DR.STRANGELOVE (1964) left me in SHOCK! Movie Reaction - FIRST TIME WATCHING
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Starring:
Peter Sellers George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens, Peter Bull, and James Earl Jones
Written by:
Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern, and Peter George
Directed by:
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Hey guys! This movie was pretty funny but the ending really left me speechless. It must have been shocking to watch this film during the cold war and watching everyone fail to stop nuclear warheads from detonating. Besides the ending, Kubrick directed this film SO well and some of the shots in it blew me away!
Thanks for watching! Have a great day! :)
George C Scott was absolutely furious with Kubrick, Scott had been playing General Turgidson far too seriously. Kubrick asked him to try a take hamming it up as an exercise, and promised he wouldn’t use those takes. Kubrick lied.
@@wackyvorlon I'm glad he did. Scott is so funny in this.
You should now watch Fail Safe (1964), which came out the same year as Dr. Strangelove. There's no horsing around in that film. It's dead serious.
@@geraldmcboingboing7401 I concur...and also made by an incredible, "one of the all time greats" directors...Sidney Lumet.
Fun reaction to a really really intense and incredible movie. Just a couple of notes I did not see anyone else mention...sorry if they did. For one thing, the bit where they reveal that Dr. Strangelove's name used to be "Merkwürdigliebe"...that word is just German for "strange love"...though it could be a loose or archaic wording. Also, at 29:15, the watch the Soviet Ambassador was fiddling with was a spy camera...it indicates that he had been indeed trying to take pictures of the Big Board...this to refer to the fact that US paranoia about Soviet actions, such as spying, was not entirely unfounded.
I don't think you noticed, but the legendary comedy actor Peter Sellers (known mostly for Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther films) played three of the main characters. He was Dr Strangelove, the President and group captain Mandrake. He was originally going to play four, and be the pilot in the airplane, but he didn't want to do the fourth part, so that went to Slim Pickens.
Actually, Sellers fell off of the missile while filming the the sequence in the bomb bay and broke his ankle (I think). He was unable to to the other scenes in the B52 and had to be replaced. Slim Pickens didn't even have a passport and they had to scramble to get him to England. (He had worked with Kubrick on One Eyed Jacks, and Kubrick wanted him!)
In England Peter Sellers is well known for his participation in the "Goon" comedies.
@@jnagarya519 love the Goons. All the characters they did were amazing. Sellers was especially good as Bluebottle.
@@tc-2000 If one were to do a "Google" search on "the goons" or "goon comedy" . . .
@@jnagarya519 not sure I understand.
It's awesome how Peter Sellers can play three different characters from three different countries.
I highly recommend "Murder by Death" (1976)! Peter Sellers, David Niven, Maggie Smith, Alec Guinness, Peter Falk.....
Neil Simon Never Fails! .....
My favourite line: "You can't fight in here, this is the war room!" -- Also love Peter Sellers amazing line "You see, the string in my leg has gone!". He improvised that and they nearly couldn't use it for everyone on set laughing. The original line was "You see, there is a thing with my leg".
For me, it's Keenan Wynn, warning 'Mandrake' that he'll have to answer to the Coca Cola company-!!
@@ollietsb1704 Yeah, and that's exactly how small and clueless people can be
"Oh my God, this is that movie!" That really made me smile when you said that.
Slim Pickens riding that bomb to glory rodeo style while waving his cowboy hat is one of the iconic images from cinema.
As a former rodeo star (before he became an actor) no one in Hollywood could have done that ride better?
The song at the end is We’ll Meet Again, a WWII song by Vera Lynn. Gum was rare in Russia at the time, so the gum in the survival packs could be used for trade.
Dr Strangelove also represents the insane logic of nuclear war (part of him is out of control, perhaps a reference to the military as a government "arm".) Notice when war is about to happen, we see the first appearance of Strangelove, then things seem to calm down, Strangelove recedes and lurks in the darkness, only to reappear when war is on.
the ex-nazi advisors to the US gov't coaxing the coldwar and developing from fear
now in league with the izraeli zyonists for global control - world banks, stock markets, NATO, UN
Sterling Hayden was a damn treasure. His archival interviews are fantastic. Dude was born to be a sea captain.
