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Dr. Strangelove
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is a 1964 Black Comedy film directed by Stanley Kubrick. The plot is largely taken from the 1958 novel Red Alert by Peter George, who co-wrote the film's screenplay with Kubrick and Terry Southern. (The same plot, played straight, is used in Fail Safe, which coincidentally enough was another Columbia Pictures release from the same year.)One day during the Cold War, U.S. Air Force Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) goes a little funny in the head and does a silly thing: he orders all the B-52 bombers under his command to carry out a surprise nuclear first strike against the Soviet Union, then puts his entire air base into lockdown, ordering all outside communications cut; all radios confiscated (so that Communist infiltrators can't receive outside commands); and all troops to immediately fire upon anyone who tries to enter the base, even if they appear to be fellow Americans (because they will surely be those wily Communists in disguise). Ripper's aide, British Group Captain Lionel Mandrake (Peter Sellers), tries to talk sense into him but soon realizes that the general has gone right out of his pointy little head, believing that only he stands in the way of a Communist plot to contaminate Americans' "precious bodily fluids" via fluoridated water.At the Pentagon, U.S. President Merkin Muffley (also Peter Sellers) holds an emergency meeting in the War Room with his top advisors. While the Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, General Buck Turgidson (George C. Scott), views the crisis as an opportunity to hit the Russkies where they live once and for all, the President's wheelchair-bound, ex-Nazi science advisor, Dr. Strangelove (Peter Sellers again), and the Soviet ambassador (Peter Bull) both warn Muffley that any attack on the USSR will trigger the Doomsday Machine: a computer programmed to detonate buried cobalt bombs that will kill nearly all life on Earth's surface with their radiation over the course of months if the Soviet Union is attacked (or if any attempt is made to disable the Doomsday Machine). So the President gets on the hotline and desperately attempts to convince the drunken Soviet premier that the imminent attack is merely a silly mistake while the military tries to call the bombers back.The film was supposed to be released in November of 1963, but was held back until January of 1964 to distance it from the JFK assassination. Also in the cast are Slim Pickens as Major T. J. "King" Kong, who commands one of the bomber crews; Keenan Wynn as Colonel Bat Guano, who heads the Army unit ordered by Muffley to attack Ripper's base; and James Earl Jones (making his screen debut) as Lieutenant Lothar Zogg, the bombardier for Kong's crew.In 2023 it was announced that this film would be adapted into stage for London West End by Armando Iannucci, set to open in Autumn 2024, coinciding with the 60th anniversary of the film.Not to be confused with Doctor Strange, or with '60s MLB player Dick "Dr. Strangeglove" Stuart.note Whose nickname was nonetheless an obvious Shout-Out to this film. | |
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Artistic License – Gun Safety | |
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Artistic License – Gun Safety: General Ripper, who really ought to know better, fires his Browning M1919 .30 caliber machine gun from the hip while holding it by the barrel. In Real Life, he would be unlikely to hit anything at medium-to-long range and would probably burn his hand off in the process. | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: President Muffley has some similarities to Adlai Stevenson II, who lost two presidential elections to Dwight D. Eisenhower, whom John F. Kennedy named to be America's ambassador to the United Nations, and who was at the time considered thoroughly decent but also rather wimpy. Reportedly, Stevenson found the similarities Actually Pretty Funny. No, scrub that — Adlai found it absolutely freaking hilarious! Gens. Ripper and Turgidson could both be seen as caricaturing different aspects of real-life USAF General Curtis LeMay. Ripper also draws inspiration from Army General Edwin Walker, who distributed John Birch Society literature to his troops and became a right-wing demagogue after resigning. Strangelove himself has aspects of several real-life nuclear scientists, but his obvious (if never stated) Nazi past specifically evokes Wernher von Braun. Arthur C. Clarke, who knew both Stanley Kubrick and Wernher von Braun, reported that Kubrick once asked him to "tell Wernher I wasn't getting at him." Clarke adds, "I never did because, firstly, I didn't believe him, and secondly, even if Stanley wasn't, Peter Sellers certainly was." Other scientists upon whom the Strangelove character was based were Herman Kahn (who originated the idea of the "Doomsday Device" in his book On Thermonuclear War), Edward Teller and John von Neumann. While many assume Henry Kissinger was an inspiration, Kubrick and Sellers both denied it, and Kissinger's background (he was neither a rocket scientist nor an ex-Nazi) wouldn't fit the character anyway.note Kissinger did however inspire the similar character of Dr. Groetschle in Fail Safe, who fits Kissinger's background and personality to a T. Just after Kubrick died, at least one person who investigated Strangelove's conception suggested that Kissinger might have modeled his public persona once he became famous partly after the character. | |
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The Artifact: A pastry table seen in one scene refers to the original ending, a colossal pie fight, which was deleted from the film's final cut for being too farcical. The fact that a joke was made about the President being "struck down in his prime" by one of the pies didn't help its cause since the JFK assassination had just taken placenote Another "artifact", though only visible if you know to look for it, is when Major Kong notes of the emergency pack in the plane, "A fellow could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff"; if you watch his lips, he's actually saying "Dallas", not "Vegas". The line was re-recorded and dubbed over the scene after JFK was killed in Dallas. | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything? | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: The opening scene, of a B-52 re-fueling in mid-air (which really looks like two planes screwing), set to an instrumental version of "Try A Little Tenderness," no less. Interestingly, it was taken from stock footage that title sequence designer Pablo Ferro simply discovered and made one of cinema's most memorable opening scenes. A more subtle form of symbolism: chewing gum represents the upcoming war. Mandrake forlornly fidgets with a stick of chewing gum while sitting on Ripper's couch, while Turgidson gobbles down stick after stick of gum with aplomb. | |
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Secret Test | |
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Secret Test: Mandrake remarks that the Pentagon is going too far in testing their readiness, and one of the crewmen (the one played by James Earl Jones) speculates that it's a test — "give the go code, and see who would actually go." Major Kong rejects that possibility. | |
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Genius Breeding Act | |
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Genius Breeding Act: Dr. Strangelove proposes a plan for surviving nuclear war that involves preserving the best of humanity in bunkers. Men would be chosen based on their leadership capabilities and wisdom, women based on their appearance and reproductive capacity. The government figures, all of whom are men, are immediately on board with this plan. | |
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Dressing as the Enemy | |
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Dressing as the Enemy: Ripper informs the personnel of the Air Force Base that "commie enemies" may pull this, and the defenders discuss it later when the forces sent by the US President are attacking them. | |
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Gone Horribly Right | |
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Gone Horribly Right: Kubrick’s primary aim in making this movie was to satirize nuclear deterrence theory by demonstrating the inherent craziness of consciously abdicating control over nuclear weapons. Plan R is established to ensure the US has second strike capability even if the President and executive branch are eliminated in a nuclear strike. General Ripper takes this to its extreme conclusion by deciding the President should be denied nuclear authority altogether, and that the military (i.e., General Ripper) should decide when to start a nuclear war. From there, Plan R works perfectly, as the pilots shut off all communication with the US and focus on their targets in the Soviet Union. Likewise, the Doomsday Machine works exactly as planned: automatic and irrevocable nuclear retaliation against the United States following an initial nuclear attack. Within the context of the film, employing Strangelove for his scientific acumen leads to the downfall of American democracy. | |
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A Father to His Men | |
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A Father to His Men: When the base falls, Ripper feels let down and remarks that the soldiers were like his children. It rings as true as anything else he says. Mandrake manages to obliquely mock him. Major Kong is also an example, telling his men that they all deserve promotions and citations regardless of their race, color, or creed. | |
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Poor Communication Kills | |
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Poor Communication Kills: Mandrake has problems reaching the president to recall the bombers, and he finds a payphone, but doesn't have enough pocket change and has a brief issue with British vs American terms. Finally, one of the bombers cannot be recalled via the Override Command because its communication system has been destroyed. Armageddon ensues. Of course, the Soviets didn't tell the world about their Doomsday Device because their premier "loves surprises" and they were planning on revealing it as a surprise soon. It's even enforced by Big Bad General Ripper, whose first action in launching his nuclear attack on Russia is ordering his staff to hand over all their radios (so they won't know he's lying and that the Russians aren't actually attacking). Interestingly, while the Pentagon stated that pretty much the entire scenario depicted was absurd and could never happen (which has since been debunked by academics, see The Other Wiki for details), they did decide that the pay phone scene raised some important questions about whether information could be gotten to the right people fast enough in an emergency. | |
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Failsafe Failure | |
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Failsafe Failure: The Doomsday Machine is deliberately Fail Deadly. Otherwise, it wouldn't be much of a Doomsday Machine, as Strangelove points out. Unfortunately, the Soviets didn't tell anyone about the device before the film takes place. As Strangelove once again points out: As it turns out, they were planning on revealing the information to the world the following Monday, rendering it a complete liability in the interim. Muffley was assured by Turgidson that "Plan R" had safeguards against a rogue launch. Turgidson is reluctant to admit the failure and argues its reliability shouldn't be written off after a single incident. | |
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Deconstructed by Roger Ebert in his essay on the film: | |
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Stealth Pun | |
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Stealth Pun: Dr. Strangelove is strangled by his glove. | |
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Oral Fixation | |
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Oral Fixation: General Ripper is a Cigar Chomper. The Freudian aspect is to some extent lampshaded (or at least made all the more obvious) by his obsession with, um, "precious bodily fluids." Also, Turgidson chews on gum like crazy. | |
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Black Comedy | |
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Black Comedy: The film ridicules the military and political figures who are squabbling in the face of a crisis their policies created, even as it shows the grim consequences their foolishness will have for the entire human race. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: General Ripper's pistol, which he dramatically unveils to threaten Captain Mandrake. He leaves the Browning Machine Gun with Mandrake as he steps into the bathroom, but not before handing him his coat and giving the camera a glimpse of the pistol stuffed into his pants... The CRM-114 alphabetic code, OPE, is shown to the audience as the crew of the Leper Colony prepares for Plan R. Only later is it revealed that OPE was selected because of Ripper's infatuation with "Purity of Essence" and "Peace on Earth." Miss Scott, Turgidson's secretary, is seen briefly as the centerfold model in the Playboy magazine which Kong is reading at the start of the film. | |
