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The famous B52 cockpit - From wikipedia: > Lacking cooperation from the Pentagon in the making of the film, the set designers reconstructed the aircraft cockpi
by wisty 2y ago
The famous B52 cockpit - From wikipedia:
> Lacking cooperation from the Pentagon in the making of the film, the set designers reconstructed the aircraft cockpit to the best of their ability by comparing the cockpit of a B-29 Superfortress and a single photograph of the cockpit of a B-52 and relating this to the geometry of the B-52's fuselage. The B-52 was state-of-the-art in the 1960s, and its cockpit was off-limits to the film crew. When some United States Air Force personnel were invited to view the reconstructed B-52 cockpit, they said that "it was absolutely correct, even to the little black box which was the CRM."[17] It was so accurate that Kubrick was concerned about whether Adam's team had carried out all its research legally.[17]
Also IIRC it was the inspiration for the Situation Room. The President asked why Kubric could get a big room with all the screens to deal with a crisis, and he didn't have one.
- _yb2s 2y ago“Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!”
- nmg 2y ago"He'll see everything! ... He'll see the big board!"
- myrmidon 2y agoConditional support for movie production (by the US military) is highly unethical in my view (even though, pragmatically speaking, it is likely a "good" investment of tax dollars...).
- sparky_z 2y agoSource for that last fact? I was curious which president, so I looked it up and the creation of the Situation Room was ordered by JFK who was assassinated before the movie was even released.
- wisty 2y agoYou're right, Reagan did ask where the war room was though, thinking it was real.