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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These cans are defective
I like Kubrick films, but I also like Tarantino and Coen brothers... my sister thinks that kinda off, I dunno they’re entertaining in an abstract way.
Thank you. It’s way overrated
What most folks forget was the satire about the Soviet leadership in the movie.
The Premier was busy having sex with his mistress.
The Soviet leadership was physically fighting among themselves.
The Soviet Premier was a Biden like dolt and the American President had to treat him like a five year old.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEB-OoUrNuk
Good catch. The shadow looks like a B-17.
The article pointed out the contrast with the previously grim nuclear war movie “On The Beach” where Australians were the only ones to survive a nuclear war and then began their countdown to certain death (denied at first of course) as the radiation slowly spread south....
There was nothing amusing about On The Beach.
On the beach and Fail safe were scary movies for the time.
Tuna on White Bread with Mayo and
A Twinkie.,.
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Don’t get me started on
“Young Frankenstein!” or
‘Clockwork Orange’.
Threads made “The Day After” look like a comedy.
Martin’s ‘L.A. STORY’ is one
Of My Favorites but he’s done some
Real Stinkers!
Kubrick was A Master Film Maker.
“Someone hates these cans!”
Early stealth to fool observers.
IIRC, it was his first movie role
It was a commercially owned B-17 they hired to do the aerial filming from which they intended to overlay the model of the B-17.
While shooting aerial footage over Greenland, the second unit camera crew accidentally filmed a secret US military base. Their plane was forced down, and the crew was suspected of being Soviet spies!
Heh, back in 1963, they still had some B-17s flying around doing actual work of various kinds, and that was one of them!
and the string in his leg...
“”Purity Of Essence “!
Hahahahaha...I used to be a big hockey fan back in the day, and whenever we saw the Soviet National team play some NHL team (or in the olympics) we used to make up all kinds of stupid names for them like:
Vasily Bitcherdickoff....
We laughed merrily every time we came up with one...boys will be boys!
My favorite was when they played the Broad Street Bullies-era Flyers. After ten minutes the Soviets pulled their players because the Flyers were abusing them. Then the Philly fans started chanting “They’re Going Home! They’re Going Home! They’re Going Home!”
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