He also starred in one of Kubrick’s earlier films as well. “The Killing” (1956).
Yeah- those interviews are actually included on the Criterion disc for The Killing.
a MAN - love him so much
The Killing is topnotch
Dr. Strangelove is considered the greatest satiric comedies ever made many because of the era it was in. This came on the heels of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a moment when the world came dangerously close to annihilation. Everyone, at least in the US thought the bombs were about to fall any second.
Slim Pickens, Iconic character actor. Sterling Hayden (General Jack D. Ripper) played writer Roger Wade in The Long Goodbye and Captain McCluskey in the first Godfather. George C.Scott (General Turgidson) played another American General six years later, General George S. Patton in 1970's Patton (won Best Actor Oscar). The character Dr. Strangelove was a favorite of geeks and nerds (no offense to anyone). German Rocket Scientists? Checkout The Right Stuff from 1983. Watch out for your vital fluids!
Peter Sellers played three roles in this movie. He was a genius, and "The Party" was one of his definitive performances. And "Being There" was stunning.
You commented how scary this movie would have been to audiences when this film came out - it was the height of the Cold War and nuclear war was always a possibility. If you want to see a movie that is the polar opposite of this black comedy, there is a similar movie called "Fail Safe". That movie also depicts a scenario where a US plane is headed toward Russia with bombs, but it is totally serious and horrifying.
But not unwatchably horrifying.
I concur...Sidney Lumet made that one, and nothing he ever did was ever unwatchable, I am almost positive of that. He is not as high on the list as Kubrick , but Lumet is definitely on the same list of "greatest directors of all time" that Kubrick is. 💯✌
Fail Safe is brilliant
You are *exactly* the sort of person Kubrick made this film for - intelligent, curious, but still able to be impressed by something original and well crafted. Kubrick has this goofy idea, that people don't have to be spoon-fed information and that they're sometimes willing to figure things out. 🤔 Best wishes from Vermont! 🐧
This movie was kind of like whistling in the dark. The Cold War was 30+ years of constant tension. Imagine the subliminal fear and paranoia generated by the pandemic lasting nonstop for over 30 years. “Threads,” “The Day After,” “By Dawn’s Early Light,” “Failsafe,” “On The Beach” and “Alas Babylon”: all great Cold War thrillers. I think the best for you might be “WarGames” with Matthew Broderick. Fun fact: “Peace is our profession” was SAC’s actual motto.
@ 3:55 Those are real planes being filmed from inside and outside. However a model (the main jet plane) is used later, I'm sure for practical reasons but also to make it funny looking while flying. This movie is a dark comedy and one of the best! In fact Ollie, I don't think you got the joke and the symbolism at the beginning of the lower jet being refueled by the upper one all while very romantic music of love is playing! LOL! In case you didn't notice Peter Sellers is playing three characters: the British officer Mandrake, the President of the US and Dr. Strangelove himself! This was the first movie introducing James Earl Jones, though he was in several TV shows before it.
The background music: "Try a Little Tenderness." Oh, that Kubrick! 😸
@@TheStockwell 😆👍
Have you ever noticed that the shadow that the B-52 throws on the landscape below in some of the shots is actually that of a B-17? They used an old surplus B-17 to get the background shots for the B-52 in flight, and Kubrick decided to leave it that way. LOL
@@iKvetch558 No, never notice it. Thanks! I'll pass that on to another Strangelove fan as his dad actually flew on a B-17 mission over Europe in WWII. He'd like to see that.
This film was and is known as a classic.
If you liked George C. Scott in this I recommend you add two other films to your list, Patton (1970) he won best actor, Anatomy of a Murder (1959) with Jimmy Stewart George C. Scott, and Lee Remick.
The President, Group Captain Mandrake, and Dr. Strangelove we’re all portrayed by Peter Sellers. Other Peter Seller’s movies to watch are Being There (1979), A Shot in the Dark (1964), and The Party (1968).
He's great in "Patton." That's the movie for which he refused to accept an Oscar.
Those films are great. Loved George C. Scott in the Changeling and as Donald Campbell as well. Such a great actor.
For those of us who grew up in that era, this was an everyday mind set.
That's why we dismiss many of todays worries.
The B-52 exteriors showing refueling are 100 percent military footage.
