Dr. Strangelove was also Stanley Kubrick's critique of the several German Nazi scientists who worked in the US government after the war.
Incredibly, Uniparty, DC seems to be full of Buck Turgidsons clamoring for the opportunity of nuclear war toe to toe with the Ruskies again. Perhaps last Tuesday puts the nuclear genie back in the bottle.
If you have not watched this movie, do yourself a favor. It’s terrific.
Win or lose, the Americans of the past knew that they would rather die on their feet than live on their knees.
Peter Sellers final scene playing a Henry Kissinger type character is the funniest scene ever.
“...a US Air Force general who goes insane and orders his bombers to destroy the Soviet Union...”
Sounds like Vicky Nuland’s father.
Man from Uncle - So Long, Mom, I’m Off to Drop the Bomb - Tom Lehrer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGrNCn4roe0
Blakes 7 - We’ll All Go Together - Tom Lehrer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMixeJSlBNQ
One of the best films ever made, as a child I saw it and didn’t get the satire woven into the movie
Jack Ripper
Who carries loose change into combat
There will be no fighting in the war room
Las Vegas
As I got older the movie became much more poignant. There is a lot of satire , but also truth woven throughout the movie
The wiki page on this movie is one of the most extensive I have ever looked at
Yeehaw
If a person was/is in the nuclear weapons business it is mandatory to have this movie as one of your top five favorites.
The premier was delayed because the engineers hired to design the B-52 cockpit set were so close the Air Force started an investigation to see if any classified design documents had been compromised.
One of my personal top 10. Right up there with Blazing Saddles.
We'll Meet Again--Vera Lynn (1953)
Try a Little Tenderness--Eddy Duchin & His Central Park Casino Orchestra (1933)
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Wonderful movie!
General Jack D. Ripper: Fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face.
General Jack D. Ripper: Mandrake, do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk... ice cream. Ice cream, Mandrake, children’s ice cream.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: [very nervous] Lord, Jack.
General Jack D. Ripper: You know when fluoridation first began?
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: I... no, no. I don’t, Jack.
General Jack D. Ripper: Nineteen hundred and forty-six. 1946, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It’s incredibly obvious, isn’t it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That’s the way your hard-core Commie works.
The Dr Strangelove character was loosely based on Herman Kahn.
Kahn was a physicist who worked for RAND and the Hudson Institute. He had written “On Nuclear War” a book about how to increase survivabilty in the event a nuclear war.
Fluoridation.
Invading our precious bodily fluids.
Even the very name of it. “Strangelove” when discussing our love for the bomb. Kubrick was a genius.
Is RFKjr really General Jack D. Ripper in disguise? RFK is concerned about flouridation and ‘purity of essence’..just sayin’ - I am joking.
One of the best movies ever :)