Dr. Strangelove - What's the Difference? 

" You can't fight in here, this is the War Room" has got to be one of the all time great movie lines.

"Alright. But if you can't reach the president, you'll have to answer to the Coca-Cola company."

Interesting how a serious director got a serious book and made it silly

Fun fact: Vera Lynn, the original singer of the song “we’ll meet again”, is still alive. She used to sing that song for the troops during WWII. She’s now 101 years old

"Mein Führer! I can walk!" This movie was really great. The cast (and Peter Seller) is amazing. His American accent was flawless.

You missed the best bit of trivia. After they couldn't make the custard pie scene work, Peter Sellers phoned up Spike Milligan and told him they were stuck for an ending. And Milligan told em, off the top of his head, to have the bombs dropping to Vera Lynn. And that's how one of the most iconic sequences in the history of cinema happened.

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Peter Sellers is truly one of the greatest of all time, the man could just play as anyone.

This was, hands down, EASILY one of the best movies ever made. Not many can compare with satire of this order.

Saw this movie, believe it or not when I was about 12. Didn't understand why I was laughing. My mom explained "sardonic humor" and I got it. My brother, a life-long chain-smoker, died of liver cancer. While smoking one of his last, he joked that at least he never got lung cancer. I love this movie.

As a NJ native, Atlantic city being the fist offer to get nuked is hilarious and a good strategic choice.

we cannot allow a mineshaft gap!

3:25 Slim Pickens wasn’t putting it on. That’s how he normally talked. Oh, and he wasn’t told it was a comedy.

The movie had the genius of Peter Sellers. Talent beyond words.

I love the look on Captain Mandrake's face when he relied Gen. Ripper is nuts "if a Russian attack was not in progress then your use of plan R, in fact your orders to the entire wing... oh. Well I would say, sir, that there was something dreadfully wrong somewhere." My favorite scene.

Precious bodily fluids.

From what I understand, the US government actually changed the procedures on nuclear launches because of this movie, so that such a thing could never happen.

"Well Colonel ... Bat Guano, if that really is your name" "Shoot! With the gun! That's what the bullets are for, you twit!" Group Captain Lionel Mandrake - it's a cruel world.

Legend has it that Major Kong still ride on a nuclear bomb until to this day. *_AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!_*

"The whole point of this doomsday machine is lost... if you KEEP IT A SECRET, RIGHT?" God this movie is good, and maybe Pete Sellers' highest moment on screen. When I noticed he also was Strangelove I had to google it and just then realized he was ALSO the president. He is just so amazing in this movie

Peter Sellers should have won three Academy Awards for Best Actor.

As a kid I was forced to sit in a theater and watch this movie in ~64 , now I can't stop watching it . Scott with his arms out like he's a plane acting like a kid 😂

Apparently the USAF sent a couple of officers to check out the set and make sure there was no secret info being revealed from whatever source in the movie. Anyway Ken Adam, the set designer, was showing them around, and everything was ok until they got to the B52 cockpit and the device that received the secret code messages to confirm a real mission. Adam had designed this from vague reports in the aviation press and had got it virtually bang on, so these two airforce officers turned white as sheets!

It would be hard to find a better comedy. Funny, scary, shallow and deep all at the same time. Kubrick was a genius.

Man, anytime something comes up about Dr. Strangelove I remember just how much I love it.

Hey, speaking of serious books turned into satirical films, you should do Starship Troopers.

When Slim Pickens ( Major Kong) is going through "survival kit", he says you could have a good time in Vegas with all this stuff. Vegas actually was dubbed for Dallas, (read his lips 👄) because the films release date was soon after JFK was assassinated, in Dallas. Kubrick decided to change the city, wisely. FYI

Before I learned that Dr. Strangelove walking at the end was a blooper that was left in, I had this philosophical theory behind it. I thought Strangelove was a physical manifestation of war and death. When mankind's near-extinction is at hand, the impending apocalypse instills him with vigor, allowing him to rise from his chair.

one of the best bits of trivia about the film is that Kubrick and a number of the crew almost got arrested by the secret service. You see they had no idea what the inside of a nuclear bomber looked like. So they made some guesswork from an earlier model of the plane and filmed that. Well, the Pentagon upon seeing an early version of the film panicked and thought there were spies that leaked the details of the insides of the bombers. That's how well they recreated the bombers.

The crew of the "Alabama Angel", one of the B-52 sent to Russia. - Silhouette of a B-25 Mitchell.