The shots during the opening credits are stock footage from the air force so all the planes are real. George C Scott is a great actor and you should check out "Patton". "Fail Safe" came out at the same time and is basically the same plot but too a serious tone.
Or go back earlier in George C Scott's career to 1959's ANATOMY OF A MURDER with Jimmy Stewart as defense attorney and George C as the prosecutor. The judge in that film is a real judge - the producers couldn't find the actor they wanted, and found this Real Judge hangin' around...
And check out a serious role for George C. Scott in "Anatomy of a Murder".
Peter Sellers plays Mandrake, the President and Dr. Strabgwkove. Check out Kubrick's crime thriller THE KILLING.
Robert, I think you need to come back and make an edit.
"The missile complex at Laputa". Laputa is a floating city from the novel "Gulliver's Travels".
I was probably 10 or 11 when I first saw this movie. I was too young to get a lot of what was going on, but I fully understood the basic plot, that we were going to accidentally bomb Russia and that they would retaliate. A 10 year old shouldn't be aware of that. Just goes to show how much the cold war was a part of the fabric of our culture at that time. However, I was already a huge Peter Sellers fan and saw it as a comedy.
When I was growing up in the 60s and 70s, when we did not have a way to rewatch movies, this movie was on ABC TV every year, so I've seen this movie many, many times. I think if you watch it more times you will find it funnier and funnier and you will begin to find other parts of the movie, other than the famous scenes, even more funny and noteworthy. You will also see the significance of the lyric at the end. I also like George C. Scott's work to be excellent! (Hey, excellent, you liked his work too!)
Brilliant reaction and post-film remarks, and you caught so much for your first viewing! Like here: 28:53 - Yes, the actor was breaking up at Peter Sellers (who was improvising much of Strangelove's bits)! My uncle saw this as a kid on the weekend it opened and he vividly remembers coming out of the theater deeply disturbed. Peter Sellers played three roles: Mandrake, the President and Dr. Strangelove!. Your next Kubrick movie? "Paths Of Glory" is incredible incredible incredible, a World War 1 film that is as serious as "Strangelove" is funny. Fantastic movie. "A Clockwork Orange" is dazzling, but intense and brutal, lots of sax and violins, if you know what I mean, so be warned! "Barry Lyndon" is beautiful, takes place in the early 1800s Europe. Those are the / I always say: 60s America in some way begins in November '63 when Kennedy gets shot, two months later Dr. Strangelove comes out....and a week later The Beatles arrive in the USA and usher in a new era, showing the buying power of the post-war baby boom, if nothing else. I've seen it said by Scorsese and others: after "Strangelove", Kubrick was the director to keep your eye on.
I definitely second the “Paths of Glory” recommendation. Kubrick directed Kirk Douglas again a few years later in “Spartacus” (1960). It was a really problematic production, though it was a huge success and won four Academy Awards. It’s a big part of the reason Kubrick relocated to England and never filmed in Hollywood again.
It’s worth mentioning that Peter Sellers was also in Kubrick’s “Lolita” (1962). “A Clockwork Orange” was the second Kubrick film I ever watched (the first being “Full Metal Jacket”). “Barry Lyndon” is like a living, breathing art collection. “2001: A Space Odyssey” took me a couple of tries to get through, but it’s definitely a must.
I suppose what I’m trying to say in so many words is that every Kubrick film is worth seeing sooner or later!
The In Flight refueling sequence during the opening credits are actual aircraft.
Major Kong's aircraft *IS* a model.
yeah awesome reaction. This is my favorite kubrick film to me - based off of what Daniel Ellsberg wrote (in his book the Doomsday Machine) it is the most realistic film he's produced. Ellsberg worked as a nuclear planner in the RAND corporation (satirized here as the bland corporation) and ALL of the scenarios presented in this movie were plausible and discussed at length there. What gets me most is the mousetrap logic of all of it, and how narrowly we escaped it in reality. Out of a thousand generals, one goes mad, and launches an attack - unknown to the pentagon he basically changes the password on the nuclear warheads under his control.