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Only Sane Man | |
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Played with Strangelove himself. Despite the Alien Hand Syndrome, there's a brief scene with the president demanding to know who would create a doomsday device; the camera lingers on Strangelove, calmly smoking in the shadow, the president off-screen. A few minutes later, Strangelove casually suggests the mine shaft survival plan and a new system of government, including who lives and who dies. For all intents and purposes, he takes over the US government right then and there, in front of its actual leaders, who are oblivious. Nobody said the Only Sane Man has to be a good person. He looks and speaks like a Looney Tunes character, but everything he says is coldly rational. | |
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Hitler Cam | |
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Hitler Cam: Gen. Ripper is shot this way during the scene where he delivers his insane rant about "our precious bodily fluids." | |
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Red Right Hand | |
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Red Right Hand: Dr. Strangelove's uncooperative right hand, which is so iconic that the real-life disease it's based on is sometimes referred to as "Strangelove Syndrome." | |
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Shoot the Shaggy Dog | |
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Shoot the Shaggy Dog: A film about the dangers of nuclear Armageddon that ends with, of course, nuclear Armageddon. | |
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Extremely Short Timespan | |
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Extremely Short Timespan: The film takes place over less than a day, the time it takes for an airborne B-52 on forward pre-alert condition to reach its objective deep in Russia. | |
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Bilingual Bonus: Dr. Strangelove's name used to be Merkwürdigliebe before he moved to the US and had it changed. Merkwürdigliebe translates as "strange love." | |
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Lampshade Hanging | |
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The Doomsday Machine is deliberately Fail Deadly. Otherwise, it wouldn't be much of a Doomsday Machine, as Strangelove points out. Unfortunately, the Soviets didn't tell anyone about the device before the film takes place. As Strangelove once again points out: | |
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Accidental Pervert | |
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Accidental Pervert: Col. "Bat" Guano, heading an Army division that fought its way into an Air Force base, takes British military attaché Group Captain Mandrake to be "some kind of deviated prevert" who killed the commanding general for "finding out about his preversion and organizing a mutiny of preverts" — most likely on the evidence of his odd accent and uniform. | |
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Two-Keyed Lock | |
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Two-Keyed Lock: The pilot, bombardier, and electronic warfare officer each have to operate the first and second safety switches to arm the bombs. | |
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In-Universe Factoid Failure | |
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In-Universe Factoid Failure: The Soviets started building a doomsday device when they learned from The New York Times that the US were working on a similar device. President Muffley calls that preposterous as he never approved such a thing. While getting your intel from a newspaper is ludicrous, it's not entirely baseless because some kind of preliminary study was indeed made; Dr. Strangelove clarifies that the American device was just a concept that was rejected for being impractical. | |
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Quintessential British Gentleman | |
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Quintessential British Gentleman: Group Captain Mandrake. | |
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Pointless Doomsday Device | |
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Pointless Doomsday Device: The Soviets activated the Doomsday Machine before they told anyone about it, eliminating the whole point of its role as a deterrent from nuclear war. Dr. Strangelove points this out, and the Soviet ambassador counters that they were saving its announcement for a special occasion (See As You Know above). | |
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Gendercide | |
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Gendercide: Implied after the end. With the nuclear holocaust imminent, government leaders plan to hole up in mineshaft shelters with ten women for every man. Gen. Turgidson is very excited at this prospect, provided the US doesn't suffer a "mineshaft gap." | |
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Mad Scientist | |
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Dr. Strangelove's Nazi vein comes back enthusiastically at the end, where he becomes an unambiguous Mad Doctor. | |
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Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping | |
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Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Peter Sellers' portrayal of American President Muffley noticeably lapses into English pronunciation during the Doomsday scene. The supposedly Soviet Ambassador (played by the also-British Peter Bull) was a lost cause from the beginning. | |
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Silly Reason for War | |
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Silly Reason for War: One of the darkest examples ever: Ripper is willing to drop nukes on the Soviet Union and start World War III (not realizing that this will trigger the Doomsday Machine) because he's blaming the Russians for his sexual impotence. | |
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Marked Bullet | |
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Marked Bullet: The bombs in the bomb bay of the B-52 have "Hi There!" (this is the one Kong rides to his death on) and "Dear John" scrawled on them. | |
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We Will Meet Again | |
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We Will Meet Again: The memorable final montage plays the song of the same name over images of atomic explosions, implying the two superpowers are destined to trade blows ever after. | |
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Irrevocable Order | |
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Irrevocable Order: The entire plot, as the general puts the base on lockdown. Played with in that they do manage to revoke it, but by then, the final plane is too damaged to receive the recall. | |
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Sword of Damocles | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_3a27d685 | comment |
Sword of Damocles: The Doomsday Machine was meant to act as a deterrent by way of mutually assured destruction...or at least this was the plan. General Ripper's machinations set it off less than a week before Russia was going to announce its existence. | |
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Properly Paranoid | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_3aec9e5e | comment |
Properly Paranoid: General Turgidson on the Russian ambassador, who takes a photo of The Big Board with a camera disguised as a pocket watch (or a pocket watch with an integrated camera) at the end. It's ambiguous if the miniature camera really was his or if Turgidson actually planted it on him, but the ambassador does turn up with a miniature camera later on. | |
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Vengeful Vending Machine | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_3bf7904f | comment |
Vengeful Vending Machine: Col. Guano has to shoot a Coca-Cola vending machine to get change for a crucial phone call to the President. He gets Coke squirted in his face. | |
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Skewed Priorities | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_3d2c6d30 | comment |
Skewed Priorities: When Muffley calls to warn him of the impending attack. Kissov seems more deeply concerned that Muffley doesn't like him as a friend and would rather spend time chatting with him socially. | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle: The base's defences are overwhelmed by an elite airborne division. | |
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The One Thing I Don't Hate About You | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_40652d02 | comment |
The One Thing I Don't Hate About You: Mandrake laments his treatment in a Japanese POW camp, but admits that the Japanese do make bloody good cameras. Downplayed by Turgidson, who despises the Russians but tries to balance the scolding with a fair compliment. | |
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Left It In | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_42064d3c | comment |
Left It In: This is how Stanley Kubrick managed to convince George C. Scott to be so over-the-top in his role as General Turgidson. Scott wanted to play him as a noble yet tragic character despite the film being a comedy. So Kubrick would encourage him to do "warmup" takes in preparation for the real thing. The over-the-top takes thus were used in the actual movie, and hilarity was held by all, except Scott. | |
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Funny Foreigner | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_434d893c | comment |
Funny Foreigner: Peter Sellers portrays two such characters: a stuffy British military commander, and the former Nazi expert Dr. Strangelove, both of whom speak in heavy accents. | |
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Xanatos Speed Chess | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_447d9e50 | comment |
Xanatos Speed Chess: Despite Kissov bungling the announcement of the Doomsday Machine and General Ripper going off half-cocked, Strangelove essentially takes over the US government shortly after the climax of the film, with none the wiser. | |
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Characterization Marches On | |
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Characterization Marches On: Muffley retains some minor but inconsistent characterization. Early on, Peter Sellers faked cold symptoms to play up the character's apparent weakness in a comic fashion. Kubrick ultimately found it inappropriate and aimed for a more straight performance. However, the President's cold from early takes is still evident but intermittent in several scenes. | |
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Stock Footage | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_4856ac40 | comment |
Stock Footage: The film opens using stock footage of a KC-135 refueling a B-52 and closes using archive footage of atomic bombs exploding. | |
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Chummy Commies | |
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Chummy Commies: Despite activating the Doomsday Machine, the Soviets did this only because the original General Ripper ordered a nuclear attack, and the "trigger" for the machine was automated. Also, both national leaders do their best to avoid a nuclear war. | |
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Death by Adaptation | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_48c99e19 | comment |
Death by Adaptation: Life on Earth as we know it! In the novel Red Alert, the lone bomber fails to destroy its target and nuclear catastrophe is averted. | |
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Bombers on the Screen | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_4ab02d9f | comment |
Bombers on the Screen: The primary purpose of The Big Board is to track the B-52 bombers bound for targets in the Soviet Union. | |
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Apocalyptic Montage | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_4ba0ce53 | comment |
Apocalyptic Montage: The film ends with a montage of nuclear explosions, famously set to Vera Lynn's "We'll Meet Again." | |
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You Are Too Late | |
