Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) is a film by Director Stanley Kubrick. The scenario is based on the novel Red Alert that describes the downfall of the world: the u.s. president makes an error that a nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the United States provokes.

Kubrick was initially going to be there, just as in the novel, a serious political thriller out of it. Gradually, he thought that it had to be a satire ; full of black humor, outrageous characters and humorous scenes.

This he went in against the prevailing trend to political thrillers that play on the fears of the cold war as some James Bond movies or films from the Harry Palmerseries.Kubrick thought he arrived as a political statement about this better humor used. Charlie Chaplin had done something like that, that with The Great Dictator made a satire onAdolf Hitler .



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == Scale model of the War Room that was made for the filmPeter Sellers as the British captainLionel MandrakePeter Sellers as president Muffley MerklinPeter Sellers as the German scholar Dr. StrangeloveThe crew of the bomber opens the folder with targets for their atom bombsSterling Hayden as general Jack d. Ripper and Captain Lionel Mandrakehave entrenchedGeorge c. Scott as general Buck Turgidson lay in the war room out, how a low-flying bomber through the anti-aircraft slipsThe story begins with the American General Jack d. Ripper who thinks Communists everywhere in Western society are infiltrated. He blames his own impotence tofluoridation of the water, according to him a plot to rob the free West of his ' lifeblood '. According to him, therefore any time a war can break out and so he decides to be one step ahead of the Communists: on your own and without the consent of the president, he decides to attack the Soviet Union .
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He gives 34 patrolling Atomic pitchers under his command the signal that they should bombard their goals; the isolated world of the well trained crew of such a bomber is discussed. Then breaks on the Pentagon panic out: none other than Jack d. Ripper sole had the codes to recall the bombers, but who has since committed suicide when attempting to arrest him.

How should the president explain to the Soviet leaders that their country is accidentally bombed? In doing so, he gets to do with generals in his environment that once, now part of the core power is deployed, a preventive total attack on the Russians actually find a good idea and the loss of millions of American lives, as the Soviets their remaining weapons firing, see it as an ' acceptable risk '.

The Russian Ambassador appears in the Pentagon with a surprising communication, which actually only at the next Party Congress should have been done: If the territory of the Soviet Union is attacked automatically and irreversibly run a doomsday device . This machine, designed for reasons of Defense cuts, will all life within ten months from the deleted. The Pentagon gives the positions of the bombers to the Soviet air force, so they can be promptly shot down, except one. In addition, this unit has the Russian air defenses so damaged that communication has become impossible.

Then Dr. Strangelove asked for advice and he knows to give a positive spin to the drama. This scholar, who evidently from origin is a nazi and actually was called beforeMerkwürdigliebe after the Second World War for the Americans to go to work, find it not at all mind if the war both superpowers with each other. He foresees the emergence of a new world order if after 100 years the radioactive fallout is worked out and the descendants of the surviving elite inhabited the Earth again. This elite, including, of course, all those present in the War Room, must be located or retreat into mine shafts deep underground in order to prepare for the arrival of the new man. Every man in the Group has in this vision of the future include ten young, handsome and especially fertile women.

