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> 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 r
by 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
- arethuza 4y agoI think Dr Strangelove was a mixture of Herman Kahn, John von Neumann, Edward Teller and von Braun: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Strangelove https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Strangelove
- pdonis 4y agoYes, but based on the Kubrick quote in that section of the Wikipedia article, von Braun was the main one; and von Braun is the obvious one for the "mein Fuhrer", etc., of Strangelove to be a spoof of.
- abecedarius 4y agoYes, but for my part I still thought that bit went over the top. (Still, Kubrick was my fave director. Can't win 'em all.)