Dr. Strangelove - What's the Difference?
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- Stanley Kubrick's satirical masterpiece is over half a century old but it's as relevant and hilarious as ever. But the humor of Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb doesn't come from its source material, Peter George's Red Alert.
So how did George C. Scott and three Peter Sellers characters wind up being so funny? It's time to ask What's the Difference?!
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" You can't fight in here, this is the War Room" has got to be one of the all time great movie lines.
It was 64 on the AFI top 100 list.
narabdela True! Also, "If you let Ambassador Kissoff in the war room, he'll see the BIG BOARD!" (< As he starts futily grabbing & scooping up maps & papers:) Plus, love S. Kubriks use of B & W. Oh, BTW...the shadow of Slim Pickens B-52, on the snowy mountains is the shadow of a B-17. Not a B-52. It's an unmistakable B-17 silouette/ outline, if you know WW2 vintage aircraft...and I do;) Just kinda funny when you see the use of WW2 stock footage in old movies. They didn't care about that stuff too much.
A great play on words meant to psychological shock people. Like I keep saying they are good at what they do! Be a good bad or ugly can't deny the fact. To the victor goes the spoils
@@gregoryneely8704 The ambassador is Alexi de Sadesky. The premier is Kissoff. Just saying.
@@gregoryneely8704 you Americans and us Canadian's gave those gerries whatfor ..peace neighbour. We helped your guys out in Iran and you helped our guys in Afghanistan
Interesting how a serious director got a serious book and made it silly
It was really a basis for insipration rather than a movie adaptation
At the time Kubrik was not as serious as he would become later. He also filmed Lolita as a comedy
even Barry Lyndon was not really that serious...
he filmed WHAT as a comedy?????
oh wow, he must have been on some stuff (I've never read it and I ain't planning to but I know what happens)
Kubrick was always darkly humourous and had a lot of tongue-in-cheek moments sprinkled throughout his work. Ex: The "Zero Gravity Toilet" in 2001, or R Lee Ermey's entire performance in Full Metal Jacket. There are a lot more examples, but Kubrick had a huge funny side to him.
"Alright. But if you can't reach the president, you'll have to answer to the Coca-Cola company."
Major Bat Shit!!!
Yep no president mess with coke except Bill Clinton.
@@robertmartinez1645 That's COLONEL Bat Shit
You don't think I go into combat with loose change in my pocket do you?
That was the funniest part of the movie. It is my favorite movie quote.
gentlemen you can't say anything in here this is the comment section
Gavrilo Princip Reaching...
TH-cam! I CAN WALK!
That fool tried to plant that ridiculous meme on me.
I fear a 'comment gap'!
You forgot the word intelligent
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
Oh that explains that Pink Floyd song. Here I thought he was just talking about an ex, lol!
Rachael Lefler "...how she said we would meet again some sunny day. Vera, Vera! What has become of you.....?"
@@leftyfusion88 ....."does anybody else in here, feel the vvay I do "....
There is a woman who lives at the retirement home I work at. She is 102 years old and was one of three women to work in the air core in WW2. She worked in Great Britain in a radar booth. She is such a badass tbh. (Unrelated story, but I thought it was fun)
@@havoccorner3715 . Would be great if you can make an account of any comments she makes about ww2, or better still a video if permitted.
"Mein Führer! I can walk!" This movie was really great. The cast (and Peter Seller) is amazing. His American accent was flawless.
Peter sellers was the cast (kinda)
Him and George C Scott.
That scene, and line, (getting out of the chair) was 100% ad-libbed when Sellers accidentally stood up and momentarily went out of character (before returning into character to come up with one of the great comedic lines of all time). True story.
He was meant to also play the bomber commander Major "King" Kong but he broke his foot mid-production so Kubrick recruited Slim Pickens for the role.