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You Are Too Late: Instead of stopping the attack that would set off the doomsday weapon, the characters fail and a small amount of the population has to flee to underground bunkers in order to survive. | |
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Downer Ending | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_4e3d253b | comment |
Downer Ending: Despite the best efforts of both the Americans and Russians, Major Kong's bomber doesn't receive the recall order since their radio equipment was damaged in a missile strike and, with their fuel running low, they decide to bomb a closer target of opportunity, instead of one of their assigned targets where the Russians are waiting to shoot them down. This triggers the Russians' Doomsday Machine, which will render the Earth's surface uninhabitable for nearly a hundred years and force what's left of mankind to live underground until then. The final scene is a montage of nuclear detonations accompanied by the song "We'll Meet Again", implying that even long after we're all dead, whoever comes next will still be finding disgustingly stupid and petty reasons to kill each other. And yet, it still remains hilarious. | |
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Wham Line | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_4e7c4536 | comment |
Wham Line: Setting aside the evident parodic elements at this point in the film, it can still be argued that General Ripper has a logical reason for his behavior, as he spends every moment utterly calm and polite. Mandrake (and the audience) only start to realize he's insane with this line: | |
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Beneath the Mask | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_4fbc0887 | comment |
Beneath the Mask: General Ripper is the picture of sanity, even while ordering his men to carry out a massive nuclear attack under false pretenses. There is not a single moment where he lets the mask slip, until he finally decides to let Mandrake in on the "secret" of the communist plot he thinks he's uncovered. After that, combined with the approach of outside troops, he (mentally) goes down the drain very rapidly. | |
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Disproportionate Retribution | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_50b05d30 | comment |
Disproportionate Retribution: Pretty much what sets the plot in motion. General Ripper orders a nuclear strike against the Soviet Union because he was unable to perform sexually (and, due to his unshakeable faith in his own virility, believes this must be due to a Soviet water fluoridation conspiracy). The Doomsday Device is designed and built to respond to an attack — any attack of any magnitude — with the detonation of so much salted nuclear ordinance that Earth's surface will be sterilized of all life with the possible exception of the cockroach. | |
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Crazy-Prepared | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_50f66629 | comment |
Crazy-Prepared: Ambassador DeSadesky accuses General Turgidson of trying to plant a Spy Cam on him and is later shown with another spy camera. This means that either Turgidson always carries a spy camera in case of such an eventuality, or the Russian ambassador carried two spy cameras. The survival kit carried by the crew of The Leper Colony. There's a season's worth of MacGyver material in there (not to mention that you could have a pretty good weekend in Dallas Vegas with all that stuff). The collection of Attack Plans kept in a safe aboard each B-52 provides instruction for every possible scenario that could be played out in a nuclear exchange. Truth in Television. General Ripper, (emphasis on crazy) commander of an Air Force base, casually carries a machine gun in his golf bag, handy for additional holes. In his binder marked, "Targets in Megadeath," General Turgidson had a study ready for "this eventuality." | |
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Riding the Bomb | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_52f74379 | comment |
Riding the Bomb: Major Kong delivering his payload and wildly whipping his Stetson hat around as he plummets to a thermonuclear death and a blaze of glory is the Trope Maker. | |
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Lensman Arms Race | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_53ecf83f | comment |
Lensman Arms Race: The Doomsday Weapon was built by the Soviets to attain an unsurpassable upper hand over the Americans. However, General Ripper launches his attack on Russia before the weapon is announced, creating the Foregone Conclusion to the movie. Furthermore, a nuclear holocaust can't stop the arms race, because now the Americans have to move people into mine shafts as they wait out the radioactivity on the surface. Fearing the Soviets will move more people into mine shafts and have superior numbers when they emerge, Buck Turgidson declares, "We can't allow a mineshaft gap!" | |
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Operation: [Blank] | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_56863152 | comment |
Operation: [Blank]: Turgidson tells the President that the bombers in Ripper's wing were airborne "as part of a special exercise we were holding called Operation Drop-Kick." | |
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Visual Innuendo | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_58030b25 | comment |
Visual Innuendo: There are a number of phallic and sexual images throughout the film to highlight its theme of sexuality. The famous opening credits sequence of planes refueling in a way that looks like sexual congress, especially that between dragonflies. General Ripper is particularly fond of compensating for his impotency with enormous cigars (and a machine gun). Major Kong straddles the strikingly tubular bomb just before it explodes. | |
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Enemy Mine | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_5989e3b6 | comment |
Enemy Mine: President Muffley brings the Soviets into the loop as soon as he is informed of the peril. Turgidson is dismayed, instead urging that the United States launch an all-out attack now that Ripper has committed it to war. | |
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Scientist vs. Soldier | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_59bde072 | comment |
Scientist vs. Soldier: Admittedly, everyone is equally unsuited for addressing the threat, but the titular doctor actually acknowledges the Cobalt-Thorium G bomb as a horrific risk to all life everywhere, while General Buck Turgidson wistfully wishes that the US had one of their own. | |
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Pragmatic Villainy | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_5ca80293 | comment |
Pragmatic Villainy: The United States ruled out building a nefarious device like the Soviet Doomsday Device only because they realized that such a device is not a practical deterrent and could come back to bite them hard. | |
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Central Theme | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_5ce7dbb9 | comment |
Central Theme: "War is the continuation of sex by other means." | |
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The Smurfette Principle | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_5d753b19 | comment |
The Smurfette Principle: Miss Scott is General Turgidson's mistress and the only female character in the entire movie. Too bad she doesn't get enough screen time to develop a personality. | |
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Public Domain Soundtrack | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_5f70322e | comment |
Public Domain Soundtrack: Every scene of the bomber crew is accompanied by an orchestral arrangement of When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again/Johnny I Hardly Knew Ya, two folksongs which share a tune, but very different tones. | |
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Stupidest Thing I've Ever Heard | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_60af5e4 | comment |
Stupidest Thing I've Ever Heard: Pronounced by Major Kong during his initial incredulous reaction when the crew receives the go ahead codes for "Plan R." | |
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Names to Run Away from Really Fast | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_60fa92ac | comment |
Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Whoever thought that putting a General Jack D. Ripper in control of the nuclear launch codes was a good idea? | |
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Bunny-Ears Lawyer | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_61b8f9e2 | comment |
Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Dr. Strangelove is a brilliant former Nazi with a severe case of alien hand syndrome: his right hand gives the Hitler salute without his control, takes extreme effort to force back into his lap, and occasionally attempts to strangle him, among other things. The War Room leaders are so dependent on his expertise that they are willing to overlook his bizarre behavior. | |
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Sanity Slippage | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_62434fe2 | comment |
Sanity Slippage: Kubrick's thumbprint: General Ripper at some point in his backstory, as he was able to pass the safeguard tests, and Turgidson and Mandrake are surprised by his sudden behavior. Dr. Strangelove's Nazi vein comes back enthusiastically at the end, where he becomes an unambiguous Mad Doctor. | |
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Viewers Are Geniuses | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_641cf81d | comment |
Viewers Are Geniuses: The "survival kit" includes, among others, nylon stockings. While this can be lost to today's audience, in the '60s soldiers were issued nylons — to wear under their uniforms for warmth. | |
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World War III | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_6454966e | comment |
SAC's motto "Peace Is Our Profession" is offhandedly highlighted by the camera angle several times: when Ripper explains how he's "preventing" World War III with his first-strike, and later when the soldiers are fighting for the base. | |
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Organ Autonomy | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_646b9cc8 | comment |
Organ Autonomy: Dr. Strangelove's right hand has a mind of its own, down to attempting to strangle him and snapping off Nazi salutes. | |
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My God, You Are Serious! | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_6566a884 | comment |
My God, You Are Serious!: Major Kong's first reaction to being told Plan R is to tell his crew to stop horsing around. He sobers up really quickly. | |
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Appeal to Force | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_65efc6dc | comment |
Appeal to Force: The point of the Doomsday Machine. Not that it does the Soviets any good in the long run. | |
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Dying Moment of Awesome | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_6682d6e4 | comment |
Dying Moment of Awesome: Riding a nuke all the way to the target, whooping and hollering like a cowboy all the way down, and ending the world is about as awesome as a death gets! It's one of the most memorable (and parodied) scenes in the film. | |
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Parody Names | |
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Parody Names: The BLAND Corporation, a parody of the Real Life RAND Corporation. Talk about a Bland-Name Product. | |
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Repeating So the Audience Can Hear | |
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Repeating So the Audience Can Hear: Occurs on and off during the conversation between President Muffley and Premier Kisov as Muffley tries to nudge the conversation back on topic after Kisov's drunken digressions: | |
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Vodka Drunkenski | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_6875260 | comment |
Vodka Drunkenski: Even though we hear only President Muffley's side of the conversation, it's quite obvious that Premier Kissov is sloshed out of his gourd. It's explained earlier when DeSadesky warns Muffley beforehand of an intoxicated Kissov. General Ripper asks Mandrake if he has ever seen a Russian drinking water and then "concludes" that they only drink vodka. | |
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Room Full of Crazy | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_6941e30b | comment |
