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The Making of Dr. Strangelove (2013) [video]
- xamuel 4y agoKubrick films often have "once-you-see-it-you-can't-unsee-it" easter eggs. In Strangelove there's an amazing one: the big circular table in the war room (with the circular lights above it) looks like a mushroom cloud if you squint at it right. Bonus "can't-unsee-it" in the title itself: Strangelove = Strangle + Glove
- sidcool 4y agoMy all time favorite movie. First time I watched it i was floored. And the technical aspects are also cool. I read somewhere that the details were so spot on that military had investigated Kubrick if stealing defence secrets
- Synaesthesia 4y agoMight just be the greatest movie of all time, certainly my favourite too. I read recently that it was kind of the "Big Lebowski" of it's generation, with tons of quotable quotes, eg "You're gonna have to answer to the coco-cola company"
- mads 4y agoYou are right. I personally enjoyed the quote "No fighting in the war room".
- WalterBright 4y agoMajor Bat Guano
- euroderf 4y agoWasn't that his nickname ? Perhaps his given name was Bartholomew.
- dvh 4y agoNothing beats "Mein fuhrer, I can walk!"
- sidcool 4y agoTBH I find Big Lebowski bit overrated compared to the other greats. It's a nice movie, no doubt, but not in the same league as Strangelove or Goodfellas or Godfather.
- JKCalhoun 4y agoYou reminded me of "One, Two, Three" another awesome Cold War farce (that I recommend). https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055256/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055256/
- dekhn 4y agoYes, under appreciated film today.
- gandalfgreybeer 4y agoThe military secrets thing is at 10:46 of the video in case you’re interested. Not much details but I still found it interesting.
- preisschild 4y agoI believe it was due to the interior of the B-52. Very similar to the real thing if you look at photos now.
- js2 4y agoFun fact: Fail Safe was released the same year as Dr. Strangelove by the same studio. Directed by Sidney Lumet, it’s also about nuclear war. It’s a fine movie in its own right. From the Wikipedia: > Fail Safe so closely resembled Peter George's novel Red Alert, on which Dr. Strangelove was based, that Dr. Strangelove screenwriter/director Stanley Kubrick and George filed a copyright infringement lawsuit. The case was settled out of court. The result of the settlement was that Columbia Pictures, which had financed and was distributing Dr. Strangelove, also bought Fail Safe, which had been an independently financed production. Kubrick insisted that the studio release his movie first.
- Synaesthesia 4y agoFunny how movie studios seem to make similar movies at the same time. Remember when a few different movies about Mars came out at the same time?
- Stratoscope 4y agoOr Armageddon and Deep Impact: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armageddon_(1998_film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armageddon_(1998_film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Impact_(film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Impact_(film) > Deep Impact was released in the same summer as a similarly themed film, Armageddon, which fared better at the box office, while astronomers described Deep Impact as being more scientifically accurate.
- lostgame 4y agoAlso ‘Volcano’ / ‘Dante’s Peak’ and ‘A Bug’s Life’ / ‘Antz’
- ggambetta 4y agoOr The Matrix and The 13th Floor!
- oblib 4y agoI think I saw that the first time when I was about 11 years old, so around 1970. Before that I grew up watching the TV show "Combat" and show like that were all I really knew about our Military. I was stunned at how they portrayed the insanity and ineptitude of our Military Officers and politicians. They made it look so crazy and believable at the same time. But what was really stunning was someone had the balls to make it. In that same sort of genre Kelsey Grammer in "The Pentagon Wars" (1998) is pretty good too. I haven't watched either of those for a long time but think about it now and then.
- oriettaxx 4y agowas he Henry Kissinger? no, https://www.newscientist.com/letter/mg18224505-100-the-real-dr-strangelove/ https://www.newscientist.com/letter/mg18224505-100-the-real-... but he really looks like :)
- bmitc 4y agoThis is probably in the posted video at some point, but George C. Scott was a serious actor who Kubrick talked into starting a scene with a few silly and ridiculous takes to warm up and that the real takes would be the later ones. In typical Kubrick fashion, he used the silly takes in the final edit. https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB110055719231074627 https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB110055719231074627 Kubrick is one of the most manipulative directors I have ever read about. He's a genius for sure, but I can't imagine he was much fun to work for as an actor.