So few realize it's one of the many sexual references in a film full of them. Dr Strangelove is suddenly "erect" at the thought of the power of the nuclear war he has so long contemplated. Because of course power=sex=power=sex... is an ages old human theme. Also erect at the thought of assembling a select few and reproducing a superior race, with him in a bunker of women at a ratio of 10 women for every man.
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.
Here's better trivia - the CRM-114 on the B-52 bomber was used by Kubrick again in Clockwork Orange under the label Serum 114 which was injected into Malcolm McDowell's Alex to make him sick when he saw any violence or thought of any violence. CRM-114 = Serum 114 when I first read this I thought it was brilliant.
They also missed the catalyst which set all the other events in motion. General Ripper was not tired after an act of intimacy, he "felt a profound sense of fatigue" and it was _during_ the act. As the saying goes, "that's not uncommon for a man his age."
It isn't just a meaningless oversite, either. At the heart of the story - as with many of Mr. Kubrick's stories - is obsession with virility.
As a NJ native, Atlantic city being the fist offer to get nuked is hilarious and a good strategic choice.
They could have Chicago as soon as I get my stuff/family out of it. The place is just an armpit filled with crime, rodents, and fake beggars. It's always either too hot or too cold, and it rains and snows most days it feels like. Nobody knows about Peoria, Bloomington/Normal, Champaign/Urbana, or the Quad Cities but those are all better places to live in Illinois.
No! I lived there once! They make fantastic pizzas and delicious unhealthy foods there. Are you freaking mad? Take out Cherry Hill or Trenton, there's nothing in those towns. I would say Camden, but not only do they make great food too, but that would also effect Philadelphia who makes the best sub sandwiches.
@Comrade Sky Her stating facts makes her alt right?
@@Kehwanna we call them hoagies around here
@@BadazzGregg I meant like hot subs, such as cheese steak hoagies. NJ, Philadelphia, and NY make the best hoagies in the US IMO. I had hoagies in other states and it just isn't the same; they have way too much bread and not enough content inbetween.
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.
What in the wide wide world of sports is going on here?
The part was originally to be played by Sellers as well. But 4 characters was proving 1 character too many. I'm glad that happened. Pickens performance was epic , even if he was just playing himself really.
we cannot allow a mineshaft gap!
A very timeless sentiment
And they'd been worried about a missile gap. The two kinda... fit together.
This was, hands down, EASILY one of the best movies ever made. Not many can compare with satire of this order.
I concur
Lazarus...is that you ?
@@fr73ed38 aaayup ! Another life. Another time. lol Who is this from my past ?
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.
Precious bodily fluids.
Your profile pic makes this comment even better.
Scary that it's so easy to imagine 'president' Trump saying this, but for real.
@@ILoveDawko two words: "golden showers"
cinefix times his expostion w/Ripper saying it,like perfect voiceover😹
Tell me Jack... when did you ..uh.. first develop this theory?
Peter Sellers is truly one of the greatest of all time, the man could just play as anyone.
Except himself. th-cam.com/video/zSJc72OC7Dg/w-d-xo.html
anyone but himself
@@cchanc3or a Texan.
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.
Ron D'Eau Claire I agree. It’s funny in retrospect. But hauntingly. With the present circumstances.
Jojo Rabbit has recaptured this level of satire.
Mark Furst It kind of did yeah, glad a movie like this was made again and became successful
I grew up on a council estate and clockwork orange was more of a fly on the wall documentary
Ron D'Eau Claire
I totally agree, not a funny subject but funny characters in a comical situation.
But that’s the whole point isn’t it..... it’s a satire.
It exposes the foolishness and stupidity of people and governments by using humour, irony and exaggeration.
....
Everyone convinced themselves that they could see the emperor’s new clothes until the little boy laughed and woke them up to the truth.
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.
I think it also had to do with the ability of someone with urgent information to contact the war room, as Capt Mandrake found difficulty in getting through, and had to get Bat Guano to shoot the coke machine to get change.
That is honestly one of the most terrifying bits of the trivia I have ever heard in my entire life.
