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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It kind of adds an irony to Mama do you think they’ll drop the bomb from Pink Floyd’s The Wall which also featured the song Vera as an ironic indictment because Pink’s father never did come home.
I’m not sure you’re in the minority; in fact I think I’m Free Republic you’re pretty much in the clear majority. I think you’d only be in the minority if you were hanging out with a bunch of communist English majors, like pretty much every movie reviewer.
I watched The Jerk upon initial release one snowy day in college. One of the few ‘snow’ days when they actually cancelled classes.
I thought it was hilarious. Then Steve Martin started doing really bad movies (the Sgt Bilko one comes to mind).
I ended up with a copy of The Jerk on DVD at one point and decided to give it a re-watch. It is brilliant and hilarious.
The shadow the B-52 is casting on the snow is of a B-17.
I ended up with a copy of The Jerk on DVD at one point and decided to give it a re-watch. It is brilliant and hilarious.
Did it come with “The Absent-Minded Waiter”? That was hilarious, too.
I bet you’re a real blast at parties.
Father reading from letter:
“...and next week I will be able to send more money because she said that she is going to give me a blow job...”
(Family laughs)
It does.
I used to love Pink Floyd, but I went to a Roger Waters concert back around 2004, and it made me so angry I really haven’t been able to enjoy Pink Floyd music since then.
I went with about ten friends, and I knew who Roger Waters was, but had no inkling of what kind of person he was. I just liked Pink Floyd, I had never been one to get fixated on the lives and interests of celebrities.
So, it was a real surprise to me to be subjected to several hours of that absolute BS. His whole “performance” was an anti-American multi-media show.
I was so steaming mad, but...I didn’t want to ruin it for everyone else, so I just sat there or walked around the venue, but it wasn’t like you could get away from the sights or sounds anywhere.
I haven’t listened to “The Wall” in probably 20 years but...I have been persuaded that Pink Floyd wasn’t entirely Roger Waters.
Watch it again, lol, it is full of subtle stuff
Like “there’s no fighting in the war room”
Col Jack Ripper.
Saw it as a kid and thought it was a serious movie(which it is but missed the satire), since then it ranks up with holy grail for a movie that I watch and see new stuff every time
Just my 2 cents
It’s a satire. It makes fun of people who had their fangs out
The tone, photography, settings were serious and believable. Peter sellers plays three different main characters. That’s straight faced comedy. Scott is hilarious. The lines are sublime. ‘Gentlemen! You can’t fight in here! Theis is the war room!”
Of course it’s a stupid movie. Don’t watch it.
But many enjoy it. Some people enjoy the stupidity
I have to work with illogical people all day. I find it comforting to watch stupidity get mocked.
“Lord loves a working man...Don’t trust Whitey.....See a doctor and get rid of it.”
He totally got Buck Turgison. The Secretary with the PR on the phone. “I don’t give a crap who the hell that is I’m not taking that call”
“Yes. It seems the General has been detained momentarily.”
Yep. It was 1964 and annihilation via the bomb was on everybody’s mind. Dr. Strangelove was comic relief. “A fella could have a pretty good weekend in Las Vegas with this stuff.” Slim Pickens was always one of my favorites.
“Mandrake, have you ever seen a Commie drink a glass of water ?”
‘Premier Kissov’
Come on that’s comedy
“Dimitri, Dimitri. Wel… Dmitri…How do you think I feel about this?”
“A fella could have a pretty good weekend in Las Vegas with this stuff.” Slim Pickens was always one of my favorites.
“What in the wide, wide world of sports is a-goin’ on here? I hired you people to get a bit of track laid, not to jump around like a bunch of Kansas City faggots!”
Did you notice the silhouette of the 52? It’s a B17.that A/C being filmed was CIAs aircraft from what I was told
In order to appreciate the film (and it’s Producer/Director S. Kubrick), one has to put your head into the world of the Cold War circa 1960. Books like “Red Alert” by Peter George or “Failsafe” by Eugene Burdick set the tone for this masterful satire.
The special effects look silly today but Kubrick went to great lengths to film the Artic Circle.
The B-52 cockpit mockup was so accurate that the FBI visited the set during filming.
The actors are superb and s was their performances.
This is one of the best films ever made.
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