Before going any further I just wanted to say that I finally saw this film about a month ago. And I'm glad I waited. I'm not a big fan of Kubrick so I didn't have that drive. I'm sorry, I don't know why. I see what people say about him, but it just seems... simple to me. I don't know. But for me it's like pointing at a ball saying it's a ball. But in saying that I love directors and their ability to do their best at communicating their vision and thoughts and this movie was the one that made me finally think of Kubrick as a genius. It even made me quit methadone cold turkey and I'm now where my body is hating me still, but the part that nearly killed me is over. It's not all from him though, it also took Exurba1, CGP Grey, Bill Wurtz and oddly Munkey Jones to break the spell and make me see the cycle for what it is and throw a stick into it and break it for good. (You guys too, but that should've been a given since I'm saying this to you) So thanks to all of you for giving me a reason to want to live. Who cares who loves me or who I influence. My life is mine to see and enjoy or not. Feeling is living and I need to embrace that. So thanks to all of you all for that lesson. I don't know why this movie sparked it though. Maybe because I watched it in hopes of finding a reason to laugh at humanity and I haven't stopped laughing yet and now I want to see the show.

The difference is that the same cautionary tale gets its message through a lot better as a satire. Keeps the attention of a lot more people, and the sharpness of satire penetrates our thick minds so we actually consider changing a position on something. It sure helps that this film is genius, in its writing and many performances. Peter Sellars best performances. And when Darth Vader is one of the bomber crew, you know things aren't going to end well.

The quote "You can't fight in here, this is the War Room" is even better in Polish - in Polish "room" is "pokój" which also happens to mean "peace" :D

But does the book contain the line "Shoot, a fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff"? Comedy gold!

Seems like whenever Kubrick adapts a book he just took the overarching theme/idea as inspiration

Peace is our Profession. Therefore we use Bombs.

The greatest sitcom of all time, after our recording sessions we'd always watch clips of Dr Strangelove

Kubrick is the greatest of all time

This is by far the most interesting content on youtube to me. I check this channel every other day hoping you guys have made another "What's the Difference". Please keep this series alive and as always thank you for uploading.

I went from peeing myself laughing to crying for the ending with the bombs was just so sad. PS Sterling Hayden did his best work as the crazed general. Brilliant film. Four stars 🤩

Interestingly I recall the same year Dr. Strangelove was released another nuclear bombing movie was released called Fail Safe. It was not a satirical comedy, but a quite sobering and scary movie in that a rogue US nuclear bomber making it through to bomb Moscow. It starrred Henry Fonda as the President and a young Larry Hagman as his Russian translator, who btw played that role well. Watching both movies especially one right after the other is an interesting contrast in how to view the Cold War going hot.

(Gen Jack 'D' Ripper) "Fluoridation of water is the single most monstrous Communist plot we have ever faced." >:-8 (Mandrake) "Jack...Tell me Jack; When did you first become...well...develop this...theory?" :-0 (Gen Ripper) "...Well I uh..I..I..first became aware of it, Mandrake, during the physical act of love." :-/ (Mandrake) "Huh..." :-[ (Gen Ripper) "Yes, a, uh - a profound sense of fatigue, a feeling of emptiness followed. Luckily I was able to interpret these feelings correctly. Loss of essence." :-| (Mandrake) "Yeah..." :-[ (Ripper) "I can assure you it has not recurred, Mandrake. Women, uh - Women sense my power and they seek the life essence. ..... I do not avoid women Mandrake." :-{ (Mandrake) "-No." :-| (Ripper) "But I do deny them my essence." :-( (Mandrake barely chuckling in a whisper) "Yuh.... Yes Jack." :-} X-D That scene is one of my all time favorites. I always wonder how many takes it took to keep Hayden and Sellers from cracking a smile and breaking out laughing during that scene?

Good video, love how you point out how similar the book and movie are and how the slight changes made the difference between satire and serious story. But the song We'll meet again, it's don't know *where,* don't know when.

One of my all time favorites and one of (or three of) Peter Sellers finest performances. He was actually going to play four different characters at one point.

Not only my favourite Kubrick film, my favourite film ever.

I lived in the USA and saw this film when it was released. It was NOT, I say again, NOT funny. It was an all-too-believable satire about why all of us might not wake up tomorrow. Yes, the characters were actually comical, but in a way that real humans too often are comical. The absurdity of the film reflected the absurdity of political thinking of the time.

09:05 Peter Bull (Soviet ambassador) cracking up.

Designer/animator decides to find some clip-art of a B52... procedes to type in B25 into google image search. But that's just my own perfectionism haunting me I guess.

This movie is funny because everyone plays it straight. The entire premise of the film is plausible and all the characters actions seem reasonable, at least in their own minds. That what makes this movie so funny. The whole situation is completely absurd (Ending civilization) but the characters react to this paradox of a totally ridiculous but complexly possible situation.