It's even worse now. Watch some Daniel Ellsberg talks.
Well, Russians, for their part, installed a system of automatic retaliation, and it could even go off by accident, and almost did.
until quite recently the land based ICBMs in the USA had a default launch code of just a bunch of 0s to launch them. So unknowingly the operators of the missile silos could have at anytime they liked launched the missiles without any orders just by punching in the default code. It has been fixed now once someone released after decades.
The movie had the genius of Peter Sellers. Talent beyond words.
"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.
I thought the guy was bat-shit crazy!
But did the Coca-Cola police ever catch up with him?
Hey, speaking of serious books turned into satirical films, you should do Starship Troopers.
Seconded.
That would be amazing! That movie never has gotten the love it deserves.
Nah, American Psycho was always a satire. The film version just seems "wackier" because a lot of the scenes are inherently more ridiculous when put onscreen. Either way, it'd be interesting seeing them do a What's The Difference on them, although I'd feel sorry the guy handling the book side of things since the biggest difference is that the book is much, much, MUCH gorier.
Yes, I would love to see how both the book and movie fail in terms of military tactics when fighting the bugs
Well, except for the fact that the book has been loved by a select group of individuals for a couple of generations, and the film was exactly the worst insult deliberately aimed at that population, ummm..what else is there?
Legend has it that Major Kong still ride on a nuclear bomb until to this day.
*_AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!_*
Sellers was going to play Kong also, but broke his arm. So, they had to bring Slim Pickens in. He certainly made the movies' serious subject a glorious gufaw of our nuclear blackmail foreign policy.
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.
It would be hard to find a better comedy. Funny, scary, shallow and deep all at the same time. Kubrick was a genius.
2 words: Monty python
"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
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
hal biggiam I wondered about that
@@sammolloy1 The critics screening was scheduled for the evening of 22 November 1963. We all know what happened that day. Besides the reference to Dallas, the custard pie scene and its reference to "our gallant young president" falling was cut. The film was delayed into early 1964 as a result.
Phil Perry Thank you. Very interesting.
hal biggiam sellers was originally going to do the Pickens character
Vegas makes more sense in the context of the scene, anyway.
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!
Peter Sellers should have won three Academy Awards for Best Actor.
Seems like whenever Kubrick adapts a book he just took the overarching theme/idea as inspiration
Yeah, I love that Kubrick does this but he's really more focused on themes in general. Each movie of his is about some aspect of human psychology or social behavior. Like 'The Shining' was originally about King's fear of turning into a monster from his own alcoholism. But in Kubrick's hands, the movie became about the more universal themes of genocide and how war is an eternal part of human nature.
Of course, he always bought complete creative control. Stephen King wasn't going to tell him what to do.. thank God.
Tom Evans yes King is awful and Kuvrick is genius. No wonder poor Steven still hates the movie, it revealed that King is the monster as he put himself in as Jack
Well, aside from Clockwork Orange I would agree, there were a few small details changed but generally speaking it’s an extremely faithful adaptation of the book. The only thing missing is the final chapter and that’s because Kubrick read the American edition which didn’t have that final chapter.... good thing too frankly because I’ve always felt that final chapter was a narrative copout.
(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?
I love this scene to, and sometimes I find it kind of sad, especially after the suicide scene
Hayden wasn't a humorist.
Yes! Amazingly, so many people miss the fact that the whole movie is set in motion by his inability to deal with impotence. When he can't screw, he claims it's because it's his choice to "deny them". Oh yeah, he's psychotically in denial! The ultimate compensation of power ensues. If only he'd just bought an expensive sports car.
I've had a slightly altered version of this plot explained to me as a reason why we shouldn't put fluoride in our water. The man was completely serious and claimed that its supported by science. Instead of effecting our life essence it was making us placid and compliant.