Room Full of Crazy: The doodles General Jack D. Ripper writes out on a sheet of paper (Peace On Earth, Purity Of Essence, POE) are not only a key to understanding his conspiratorial paranoia but also an important clue to figuring out the all-important "Recall Launch" code that can stop World War III. | |
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Those Wacky Nazis | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_697b5232 | comment |
Those Wacky Nazis: Dr. Strangelove is portrayed as a comically bizarre weirdo who is revealed to be completely insane at the very end of the film. He's gleeful that the Soviet and American world order is going to end in nuclear hellfire, completing what the Nazis couldn't do, and his plans for a post-apocalyptic humanity are ideal for Might Makes Right fascism to reign supreme. | |
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Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap! | |
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Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: When President Muffley asks General Turgidson whether the remaining bomber has a chance to reach its target, Turgidson enthusiastically describes the crew's skill and technique and concludes by declaring "Hell, ye—!... y—...y—..." — realizing the implications. Another example occurs early in the film when Group Captain Mandrake realizes that General Ripper has gone insane. | |
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Chewing the Scenery | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_69fb91e8 | comment |
Chewing the Scenery: Most of...well, Strangelove himself's lines. Animals...vill be brred...and SLAUGHTERED... HAAAAAA! (wrestles with own arm) MEIN FUHRER! I CAN WALK!!! Stanley Kubrick actually tricked Scott into doing this (as General Buck Turgidson). For each scene he told Scott to go completely over the top in the first few takes, before playing it straight in the later ones, promising to not use the earlier, wilder ones. (He lied.) Kubrick wanted Turgidson to be a completely silly, ridiculous character, and Scott wasn't comfortable playing the role that way, taking himself a little too seriously and putting his pride over the needs of the film and the wishes of its director. ...Kubrick gets what Kubrick wants. | |
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Sliding Scale of Gender Inequality | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_6ad1eeb8 | comment |
Sliding Scale of Gender Inequality: The film has precisely one female in the movie, a secretary who is also a Playboy centerfold model. | |
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Jerkass Has a Point | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_6b05b601 | comment |
Jerkass Has a Point: Everything General Turgidson says sounds deranged, but it's mostly factually correct. | |
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Serious Business | |
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Serious Business: Inverted. It's the audience who gags at the enormity of the implications. The majority of the characters — either by circumstance or by training — are so tunnel-visioned that they comically miss the bigger picture. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Colonel "Bat" Guano is "batshit" insane. His Meaningful Name is lampshaded by Mandrake, who asks him if his name is real. What's really surprising is that the name was improvised by Sellers. | |
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FanService | |
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Fanservice: Precisely one female character appears in this movie: General Turgidson's mistress and secretary, heard in one scene and seen in a bikini in another. She also appears on a Playboy centerfold. | |
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Punny Name | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_6d7026fa | comment |
Punny Name: Many of them. General Jack D. Ripper is self-explanatory. A merkin is a pubic wig often seen in burlesque. "Muff" is slang for vagina. With President Merkin Muffley, the film basically admits that one of its most well-meaning characters is, in schoolyard terms, a bald pussy. Guano is bat droppings collected for use as fuel, so Col. "Bat" Guano = "batshit," i.e. insane. "Alexei de Sadeski" just puts a stock Russian suffix on "de Sade". | |
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Disc-One Final Boss | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_6de71c57 | comment |
Disc-One Final Boss: General Ripper is the Big Bad who kick-starts the entire plot. However, he ultimately chooses death over capture roughly two-thirds of the way through the film. The remaining time is spent trying (emphasis on trying) to stop Major Kong and his flight crew from delivering the bomb that will set off the Doomsday Machine. | |
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Here We Go Again! | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_6edc54d5 | comment |
Here We Go Again!: At the end of the film, it's clear that both sides are preparing to continue the Cold War after the surviving humans emerge from the mineshafts. The Americans are worried about a "mineshaft gap," while the Soviet ambassador takes pictures of the War Room. | |
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Understatement | |
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Understatement: General Turgidson gets several of these in quick succession when he informs the President of the United States that General Ripper, a lower-echelon American military commander, has ordered a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union without the approval or knowledge of the White House or the Pentagon. When the President asks how General Ripper could possibly order such an attack, Buck says: The President questions how the Human Reliability Tests didn't catch General Ripper's burgeoning psychosis: Buck advocates following General Ripper's lead and to launch an all-out nuclear attack on Russia: When the President is talking with the Soviet Premier, he attempts to describe what Ripper did. | |
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Adaptation Title Change | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_71268450 | comment |
Adaptation Title Change: Dr. Strangelove was based on the novel Red Alert. | |
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Sensor Suspense | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_713e479 | comment |
Sensor Suspense: When the missiles are approaching the nuclear bomber. | |
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Godzilla Threshold | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_72856b70 | comment |
Godzilla Threshold: The situation is so dire that President Muffley is perfectly willing to give the Soviets all the intel they could ever need to shoot down his own country’s bombers and avert nuclear genocide. | |
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Radio Silence | |
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Radio Silence: General Ripper issues radio silence on his airbase, making his men think that they're under attack. After Captain Mandrake, while shutting off his own radio, discovers that civilian stations are still broadcasting music, he gradually begins to realize that there is no emergency at all, and Ripper is deliberately trying to fool the airbase into starting World War III. | |
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Grey-and-Gray Morality | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_7335ffa9 | comment |
Grey-and-Gray Morality: The Americans and Soviets aren't that different. Despite the crisis being told from the American point of view (which allows for a more direct satirization of the Western power), neither side is really meant to be the good guys, as they both indulge in highly morally questionable behavior (the Soviets build a Doomsday Device, which is bad enough, only to compound things by not telling the Americans about it, while the American Plan R is simply a manual Doomsday Device that's also designed to fail in a deadly fashion, and they're using an obvious Nazi as a science advisor). They try to avert the catastrophe, yet each side is just as scheming or conniving or manipulative as the other, constantly harping on about various "gaps" (missile, doomsday, mineshaft, etc.), and even after causing The End of the World as We Know It, they just can't take a step back, look at themselves, and wonder how much of this is their own fault. | |
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Unwitting Pawn | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_733e007a | comment |
Unwitting Pawn: The crew of The Leper Colony. Poor guys are just following orders. They don't know that the guy who gave them has lost it. | |
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Spared by the Adaptation | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_7453bc5b | comment |
Spared by the Adaptation: In the novelization, General Ripper escapes from the chaos at Burpleson on his private plane rather than commit suicide. | |
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Try Everything | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_74ede509 | comment |
Try Everything: Gen. Turgidson explains that they're trying every possible permutation for the CRM-114's prefix code to issue the recall order, but with over 17,000 possible prefixes (17,576 precisely), it'd take three days to transmit all of them. They've got less than two hours to issue the order. | |
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The Cuckoolander Was Right | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_75979171 | comment |
The Cuckoolander Was Right: General Turgidson comes off like an unhinged, paranoid goofball, but darned if he isn't right about the Russian ambassador spying in the War Room. Doctor Strangelove is right about why building a doomsday machine as a defensive measure and not telling anybody about it is a terribly bad idea. | |
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Our Presidents Are Different | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_75c952bf | comment |
Our Presidents Are Different: Merkin Muffley is no Jack Kennedy. President strawman for the most part, Peter Sellers and caricature go hand in hand, taken to the extreme during the phone call with his Russian counterpart. The man is compassionate and softspoken, but he comes off as weak, which is underscored by his baldness, poor eyesight and voice, affected by a cold in some scenes. To his credit, he's able to shut down Turgidson's gung-ho suggestions and is a Reasonable Authority Figure who takes the right decisions. These Hidden Depths are modeled after Adlai Stevenson's. | |
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Chiaroscuro | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_75e2bf23 | comment |
Chiaroscuro: The War Room is lit this way. | |
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The Comically Serious | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_76b4b7dd | comment |
The Comically Serious: Pretty much everyone, but General Ripper and Col. "Bat" Guano take the cake. Deconstructed by Roger Ebert in his essay on the film: | |
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From Bad to Worse | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_7870735b | comment |
From Bad to Worse: Anything that could go wrong in the prevention of the end of the world, does. | |
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Dueling Works | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_7a98141d | comment |
Dueling Works: Fail Safe was also made from the same source material, but plays it straight. | |
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Sex Is Evil | |
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Sex Is Evil: General Ripper's insane conspiracy theories came about after experiencing confusion over sexual intercourse. He didn't know what a refractory period was, and thus interpreted his post-coital exhaustion as the woman stealing his "vital essence." Sex Is Evil, and I Am Horny: But he still finds it important to mention to Mandrake that he still sleeps with women, he just doesn't "let them have his essence." Sounds like prostate cancer waiting to happen. | |
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Actually Pretty Funny | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_8042e814 | comment |
George C. Scott originally gave a subtle portrayal of Colonel Turgidson. Before filming each scene, Kubrick would tell him to do a few takes really over the top to help entertain the crew and warm up for the "real" takes. Almost the entire performance that made it into the film was made of these "practice" takes. It works. It works so hard. Notably, Scott was very upset at which takes were used, as he had been assured that his "serious" takes would be the ones used, vowing to never work with Kubrick again, although he also admitted that he had to admire Kubrick's ingenuity and sheer audacity in playing that trick on him. | |