He makes a quick calculation that the president won't be able to guess the password - knowing that the calculus of mutually assured destruction will require total commitment, and because of that the soviets will most likely retaliate as soon as they see the planes. 99% of the time this would work, but the president takes a different course and is lucky enough to guess the password in time. But out of 34 planes, 1 has its radio malfunction, and the logic of the doomsday machine kicks in and we are all blown to bits. The only thing trying to save us - a bomb door that malfunctions - finally gives in to human machinations and fails to prevent our own destruction.
Its so elegant and so insane. Right down to the '10 females to each male' part - IF you were going to repopulate the earth, that's the way you'd do it. And of course the only way you'd get that working is if there was an in-group at the top that coordinated things and controlled everything in a dictatorial way - I interpret Dr. Strangelove getting up and walking at the end as the fulfillment of his nazi eugenics fantasy.
So what a movie. Up to the we'll meet again at the end it all gives me shivers. I saw this at the height of the cold war as a 15 year old in 1986 and it haunted my dreams for a year.
BTW - if you want the serious counterpart of this that shows the insane brutal logic post a nuclear war, watch Threads. Or not. I'm not sure I'm all that better off after watching it.
Threads IS really horrific.
Important to know that this came out just two years after we all came very close to being roasted in a global nuclear war. I grew up in a house that was built that year (1962), and it had a bomb shelter in the basement. Terrifying for everyone.
Fantastic movie that never stopped being relevant. Great reaction.
"Giant bazooka looking gun" is a Browning .30 caliber machine gun.
Also, American scientists created the nuclear bomb. Germany had no real nuclear weapons program, as Hitler had been advised that there was no way it could be ready in time to change the course of the war. This was correct, even applying resources far in excess of what the Nazis could manage the bomb was only available after the Nazis had already surrendered.
Check out the Manhattan Project for more information on the American nuclear weapons program, the Canadian program was called Tube Alloys.
Another reason Germany never got the bomb was because the Nazis rejected the necessary physics required to design and build them as "Jewish science."
You are the first reactor I have seen notice when Peter Bull (the actor playing the Ambassabor) breaks character, I would too if I was watching Peter Sellers' genius... You are right it was terrifying, the Cuban Bay of Pigs missil crisis happened in October 1962, I was born 2 months later, this movie and Sidney Lumet's serious approach "FailSafe" from the same year mean a lot to me.
(13:25) Was stationed on Vandenberg AFB back in the '70's. Everyone (military and civilian) chewed gum all the time in those days mostly to calm the nerves. Close proximity to nuclear weapons would tend to make a lot of folks nervous.
Mandrake: it's a medicinal plant, once thought to be useful to witches and alchemists. The superstition was that it was man-shaped and screamed when it was pulled from the ground. Since Mandrake the character may be the most sane person in the story, and who did finally find the code which .... almost .... saved everything, the name is a fairly good fit.
25:52 The wobbly back projection was because of the way they obtained the footage used for it; in that era it was extremely difficult if not impossible for civilians to access near-sonic or supersonic aircraft, so they attempted to simulate the effect by flying over suitable terrain in a slower-flying light aircraft whilst over-cranking the camera. It didn't work very well because if you just speed up footage of a slow vehicle, the motions appear to have unrealistically low inertia and so you get those very jerky rolls and yaws, but there was simply no other practical way to do it at the time.
I see I'm not the only one to recommend The Pink Panther series. Peter Sellers is so funny in those movies. If you're into classic movies, you'll love the Pink Panther series.
30:17 And also starring Peter Sellers, and Peter Sellers. :-)
They've already shown a scene with computers. Turdgison says it would take 2 1/2 DAYS to go through all the permutations of the 17,000 possible combinations of three-letter codes.
The title sequence was actual footage of B-52 refuling
Mandrake, President Muffley, and Dr. Strangelove were all the same actor, Peter Sellers. So there aren't that many players. He was also cast to play the B-52 commander, but broke his leg and couldn't maneuver around the cramped set.
2010 was made in 1984, Stanley Kubrick died in 1999. Kubrick was supposedly approached to do the film but he had no interest in doing a sequel, although co-author Arthur C. Clark co-wrote the screenplays to both movies.
During the intro to your reaction when you were choosing your lighting I was (internally) shouting at you "Desaturate! Desaturate!!!!" But I didn't notice exactly when you did that, just suddenly became aware that you did.
