Sellers is utterly hilarious in that scene. The way he uses his voice, the hesitancies, the breaking of his voice, the whole thing. It is a masterpiece of acting.
Supposedly most of the telephone stuff was Sellers’ improv skills on parade, and several of the surrounding cast are on the verge of busting out laughing. The Russian Ambassador guy almost blew a take (you can see the grin he’s trying to suppress at Sellers’ unchained) but it’s easy to miss. Kubrick used that take because Sellers was so damned good on his feet.
***** Actually, here's one interesting little piece of trivia. Kubrick told George C. Scott that he wanted to take several of what he called "practice takes" so that Scott could "warm up" for the real takes and encouraged him to go over the top...but Kubrick actually wanted the character to be more extreme than Scott was willing to play him, and he used the "practice" takes as the real takes even though he had told Scott he wouldn't. When he found out the truth, Scott stated that he would not work with Kubrick ever again.
I love the way they keep cutting back to him and he's frozen solid with his hand on his head and his eyes bugging out, by the third time they cut back and he hadn't moved I was losing it.
Matthew Ridgway He's actually a very underrated comedic actor. He did a movie with Tony Curtis in which they were both fighter pilots. The name of the movie might be Not with my wife you don't! Anyway, there's a scene which involves GCS having an affair with Tony Curtis' wife in old fashioned black and white. Holy smokes, it was damn funny! His facial expressions alone were gems.
The disturbing thing about this is that you end up rooting for that plucky little aircraft running the gauntlet of Soviet defences and their victory results in nuclear annihilation.
George Scott's performance in this movie is, to my mind, outrageously funny. I read somewhere that Kubrick encouraged him to ham it up, to overact, and that Scott didn't realize that it was being filmed. He was pissed with K as a result. But what a stupendous comedic performance!
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This movie is in a class by itself. Brilliantly cast and brilliantly acted.
George C. Scott's face carries so much of this scene. It's amazing how much range he has: this, "Patton", even "Exorcist III" all depend so much on his ability to convey emotion through his face, and those three movies require three _very_ different tones from his performance.
He wouldn't originally act in such a way, so Kubrick just tricked him into thinking it was just a practice run. George C. Scott was outraged after realizing that this was the take they put in the movie.
The editors had a tough time, especially when Sellers was doing his "Mein Fuhrer, I can walk!" part. Even so, Peter Bull was making a huge effort not to smile.
at 1:33, "Dimitri there is no point in getting hysterical, in a moment like this". LOL.....How can anyone remain cool when domesday machine is about to go off.
George was brilliant and he stupidly thought his performance was "too over the top" but it was hilarious and Kubrick was a genius for getting George to act in this way for it.
I think what I love the most about the war room scenes are how all the top brass and government officials are completely silent aside from Turgidson and the President.
"You oughta see it, Mr President. Big plane like a B-52 just zooming so low they'll fry chickens in the barnyard!" "But do they have a chance?" "HELL YEAH! They've got....a...chance....(hand over mouth) I agree with a lot of folks. George should've gotten an Oscar for this. You should see a dream sequence scene he does with Tony Curtis in the movie, Not with my wife you don't. Talk about ham it up.
You know it's funny because I truly enjoy this role better than Patton especially because of lines like that. These are not real characters but approximations and parodies. Some of it generally mocks things that certain people said and did, and it also illustrates certain personality disorders as well. This portrayal is always fresh while Patton becomes stale. Because Patton is based on a real person, no matter how fictionalized, it is a predictable character study. While I assume he got the role of Patton because of this, his portrayal of General Buck Turgidson is completely in line with the method. This one I can watch again-and-again.
The truly great, darkly comical, and absolutely riveting DR. STRANGELOVE was beat out that year (for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director) by a ridiculous musical. That the winners were not Strangelove, Sellers, and Kubrick is the single worst travesty in the entire history of the Academy Awards. Unbelievable.
I was shocked to know that Golden Globe had ENTIRELY snubbed this film! Not a single nomination was given to Dr. Strangelove. In fact, the award list for this film is astonishingly short. It's a surprise Academy didn't snub it as well. I guess it really was a controversial movie at the time. Perhaps too ahead of its time.
As much as this is a great movie that deserved to win awards, you don't get to call My Fair Lady a "ridiculous musical". It's excellent in its own right just as Dr. Strangelove in its own right.
