch it.
Perhaps one of most underrated actors in film history. Absolutely brilliant...
Sterling Hayden did this in one take. True skill.
old movies did longer cuts... old movies have real acting
Yeah, longer cuts make the actors more motivated to put in their all. Better cinematography too, in many cases. Movies like Roman Holiday, To Kill a Mockingbird, Night of the Hunter, even old ones like Modern Times and the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari--shot as if the cameraman was painting a picture! Stunning!
They did it in longer cuts and in less takes because they had to use physical film and had fewer cameras. You can't really just point to the few good, memorable movies from back in the day and say old movies are better, because we've simply forgotten the bad ones, just like we'll forget the bad, modern movies in due time.
Long cuts are still in use today, as well. See the church scene in A Knight's Tale, or most scenes in a Tarantino film.
Only considering who the director is and the hell he put most actors through to get what he needed.
You mean this take was finished in one sitting but he had to do this scene 40 plus times, he talks about it on an interview, he says it was the worst day in his film career.
Alex Jones watched this and thought it was a documentary.
it is
Frogs are turning gay. What do you think is causing that?
stay woke
WE do not need fluoride, it is a toxic chemical.
Actually, according to Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers and also was involved in US nuclear "readiness" plans, Dr. Strangelove is a documentary; that is, a base commander could (and maybe still can, Ellsberg is not sure) start WWIII on his/her own.
“The greatest trick the Devil ever played was convincing the world that he didn’t exist.”
Truer words . . .
hollywood could use a few Sterling Haydens. He left school at sixteen and went to sea. By the time he was 21 he had his captain's papers and was skipper of a cargo schooner that he took around the world. He tried acting and made two movies right before WW2 started. He quit to go to war. In WW2 he was a marine who was recruited into the OSS (precursor to the CIA). He spent the war in Yugoslavia behind Nazi lines where he commanded fishing boat that was used to rescue downed fliers and smuggle them to safety, deliver weapons to the resistance and conduct recon voyages of Naxi held waters. After the war he returned to movies and carved out a unique career that lasted three decades.When he got fed up with Hollywood nonsense he'd take to the water again and sail wherever his whims led. He lived...really lived and brought all of that to the screen.
Thanks for this, you elaborate him so well
They don't really make people like that anymore
GGTOW: Generals Going Their Own Way
And taking the world with them
😂😂
Sterling Hayden is a champ. Those lines, especially about the cause of his impotence (a commie plot, obviously) are completely bonkers.
"DON'T SAY THAT WORD!" --Joe Salucci, _Airplane 2_.
It wasn't actually impotence - you'll notice he mentions "a sense of fatigue" after giving his women "his life essence". i.e. tired after cumming, like every other guy on the planet.
The French even have a term for it:
la petite mort = the little death
Nick Werner-Matavka And you know, he’s OLD.
@@nmatavka and why do you think guys get that way? Because all of your energy is spent ejaculating, so in a way, Ripper is not only right. But has the correct solution to the problem. Deny them your esscence
A timeless classic that should be required watching. Kubrick was such an incredible genius.
Ripper Brand Condoms: “Accept the woman, deny the essence.”
And save 18 years of your salary.
I struggle to decide whether this is the best Kubrick gets. Sure, it's a deeply comical scene, but it's also just about the most succinct presentation of the central theme running through all Kubrick's work, of the fundamental confusion within human nature between love and violent struggle.
I like to go to bars and order distilled water and pure grain alcohol.
Or rain water
That's what they drink isn't it ?
He said in another interview that he muffed his lines , like 48 times straight , was freaked out and dripping sweat about this, when Kubrick finally calmed him down, and told him his panicked state of fear(the look in his eyes) may be exactly what they were looking for in the character! He went to a nearby bar , had 2 or 3 double shots of Black Label scotch, came back and was able to finish the scenes as we can see in this magnificent film. One of the more memorable acting performances in history- albeit a little crazed and over the top.
That was a good choice. Because The character Jack Ripper comes off as a war hungry guy drunk that went nuts over the paranoia of commies lol
vanislefan I thought this was a documentary....no ?
This is the moment this film went from a good, older movie, to rolling on the floor hilarious.