Your illustrations of what happened in the book were really good.

Dr. Strange love’s character in the movie is literally one of the best characters in cinematic history.

One of my favourite films ever. Cheers!

3:00 The B-25... The dyslexics version of the B-52. Funny. (And yes, despite my certainty, I still double checked that it wasn't a B-24. It has a dorsal turret, and higher tailfins, etc)

I had seen George C Scott in Patton and The Hustler before watching this and him doing a back roll while pointing at the big board was way too funny

I was 13 yrs old when I saw this movie back in 1964. I loved it then and still love it

One predecessor is Lubitsch's 1942 comedy "To Be Or Not To Be," about the German invasion of Poland, and a successor is "The Producers" (1967).

Forget 2001, this is Kubrick's masterpiece!

the reviewers here seem to have forgotten that the impetus for the "precious bodily fluids" stuff came directly from the John Birch society at the time, who were indeed completely insane conspiracy theorists (and still are!). the political satire runs VERY deep in this film, and exposes a lot of america's more insane underbelly. most reviewers weren't even born when the concepts driving the satire in this movie happened, and barely know the history.

This movie was made as an attack on Wernher von Braun. Dr. Strangelove's dark glasses and the way his hair is groomed make him look similar to some images of Wernher von Braun at Cape Canaveral.

Thanks for this, one of my favorite satires.

George C Scott was thoroughly pissed when the final cut was revealed. He had wanted to play the Turgidson character, and his war hawk philosphy seriously, and did so in multiple takes of each scene. Kubrick insisted on filming a comedic, satirical take of each scene, and Scott grudgingly obliged. When the final cut was revealed, Kubrick included only the most absurd takes.

I love how Stanley Kubrick is laughing at the state of the world at the time pointing out the paradoxal idea of the nuclear arms race during this time

YES, I love this. Thanks CineFix.

Kubricks best film and still holds up in every way, especially comedy which is rare this much later. So fortunate that he scrapped the horrible pie fight scene that they filmed for the ending.

I'd also like to see Bladerunner. I love both but I liked that 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep' had a lot more religion and spirituality in it.

I still want to see one of these on Frankenstein and Dracula, if you didn't already

I was stunned to see how funny it still is when I saw the movie a few years back. Y'all should do The Color Purple at some point.

The song is Try a Little Tenderness. While the planes are coupling in flight.

The doomsday machine in the movie actually turned out to be a real thing. The Soviet Union had a "Dead Hand" system that could be activated during a crisis. In the event of the loss of command and control of the strategic rocket forces, a retaliatory strike against the United States would be launched autonomously.

Funniest movie of all time!!! “Mein Führer I can walk!”

In one scene towards the end of the movie as Sellers does the nazi salute you can see actors in the background, particularly the Russian diplomat, literally breaking down into laughter on camera. What a film. What a performance.

Man, I love this movie, I watched it in film studies and am now keeping my eyes peeled for a DVD

As they fly over the Arctic "they may hang sleigh bells on us, but they ain't gonna get us on no radar." If you look out the cockpit window the B-52 is casting the easily recognizable shadow of a B-17. The arctic shots for this film were made by a chartered B-17. The shadow was supposed to be morphed into that of a B-52. Stanley Kubric left the B-17 shadow in the film. Nice little touch.

" Heck, I reckon you wouldn't even be human bein's if you didn't have some pretty strong personal feelin's about nuclear combat." Quite possibly my favorite movie quote of all time.

"It would not be difficult, Mein Fuhrer." One of the funniest lines in movie history.

In 1964, we had two films released about a bomber heading into Russia, and the potential of a Nuclear holocaust. There was "Dr. Strangelove", with Peter Sellers, and "Fail Safe", with Henry Fonda. Stanley Kubrick, even sued to delay "Fail Safe" from being released. In the end, Dr. Strangelove was the better film, but when I saw it on Television, I was certain Dr, Strangelove was a parody of "Fail Safe".

Gentlemen, we *cannot allow* a mine-shaft gap!

Posibly the greatest comedy of all time!

The "precious bodily fluids" idea is a reference to the John Birch Society's fluoride conspiracy theory.

The opening music is "try a little tendrness" - a song popular in Bing Crosby's younger years.

If a movie has Slim Pickens in it, it’s great hahaha

Not "felt tired after sex;" IMPOTENT. He blames Russia. (Santayana quote here.)

Buck is dating the 'Miss Foreign Affairs' centerfold featured in the magazine that Major Kong is reading in the B-52 cockpit.