Fun fact: George C Scott wanted to play his character as serious, but Kubrick wanted something funny for this black comedy film. So he encouraged George to go crazy during rehearsal. However, he silently signaled his crew members to roll cameras. The rehearsals are what ended up in the final print 🤣✋
RIP Peter Sellers (September 8, 1925 - July 24, 1980), aged 54 And RIP George C. Scott (October 18, 1927 - September 22, 1999), aged 71 You both will always be remembered as legends.
ScottishChristian What crack are smoking. Obama is as much a part of the Empire's establishment as Ted Cruz. They are all middle managers working for transnational capital. Wake up.
"gentlemen! you can't fight in here, this is the War Room" right up there with a base commander doing a silly little thing. that and Oppenheimer's "99% sure we won't set the world on fire" reminds you even the Greatest Generation did some crazy @#$@
Does Scott remind anyone of Percival McLeach from the rescuers down under? Because as it turns out, he was the voice. There’s an uncanny likeness between the two, from character to physical appearance. I’m sure Disney based McLeach off of Buck.
All of them, great job...And, Sterling Hayden, a TRUE hero...He was O.S.S. in WW II ... Great Clip here ! I have the original theme soundtrack on my list now, you may enjoy...Including, Love that Bomb...! Carry On !!!
Colour is too easy. Satire can pack a wallop in black and white, as much as drama will. There are the classic likes of: 'Lolita'; 'Alfie'; 'The Loved One'; 'Kind Knights and Coronets' or 'The Ladykillers'. Romcoms need not apply.
Sellers is utterly hilarious in that scene. The way he uses his voice, the hesitancies, the breaking of his voice, the whole thing. It is a masterpiece of acting.
I'm worried that's all!
And the borderline hysterical inflection he puts into saying the word hysterical.
Funniest movie I’ve ever watched. Nolan should try out a dark comedy!
@@justicegusting2476What did you think of Oppenheimer?
President sounds like a wife talking to a husband on the telephone.
Supposedly most of the telephone stuff was Sellers’ improv skills on parade, and several of the surrounding cast are on the verge of busting out laughing. The Russian Ambassador guy almost blew a take (you can see the grin he’s trying to suppress at Sellers’ unchained) but it’s easy to miss. Kubrick used that take because Sellers was so damned good on his feet.
Its almost like they are talking about accidentally getting him pregnant. the one plane is like the single sperm making it through.
From 0:54-1:03 it's GC Scott's greatest comic moment, just the look on his face and his change of posture..."Holy shit!"
***** Actually, here's one interesting little piece of trivia. Kubrick told George C. Scott that he wanted to take several of what he called "practice takes" so that Scott could "warm up" for the real takes and encouraged him to go over the top...but Kubrick actually wanted the character to be more extreme than Scott was willing to play him, and he used the "practice" takes as the real takes even though he had told Scott he wouldn't. When he found out the truth, Scott stated that he would not work with Kubrick ever again.
That face is just priceless
George C. Scott's facial expressions are priceless
+Pierluigi Puccini GCS RULES!!!
+Pierluigi Puccini God, I just love how he says that "Spaghetti hits the fan" line, it's perfect.
I love the way they keep cutting back to him and he's frozen solid with his hand on his head and his eyes bugging out, by the third time they cut back and he hadn't moved I was losing it.
Matthew Ridgway He's actually a very underrated comedic actor. He did a movie with Tony Curtis in which they were both fighter pilots. The name of the movie might be Not with my wife you don't! Anyway, there's a scene which involves GCS having an affair with Tony Curtis' wife in old fashioned black and white. Holy smokes, it was damn funny! His facial expressions alone were gems.
The disturbing thing about this is that you end up rooting for that plucky little aircraft running the gauntlet of Soviet defences and their victory results in nuclear annihilation.
George Scott's performance in this movie is, to my mind, outrageously funny. I read somewhere that Kubrick encouraged him to ham it up, to overact, and that Scott didn't realize that it was being filmed. He was pissed with K as a result. But what a stupendous comedic performance!
This movie is in a class by itself.
Brilliantly cast and brilliantly acted.
George C. Scott's face carries so much of this scene. It's amazing how much range he has: this, "Patton", even "Exorcist III" all depend so much on his ability to convey emotion through his face, and those three movies require three _very_ different tones from his performance.
He was also in a movie called The Changeling and honestly no one could have made that movie work the way it did except for him.
@Wrev Flatwoods that movie is excellent.
DIMITRIII, I love how their conversation between a married couple
Scott's character is the only straight character here.
George C. Scott proved in this movie, that overacting isn't always a bad thing.
Cult1234 Coz it's a comedy.
Ohh, i know.