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_808cbaeb | comment |
Also subverted after the air base is successfully captured—Mandrake tries to use a hotline to SAC to communicate the recall prefix code, but the network (and the phones) have all been shot up or shut down as part of the fighting, meaning Mandrake has to use a pay phone to place a long-distance call to the Pentagon. And they won't even accept the charges for a collect call. | |
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Dysfunction Junction | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_820ac3c5 | comment |
Dysfunction Junction: Part of the hilarity of the movie is that practically no one in American and Soviet high command is right in the head to deal with the crisis, minor Only Sane Man moments aside. Understandable, as their dysfunction is what created the crisis in the first place. | |
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Large Ham | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_823c6e3e | comment |
Strangelove's Large Ham behavior is so distracting that it's jarring during a brief shot of him in shadow, calmly smoking while the others wonder who set up the Soviet doomsday device, underscoring that Strangelove is the new shadow leader of the western world. | |
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Compensating for Something | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_8319aaea | comment |
Compensating for Something: The entire message in one sentence: "Men make war to prove they have big dicks, and it'll destroy the world now that there are nuclear weapons." In particular, General Ripper launches World War III specifically to compensate for his own sexual impotence, which he has blamed on the Soviets through Insane Troll Logic. | |
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BFG | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_8344209e | comment |
BFG: General Ripper keeps an M1919A4 machine gun in his golf bag! | |
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Straight Man | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_83b464fb | comment |
Straight Man: Peter Sellers plays two of these, oddly enough. His third role more than makes up for it. | |
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Dystopia Is Hard | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_83f43ca9 | comment |
Dystopia Is Hard: The secretive nature of the Soviet Union means that they keep everything under wraps...including their doomsday device, whose purpose of deterrence can only work if people know about it! | |
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Reality Is Unrealistic | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_85557b38 | comment |
Reality Is Unrealistic: The B-52 scenes were filmed in Britain. The film crew thought that Slim Pickens was dressed in costume and putting on the 'Texan' accent, and someone on the crew expressed surprise when he spoke that way after a shoot and continued wearing the cowboy getup, until being informed that that was the way he normally spoke and dressed. He wasn't 'putting on' an accent or character, that's just literally who he is. Slim's accent wasn't even Texan, but rather "California Okie," an odd blend that occurred when Dust Bowlers relocated from Oklahoma and North Texas to California during the Great Depression. It has since died out in its "true" form, but has influenced most modern California accents, especially NorCal. | |
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Lampshaded Double Entendre | |
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Lampshaded Double Entendre: "Premier Kissov is a man of the people, but he is also a man, if you get my meaning." | |
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What Were You Thinking? | |
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What Were You Thinking?: Dr. Strangelove angrily asks the ambassador why the Soviets didn't tell the world about their Doomsday Device before activating it. He meekly replies it was supposed to be a surprise for the Premier. | |
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The Big Board | |
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The Big Board: Trope Namer. A gigantic, electronic strategic map of the USSR. | |
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Truth in Television | |
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Truth in Television: A 2014 article in The New Yorker by Eric Schlosser confirmed what many had long suspected: that despite the disclaimer placed in front of the movie and the scorn heaped upon its plot by the military establishment at the time, for many decades it was entirely possible for someone other than the US President to launch a nuclear first strike without authorization. The 24-hour B-52 squadrons within 2 hours of their targets inside the USSR? They were part of Operation Chrome Dome. Fears that the Russians are trying to corrupt American institutions through other means, on the other hand, are alive and well on both sides of the aisle (though they'll often disagree on which institutions they're gunning for.) Ripper's paranoia about water fluoridation was based on real conspiracy theories about the effects of fluoridation, some of which persist to this day on both extremes of the political spectrum, minus the "vodka-drinking Russians did it" part. The babbling about a "doomsday gap" and a "mineshaft gap" was a nod to alleged "bomber gap" of the mid-1950s and rhetoric from the 1960 presidential campaign when John F. Kennedy had attacked Nixon and the Eisenhower Administration for allowing the Soviets to open up a "missile gap" between themselves and the United States (in fact, the USA actually had more missiles). This kind of discourse would continue in the seventies with the so-called "Cruiser gap." The fact that Strangelove is obviously a former Nazi isn't far-fetched. The US imported/impressed many German scientists after World War II (as did the Soviets, for that matter), the most famous being Wernher von Braun, who designed the V2 rocket for the Nazis and later turned his talents to designing missiles for the Army and NASA. It was his design team's Saturn rockets that ultimately took humanity to the moon in 1969, and von Braun himself became a minor media celebrity in his own right. | |
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Stiff Upper Lip | |
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Stiff Upper Lip: Mandrake for a while, until "Bat" Guano's obstructionism makes him lose it. | |
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Go Out with a Smile | |
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Go Out with a Smile: Major Kong certainly had a blast for his last ten seconds alive!!! | |
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Everything Explodes Ending | |
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Everything Explodes Ending: The film ends in this precise manner, in a very Black Comedy sense. | |
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Just Before the End | |
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Just Before the End: The film takes place at the climax of a Lensman Arms Race and ends with the doomsday device destroying the world. | |
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Soviet Superscience | |
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Soviet Superscience: Subverted. The characters initially react as if it were a big feat and the ominous name alone reinforces this perception, but Strangelove points out that the Doomsday Machine is within the means of even the smallest nuclear power. | |
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Mr. Exposition | |
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Mr. Exposition: General Turgidson and Doctor Strangelove are advisors who explain most of the strategical and technical details to the President, and to the audience by extension. | |
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Doomsday Device | |
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Doomsday Device: The Trope Namer; the film begins with a narrator describing a Soviet superweapon rumored to be in the Arctic. It turns out to be a computer network designed to automatically deploy dozens of super-radioactive nukes at the moment of a nuclear strike on Russia. The upside is that it can respond to nuclear attack without human input, the downside is that it won't respond to the Russians when it wants them to not destroy the world. | |
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One-Liner, Name... One-Liner | |
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One-Liner, Name... One-Liner: | |
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Ignored Epiphany | |
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Ignored Epiphany: Both the Americans and the Soviets implemented doomsday schemes which have accidentally resulted in the end of all life on the planet. An emergency plan is quickly conceived to send a few people underground to live in mineshafts for 100 years to prevent the extinction of the human race until the radiation disperses. However, rather than realizing humanity will be lucky if it survives at all, and that it was the geopolitical and ideological competition and paranoia which led to this in the first place, both sides almost immediately begin making plans to "out-breed" the other while they wait underground in the mines, and make plans to stash away weapons for the inevitable war which will occur when they emerge. | |
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Rule of Symbolism | |
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Rule of Symbolism: An odd example, the table in the War Room has a green top, like a poker table, implying the leaders are gambling and bluffing with the human race. It doesn't show on screen, as the movie is black and white, but Kubrick insisted on it anyway. The film's rated PG and pretty inoffensive compared to what's in movies today, but still Strangelove has been seen as an allegory of sex "from foreplay to explosion." The film is loaded with sexual imagery and innuendo, mostly phallic symbols and sexually-charged character names. The opening sequence of B-52s being fueled in midair looks a lot like planes having sex, and the background song is "Try a Little Tenderness." Then, of course, there's the famous image of Kong riding the bomb. It's probably no coincidence that the bomb looks an awful lot like a giant penis sticking between Kong's legs. (The airmen have written "Dear John" and "Hi there" on those bombs.) And let's not forget the series of massive explosions that destroy the earth, which, in a certain light, seem about as orgasmic as a thing can be. Maybe the film is trying to show all the Cold War posturing and build up of nuclear arms as a massive case of a penis-measuring contest. The whole thing is about males not feeling sexually potent or virile, and generally trying to prove how tough they are. The scene where Gen. Ripper explains to Mandrake the first time he ever became aware of the "Commies" draining his precious bodily fluids seems to support that idea. It's also probably no coincidence that Ripper is named after Jack the Ripper, the infamous murderer of prostitutes who had some weird sexual proclivities, like, oh, murdering prostitutes for example. Strangelove has a black-gloved arm that he can't control. The black glove belonged to Kubrick, who wore them on the set to protect his hand from the hot lights he was handling. Sellers thought it would be a great prop for Strangelove, and it also reminded him of the black-gloved mad scientist in Fritz Lang's 1927 film Metropolis. | |
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Apocalypse How | |
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Apocalypse How: Planetary and likely Total Extinction: "Obviously, you've never heard of Cobalt-Thorium G. When they are exploded, they'll create a doomsday shroud, that would circle the earth for ninety-three years!" | |
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Apocalypse Wow | |
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Apocalypse Wow: The Doomsday Device, while "We'll Meet Again" plays. | |
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Nothing Personal | |
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Nothing Personal: Used in the second sense: "You just can't expect a bunch of ignorant peons to understand a machine like some of our boys — and that's not meant as an insult, Mr. Ambassador." | |
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Hotline | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_92e0fc5c | comment |