This is the best fuckin' scene in whole cinema history!
Maybe breaking out the rations flying over Russia... 'prophylactics'
No that would be the phone call scene. Can't top that one!
There are better scenes
Sellers absolutely killing it with his nervous laughs😂
hilarious, sterling hayden and his" bodily fluids" rest in peace.....thanks for posting!
This is the absolute best video on UA-cam.
aww, you didn't have my favorite Ripper quote
" Why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk, ice cream? Ice cream, Mandrake? Children's ice cream!..."
The way Ripper says "ice cream".
Greatest movie in the history of movies...Greatest scene you are watching now.
You can't fight here..! this is the War Room!
What a movie. It deserves a spot among the top 200 hundred movies ever made--if not the top 100.
It would have been impossible for me to not Crack Up saying those lines. Hayden said he went on a break to a local bar and took 2 double shots. After, he did his lines spot on.
That is a great story, I have never heard it before.
You I love.
I loved the movie from day ONE in the 60ties, my favotite movie of all times. I must have seen it 100 times, after I got it on DVD.
Pure genius, Hayden lived life like he acted, bad ass. He did tours in WWII running dangerous missions in Yugoslavia and Croatia unlike that coward John Wayne who dodged the draft all of WWII.
Also ironic that he was once a member of the Communist Party, considering his most famous role.
Merk- Exceptional work you do.
Wayne's World War II status was more complicated than that. He was a family man, which classified him as III-A (deferred on grounds of family dependency). By the time men initially classified as III-A started being drafted, Wayne was beyond the draft age limit. He repeatedly said he wanted to volunteer after "one or two more pictures" but his studio threatened to sue him for breach of contract if he tried to enlist.
John Wayne just like Bush Jnr and Trump...a coward.
My understanding is that Hayden took roles like this because he felt terrible for ratting on communists in Hollywood. He also played a corrupt, authoritarian cop. My theory is just a theory, but I think it makes sense.
Fantastic!
Jack T Ripper is /pol/ incarnate.
No, that would be Dr. Strangelove
Ripper is /k/
The only difference is that pol is full of incels, while the general is volcel.
"get the coordinates to an ISIS training base to have Russians bomb them" except that Ruski never bomb ISIS, they fought rebels. Also, "Americans are collecting Russian biomaterial for a biological weapon" Putin Huilo, 2017. Look it up. For all your crazy conspiracies blaming USA for stuff, there are Russians ACTUALLY being like that.
Ostap BENDERovetz Muh rebels!
Lol. Is this Alex Jones' dad?
Is Mother Jones the mother of Alex Jones?
How could it be if he denied women his essence?
Muh fluids
I love how he says, "fluids." It strikes you right then just how completely insane he is.
The whole movie is about sex....all of it, from beginning to end.
Ade Larsen "Everything is about sex. Except sex. Sex is about power."
I don’t think they called it “nut” back then
Ripper isnt insane tho. Hes the BEST and hes right
@@franciosdeaeruiu7555 only the *sanest people* blow up an entire country after misdiagnosing fatigue after sex to be a communist plot.
25 years later, this scene is still absurd! And clean as pg
Such a great movie.
NOFAP 2017
No pmo for me, Going full monk 2018.
2019 here eh...
CLIn7 l33tW00d 2019 gang!
2020 boys try again
@@wealllame yo
Although a black comedy Strangelove is still the best movie about the casual insanity of the Nuclear cold war, this scene played with absolute deadpan perfection by Sterling Hayden is one of the most frightening things I've ever seen, anybody else old enough to remember the 60's and 70's will agree, we were told to dive under our desks at school, duck and cover, it was all lies. The threat of Isis is but a pimple on the ass compared to the total extinction of ALL life on our Planet.
SuperStig23 I almost forgot that if they had Viagra back then General Ripper might never have sent the GO code.
+SuperStig23 what is the go code
The threat is not the same for everyone. The US might just blow any weapon out of the sky, on general principals. I'm not really sure what our policy there is? We do have the capability to do that today though.