That over acting was the general's sexual frustration. Haha
He wouldn't originally act in such a way, so Kubrick just tricked him into thinking it was just a practice run. George C. Scott was outraged after realizing that this was the take they put in the movie.
Part of the reason it's so funny is the contrast between him and everyone else in the film
Kudos to all the background actors for keeping a straight face through all of this
The editors had a tough time, especially when Sellers was doing his "Mein Fuhrer, I can walk!" part. Even so, Peter Bull was making a huge effort not to smile.
at 1:33, "Dimitri there is no point in getting hysterical, in a moment like this". LOL.....How can anyone remain cool when domesday machine is about to go off.
Kubrick eclipses every satire in film with this one scene.
George was brilliant and he stupidly thought his performance was "too over the top" but it was hilarious and Kubrick was a genius for getting George to act in this way for it.
This whole movie is one quote-able line after another.
the voice crack on "hysterical" always gets me XD
Cuz President Muffley is getting quite hysterical himself.
Scott was just excellent in this film. Talk about mugging in comedy. He brought it to a new level.
I think what I love the most about the war room scenes are how all the top brass and government officials are completely silent aside from Turgidson and the President.
"Excuse me, Mr President--Premier Kissov's on the phone and he's hopping mad!"
George C. Scott's expression during this scene just kills me!
Have they got a chance?! HELLLL YA THEY GOT A....
Love how he put his hand over his mouth to stop talking.
Fryin' chickens in the barn yards!!!!
@@crimsonstrykr VROOOM!
Every time they zoom back to George's reaction I completely lose my shit.
"You oughta see it, Mr President. Big plane like a B-52 just zooming so low they'll fry chickens in the barnyard!"
"But do they have a chance?"
"HELL YEAH! They've got....a...chance....(hand over mouth)
I agree with a lot of folks. George should've gotten an Oscar for this. You should see a dream sequence scene he does with Tony Curtis in the movie, Not with my wife you don't. Talk about ham it up.
You know it's funny because I truly enjoy this role better than Patton especially because of lines like that. These are not real characters but approximations and parodies. Some of it generally mocks things that certain people said and did, and it also illustrates certain personality disorders as well. This portrayal is always fresh while Patton becomes stale. Because Patton is based on a real person, no matter how fictionalized, it is a predictable character study. While I assume he got the role of Patton because of this, his portrayal of General Buck Turgidson is completely in line with the method. This one I can watch again-and-again.
Scott really steals the scene with his hilarious facial expressions
George brilliant. Peter Sellers brilliant.
The truly great, darkly comical, and absolutely riveting DR. STRANGELOVE was beat out that year (for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director) by a ridiculous musical. That the winners were not Strangelove, Sellers, and Kubrick is the single worst travesty in the entire history of the Academy Awards. Unbelievable.
Single worst travesty?
The academy awards for the better part have always been a joke.
It was the times. Kind of like now. Musicals were "woke"
Yeah really bad, also Val Kilmer in Tombstone
I was shocked to know that Golden Globe had ENTIRELY snubbed this film! Not a single nomination was given to Dr. Strangelove. In fact, the award list for this film is astonishingly short. It's a surprise Academy didn't snub it as well. I guess it really was a controversial movie at the time. Perhaps too ahead of its time.
As much as this is a great movie that deserved to win awards, you don't get to call My Fair Lady a "ridiculous musical". It's excellent in its own right just as Dr. Strangelove in its own right.
Fun fact: George C Scott wanted to play his character as serious, but Kubrick wanted something funny for this black comedy film. So he encouraged George to go crazy during rehearsal. However, he silently signaled his crew members to roll cameras. The rehearsals are what ended up in the final print 🤣✋
One of the greatest movies EVER !!!
I’m sorry there are jamming your radar and flying so low their trained to do it. Arguably, in my estimation, one of the best lines in movie history
It's... initiative!
@@jameskielland5018 🤣🤣. The great lines in this movie.
One of the greatest films in history.
I just now realized Sellers is President Adlai Stevenson
GC Scott was magnificient in that film
I noticed there's always a pitcher of (fluorinated) water on the table of the War Room
George C Scott’s expressions are priceless
Scott is an absolute Looney Tune. Astonishing physical comedy.
RIP Peter Sellers (September 8, 1925 - July 24, 1980), aged 54
And
RIP George C. Scott (October 18, 1927 - September 22, 1999), aged 71
You both will always be remembered as legends.
What makes this scene more hilarious, is that Kubrick told George C. Scott that his scenes where he is acting crazy, would never be used.