However, he is interrupted in his speech, because the crew of the only remaining bomber, despite technical problems and thanks much inventiveness was able to carry out her orders anyway and has thrown the bomb to a target. Under the guidance of Vera Lynns we'll Meet Again go global now and goes everywhere under the Earth in atomic bombs. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Background<span class="mw-editsection" len="388" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Quotes<span class="mw-editsection" len="384" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * Peter Sellers was selected for four roles but had problems with the Texas accent that he had to learn for the role of Maj. T.J. "King" Kong. When Sellers also broke his ankle had to find another Kubrick actor for that role. John Wayne was asked first, but that did not respond once. Dan Blocker -known from "Bonanza" (1959)-refused because of the left-wing political scenario. Because Kubrick is the actor Slim Pickens reminded from the western "one-eyed Jacks" (1961) was chosen for the role. Pickens (to whom nothing had been told in advance about the movie, and that even the scenario had not seen<sup class="noprint nopopups" len="309" style="line-height:1;">[citation needed] ) was instructed to play the role as straight-forward as possible, as if it concerned a serious drama. This created an amusing effect.
 * In the scenario of Terry Southern Muffley had a serious cold. This was sooo funny played by Peter Sellers that the rest of the actors constantly erupted in laughter. Kubrick then decided that Sellers had to play this role than but seriously, thus giving the rest of the actors the chance to completely deranged roles to put down.
 * The photographic wall decorations in the Office of General Ripper needs Burpelson Airforce Base proposals, but it is actually an aerial view of Heathrow Airport in London.
 * In the film stumbles and falls General Turgidson (played by George c. Scott). This trap was really, but Kubrick found it fit so he had the role in the film.
 * The idea for the end of the film (where singer Vera Lynn "we'll Meet Again" sings about a series of nuclear explosions) is submitted by Spike Milligan, who along with Peter Sellers was part of the comic radio series The Goon Show.
 * Dr. Strangelove suffers seemingly to "ideatorische apraxia" (also known under the name "alien-hand syndrome"), an existing neurological disorder that can be caused by astroke or some other form of brain damage in the corpus callosum (brain bar). Researchers at the University of Aberdeen who identified the condition called it "Dr. Strangelove syndrome." According to professor Sergio Della Sala carried patients themselves exactly as Dr. Strangelove, they hit with their hand and note that their hand has a will of its own. The arm of Strangelove is apparently still ' programmed ' in bringing the Hitler greeting, which let viewers immediately know where the insane German scholar (original name "Merkwürdigeliebe") has its "roots". In addition, the doctor speaks incorrectly to the American president a few times with "Mein Führer".
 * The film is based on the novel "Red Alert" by Peter George, an original and exciting thriller about the possibility of an accidental nuclear war. Stanley Kubrick found some scenes very funny while he was working on the screenplay. With the help of Terry Southern he bowed the story to create a satire. The changes included the addition of Dr. Strangelove itself. Also he gave the other characters names referred to ironically as Turgidson ("turgid" = bloated, distended), Kissoff, Guano (= bird droppings), DeSadesky (Marquis de Sade, where the term "sadism" is coming from) and Merkin Muffley.
 * In an earlier version of the scenario, Dr. Strangelove addressed as Von Klutz.<sup class="noprint nopopups" len="309" style="line-height:1;"> [source?]
 * The film is the debut of actor James Earl Jones (known as the voice of Darth Vader from the Star Warsserie).
 * Stanley Kubrick played chess between takes with George c. Scott. Because Kubrick won by Scott (known as a good chess player) increased Kubrick in Scotts regard. This also had a positive influence on the cooperation: Scott was known as a difficult man.
 * Actor Peter Bull who plays the role of serious Soviet Ambassador could not contain his laugh during a particular scene. This can be seen just before the shot ceases in the scene in which he along with the others behind Dr. Strangelove State.
 * The glove that Peter Sellers carries in his role of Strangelove is by Kubrick. This used the glove when he the hot film lights operated. Sellers found the gloves there sinister look, therefore contributed Strangelove the glove on his right hand-the hand that he had under control.
 * The film's working titles were "The Edge of Doom" and "The Delicate Balance of Terror".
 * In a version of the scenario are all acts in the film being watched by aliens<sup class="noprint nopopups" len="308" style="line-height:1;">[source? ].
 * Since John f. Kennedy was assassinated, was the premiere that was scheduled for december 1963 delayed until January 1964.
 * The film was released on the 14th place of Best Film of all time (Entertainment Weekly) and on the third place of favorite comedies (American Film Institute)<sup class="noprint nopopups" len="308" style="line-height:1;">[source? ].
 * The film has only one female character: Miss Scott (Tracy Reed).
 * The famous scene in which major T.J. "King" Kong as a rodeorider on the bomb is while it is off is "borrowed" from an episode of Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, a TV series from the 1950s.
 * The bombing by major Kong ICBM-complex is located in Laputa. In the book Gulliver's travels (1726) by Jonathan Swift is Laputa (Spanish for "the whore") a place where caricatured scholars live.
 * The United States Air Force was not allow production designers of the film one of their B-52 bombers would see inside. This meant that they an estimate of the Interior of the plane had to make purely based on photos from the outside. In fact, their estimate was so accurate, that the air force was convinced that the film designers had stolen secret information<sup class="noprint nopopups" len="308" style="line-height:1;">[source? ].
 * The setting for the War Room in the White House was designed by Ken Adam.
 * Stanley Kubrick wanted a green tablecloth for the War Room so that it would seem as if the world leaders poker played with the fate of the world<sup class="noprint nopopups" len="308" style="line-height:1;">[source? ].
 * The character General Buck Turgidson (George c. Scott) is modeled after the Commander of the air force and a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Curtis LeMayknown for its rabid anti-Communist attitude. LeMay once said that he was ready to start a nuclear war against the Soviet Union if he ever as president was elected.<sup class="noprint nopopups" len="309" style="line-height:1;"> [source?]
 * "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here. This is the War Room!"
 * "Fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face. "