Hotline: Not actually the Moscow-Washington line, but rather an ordinary phone. Which is even worse. Considering the nature of the ensuing conversation, as well as the entire film itself, that is very, very likely intentional. To be specific, the Americans tried to get the Soviet premier on the hotline, but were unable to reach him. The Soviet ambassador recommended they try a Moscow exchange number, as the premier was apparently out partying "off the books"—"the Premier is a man of the people, but he is also a man, if you take my meaning." Also subverted after the air base is successfully captured—Mandrake tries to use a hotline to SAC to communicate the recall prefix code, but the network (and the phones) have all been shot up or shut down as part of the fighting, meaning Mandrake has to use a pay phone to place a long-distance call to the Pentagon. And they won't even accept the charges for a collect call. | |
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Exact Time to Failure | |
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Exact Time to Failure: Justified, as a crewman on the bomber calculates how much flying time they have left after the missile explosion causes a fuel leak. Even then, he has to adjust his timetable when the fuel leak grows mid-flight. | |
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Villainous Breakdown | |
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Villainous Breakdown: General Ripper is calm and in control for much of the film, but toward the end, he starts to seem visibly unhinged and disheveled. It begins when he starts explaining his motivations and sexual impotence to Mandrake and only grows worse as his base is seized. When his men surrender and he realizes he's going to be tortured for the recall code, he reaches his wits' end and kills himself. | |
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Riddle for the Ages | |
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Riddle for the Ages: The spy camera General Turgidson claims to find on the Russian ambassador. Did Turgidson really plant it on him, as the ambassador claims, or, given his use of a real spy camera to photograph the big board at the end, was it really his and he was accusing Turgidson of planting it on him it as plausible deniability? What was Strangelove's plan that he wanted to share before yelling "Mein Führer, I can walk!"? | |
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Big Bad | |
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Big Bad: General Jack D. Ripper starts the entire affair by ordering the strike on Russia. | |
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Never My Fault | |
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Never My Fault: General Turgidson set up the "human reliability tests" that cleared who would be high up enough in the military to potentially call for a nuclear strike as part of Plan R. When Turgidson is informing the president of the crisis, he's transparently trying to both shift blame away from himself and downplay the seriousness of the situation. Despite the fact that the Human Reliability Tests were meant to prevent this situation from ever occurring (and therefore the program has indisputably turned out to be a complete failure) Turgidson almost sounds like his feelings are hurt when the President rightly calls him out on it. | |
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Orchestral Bombing | |
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Orchestral Bombing: And what a bombing. | |
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Cut Himself Shaving | |
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Cut Himself Shaving: Guano ironically lampshades it against Mandrake when he is informed of Ripper's death. | |
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Superweapon Surprise | |
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Superweapon Surprise: The Doomsday Machine, "as you know, the Premier loves surprises." It was meant to be announced the following Monday. | |
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555 | |
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555: Burpleson 3-9180 is the number of the booth phone from which Group Captain Mandrake is calling the President to try and stop the bombers from attacking Russia. | |
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This Is a Work of Fiction | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_986bd638 | comment |
This Is a Work of Fiction: The US version has this kind of disclaimer: "It is the stated position of the U.S. Air Force that their safeguards would prevent the occurrence of such events as are depicted in this film. Furthermore, it should be noted that none of the characters portrayed in this film are meant to represent any real persons living or dead." Actually a subversion or a false reassurance since it conveys the stated position of the Air Force about the subject but not the acknowledgement of the filmmakers, and most of the main characters are definitely caricatures of real life figures. | |
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Better to Die than Be Killed | |
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Better to Die than Be Killed: General Ripper does this, which is all the more hilariously ironic given that the threat is all in his own demented mind. | |
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"Ass" in Ambassador | |
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"Ass" in Ambassador: After asking for a Cuban cigar and being offered one from Jamaica, the Russian ambassador snaps, "No, I do not support the work of imperialist stooges." He's countered, "Oh, only Commie stooges, huh?" | |
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This Is Not a Drill | |
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This Is Not a Drill: | |
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Armed Farces | |
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Armed Farces: The militaries of the world (specifically that of the US and Russia, but it's meant to target militaries and politicians in general) are satirized throughout the movie. | |
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Dirty Communists | |
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Dirty Communists: Satirizing this trope is one of the central tenets of the film, but the Soviets themselves are openly lampooned as well. | |
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A Nuclear Error | |
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A Nuclear Error: | |
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Sex Is Evil, and I Am Horny | |
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Sex Is Evil, and I Am Horny: But he still finds it important to mention to Mandrake that he still sleeps with women, he just doesn't "let them have his essence." Sounds like prostate cancer waiting to happen. | |
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Suicide Mission | |
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Suicide Mission: The crew of the damaged Leper Colony can either turn back, with a slim chance of reaching safety, or press on to certain death. And then Major Kong rides the bomb to oblivion, making it a literal suicide mission for him in particular! | |
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Sex Is Violence | |
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Sex Is Violence: The film's central theme is men fulfilling sexual urges through war. General Ripper unleashes Armageddon in an act of insane paranoia brought about by sexual frustration. On the other hand, General Turgidson is saner than Ripper, but he's still a horndog whose trip to the War Room prevents him from having a sexual dalliance (presumably an affair) with his secretary. He's soon roused to lusting for war once it becomes clear that the nation has few other options. | |
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Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_9ee065ab | comment |
Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday: When the radio operator checks the code in his book, one can briefly see "Valid: 13 September 1963" on the top of the page. Yep, you guessed it — the date was Friday the 13th. | |
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Leitmotif | |
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Leitmotif: 'When Johnny Comes Marching Home' plays whenever Major Kong's B-52 appears. It could, knowing Kubrick, also be a musical Double Entendre on the much, much darker 'Johnny I hardly knew ya'. | |
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Secondary Character Title | |
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Secondary Character Title: The good doctor is a memorable character, to be sure, but definitely not the main one. | |
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Improv | |
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Improv: Kubrick used three cameras to shoot his Dr. Strangelove scenes so the best material could be edited together. Most famously, much of the hotline telephone monologue is said to be improvised, as is the behavior of his Evil Hand in the second-to-last scene. When Sellers is doing the aforementioned evil hand scene, you can see Peter Bull (Ambassador De Sadesky) trying his hardest not to burst into fits of laughter, complete with shaking and much biting of the lip. In the final scene, Dr. Strangelove suddenly stands up and screams "I can walk!" delightedly. Supposedly, Sellers forgot that Strangelove was supposed to be a cripple and shouted out the line to cover his mistake. | |
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The Password Is Always "Swordfish" | |
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The Password Is Always "Swordfish": Mandrake is able to guess the Override Command code because Ripper's Madness Mantra led to it being written all over his office. | |
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Evil Chancellor | |
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Evil Chancellor: Dr. Strangelove essentially marginalizes Muffley and seduces Turgidson in the climax, seizing power himself. | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_a4c37cbe | comment |
Mood Whiplash: The mood changes quite considerably between various scenes, possibly as an artifact of the film's production history, possibly entirely deliberately from start to finish. In any case, while (for example) The War Room scenes are obviously satirical, many of those at the air base (and especially the combat sequences) are played dead serious. Then there is the bomber crew on their mission, with their scenes for the most part bombastic (and just slightly over the top) war drama with patriotic music; younger viewers might be reminded of Verhoeven's Starship Troopers in its more restrained sequences. Altogether, it's a weird mixture—though it certainly works. | |
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General Ripper | |
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General Ripper: Trope Namer, obviously. Air Force Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper, commanding officer, Burpelson Air Force Base, becomes paranoid and launches an illegal attack on the communist USSR on his own initiative, hoping to force World War III into motion while the balance of power still favors the United States. | |
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Beneath the Earth | |
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Beneath the Earth: The future of mankind After the End is to dwell in underground facilities and fallout shelters for almost a century — quickly leading to an Adam and Eve Plot and oaths of eternal vigilance by those who think that "we must not be allowed a mine-shaft gap." | |
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Code Name | |
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Code Name: MGD135 is the code the wing receives on the CRM 114 to initiate the attack on Russian targets (Wing Attack Plan R). | |
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Mood Dissonance | |
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Mood Dissonance: It's hard not to root for the crew of The Leper Colony, even with the knowledge that when they succeed, they've doomed the world. | |
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Blipvert | |
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Blipvert: The original trailer. | |
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Rousing Speech | |
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Rousing Speech: Parodied. To the crew of a B-52 on a nuclear bombing run into Soviet territory: | |
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Red Alert | |
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Red Alert: General Ripper puts his base on Condition Red. | |
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Soundtrack Dissonance | |
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Soundtrack Dissonance: The ending montage, of course. In-universe, the playing of pleasant civilian music over the radio during a supposed nuclear attack is what clues Mandrake into Ripper's lie. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