I was in elementary school at the time this movie came out. I still remember that we had bomb drills, doing our ridiculous "duck and cover" routine - like that was going to accomplish anything in case of a nuclear explosion.
How could you not show slim picking riding the bomb one of the most iconic scenes in movie history, besides that good reaction.
"Slim pickens" was a rodeo star LONG before he became a Movie Star. So the story goes.....Before he got into the rodeo business, he talked to a lady taking tickets at a nearby rodeo and asked her about the money he could make if he started riding broncos. It is said she told him: "Well most of the time the money is slim pickens". The rest is history.
The POINT of the radio is to show that there is NO attack on the US -- the radio stations, if functional, would not be broadcasting music. That tipss off Mandrake that there's a "problem".
BTW: Peter Sellers plays Mandrake, the President, and Dr. Strangelove.
Note Peter Sellers plays three roles. This is an awesome movie, and we’ll meet again, don’t know how, don’t know when, but I know we’ll meet again, some sunny day!
The disclaimer about characters not representing real people goes back to earliest films, and even print fiction novels.
The film is an illustration of the official policy agreed to between the US and USSR called "Mutually Assured Destruction" -- "MAD". See also "Fail Safe" for another take on the subject from the same year.
This was filmed right after the Cuban Missile Crises. Was going to be released Thanksgiving weekend 1963, but was pushed back for JFK's funeral. And the dubbed over the Good Time in Dallas line with Good Time in Las Vegas line.
The movie disclaimer has been standard practice since a lawsuit caused by a complaint about the 1932 movie "Rasputin and the Empress": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_persons_fictitious_disclaimer
If you have seen "Blazing Saddles", Kong, in the cowboy hat, was there. He was Taggart.
Dr. Strangelove, whose original surname is Merkwuerdigliebe, is commentary of the various German scientists who proved helpful in the US, and who were taken in despite their Nazi backgrounds.
(Ripper had an episode of impotence and decided to blame it on the Russians).
The Russian had a little camera in the shape of a watch, not a camera.
I really enjoyed your reaction, this film came out when I was a Senior in HS, it had the mixture of absurdity and dread that caused a reaction similar to yours, but more intense owing to the climate of the times. You show great insight claiming this was a warning, because that's precisely what it was, and is today. And because of the war in Ukraine and Putins' nuclear threats, it is just as disturbing and relevant today. Another great movie with George C. Scott is "The Hustler" which also stars Paul Newman and Jackie Gleason. This film should be shown in schools. Keep up the good work!
Cold War Fun Fact: Anti-aircraft surface-to-air missiles were nuclear weapons also. To take down groups of bombers with only a few missiles.
So were some air-to-air missiles.
George C Scott was other worldly in this. hysterical.
Other commentators have noted that FAIL SAFE (1964 with Peter Fonda and Walter Matthau) is very similar (same?) stories with a tragically more dramatic end. Highly recommended. Then in 1959's ON THE BEACH, we have a tale beginning after The End with the surviving world waiting for The Real End. This film is highly recommended, particularly if you're familiar with the happy-go-lucky, jaunty versions of the Aussie standard WALTZIN' MATILDA. Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner and a certain coke-bottle star. NOT A COMEDY.
That's Henry Fonda .... Peter is his Son.
I saw this movie on tv in the late 60s, I was around 12 yrs old. Forever colored my view of the world.
Both US and Soviet Air Defense missile systems during this time used small yield nuclear warheads to target bombers. This is why a missile explosion one or two miles away could damage or take down a bomber as shown in this film.
as Dr. Strangelove,Peter Sellers improvised most of his lines.
Set designers reconstructed the B-52 bomber's cockpit from a single photograph that appeared in a British flying magazine. When some American Air Force personnel were invited to view the movie's B-52 cockpit, they said it was a perfect copy.
john wayne was asked to play major kong but refused when he found about the political direction of the film.
You say you loved the actor that played Dr. Strange love and the actor that played The president, just to let you know they were both played by Peter Sellers
So was the British officer Mandrake.
He must know, or else he wouldn't have done the skit in the beginning.