- scaredginger 4y agoYeah, I feel really bad for what Shelley Duvall went through, Kubrick was a maniac by the sounds of it. The Shining is a masterpiece all the same though
- Someone 4y agoFrom that WSJ article: “Stanley was unfailingly polite and even-tempered on the set. After every take that didn't work, even the 100th, he would say nothing more than "Let's try that again." Of course, it was also true that Stanley was a control freak of the highest order and ran his set more like a dictator than a director. He treated actors as if they were technical elements in his design, not as creative professionals like himself.” Another glimpse of how working with Kubrick was: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/stanley-kubrick-a-director-who-didn-t-care-how-many-takes-it-took-8277931.html https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/featu... (“If you did a film with Stanley, you were married to him. There was nothing else in your life.”) I don’t think anybody could direct a movie the way Kubrick did today. They would be canceled before the shoot (which would be long. That reference to the 100th take above may not have been an exaggeration. Kubrick is in the Guinness book of world records for doing 148 takes of a scene in “the Shining”. See https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/74583-most-retakes-for-one-scene-with-dialogue https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/74583-mos...) was over. On the other hand, Elon Musk seems to get away with being very manipulative and demanding of his personnel.
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- MichaelMoser123 4y agoI keep wondering about them using the song by Vera Lynn in the final scene: "We'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when". When and where exactly were they supposed to meet? In a fallout shelter? In the afterlife?
- amiga386 4y agoI'm fairly certain it's ironic juxtaposition. We'll Meet Again was a massively popular wartime song, sweetly sentimental, asking people to keep their spirits up, giving them hope their loved ones will come back after the war and all will be OK. The montage of explosions is a visual bombardment with a diametrically opposed message. It's the perfect combination.
- chriswarbo 4y agoIt would not be difficult, M̶e̶i̶n̶ ̶F̶ü̶h̶r̶e̶r̶ @MichaelMoser123! > I would not rule out the chance to preserve a nucleus of human specimens. It would be quite easy...heh, heh...at the bottom of ah...some of our deeper mineshafts. Radioactivity would never penetrate a mine some thousands of feet deep, and in a matter of weeks, sufficient improvements in dwelling space could easily be provided. https://www.quotes.net/mquote/112469 https://www.quotes.net/mquote/112469
- DrNosferatu 4y agoOne of my favorite films of all time - seen it as a kid of 8 and loved it already. After, the additional meanings started to trickle-in as I rewatched it getting older. Peter Sellers is pure genius x3... (he was supposed to have EVEN more characters, but Kubrick finnaly settled on 3) "Precious bodily fluids"... and so many more... Legend has it that Slim Pickens ("Maj. Kong", the B52 commander) was playing his character straight and not told that the film was in fact a comedy during the whole shoot. PS: Couldn't help myself enough to the "Ms. International Affairs" pun while in Erasmus.
- DrNosferatu 4y agoI guess a more recent film is almost impossible to make you feel the same "feeling" again when watching it. But close calls I would say would be: - Wag the Dog (1997) - In the Loop (2009) [the closest, in my opinion] PS: The Death of Stalin (2017) and Don't Look Up (2021) also try, but I think they don't manage to get that close. I would also say that Coen brother's works, also of high quality and appealing to a similar-minded crowd, though are completely different animals.
- DrNosferatu 4y agoPurely sociological question: - Is it me or, the..."magic" of Dr. Strangelove appeals mostly to us men? Or are there any women also quite enjoying it?
- thakoppno 4y agoIn some previous article/thread on Dr. Strangelove someone mentioned it was his wife’s favorite movie. The posted video mentions there’s only a single female role in the film, Tracy Reed as Miss Scott, General Turgidson's secretary and mistress.
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- BirAdam 4y agoDr Strangelove is my favorite film. Absolutely hilarious, and also a good satire on the actual views of some at the time.
- danielodievich 4y ago"You can't fight in here, gentlemen, this is the War Room!"
- candiddevmike 4y agoGeneral Ripper would fit right in today if you replaced Russia with the "Deep State".
- thakoppno 4y agoSterling Hayden, who plays General Ripper, kind of steals the show for me in Dr. Strangelove. There are other top notch performances but I’ve always loved his scenes with Sellers as the RAF officer trying to reason with his madness. The film is my favorite and George C. Scott deserves a ton of credit too. Slim Pickens is incredible as well. If there’s one character that is a bit over-the-top for me it’s Dr. Strangelove himself. It’s a close call but I wonder if the film could still work without some of the mein furher, involuntarily nazi salute stuff.
- pdonis 4y ago> I wonder if the film could still work without some of the mein furher, involuntarily nazi salute stuff. That part is funnier if you recognize that the main real life person that Dr Strangelove was a spoof of was Wernher von Braun. (For more insight into the joke, listen to Tom Lehrer's song about Wernher von Braun.)
- pdpi 4y agoLehrer's song about von Braun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjDEsGZLbio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjDEsGZLbio Also topical, his song about nuclear apocalypse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frAEmhqdLFs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frAEmhqdLFs