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Oh, Crap!: Three Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap! realizations: Under normal circumstances, a commander would be proud of his own units getting to its target against all odds. In this scenario, it means the end of the world as we know it. Gen. Turgidson misses this point for a while, gushing on about the toughness and skill of the surviving B-52 bomber and its crew. Finally, Pres. Muffley cuts in and asks directly (on reaching the target and dropping a bomb, even through the entire Soviet air defense grid), "Has he got a chance?" Turgidson: "Has he got a chance? HELL YE...ye...y..." Turgidson's realization face is priceless. Mandrake puzzling out why there are no emergency broadcasts on the radio and realizing, while talking with Ripper, that Ripper has gone mad and launched the wing on his own initiative. Ambassador DeSadesky, when his superiors tell him that the Doomsday Machine has just been installed. | |
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Hiroshima as a Unit of Measure | |
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Hiroshima as a Unit of Measure: "Each B-52 can deliver a nuclear bomb load of fifty megatons, equal to sixteen times the total explosive force of all the bombs and shells used by all the armies in World War II." | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_ae3d6438 | comment |
Deadpan Snarker: Mandrake, as the Only Sane Man, gets designated snarker status for this film. Strangelove himself has his moments as well. | |
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Plot-Demanded Manual Mode | |
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Plot-Demanded Manual Mode: The iconic image of Major Kong Riding the Bomb doesn't occur because of a death wish on Kong's part. The broken electrical wiring controlling the bomb bay doors is located just over the bomb, so in order to reach it to repair the wiring, he has to sit on the bomb. He finally manages to make the repairs just as the plane is over the target, so when the doors open and the bomb is released, he's still sitting on its nose. | |
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The Brigadier | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_b1ce5419 | comment |
The Brigadier: Group Captain Mandrake. | |
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Baby Factory | |
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Baby Factory: Dr. Strangelove's nuclear war survival plan calls for there to be a group of survivors, including "our top government and military men." To better facilitate this trope, there would be "a ratio of, say, ten females to each male" and "the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics, which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature." Naturally, monogamy will be "regrettably" abandoned, it being "a sacrifice required for the future of the human race." | |
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Dancin' in the Ruins | |
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Dancin' in the Ruins: While he's relatively restrained about it, Dr. Strangelove seems quite pleased to have the opportunity to put his survival plans into action. General Turgidson also sees the bright side of having a harem of women with whom to start repopulating the world. | |
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Satire | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_b3a49cdb | comment |
Kubrick’s primary aim in making this movie was to satirize nuclear deterrence theory by demonstrating the inherent craziness of consciously abdicating control over nuclear weapons. Plan R is established to ensure the US has second strike capability even if the President and executive branch are eliminated in a nuclear strike. General Ripper takes this to its extreme conclusion by deciding the President should be denied nuclear authority altogether, and that the military (i.e., General Ripper) should decide when to start a nuclear war. From there, Plan R works perfectly, as the pilots shut off all communication with the US and focus on their targets in the Soviet Union. Likewise, the Doomsday Machine works exactly as planned: automatic and irrevocable nuclear retaliation against the United States following an initial nuclear attack. | |
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Spy Cam | |
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Spy Cam: The Russian ambassador is accused of trying to take pictures of the War Room using a camera disguised as a pack of cigarettes. The ambassador claims that the spy camera was planted. It turns out that the ambassador may have been telling the truth — his spy camera was disguised as his pocket watch (unless you believe that the ambassador brought two hidden cameras with him). | |
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Noodle Implements | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_b5914444 | comment |
Noodle Implements: The survival kit — which was based entirely on real Air Force survival kits from the Second World War. | |
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Come Back to Bed, Honey | |
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Come Back to Bed, Honey: General Turgidson is called to the War Room, leaving his girlfriend protesting. In keeping with the overall theme of the movie he tells her, "You just start your countdown, and ol' Bucky'll be back before you can say 'BLAST OFF!'" | |
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Double Vision | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_b6af057e | comment |
Double Vision: Scenes with Strangelove and Muffley in the same frame are either in long shot (the whole table) or with one character shot from behind. | |
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Hypocritical Humor | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_b707726f | comment |
Hypocritical Humor: No fighting allowed in the War Room! SAC's motto "Peace Is Our Profession" is offhandedly highlighted by the camera angle several times: when Ripper explains how he's "preventing" World War III with his first-strike, and later when the soldiers are fighting for the base. Turgidson being both a religious man and, assuming he's married, an adulterer in the same phrase while he is talking to his secretary/mistress. If he's not married, he's just committing a different sin, fornication rather than adultery. When Ambassador DeSadesky gives a number to reach Premier Kissov with an explanation that implies that the Premier is with his mistress rather than at the office, Turgidson calls Kissov "a degenerate atheist commie". The Soviet ambassador not supporting "imperialist stooges." He's quickly called out by the person offering him the object of offense (a Jamaican cigar) when the man says "Only Commie stooges, eh?" Note that the ambassador had asked for a Cuban cigar before being offered the Jamaican cigar. | |
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Military Alphabet | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_b8e8fa85 | comment |
Military Alphabet: Most famously "Wing Attack Plan R for Romeo." Also used by the bomber crew. Major Kong's accent could be a shining example of why a phonetic alphabet is useful. General Ripper uses "R for Robert" when speaking to Mandrake on the phone. The Royal Air Force commonly used a different phonetic alphabet (including R for Robert) until adopting the NATO standard in the late 1950s — shortly before the events of the film. Since Group Captain Mandrake is a former RAF fighter pilot, Ripper may use it for Mandrake's convenience. Or maybe it's only an oversight filmed before someone could do the research. Romeo, being the name of a famous lover, fits better with the film's theme. | |
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The Film of the Book | |
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The Film of the Book: This was based on a novel by Peter George called Red Alert and was originally conceived as a straightforward drama. During the development of the script, Kubrick and company realized the potential for satire in the story and completely overhauled it. George subsequently wrote a Novelization of the finished film: a Recursive Adaptation. | |
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Naturalized Name | |
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Naturalized Name: Dr. Strangelove is a German immigrant. When Turgidson mentions that the name "Strangelove" doesn't really sound German, another character reveals that it was originally "Merkwürdigliebe" (literally means "strange love"), but he anglicized it after moving to the US. | |
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No Off Button | |
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No Off Button: The Doomsday Device will automatically detonate if anyone attempts to shut it off. In this case, the designers of the device built it like this intentionally, and to them it made sense. It's meant as the ultimate, permanent deterrent to nuclear warfare. If there were any way to stop it once it's turned on, it wouldn't be able to carry out its function. It wouldn't have needed an off switch if not for a few miscommunications. | |
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Cool Guns | |
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Cool Guns: General Ripper carries a Browning M1919 in his golf bag. He also has a Lancaster Pistol on his gun wall. | |
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Government Drug Enforcement | |
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Government Drug Enforcement: What General Ripper fears fluoridation has become. | |
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Interrogated for Nothing | |
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Mandrake laments his treatment in a Japanese POW camp, but admits that the Japanese do make bloody good cameras. | |
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Sexy Secretary | |
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Sexy Secretary: Turgidson's bikini-clad playmate, Miss Scott. | |
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Mutually Assured Destruction | |
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Mutually Assured Destruction: Turgidson thinks it can be averted with a pre-emptive strike since the United States has a five-to-one missile superiority. Enforced once the Doomsday Machine comes into play as an involuntary Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum. | |
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Short Title: Long, Elaborate Subtitle | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_c2145582 | comment |
Short Title: Long, Elaborate Subtitle: Dr. Strangelove: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | |
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Bait-and-Switch Comment | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_c2c15b23 | comment |
Bait-and-Switch Comment: General Ripper goes on a Motive Rant explaining the need to stand against the rampant infiltration of Russian communists into America. An audience familiar with the intrigue of the Cold War immediately assumes he's talking about attempts by Russian spies to infiltrate and control the U.S. government, but his last two words reveal he's really worried about Russians controlling his bodily fluids. | |
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Irony | |
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Irony: Of the comedic variety, as the auto-destruct button "got hit and blew itself up." | |
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Hope Spot | |
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Hope Spot: Just when a nuclear holocaust seemed to be averted because Major Kong's bomb dropping mechanism got stuck, here he comes to fix it manually... | |
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Water Source Tampering | |
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Water Source Tampering: General Ripper has a paranoid belief that there is a Communist conspiracy involving water fluoridation which will lead to contamination of everyone's "precious bodily fluids" (i.e., sexual fluids). | |
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Insane Troll Logic | |
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Insane Troll Logic: What led Ripper to first suspect the Communists of trying to "sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids" through fluoridation: "a profound sense of fatigue, a feeling of emptiness followed." So sex = loss of 'essence'! Fluoridation starts in 1946 = part of postwar commie conspiracy! It all makes sense! The commies are, of course, immune to their own plot, as they only drink pure vodka and would never, under any circumstances, drink water in the first place. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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The bomber being called Leper Colony may be a Shout-Out to Twelve O'Clock High (probably the movie). | |