The Vera Lynn song in the end is such punch in the face, at the same time hopeful and sad. The film is funnier with every re-watching with the sad elements falling wayside. And the titular character of Dr. Strangelove is a triumph of Peter Sellers' acting career, the satire of project Paperclip's import of confirmed Nazi scientists. Sellers performed a lot of improv while Stanly Kubrick just looked on with approval.
I suspect the inclusion of that particular song was in mockery of the mad, desperate hope so many people clung to at the time, that a full-scale global thermonuclear war would be somehow *survivable* by at least some semblance of civilisation; that the next war, no matter how horrific it was, would come and go as all previous wars throughout human history had done, up until WWII, and some kind of "normality" would eventually be resumed after a period of rebuilding.
Many more thoughtful people at the time, such as those who created this film, had reached a rather different conclusion; that thermonuclear weapons are simply so absurdly powerful, and so many had been amassed ready for immediate use by both sides, that they fundamentally change the rules, and it's simply insane to try to reason about them without at the very least *considering* the possibility, however remote, that they might just be capable of *ending humanity.*
@@tommcewan7936 I was old enough to vaguely understand the madness (11 yr. old at 1983 when Reagan took office and the KGB cast in Moscow was extra paranoid) and certainly old enough be gripped by existential dread of sudden death of all I know.
MAD was a very rational doctrine and got us through somehow, but its vulnerability was in its rationality. Any hasty mistake or rampant paranoia would render it irrelevant. And command and control was surprisingly sketchy, therefore delegation to field commanders, here Gen. Ripper. The satire in the film to me doesn't take away the seriousness of the scenario, rather drives in in through an alternate mental mechanism.
This movie is a satire of "Fail Safe" starring Henry Fonda also from 1964
The bit about fluoride is true though. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
What about some animated movies? I would love to see that.
I enjoyed the video. Doctor Strangelove is one of my favorite movies. I have seen it a dozen or more times. I hope that you watched the movie in its entirety because it is a very funny flick. I found it interesting to see the movie through the eyes of a younger person.
You missed a few points and skipped some of the funniest scenes and funniest lines.
The transistor radio that Mandrake found was just playing music. The point was that if nuclear war were imminent, it would be playing news and giving emergency instructions. Remember that in 1964 the Cuban Missile Crisis was a recent memory.
Fluoridation was supposed to be a public health measure to help prevent cavities in peoples’ teeth. This was similar to the idea of adding vitamin D to milk or iodine to salt. It was controversial for some time.
I think that the reading of the survival kit was one of the funniest scenes. The size of the book was not the point. The funny part was that it was a combination Bible and Russian phrase book. The kit also contained one .45 automatic, $100 in rubles, $100 in gold, three pairs of nylons,(for barter) one prophylactic, pain pills, pep pills, and sleeping pills. Then Slim Pickens remarks, “A feller could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff”.
General Turgidson’s secretary was on the cover of the Playboy magazine that Major Kong was reading while flying the plane.
Point of history, German Scientist had no part in the Manhattan Project. You are thinking about our rocket program after the war. There was a project Paperclip where we brought in German scientists to help us use captured V2 missiles and help develop them into more advanced missiles. The Russians did the same thing.
The best line in the movie was the president saying, “You can’t fight in here, this is the war room”
Dr. Strangelove was obviously an ex-Nazi. His idea was to take a big group of people especially scientists, political and military leaders along with many beautiful women into deep mines. These mines could be powered with nuclear reactors to grow crops and raise animals. He figured that they would have to stay in these mines for 100 years. He calculated that if there were 10 women for each man they could repopulate the world in about 20 years.
The Russian dooms day machine didn’t explode and instantly kill everyone. It spread a radioactive cloud around the world.
Dr. Strangelove was a parody of a serious movie, “Fail Safe”. If you are disturbed by Dr. Strangelove you will really be disturbed by “Fail Safe”
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James Earl Jones Was also in another Nuclear Doomsday movie "By the dawns early light" (1990)
I saw parts of this on television but hoped to see the entire movie on the big screen in a revival theater! There are so many satirical bits in this I wouldn't have appreciated when I was younger before I learned about the fatuous scenarios and contingencies people in goverment come up with rather than just avoiding the obvious!
I remember seeing this movie as a kid back in the 60s when it first came out. Out of the entire movie the scene that I vividly remember to this day was when the pilot (Slim Pickens) rides that nuclear bomb down. The whole theater broke out laughing.