The USSR is still trying to take over the world, all these years after it ceased to exist. Modern Russia is just a front for it. I wonder how many more think the same. This same individual also believes that the moon landings were fake, the earth is flat and that the climate is controlled by NASA, among other things.
memisemyself it’s the same powers who were behind USSR and who are behind CCP, the big 👃ses
Funniest movie of all time!!! “Mein Führer I can walk!”
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.
the beauty of art is that your interpretation can still work. it was an idea that sellers came up with himself, and since they left it in, kubrick must have thought it contributed meaningfully to the story. even without strangelove standing up, your interpretation would still work
I had a very similar interpretation, that Strangelove embodied nuclear war. His arm with a mind of his own represented the self-destructive part of humanity (military and nuclear forces in particular) and twisted nuclear war logic of mutually assured destruction as a doctrine. Strangelove literally emerges from the shadows when nuclear war seems likely.
@@johnstarwright2029 No, for the last time, I am not Hideo Kojima.
@@n0denz
Ok, Toshiro Mifune.
I’m surprised you don’t know he is a pastiche of SS major Werner von Braun and his boss under Hitler and the yanks Walter Dornberger who got NASA to the moon and Dornberger was still in charge …
Peace is our Profession.
Therefore we use Bombs.
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.
Toxic - Welcome to the land of the the living !
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 😂
Kubrick is the greatest of all time
Dany Joshuva Was.
Bradley Weiss in the field of art no one stops being as good as they were living after they die
The crew of the "Alabama Angel", one of the B-52 sent to Russia. - Silhouette of a B-25 Mitchell.
Indeed!
Well he was using P-3 Orion silhouettes as both the refueling plane and the recipient.
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.
Wouldn't be 'Merica without full blooded, wide ranging conspiracy somewhere.
Even though you might not think so , little Thomas Neal , communism is cancer .
@Thomas Neal
You are absolutely right. Most reviewers today would not catch the real life political, social, and military references.
@@indiosveritas
Thomas Neal was not promoting communism. Why would you think that?
@@spaceman081447
Did I say he was ?
Please explain.
Man, anytime something comes up about Dr. Strangelove I remember just how much I love it.
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.
Yep. And the clip-art for the KC 135 and B52 refueling scene are two Lockheed P3 Orion patrol bombers.
im dumb, I just figured it was a b25 in the book but that's probably stupid, considering Fat Man was about 7000lbs over a Mitchells weight capacity.
Kllrtofu not to mention the fighters are not mid cold war aircraft and look like F16s or something
You notice the tank silhouettes were M-1s rather than the M-48s that actually would have existed at the time.
@@odysseusrex5908 Or the Humvee that should have been a jeep derivative
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 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.
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
Does this movie become more relevent each year, or is it just me?
Just you, and probably a dozen other conspiracy theorists.
I dunno, I could name a couple world leaders that would fit right in with the movie.
Alec Michael It does not become more relevant. A government can create propaganda just as a person can. In other words, this movie is propaganda staged by one man. Ponder the possibilities.
wow you're edgy and enlightened.
Is joke.
But does the book contain the line "Shoot, a fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff"?
Comedy gold!
And that wasn't even the original line, either. Kong was supposed to joke "A fella could have a pretty good weekend in Dallas with this kinda stuff". But shortly after the film was complete, President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas so Kubrick had Slim Pickens dub over that line so it wouldn't sound insensitive. If you watch carefully,
you can see Kong's lips form the word "Dallas".
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.
Commie's are red
Capitalists are blue
I like nuclear war and so do you
Edwards Industries Except the north koreans, they're blue commies that _love_ nuclear war
Alphonso Luckless - Lesser nations are ALWAYS angry at the top dog, or jealous. We're so terrible millions want to come here and be with us. If we're idiots, then it doesn't say much for whatever place you're from.
Afonso Lucas- Funny how your account picture is from an American television show.
@@TedBronson1918
It's better
Forget I said that
Comedy is too important to be left to analysts.
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.