ShinXari
While nuclear weapons have been proven in ideal test situations war is rarely an ideal circumstance. Under that manner of harsh conditions technological artifacts tend to break down frequently too. It is actually shocking how poorly some weapons systems work in battle compared to when tested. 90% can go down to 10%. That is usually attributed to operator stress. People panic, and make mistakes.
+Paul Fredrick It still does not change the fact that there are still enough nukes in the world that even a single percent of them could easily wipe out most life on the earth :(.
The bodily fluids speech is, for me, the most hilarius line in the history of cinema.
I love this actor
hysterical and still relevant speech! love it
"feed me Mandrake".
a Thorazine-Haldol cocktail injection after securing him in an extra snug-fitting straitjacket would solve part of the problem.
R.I.P. Mr. Sterling Hayden, an icon of cinematic history and Indelible in American nostalgia forever. we miss you sir.
No lie, feeling that threat to my precious bodily fluids right now. August 2020
Hows the threat feeling now?
Well how about now, march 2022?
he's dead, jim
@@DarthFerder Got preoccupied looking for my cowboy hat.
Beautiful. Absolutely perfectly beautiful.
That moment when art predicts the future..
When Russian "president" started talking about American conspiracy to collect biomaterials or Ruski people, I immediately thought of this movie.
Past repeats
And fiction is inspired by reality
There for
Art
Shows past.
@Suffer No Fools You're why mankind cannot be trusted with nukes.
@Suffer No Fools I'm not the one claiming that the guy who wants to blow up the world is a model of clear-headed rationality.
"muh SJWs on college campuses, let's set off the nukes to trigger the libs"
2021 reporting in. Oh boy, you've got no idea.
Amazing movie, never gets old.
So basically he destroyed the world due to a case of post-nut clarity. Excellent.
He was right, you know? We are to deep in this madness to recognize that.
THANKS to a case of post-nut clarity.
@@Invocated_Agitator You missed the point of the film, didn’t you?
@@emperorpalpatine6239 The point of the movie is one thing. Whether the point that movie is trying to make being true or not is another. Just like this character actually being right is it's separate thing. It's something that should be pretty easy to understand, yet it somehow escaped you.
@@Invocated_Agitator Tell me, did commies get to your bodily fluids yet?
Great camera angle. Some of the best movie dialog -- ever. Kubrick is a genius. I wonder what Joe McCarthy and J. Edgar Hoover would have thought of this flick?
poor Mandrake, the look on his face is one of a man looking at a completely deranged one
God bless that man, God bless America.
Man, this makes me want to light a cigar.
+J. Midnite haha
heh has the opposite effect on me
Hayden is hypnotic you just cannot take your eyes off him.
Mandrake get over here! help me with this belt!
Paranoid schizophrenia is not a good look for an air force general with access to nukes. I absolutely love this movie.
My God, when I first read about the QAnon theories and the mad 'plandemic' theories, it was this that came to mind. America has a true talent for utterly barking mass hysteria, and they have 'gifted' these ideas to the rest of the world, God help us!
Best film ever made!
"War is too important to be left to the politicians. They neither have the time, nor the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought."
I unironically agree.
And it isn't left to politicians..they just have to make it legal.
You are suggesting to remove civilian control where Founding Fathers knew it was a bad idea?
The general is advocating fascism here, even down to the 'Someone must stop the commies' origins.
It is not something you should agree with.
@@brendanfletcher5216 Being anti communist doesn't mean you're a fascist you fucking communist.
One of the most memorable films with great scenes between Sellers and Hayden. The moniker of precious bodily fluids has found it's way into our lexicon.
This STILL asks the question: "Do you really know what's in our drinking water?" I love the camera angle. What's in Ripper's cigar? Mandrake's response is one of total disbelief, as he shelves his true thoughts -- he also just goes along with Ripper (knowing full-well the General is insane). It's kinda like this every four years, when we vote.
One of the true master strokes in cinema history, these scenes between Ripper and Mandrake. Hayden and Sellers were peerless in these roles.
General Flynn will protect our precious bodily fluids!
"Women sense my power, and they seek the life essence"
This is one of those movies my dad made sure I watched but didn't actually explain to me. It took me years to figure out what bodily fluid he was referring to.
