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Dr Strangelove at 60: is this still the greatest big-screen satire?
The Guardian ^ | 01/29/2024 | Scott Tobias

Posted on 01/29/2024 11:02:04 AM PST by Responsibility2nd

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To: Responsibility2nd

Life imitates art.............................


41 posted on 01/29/2024 11:57:27 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Neanderthal

Slim Pickins mouth says “Dallas” but he says “Vegas”. After the Kennedy assassination, Pickins was flown to NYC to dub that one word. Up to that time, it was the most expensive overdub in movie history.


42 posted on 01/29/2024 11:58:40 AM PST by DFG
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To: Responsibility2nd

“Dr Strangelove at 60: is this still the greatest big-screen satire?”

Satire? I thought it was a documentary!


43 posted on 01/29/2024 12:02:56 PM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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To: Fiji Hill

Oh, I love her version of “We’ll Meet Again”!

Although I may never be able to hear it without visualizing the Baker bomb exploding underwater...


44 posted on 01/29/2024 12:03:54 PM PST by rlmorel ("The stigma for being wrong is gone, as long as you're wrong for the right side." (Clarice Feldman))
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To: Responsibility2nd

The B-52 cockpit setup and bombing run procedure were so accurate the FBI supposedly asked Kubrick some troubling questions.


45 posted on 01/29/2024 12:13:00 PM PST by Demiurge2 (Define your terms!)
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To: Yo-Yo
Slim Pickens was genius in the movie.

Peter Sellers was supposed to play Major Kong along with his other roles. There are varying stories on how he was replaced. Either Sellers was not happy with his attempt at portraying a Texas cowboy and relented, or he was injured during the production and was not able to perform the scene where Kong releases the bomb from the plane.

In any case, Kubrick asked his casting director to find him a real cowboy, and Slim Pickens showed up. Some of the cast members thought Pickens was in some sort of cowboy costume, with boots, cowboy hat, and the whole get up. But it was just the way he was!

46 posted on 01/29/2024 12:13:54 PM PST by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: dfwgator

“The situation is hopeless, but not serious!”

“Is everybody in the world corrupt?”

— “I don’t know everybody.”

We love Billy Wilder’s “One, Two Three.” It’s one of our favorites.


47 posted on 01/29/2024 12:17:40 PM PST by fabjr60 ("I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered! My life is my own.")
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To: Responsibility2nd

60 years ago. And James Earl Jones is still around to remember his role in that film!


48 posted on 01/29/2024 12:20:18 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: Responsibility2nd

and possibly make it from there to the Tango Delta weather ship.


49 posted on 01/29/2024 12:25:59 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I thought Tim Bultron’s ‘Mars Attacks’ was the greatest satire film.


50 posted on 01/29/2024 12:27:35 PM PST by ABStrauss (I miss Rush! )
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To: ABStrauss

I thought Tim Bultron’s ‘Mars Attacks’ was the greatest satire film.


Just for the blowing up Congress scene alone.


51 posted on 01/29/2024 12:28:36 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Even during the Cuban missile crisis both sides still communicated diplomatically. Nowadays with the Biden administration, everything is either our way or the bomb bay.


52 posted on 01/29/2024 12:42:12 PM PST by Karl Spooner
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To: Responsibility2nd

Stanley Kubrick’s best film by far was the moon landings!


53 posted on 01/29/2024 12:43:48 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Doctor Zhivago Had better music it lulled me to sleep when I was a baby


54 posted on 01/29/2024 12:45:22 PM PST by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Oh God. You really believe your moose/cheese/sister delusions, don’t you?


55 posted on 01/29/2024 12:48:57 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: CaptainK

You must be one of those apologists for the Coca Cola company.

We will have to report you to them.

Lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUAK7t3Lf8s


56 posted on 01/29/2024 12:51:22 PM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

It predicted we would be ruled by “preverts”.

Lol.


57 posted on 01/29/2024 12:53:42 PM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: rlmorel

“It is an anti-war movie. Disrespectful to the military. Full of stereotypes. I absolutely love the movie. Just brilliant.
And I know a lot of military/ex-military folks who feel as I do!”

This retired pilot loves the movie. And I hate/loathe/spit upon, and hope to take a bodacious dump on the graves of today’s military “leaders”.


58 posted on 01/29/2024 12:55:04 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Ge0ffrey

You were supposed to hate every single character. That was part of the point.


59 posted on 01/29/2024 12:55:50 PM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: Responsibility2nd

...And the B-52 in that movie still is a major part of our strategic nuclear deterrent. Not sure how to feel about that.


60 posted on 01/29/2024 12:57:33 PM PST by Wildbill22 (They have us surrounded again, the poor bastards- Gen Creighton William Abrams)
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