Not "felt tired after sex;" IMPOTENT.
He blames Russia.
(Santayana quote here.)
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 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 🤩
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
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)
Yes a B-25! ... My Dad was in in B-24's at Tibbenham in the 445th Bomb Group with Jimmy Stewart!
Dr. Strange love’s character in the movie is literally one of the best characters in cinematic history.
@@mxhdd_6 hi overrated, i'm dad
I still want to see one of these on Frankenstein and Dracula, if you didn't already
Seconded! I loved the book Dracula but I haven't seen the 1930's film.
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.
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
You guys should do a WTD video on the Secret of NIMH/Mrs. Frisby and the rats of NIMH
Because everything was completely different?
Definitely!
Forget 2001, this is Kubrick's masterpiece!
" 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.
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".
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.
So the plot is that the end of the world happened bc one dude had post nut clarity once.
Like Airplane and the original movie Zero Hour.
Doctor Strangelove is not a comedy movie, is a satyrical horror film
So Ripper is basically Alex Jones
So who's here in 2022? Looking forward to the future...
Do you think that the book Darkly Dreaming Dexter and the TV show Dexter could be the premise of one of these videos
President Merkin Muffley? LMAO! How'd I miss that??
Anyone else know what a "merkin" is? Hahaha!
The greatest sitcom of all time, after our recording sessions we'd always watch clips of Dr Strangelove
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.
You should do a comparison of Dr Strangelove and Fail Safe (1964).
The movie Fail Safe creeped me out way more than Dr Strangelove.
There IS no comparison. Fail Safe was an epic.... FAIL.
2:57 Ripper came up with his theory DURING sex. The distinction matters because he's talking about erectile dysfunction. He's destroying the world because he panicked when he couldn't get it up.
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.
Didn’t they call the B58 by another name in the movie? Vampire or Vindictive or something with a “V”?
Interesting tidbit: the KC-135 tanker was a Boeing design. Boeing then took it and modified it into the B-707 airliner.
@@SvenTviking The Vampire was (IIRC) a real British bomber. There was a whole "V-series" of aircraft. I'm not sure if I ever saw the whole movie, or just highlights, and couldn't tell you if they called the Convair B-58 Hustler by another name.
@@SvenTviking In one movie the bomber was called a Vindicator. Cant remember if it was Fail Safe or not.
Have you guys compared "Zero Hour" to "Airplane"? I AM serious, and don't call me Shirley.
Your illustrations of what happened in the book were really good.
0:09 The last thing youd want in your city is a nuclear bomb, but turns out, *that might be what you get*
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.
It was the other way around actually. Kubrick and Red Alert's author took Fail Safe to court to make sure it wouldn't be released before Strangelove because they were worried it could hurt the film's success. They accused Fail Safe the novel of plagiarizing Red Alert, don't know if their claim had any actual merit but they ended settling out of court with the studio buying Failsafe and releasing it 9 months after Strangelove.
. We meet the crew of the Alabama Angle on board on of the B-52s.......then shows the silhouette of a WW II B-25 Mitchell..............¬_¬
It definitely is a masterpiece. Interesting how you missed how Major Kong was rather pointedly riding a huge phallus, and so losing a major theme of the film- the arms race was just a big pissing contest. Also, how when General Ripper went off the deep end after he couldn't get it up anymore, his ego couldn't accept any other cause for his loss of virility, but a soviet plot. Viagra probably saved us all from annihilation.
Book Red Alert - destruction by Nuclear war
Red Alert Game - Destruction by conventional transwarp, mindcontrol, prism tanks, electro fields, crazy Ivan's, squids, dolphins, spider tanks, jet troopers, GIs and mass waves of conscripts
Please do No Country For Old Men! Please, please, please!
My favorite part of the film is when Slim Pickens explains to the crew what's in the survival kit, then says, "A fella could have a pretty good time in Vegas with all this." A partial list is gold krugerands, nylons, condoms.
