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Kubrick spoke on the layered sexual imagery in the film and he said it was because when he researched the film and heard academics and other experts speak on the theoretical strategy of nuclear conflict they ALWAYS used sexual metaphors.
Well now, what happened is, uh, one of our base commanders, he had a sort of - well, he went a little funny in the head. You know, just a little...funny. And uh, he went and did a silly thing.
"But the deciding factor was when we learned that your country was working along similar lines, and we were afraid of a doomsday gap." Greatest line in film history
My favourite is 'Mr. President, we must not allow a mine-shaft gap!'. Scott's character panicking about a gap in something that was invented minutes before and doesn't even exist yet, that always makes me chuckle.
Always grateful to my dad for introducing this movie, and the book Catch 22 to me when I was 12. Along with George Carlin. I don't think he realizes how much that stuff informed my worldview/politics.
I feel like “when Johnny comes marching home” is the most ironic and paradoxical of the songs. By completing their mission and dropping the bomb they are effectively erasing their chance of going home, as after MAD there will be no home to go back to. But the only way they’re going back is after they drop the bomb.
Am I the only one who picked up the sexual innuendo when Mandrake tells the general to shoot the coke machine for coin... He gets sprayed in the face, as he is on his knees?
Thank you for this essay! I was a news reporter on 9/11 and it made me crazy being forced to listen to all the talking heads on network news all day who clearly had no idea what was going on. On the way home I stopped and rented a copy of Doctor strange Love and it was the perfect way to sum everything up and allowed me to sleep that night. It's been a cherished annual tradition ever since, and even 21 years later is still the best explanation of what happened.
"drake" possibly but i am not sure on "mandrake" as that is a type of plant that causes sleepiness, lack of awareness and death. it sometimes bears resemblance to a man in its shape and was believed to thrive when given blood
There is such a system and its called Systema Perimetr, and its still active today, also they forgot to tell anyone about it until like 10-20 years ago.
@@SatanasExMachina Kubrick is without a doubt the greatest filmmaker of all time. Almost any of his movies could be someone’s favorite and I could understand why.
the reason they didnt tell anyone about the doomsday device is because thats what happened in the cuban missile crisis. the missiles werent meant as a deterent and would be announced at a soviet celebration but the us discovered them before they could announce it at the conference they were saterizing the cuban missile crisis
Something interesting I just saw in another video that relates to the merger of sex and warfare. Valkyries in Old Norse myth may have been a way to explain men's desire for war and fighting by comparing it to a sexual lust. Heroes of the sagas were often pursuing Valkyries as the object a conquest. Usually the hero becomes infatuated with a Valkyrie who then tells him that she has been promised by her father to another man (usually a king) and the hero must fight and kill said king to win the Valkyrie (along with the kingdom of the hero's rival.) So, I guess what I'm saying is, people have been conflating sex and violence for a long long time.
This is my 2nd favourite Kubrick one (after 2001), great analysis. Hoping for the Shining to be re-uploaded next, anyway, that reminds me I still have to watch a Clockwork Orange, I've been sitting on the Blu-ray for months
Johnny comes marching home _is_ the original song and melody. There is also an obscure song to the melody. It goes _The animals went in two by two, hurray, hurray!_ , thereby making it a creationist children song. Kubrick learnt this during production and was enchanted.
The song is deffenetly deliberate. Look at the text on the bombs in the plane again. One of the songs is meant to be a letter, like "dear john" while the other is meeting in the flesh, or "hi there". Both meanings apply at the same time.
Mmmm... I think the "Doomsday device" might be a reference to the russian missiles in Cuba. Same thing, they built silos in Cuba and they were waiting to make the annoucement during the WW2 parade, but USA found it before.
After being followed by a bunch of corrupt cops I told em, " Well boys I reckon this is it!" They got scared and stood in awe. Needless to say they tried again and I ripped a couple eyes out
Can someone explain me what is the deal with Dr. Strangelove himself?? like whats up with his hand and why does he keep saying mein fuhrer without actually wanting to say it?
Dr. Strangelove as a character is a reference to former Nazi scientists brought to the U.S. in Operation Paperclip following World War II. After WWII, the U.S. wanting to get a technological edge on the Soviet Union, located German scientists who had worked for the Nazis and brought them to the U.S. to work for different government research agencies, including NASA. The research these scientists were conducting during the war was in areas that the U.S. had not engaged in so that's why they were chosen. The military engaged in a lot of whitewashing and tried to cover up the connections of many of these scientists to the Nazi party. For example, Wernher von Braun, one of the leading rocket scientists in the space race, was a member of the Nazi party and actually selected people from concentration camps to work in V2 rocket factories. Dr. Strangelove is the president's scientific advisor and obviously a Nazi. He tries to resist saying mein fuhrer because that's what he is used to calling his leader. His hand tries to do the Nazi salute but he is fighting with his own body to not do it because naturally a Nazi can't be openly serving in the U.S. government... well at least in the 1960s.
I would say that it's *really* quite very strong in terms of visuals. The thing about Bucky's bedroom scene is that Miss Scott is no less perfect than George C. himself. Over time, and probably a hundred viewings, Captain Mandrake has become my most favorite among all the perfect characters and casting. I don't say that lightly.
sry but i hope someone could still answer this question, what was with the clock at the end that the ambassador of russia doing, like setting a new time zone that he is going to spend the rest of his life in america in a mine or some other secret weapon which doesnt not seem to be the case.
lol so in the end he was a spy all along and no need to show what happens next just that after killing each other with bombs they are still fighting each other till the very end after the end.
Yep, the irony and futility of the Cold War in that he's accused of being a spy when he walks in, denies it, and after everyone confirms that they're all likely to die soon he still takes the time to snap photos of "the big board" now made irrelevant by events.
Those devices do exist though ,the russians have the Dead Hand(which allegedly is still functional to some extent) and the americans have\had the ERCS.
Your videos are incredibly interesting to people who've seen the films, like me! But... I can't feel they're much inviting to people who have not. And there's still time! What if you adjusted the language of your text (which is good) to leave people feeling "Shoot, I gotta watch this, and now, do it _knowing_ there'll be a lot to dig from it"?
Alright, then. Yeah, I didn't doubt it _could._ Heck, when I think of the stuff that pulled _me_ into the movies I love... But I guess that's how I would do it, still: make sure to sound inviting.
Fwiw, I don't think Gen. Ripper is concerned about fluoridized water directly, but rather it's impacts on our precious bodily fluids. The fluorine would impurify those fluids.
it's pretty frightening realizing that the worlds is still being held hostage by psychopaths with the bomb, and it can only be disarmed in the next 10 years or so
Wish it was in colour. I wonder if movies like this will be colourised? I only say that because I feel like the greyscale palette was not artistically important to this film, so it could be colourised without ruining it.
AHEM----100% agree---"You can't fight in here -- this is the War Room---the funniest line from any movie ever in its context. I would put Full Metal Jacket's line from Pvt Joker (Modine) when told the VC had struck the US forces all over Viet Nam---"Sir, does this mean that Ann-Margret IS NOT COMING" (Its not a big jump to say that in what context did he mean for cumming..er...coming?)
