Sellers & Hayden kept laughing so much while trying to do the fluoridation scene that this was the best take Kubrick could get-and obviously he kept Mandrake’s piteous chuckling because it added to the scene. It’s very subtle but Hayden is struggling not to crack up laughing as well.
Stanley Kubrick created a satirical cinematic masterpiece with this film. Peter Sellers and Sterling Hayden certainly did their part, or parts in the case of Sellers.
"Are you beginning to understand?"-Ripper "Yes..."(despairing giggling ensues)-Mandrake That line delivery where Mandrake truly begins to comprehend just how far gone into utter insanity Ripper has fallen is both disturbing and hilarious at the same time.
I love how Sellers plays this scene. Mandrake is really struggling not to collapse into terrified hysteria around this lunatic who just started a nuclear war over fluoridation. Played for comedy but it really is one of the more subtly dramatic scenes of the movie when you look at it close.
Actually, the truth is Peter Sellers is struggling to hold in his laughter. This whole scene with the dialogue on water and bodily fluids was completely outlived. Peter Sellers is struggling to stay in character and to remain composed. So the nervous laughter is actually Peter releasing partially some of the laughter that he couldn’t hold inside. But he played it so wellthat it actually gave the impression that mandrake is struggling to keep his sanity together while having to live listen to all the nutty ranting from the general
Consider at least two of the indelible impressions from my very first viewing of this movie at a fairly impressionable age: I didn't know who Peter Sellers was, and I didn't know this was a satire.
@@augustlandmesser1520 From the very beginning. I had to read more about the movie after viewing it several times. Some decades later I read the source novel by one of the screenwriters (Peter George). Read that and you may agree on Kubrick deciding to turn the story into a satire.
“In the name of her Majesty and the continental congress come here boy!“
*feed me this belt boy
cool name and avatar
@@enochianwolf Hahaha. Thanks you too!
The red coats are coming!
Sellers & Hayden kept laughing so much while trying to do the fluoridation scene that this was the best take Kubrick could get-and obviously he kept Mandrake’s piteous chuckling because it added to the scene. It’s very subtle but Hayden is struggling not to crack up laughing as well.
The tension reads not as, "quit trying to make me laugh", but as "omfg this guy's nuts"/"feels really good to share".
Hayden's slight smile from trying to not to crack up really does add to how unhinged he is.
1:46 I can see Hayden crack a smile
Stanley Kubrick created a satirical cinematic masterpiece with this film. Peter Sellers and Sterling Hayden certainly did their part, or parts in the case of Sellers.
"Are you beginning to understand?"-Ripper
"Yes..."(despairing giggling ensues)-Mandrake
That line delivery where Mandrake truly begins to comprehend just how far gone into utter insanity Ripper has fallen is both disturbing and hilarious at the same time.
I love how Sellers plays this scene. Mandrake is really struggling not to collapse into terrified hysteria around this lunatic who just started a nuclear war over fluoridation. Played for comedy but it really is one of the more subtly dramatic scenes of the movie when you look at it close.
im still concerned about the mineshaft gap
especially at 1:22. the nervous laughter
Actually, the truth is Peter Sellers is struggling to hold in his laughter. This whole scene with the dialogue on water and bodily fluids was completely outlived. Peter Sellers is struggling to stay in character and to remain composed. So the nervous laughter is actually Peter releasing partially some of the laughter that he couldn’t hold inside. But he played it so wellthat it actually gave the impression that mandrake is struggling to keep his sanity together while having to live listen to all the nutty ranting from the general
RFK Jr must have seen this scene at a very impressionable age😁
3-wood, 7-iron, .30-caliber machine gun. What every golfer needs!
The machine gun with the golf clubs is brilliant.
My old boss used to hide a shotgun in his golf bag
@@Boxmediaphile Gosh!!!
Good bag would work great for an FN-FAL and half a dozen mags 😆
I keep an M16A1 in a soft guitar case with a few 30 rounders in case the red coats come back 😂
Who is here because of RFK Jr?
Consider at least two of the indelible impressions from my very first viewing of this movie at a fairly impressionable age: I didn't know who Peter Sellers was, and I didn't know this was a satire.
And at the which moment did you got that impression? 🙂
@@augustlandmesser1520 From the very beginning. I had to read more about the movie after viewing it several times. Some decades later I read the source novel by one of the screenwriters (Peter George). Read that and you may agree on Kubrick deciding to turn the story into a satire.
The struggling with the golf clubs and sterling Hayden trying not to laugh 😂
sellars 3 roles should have earned him an oscar- masterful acting.
"you calling me jack?"
That we can laugh about impending nuclear annihilation means we are of a piece with this film.
if you've ever wondered why comedies aren't held in high esteem you gotta ask dr Strangelove
Come January we'll have a real Jack.
Well hell there’s the origin of the Monty Python “Gamy leg” routines 😆
This is Supposed to be a dark comedy. But in my work career ,I've met some REAL " eccentric" , esoteric types.
RFK at his finest.
"How's the Italian food at this base?"
Is that a 50mm Ripper pulls from his golf bag ?
M1919A4 and no it's a .30 caliber, but they do look similar
@@kittycatcat6962 Is that .30 caliber the same as the 303 guns in WW2 British fighters?
@@davidfoster5906 pretty much identical, only difference I can tell is the 303 brit is a rimmed round while the .30 cal is rimless
@@kittycatcat6962 Thanks for the info. Even in old photos ,a belt of .50 cal has bigger looking rounds than a .303.
hayden is awesome
I had to give my Boomer father this same speech recently
Sorry to hear.boomers are such effective parents
@@richinoablebesides the whole crashing the entire housing market and economy thing
stanley rubrik
California isn’t 70% water🙄. . .
A Trumpie before Trump!
Stupid guy. There were no wars at all with Trump, you dirty liar.
This is Trump's HHS pick.
Indeed!