Also I once read that the scene where Dr. Strangelove is pounding on his arm the actors behind him were cracking up. Don't know how many takes they did before they got it right but you saw that one actor behind him trying not to laugh.
That part where the arm is turning the wheel of his chair so he's facing 90 degrees to the right, at least for me, is the funniest shot in the movie. Everyone in the room seems to be oblivious to it...and the camera just keeps on rolling watching his struggle, long after one would think they would have stopped the shot. GENIUS!
I would love to see more reactions to Kubrick's "Barry Lyndon". Maybe my favorite movie of his.
Just so you know, there are plenty of safeguards in place for this to never ever happen. This is a comedy of absurdity.
Fun Fact: In the early 1960s the B-52 was cutting-edge technology. Access to it was a matter of national security. The Pentagon refused to lend any support to the film after they read the script. Set designers reconstructed the B-52 bomber's cockpit from a single photograph that appeared in a British flying magazine. When some American Air Force personnel were invited to view the movie's B-52 cockpit, they said it was a perfect copy. Stanley Kubrick feared that Ken Adam's production design team had used illegal methods and could be investigated by the FBI.
It’s important to note that those safeguards are in place *now*, they weren’t back then.
@@wackyvorlon When JFK took office, he asked about the chain of command preventing a nuclear strike from being called by someone impersonating a president or by a president who was mentally unbalanced. He learned there weren't any safeguards of the kind. So, he had that fixed. I believe no single person, including, the president, can order a nuclear strike. The president can ask for one, but it has to be approved by the Joint Chiefs of Staff - the military who would have to carry out the directive. Or so I recall. 🤔
actually, no. In reality things were less safe at the time. daniel ellsberg, who who worked at the RAND corporation and studied these things consulting for the pentagon - and afterwards wrote a book titled 'The Doomsday Machine' about his experiences - went to Dr Strangelove and swore afterwards that he had seen a documentary.
@@TheStockwell
The President of the United States has total authority to launch a nuclear strike
'while only the president can order the release of nuclear weapons, the order must be verified by the secretary of defense to be an authentic order given by the president. This verification process deals solely with verifying that the order came from the actual president. The secretary of defense has no veto power and must comply with the president's order.'
Fly low too avoid radar . But uses up fuel faster
This dark absurdist comedy was released two years after the near deadly Cuban missile crisis. We lived in this daily dread of mutually assured destruction (MAD).
James Earl Jones's first movie role. I had to say that since you have a Star Wars poster in the background.
And then this will blow your mind, there's a movie called The Strange Love of Martha Ivers.
Glad you liked the movie, If you have not seen _2001: A Space Odyssey_ yet, try to see it in 70mm on the biggest screen possible. You'll probably like it, but if you see it in 70mm, it may change your entire outlook.
2010 was made in 1984. Kubrick died in 1999. He gave his seal of approval.
The German scientists did not develop the bombs, rather they developed the missiles that delivered the bombs (and sent us to the moon, as well).
Another reason for "Strangelove" is that the characters are always conflating war with sexuality and virility.
The intro credits are very sexually suggestive.
Peter Sellers played Mandrake, Strangelove, and the president
Another classic 1955 THE LADYKILLERS
Great reaction to DR STRANGELOVE
You just have to admire the audacity of the pose when most people reflexively pretend that they wouldn't enjoy having a planet to repopulate. I mean multiplying is the one thing that almost all human beings are good at.
so much to talk about this amazing film. Never heard of it till my boss lent me the VHS. One of the greatest historical ironies of his film is that the actor who played Ripper was actually a member of the Communist party and run out of Hollywood during the Red Scare
Sterling Hayden was a great actor and had a fascinating life, check his Wiki.
PS, love that you set your own video to B&W, you are getting the mood
A movie about a general who attacks the Soviets because he can’t get it up anymore.. There’s nothing more hilarious than that..
Speaking of chewing gum, lipstick and pantyhose... When I was studying German as a teen our age old teacher how she went interrailing across Soviet Union with her friends...
Apparently if you had chewing gum, lipstick, pantyhoses or even ballpoint pens the people treated you like royalty as those were considered luxuries only the rich could enjoy.