Im seeing it on the big screen tonight, i cant wait!

You guys should do a WTD video on the Secret of NIMH/Mrs. Frisby and the rats of NIMH

Hands down my favorite Kubrick film!

I first saw the movie at a college in about 1975. It included a big food fight that was later cut out of the movie for some reason. I don't know if it is lost or put away somewhere. You can see shots of a large table full of pastries still in the film.

The addition of Peter Sellers in the film is a stroke of genius.

2:58 Funny that, this is something people actually believe 4:43 (sheepishly) "It was to be announced at the Party Congress on Monday. You know how the Premier loves surprises." 5:17 Cute. 9:55 *where

There’s a few other interesting aspects. Ripper’s obsession with purity of essence was a satire of the paranoia from the far right over fluoridation of drinking water, to promote dental health. Some fringe, far right groups saw this as a communist plot. The usual contrast with Dr. Strangelove, the movie, was another movie produced at around the same time, “Failsafe”, which had a similar overall plot, but was a drama. The producers of Strangelove were accused of copying the theme of Failsafe, because Strangelove was apparently released later. However, Strangelove was originally scheduled for release on Friday, November 22, 1963. For obvious reasons, that release was postponed due to other events. The assassination in Dallas also resulted in a small bit of dubbing in the film. It occurs as Slim Pickins’ character, Major Kong, is going over the contents of the survival kits with his crew. When you listen to the audio, you hear Kong exclaiming that a feller could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with the contents of the kit. But if you read his lips, the actual city originally mentioned was “Dallas”, which had a pretty wild reputation at the time. Again, for obvious reasons, the name Vegas was dubbed in place of Dallas. So Strangelove was due to be released ahead of Failsafe, and the two films were produced completely independently, and were very different stylistically, obviously. This film was a major satire of General Curtis LeMay, who once commanded SAC (Strategic Air Command), and I believe he really did coin the Orwellian slogan for SAC, “Peace is Our Profession” which you can see on billboards at the Air Force Base. At the time the movie was produced, LeMay was the Air Force Chief of Staff, and he pushed Kennedy hard to conduct an all out attack on Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis, in October, 1962. Had LeMay gotten his way, we wouldn’t be here to talk about any of this. Sellers’ creation of the Dr. Strangelove character was genius. It’s obviously a satire of the German scientists brought to the US after WWII, to develop the space program, though there’s no direct analogy of Dr. Strangelove to any living individual, though the indirect target could only be Werner Von Braun. There actually is a very rare medical condition that would account for Dr. Strangelove’s condition, his “war with himself”. In certain severe seizure disorders, when medication doesn’t work, and a patient’s life is threatened, surgery has been performed to sever the corpus collusum, the only connection between the two hemispheres of the brain. This can result in unusual behavior, as the result is like having two brains in one head, unable to communicate with each other. And of course each hemisphere of the brain controls one side of the body. I remember learning about this condition in an intro to psychology class decades ago, and that’s when I “got” the joke. Sellers ingeniously exaggerated the condition, and half of that fictional character is obviously still a Nazi. You can see the actor portraying the Russian Ambassador struggling not to laugh, and ruin the take as Peter Sellers did his thing. One actor who is under appreciated in this film was the incredibly comic performance of George C Scott.

That moment when your watching a What's the Difference? episode and another one pops up .. and it's about a movie you wanna re-watch!

"gentle men you cant fight in here this is the war room" my favorite line in any movie ever

BTW, there is a difference between a Navy P-3 (your graphic) and a KC-135 (the refueling aircraft in the movie). In addition, there is a difference between a WW2 B-25 (your graphic) and the B-52...most non obvious difference is the B-25 never carried nukes. To the comment about "Fail Safe", in that movie a B-58 Hustler nukes a soviet town...so the President (Henry Fonda) has a B-58 bomb a US town to keep WW3 from happening. Fail Safe is the name of the novel that the movie Fail Safe came from.

You should do a comparison of Dr Strangelove and Fail Safe (1964).

I won't lie to you, I watched Dr. Strangelove for the first time a few days ago and just sort of sat there. I can't say I laughed a single time and I can't honestly tell if it's me or a movie which hasn't aged super well.

As a massive fan of the Peter Sellers “pink panther” movies I can’t believe I didn’t realise he was in this film 😭 he was such a fantastic actor, so funny

I dropped from a plane in a bomb to watch this as soon as possible. Thank you CineFix

Like Airplane and the original movie Zero Hour.

Awesome video! Good stuff always but for sures gots to love me some Strangelove!!!!

Of course I call to say hello! One of the funniest movies I actually laughed while watching.