Posted on 01/30/2025 5:02:26 AM PST by Kid Shelleen
As Stanley Kubrick's satirical masterpiece Dr Strangelove turns 60, an ongoing mystery endures: who was the real-life inspiration for his demonic central character?
In 1999, a reporter from Scientific American asked the 91-year-old physicist Edward Teller whether it was true that he had been the real-life template for Dr Strangelove, the chilling scientific adviser played by Peter Sellers in Stanley Kubrick's movie Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
Rumours had been circulating ever since the movie's release on 29 January 1964
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Paths of Glory is another great Kubrick film.
If you haven’t noticed the film makes fun of the commies too!
Premier Kissoff?
Alexei de Sadeski?
President Merkin Muffley wasn’t a hard-line conservative, more a confused moderate if anything.
Yeah it makes fun of military stereotypes but you cannot do the oppose. At least not to make it humorous.
I think you need to see it with fresh eyes.
Yes! Definitely!!
“ I love Monty Python and The Holy Grail, and nearly every woman I know dislikes or openly hates it!)”
I know what you mean. I’m a woman and I love the holy grail. We were watching some of it tge other day. When Eric idle is the guard to the prince at the wedding the prince’s father instructs him not to let the prince out (the prince’s father doesn’t want to get married)
“Right! You leave us here and we bring the prince and follow you. If…if..,ah if youxxk
Women don’t get Python, it’s the same with The Three Stooges.
One major point of the movie was that nuclear weapons are dangerous for many reasons—but one of them is the very real danger that at any given time both the leaders of the Soviet Union and the US could be nutty as a fruit cake.
Biden was a wonderful example of that danger.
Not coffee, soup!
And “cigars!”
Hackman was a RIOT !
The After Dinner Cigar was Brilliant.
“We laughed merrily every time we came up with one...boys will be boys!”
I’m a hs teacher. A woman. This is that tenth grade boy lunch room humor. Who is funnier than a bunch of 10th grade boys with no girls around?
“ Women don’t get Python, it’s the same with The Three Stooges.”
Again, I am a woman and I totally get Python. I’m a New Yorker. In HS it was some of the girls who told me about it
Here in flyover Among military wives whom I am very at home with, no. The do not get Python
The stooges, I’ll cop to that. No. Not a fam
No one beats Sterling Hayden as General Jack D. Ripper giving his insane speeches to Group Captain Mandrake.
Barry Lyndon
I just remember the Mad Magazine parody “Borey Lyndon.”
Absolutely 10th grade boy humor, which made us laugh all the harder!
We would introduce it into contrived interviews:
INTERVIEWER: I’m interviewing Vasily Bitcher-Cock-off...
VASILY: It’s BITCHER-ka-kov! Dammit!
For years, I didn’t even realize that was him!
I know-it has been years, but I had purchased a copy recently and have to go back and watch it!
On a side note, back in the Nineties, my brother and his wife took ten kids (ten!!!) into their small two room in house apartment on my parents house and raised them for over a year.
It was a sad thing.
My brother's sister-in-law wasn't really competent to raise all those kids, and the Greek guy who impregnated her took off with all their money and went back to Greece, never to be seen again. The house and the kids (all with completely Greek names like Socrates and such) were in a sorry state, and Child Protective Services were going to put them in a foster home so my brother and wife took them in. They ranged from about four years old up to 14 IIRC at the time.
All boys, too.
An amazing act, in my eyes.
Anyway, I was visting one day, and looking out the second story window at the kids, all of them running around doing strange things and singing in unison (poorly) something, and I couldn't quite make out what it was.
They had their arms fully extended, spinning around in place, running to and fro, and it looked vaguely familiar...then it hit me.
They were ALL doing this!!!!
Now, this was more than 20 years after the film was released! It made me suspect there was something in the movie that appealed particularly to little boys!
I know-I remember that, he was excoriated for it and tried explaining, but I think he just gave up!
Only Mel Brooks could have put it in just that way and gotten away with it, I was grinning as I pictured it in my mind!
A lot of his stuff is corny and sappy (except Blazing Saddles!) but...I still find much of it entertaining!
“It’s good to be King!” or “Clap! Clap! Piss Boy!”
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