The Soviet premier is drunk; the base is being invaded in order to get the recall.
It's not that I want to be critical, but...the camera angle is what clued you in that General Jack Ripper is nuts? Did you miss the part where he was talking about "our bodily fluids?"
I was in the first grade in '61-'62 during the Cuban Missile Crisis. We would have nuclear attack drills. We had to kneel on the floor under our desks and cover our heads. Sometimes they would load us on a bus and drive around for a little while before returning us to our classes.
Okay I have 2 more movie suggestions for you: First- watch "Fail Safe" also from 1964 which is almost like a deadlier serious version of "Dr. Strangelove" and is an awesome movie- Second: you need to watch Kubrick's Vietnam epic "Full Metal Jacket"...........
btw, jack d. ripper is a perfect name for his character IMO not only because he is a serial killer, but because he is a *sexual deviant* serial killer. Just like the real-life counterpart, THIS jack d. ripper kills because he basically can't get it up and looks at violence as another way out of his sexual impotence. The whole time he is chomping on that phallic cigar and shooting that phallic machine-gun til the point that the cigar is spent (shortened) and the machine-gun is empty (out of bullets).
I love this movie. Its one of the few that overtly shows the insane logic of an out-of-control system and the price we all could pay for its dysfunciton.
You should react to Threads (1984).
Or The War Game (1966) which is similar to Threads but made only a whisker later than this film.
Check out "Network" with Willian Holden and Faye Dunaway. Great movie!
You have your history mixed up. The development of the atomic bomb in America during WWII was not done by German Nazi scientists brought over to do that work.
You are thinking of the development of rockets for ballistic missiles and for space exploration, for which both the U.S. and the Soviet Union brought over German Nazi scientists that they each had captured at the end of WWII.
In the case of the development of the atomic bomb, the Americans were in a race against the Nazis in Germany during WWII, which started in 1939.
The following scientists were involved in the project to develop the atomic bomb in America during WWII, called The Manhattan Project:
- J. Robert Oppenheimer (an American and the scientific leader of the project)
- Edward Teller (a Hungarian-born American who came to the U.S. in 1935)
- Leo Szilard (a Hungarian-born American who left Berlin to escape the Nazis in 1933, eventually coming to America in 1937)
- Enrico Fermi (an Italian-born American who came to America in 1938)
- Hans Bethe (a German-born American who left Germany to escape the Nazis in 1933, eventually coming to America in 1935)
- Ernest O. Lawrence (American)
- Klaus Fuchs (a German who left Germany to escape the Nazis in 1933, and became a British citizen in 1942, but he was also a spy who delivered atomic secrets to the Soviet Union)
- Glenn Seaborg (American)
- Otto Frisch (an Austrian who left Austria before WWII, first to work in Denmark, then in Britain, and then in Los Alamos, NM)
- Niels Bohr (a Dane)
- Felix Bloch (Swiss-born American who became an American citizen in 1939)
- James Franck (a German-born American who went to Denmark in 1933 to escape the Nazis, and came to America in 1935)
- Emilio Segrè (Italian-born American who came to America in 1938 and became an American citizen in 1944)
- John von Neumann (Hungarian-born American who first came to America in 1929 and who relinquished his German academic posts in 1933 when the Nazis came to power)
American scientists developed nuclear fission and thus the bomb, but German scientists were way ahead in missile delivery systems (rockets), so former Nazi party members who were scientists were excused from facing consequences. They were used by the US and USSR for the space race and missile development.
In a film of stand-out performances where Peter Sellers plays three different roles, I think George C. Scott's performance is the best of his career, even though Kubrick essentially tricked him into doing it over the top.
The device the Russian ambassador is using at the end is a camera
You were a little off on the timing of German scientist immigration and the development of nuclear weapons. There is a movie coming out in 2023 called "Oppenheimer" about the lead scientist in its development. (Other older movies have also covered the subject of bomb development.)
Thank you for this reaction. Please react to more Kubrick films.
They were mostly Hungarian and Austrian Jews. You’re thinking about Werner von Braun others who basically invented modern rockets and missiles.
Well done! You got it! Hats off!
Peter Sellers play Dr Strangelove, the president, and the Group Captain.