If a movie has Slim Pickens in it, it’s great hahaha
"conspiracy theory that he developed when he felt tired after sex"
heard another film critique describe this differently ...
my take is that Ripper is speaking euphemistically vague about being unable to "get it up" as backed up by immediately feeling he needs to explain that it's never happened to him before but fortunately he was able to properly interpret this phenomena, loss of precious bodily fluids. He's poking fun at macho male bragging of eternal perfection, and the commies insanity of the era. People who weren't adultly aware then have no idea how many things were ludicrously blamed on "commies" in the '60s.
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
“He felt tired after sex” OMG, you are missing one of the funniest jokes in the movie. General Ripper wasn’t tired after sex, he couldn’t get it up anymore and rather than acknowledge his own mortality and weakness he rationalized it with a conspiracy theory about how it was due to fluoridation of the water which he thought was a Communist plot. That was a real thing, btw, both fluoridation and the conspiracy theory from what used to be considered the crazy right wing fringe (now they’re just called Republicans)
Not only my favourite Kubrick film, my favourite film ever.
Interesting note, When Johnny Comes Marching Home shares its melody with another song: Johnny I Hardly Knew Ya. Where When Johnny Comes Marching Home is a boisterous pro-war song of heroism, Johnny I Hardly Knew Ya is a somber anti-war song of a woman mourning after the man she loved disfigured and broken by war. Leave it to Kubrick to put such dichotomy into his movies.
Wasn't there an adaptation of Red Alert called "Failsafe" or something?
William Crowe yup
with Henry Fonda and Walter mathau, I thinks its based on a book by the same name
William Crowe Why ask a question that you Googled in the first place?
Matt Marzula cuz he wanted likes
I read Failsafe when I was in high school (20+ years ago). Yes it has basically the same plot. And yes, it was also made into a pretty good movie.
There are no movies better than Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove." There just a few as good and two come to mind as I type: Sunset Blvd. (1950, d. Billy Wilder) & Fritz Lang's 1927 Metropolis.
Then Dr Strangelove was killed by Huey Emmerich....wait.
V was a mistake
No, Konami was the mistake.
The "precious bodily fluids" idea is a reference to the John Birch Society's fluoride conspiracy theory.
If you don’t love this movie than you’re pure human sewage !!!!!
The movie has Kubrick's genius. The satire has such a bigger punch and wider audience and as such actually had a political impact. Kubrick is brilliant as is the movie and interestingly enough the movie created enough behind the scenes concern that it may have actually saved us from nuclear annihilation as the United States administration had to reassess it's views on nuclear bomb usage.
What's The Difference: Dracula(Bram Stoker Vs Francis Ford Coppola).
What's the difference - Bram Stoker vs Nosferatu
Yes!!
Buck is dating the 'Miss Foreign Affairs' centerfold featured in the magazine that Major Kong is reading in the B-52 cockpit.
Not Me Nice catch, never noticed that.
They interviewed the actress who played the only female part in the movie, for the DVD documentary. She was not only the centerfold, but Gen. Turgidson's secretary (who he was bedding on the side).
"Am I to understand the Russian Ambassador is to be allowed entrance into the War Room? I I don't know how to put this to you sir but are you aware of what a serious breach of security that would be? I mean he'll see everything. He...he'll see the big board." Before 2016 I would have just said that's a great bit of George C. Scott Dialogue. Now I'm convinced someone actually said that about Trump's White House over at the Pentagon.
oh shut up statist.
APAL880 why don't you shut up apologist
Apples and oranges only make fruit salad,friend.
That's actually my favorite scene......George Scott is fucking spot on! Chewing gum like a mad man yet pouting like a incredoulous, petulant child.
Then you should switch off your TV and try to be a bit more discerning about which nonsense you choose to believe. It's quite sad that you admit to being so gullible.
Ok, just one minor criticism: why did you use the graphic of a B-25 instead of a B-52?