Put everything you got those two sectors, you cant miss!! Lol I laughed ao hard.. can you imagine
in case you forgot, Major Kong's plane loses fuel and they reroute for a new target
:P
"I agree its great to be fine!" Love that line 😂😂
This movie was absolutely brilliant when it was made. And, much like a fine wine, has only improved with age.
How 1:21 hasn't become a meme yet is beyond me
amc theatres is showing this movie as part of its classics program this week
nice
The satire in this movie is great
This is basically a Tim Robinson character lol
“JOANNA! YOU BEEN OUT HERE DIGGIN HOLES AGAIN??”
Dude, so many memories...
If the spaghetti hits the fan---lol!!!
#3 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs
Hey............Where's Major Kong?????????? Yeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaahhhhhooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!
and 60 years later we have to relive the tragicomedy that is Earth loaded with nuclear weapons
I wish a second Dr. Strangelove comes out
Peter Sellers and George C Scott are such all star actors
Dr. Strangelove was a spoof on Dr. Edward Teller, the father of the hydrogen bomb.
Dimitri, I'm sorry they're jamming your radar and flying so low, but they're trained to do it. You know, it's it's initiative!
Kubrick movies rule!!!!!!!!
Peter Sellers was a genius.
Take a shot every time he says Dimitri
George c Scott was priceless
"If he's really... SHARP"
Alright you got an iPhone make it sing
It's.. it's initiative!
why do I imagine this is how most of the conversation go between Obama and Putin
I could fully see Obama selling out our planes so they can be shot down yes.
ScottishChristian What crack are smoking. Obama is as much a part of the Empire's establishment as Ted Cruz. They are all middle managers working for transnational capital. Wake up.
OroborusFMA I never said Ted Cruz wouldn't sell out our planes so they can be shot down.
Dimitri knows English very well.
Bro really said 😳
unfortunately there's probably things like this happening all day long that you would never know though
Look up the number of broken arrow incidents
"gentlemen! you can't fight in here, this is the War Room" right up there with a base commander doing a silly little thing. that and Oppenheimer's "99% sure we won't set the world on fire" reminds you even the Greatest Generation did some crazy @#$@
Slim Pickens, B-52 Pilot.
Fist of the North Star imminent at this point!
It sounded like he was stalin for time
Does Scott remind anyone of Percival McLeach from the rescuers down under? Because as it turns out, he was the voice. There’s an uncanny likeness between the two, from character to physical appearance. I’m sure Disney based McLeach off of Buck.
You on 2 something.
McLeach is all I think of whenever I hear George C. Scott
All of them, great job...And, Sterling Hayden, a TRUE hero...He was O.S.S. in
WW II ... Great Clip here ! I have the original theme soundtrack on my list now,
you may enjoy...Including, Love that Bomb...! Carry On !!!
General Milley in a nutshell, not a compliment.
No one mentions Terry Southern. Sad.
The DVD had a mini documentary all about him.
Does any of this apply in 2020?? I think so.
I’m thinking the Doomsday bomb and the Alpha-Omega bomb are related
Like frying chickens in a barnyard!!
A BIG PLANE LIKE A 52!
Unfortunately, a cobalt-salted nuclear weapon would be in effect a doomsday machine.
President Muffley is my hero...
This is an infinitely better George C Scott movie than Patton
Leave Dimitri alone lol
Who played Dimitri?...🤔
Scott never knowingly underacted.
why colorless?
Because it's low budget
Because it was filmed that way, it was 1964
@@cooljackster7390 there was quite a few colour films in 1964
Crisp b&w images, regardless the movie genre, convey great immediacy.
Colour is too easy.
Satire can pack a wallop in black and white, as much as drama will.
There are the classic likes of: 'Lolita'; 'Alfie'; 'The Loved One'; 'Kind Knights and Coronets' or 'The Ladykillers'.
Romcoms need not apply.
Just tried to picture Trump in this situation.
So we are going to meet with fire and fury
Kim! Theres no point in you being historical at a moment like this! Kim!
Stupidity unleashed ... SCARY!!! 😨
that advise turned out to be very bad one
Now China
This president is worse than g. bush XD
No president is worse than Bush
Donald Trump? if elected
Tadicuslegion78 Don't jinx it!
Knocking on all the wood
paradisecityX0 just wait.
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I just didn’t buy the acting. I know people think it was great but it was over the top drama. Too much drama to be believable.
its a comedy
That's the point.
The safer alternate dramatic choice on the same subject would be 'Fail-Safe', with Henry Fonda.
Good movie, but rather much less impactful.
This is what dealing with the Russians has been like for 1000 years.