What a great movie.
I am so using that line on women.
Clever, man ;) Making them laugh always works!
In the war room, General Ripper declared,
His precious bodily fluids, he cared,
He rambled, he raved,
And his sanity waned,
A conspiracy, the nation was snared.
I remember watching this film as a kid. The last thing I could have imagined back then was that the whole thing about water fluoridation was not a crazy rant made up by the writers to show that Gen. Ripper was several cards short of a deck: it was an actual conspiracy theory doing the rounds during the Red Scare, and thousands of people bought it. This is one of those instances in which knowing the context actually makes the joke less funny.
Depends how you look at it. The Red Scare itself got pretty ludicrous at times. I recall hearing about an experiment conducted by a certain magazine of the period, may have been the Reader's Digest. They sent people around with vague 'petitions' that used charged language lifted word for word from things like the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Most people they asked refused to sign the flyers, afraid that do so would be to support Communism. And that was AFTER they had read them!
People still believe it. Here in these comments you can see countless people talking about the virtues of 'semen retention'.
Well it is true that fluoride is a deadly poison.
So is chlorine, and we also put it in the water supply. So is *everything*, if the dose is more than your body can handle: you can poison yourself by drinking too much coffee. But those guys would have you believe that the water fluoridation program was a Communist plot to deliberately poison the population. Seriously.
ArkadiBolschek You fool go read the back of a vial of toothpaste it even has a warning not to ingest more than a pea-sized amount to call the poison control center immediately. One pea sized amount contains about 1/4 of a milligram of fluoride the same amount as in a glass of fluoridated tap water. So shut the fuck up and go drink your fluoride.
One of the funniest movies ever. Thank you Herman Kahn for the inspiration given to Stanley Kubrick
I never thought i'd look back on this great film and decide that Ripper was right!!
This
One of the most funny movies ever. This is the stuff organizations like The Onion are made of. Give it amazing cinematography and you have a classic comedy.
Failsafe is also a fantastic movie. It is the "serious" Dr. Strangelove. Largely a performance of Henry Fonda and a very young Larry Hagman, this movie conveys how deadly serious the Cold War actually was.
And, of course, with the fall of the Soviet Union, nuclear Armageddon is no longer a possibility.…😱
he is who we need today
Finally, I found the origin of Feed Me Jack
I love this movie!!!
that last acknowledging of his insanity "yehhss" by sellers xD
Let an older fellow provide a bit of perspective: I saw this movie when it first came out. Now, it is a great comedy. Then it was still a comedy, but also terrifying. It references several things that younger people might not know.
1. Gen Ripper is not just some individual nut case. His profile is that of the "John Birch Society", which at the time, was fairly strong. They saw a vast conspiracy against democracy, and produced a book called "None Dare call it Conspiracy." Unfortunately they saw the conspiracy as communist, and they did promote the idea of fluoridation as a Communist plot, including the idea that it was "sapping our precious bodily fluids", which would eventually destroy us from within. There were many Birchers in the U.S. military leadership.
2. Peace was kept by an insane and flawed doctrine known as MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction). The idea that no one could survive, or win a nuclear war, would function as a deterrent, and make nuclear war impossible. However The USSR (Russia), was way behind the U.S in building nuclear missiles. Many in the U.S. military and CIA pushed for the idea of a "Pearl Harbor-like" preemptive nuclear strike, to take out the USSR, in a surprise attack, before it could obtain parity, and the "opportunity" might disappear. Discussions were held, as to what would be "acceptable losses" for the U.S., including entire cities, and numbering in the millions. Documents declassified in the 1990's, show that President Kennedy was being pushed in that direction. We came closer in the Cuban Missile Crisis, than most of us imagine.
So, insanity ruled on many levels, and the danger of starting a nuclear war by miscalculation, was real, as it is today, in the ongoing "demonization" of Russia.
Nailed it. No fan of Putin here, but the Ukrainian government is no different than the Russian government. Both corrupt as all hell cabals. And the common people are stuck in the middle, chewing on it.
""demonization" of Russia."
Don't want criticism, don't invade countries.
@@nonegone7170 And you better shut up on matters you know nothing about