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Renegade Russian | |
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Renegade Russian: Inverted. The villain is an American renegade who launches a nuclear attack on the Soviets without authorization. | |
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"End Is Nigh" Ending: Played for Laughs. The President and other members of his cabinet discuss how best to organize the survival of American society and perv out that this means they will need to have sex with many women and figure out they cannot allow the Russians to outdo them, while a montage of multiple nuclear explosions gets "We'll Meet Again" played as background music. | |
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Cigar Chomper | |
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Cigar Chomper: Ripper. | |
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Hollywood Darkness | |
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Hollywood Darkness: Early in the film, an establishing shot of Burpleson Air Force Base. It's easy to miss, given the heavy use of chiaroscuro throughout the film, except for visibly bright window lights and the airfield floodlights being lit. | |
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Taking You with Me | |
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Taking You with Me: The Soviets build a network of cobalt bombs capable of annihilating all life on Earth. They will be set off automatically if anyone makes a nuclear attack on the USSR. Unfortunately, they failed to tell anyone. They were planning on announcing it on the following Monday, because "the Premier loves surprises." | |
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Colonel Badass | |
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Colonel Badass: Thoroughly averted: Group Captain (RAF for Colonel) Mandrake is a bit of a wimp and fails to properly stand up for himself when around other domineering American officers, while US Army Colonel "Bat" Guano does not even understand his own mission, and is instead obsessed with eliminating "preverts." | |
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No Sense of Personal Space | |
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No Sense of Personal Space: As Ripper gets drunk, he starts getting uncomfortably close and hands-on toward Mandrake, suggesting a possible explanation for his sexual issues. | |
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Just Plane Wrong | |
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Just Plane Wrong: Averted: not only was the B-52 correct in exterior shots (save for casting the shadow of a B-17, the camera plane), the B-52's cockpit avionics shown, especially the arming console, were so accurate that the Air Force freaked out (the bomber's interior was still classified). As it happened, Kubrick and his crew had simply done an amazing job of extrapolation. | |
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Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic | |
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Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic: Averted with a vengeance. It's especially noticeable in President Muffley's phone call to the Soviet premier, like a cross between Sickeningly Sweethearts, No, You Hang Up First, and Casual Danger Dialogue, projecting a ridiculous image of Muffley. | |
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Golden Mean Fallacy | |
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Golden Mean Fallacy: Spoofed when General Turgidson tells the President that if they execute his nuclear strike plan, only millions of people will be annihilated instead of billions, which isn't too bad. (This "joke" is later used more seriously in Watchmen.) At this point, Buck also doesn't yet know that the Soviets have a Doomsday Machine, which means his proposed first strike would not cripple their capabilities and everyone would still die. | |
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Deliberately Monochrome | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_d028ca10 | comment |
Deliberately Monochrome: By 1963, color was the standard. The black-and-white photography was a deliberate artistic choice. | |
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Unaccustomed as I Am to Public Speaking... | |
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Unaccustomed as I Am to Public Speaking...: Major Kong reckons he ain't much of a hand at makin' speeches, but ends up delivering a pretty solid one anyway. | |
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Opening Scroll | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_d2a9f080 | comment |
Opening Scroll: The film opens with an opening scroll which is a basic disclaimer telling patrons that the film is a cautionary tale. | |
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Inappropriate Pride | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_d32cb089 | comment |
Inappropriate Pride: When the President asks Gen. Buck Turgidson if the sole surviving plane can reach its target, he enthusiastically says that with their training, they absolutely could make it. This is actually a bad thing, as it would trigger The End of the World as We Know It due to a Doomsday Device for mutually assured destruction. And Turgidson is aware of this. | |
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Revised Ending | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_d51158ee | comment |
Revised Ending: The film famously had an original ending where everyone in the War Room breaks into a pie fight. Stanley Kubrick decided not to end a black comedy with a farce. (Note there are pies on the table in the room.) There was apparently a scene during the pie fight where Muffley takes a pie to the face, after which Turgidson would cry out, "Gentlemen! Our gallant young president has been struck down in his prime!" This was too close to the assassination of JFK for comfort, as the scene had been filmed before the tragedy. | |
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Inter-Service Rivalry | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_d54b9eb3 | comment |
Interservice Rivalry: A light example is when Muffley orders the Army to take Ripper’s base. Turgidson notes that the Air Force personnel there are going to be ready to fight and will inflict heavy casualties, but the Army General in charge of the operation disregards this by saying his soldiers can "brush them aside." The audience never really gets a sense of how many people die in the battle on either side, but the Army does eventually take the base, much to Ripper's chagrin. | |
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Permission to Speak Freely | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_d69c3cdc | comment |
Permission to Speak Freely: General Turgidson asks the President for permission to speak freely, then proceeds to actively question the Russians' grasp of technical know-how, visibly angering the present Russian ambassador by calling them 'ignorant peons'. | |
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The End of the World as We Know It | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_d71d51fd | comment |
The End of the World as We Know It: The Doomsday Machine goes off and will wipe out all human and animal life on the planet's surface. | |
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Let No Crisis Go to Waste | |
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Let No Crisis Go to Waste: Turgidson's initial suggestion: commit to a full attack while the Americans have the upper hand and win the Cold War. This is exactly what Ripper was planning, of course. | |
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Either/Or Title | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_d84a3beb | comment |
Either/Or Title: The film's full title is Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. A well-known (and well-parodied) example. | |
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Unusually Uninteresting Sight | |
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Unusually Uninteresting Sight: As Strangelove's right arm throws Nazi salutes and tries to strangle him, no one else reacts to this, as if they see it all the time and are completely used to it. Or perhaps they're just so perplexed by it that they don't even know how to react. | |
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Good Smoking, Evil Smoking | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_dab2f3ee | comment |
Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: A perplexing example with Dr. Strangelove himself; when he tries to enjoy a cigarette, his Evil Hand keeps trying to remove it from his mouth. This is almost certainly an oblique reference to the Nazis' attempts to discourage smoking because they thought it was detrimental to people's health. | |
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Action Bomb | |
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Action Bomb: Major T.J. "King" Kong rides the nuke down to its destination below, thereby causing the Soviets' doomsday device to detonate and end the world. | |
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Reasonable Authority Figure | |
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Reasonable Authority Figure: President Merkin Muffley acts like a wimp, but isn't gung ho about nuclear annihilation, keeps a level head in spite of the events that have spiraled out of his control, and tries to be as diplomatic as possible. Mandrake is also this, opposing General Ripper's more heavy handed actions, repeatedly asking for the codes to call off the bombers, and after Ripper's suicide, he tries to contact the White House with the codes. | |
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A Million Is a Statistic | |
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A Million Is a Statistic: General Turgidson enthusiastically reports an unofficial analysis for the contingency summarizing that the United States would suffer reduced megadeaths (20M vs 150M) if they capitalize on the situation and commit to a full attack. | |
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Gambit Pileup | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_de9043cc | comment |
Gambit Pile Up: General Ripper, Premier Kissov, and Dr. Strangelove all have competing plans that lead to the film's events. | |
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Kubrick Stare | |
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Kubrick Stare: General Ripper. | |
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Throwing Off the Disability | |
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Throwing Off the Disability: "Mein Führer! ...I can walk!" It would have been subverted in the original ending, where he collapses immediately afterwards. | |
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Slave to PR | |
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Slave to PR: Turgidson suggests to capitalize on the mistake and do a full scale attack. Muffley shuts this down with an aversion of Would Be Rude to Say "Genocide". Turgidson slaps back. | |
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StrawmanPolitical | |
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Strawman Political: President Muffley is a well-meaning but ineffectual liberal (look-up the meaning of "merkin," or, for that matter, "muff"), and General Ripper and Turgidson are insane "John Bircher" conservatives. | |
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Newhart Phonecall | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_e20e7076 | comment |
Even though we hear only President Muffley's side of the conversation, it's quite obvious that Premier Kissov is sloshed out of his gourd. It's explained earlier when DeSadesky warns Muffley beforehand of an intoxicated Kissov. | |
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Fog of War | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_e375c858 | comment |
Fog of War: The Soviets are unable to detect the last B-52, The Leper Colony, because it is flying so low. The Americans urge them to concentrate the search around the assigned targets, but the crew switches them for a target of opportunity due to low fuel, and flies at low altitude to escape detection. | |
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The Radio Dies First | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_e460b44e | comment |
The Radio Dies First: Invoked by Ripper with the base lockdown; he even impounds civilian radios. Straight example in the CRM-114, the communications device onboard the "Leper Colony." | |
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Disaster Dominoes | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_e4ba33fc | comment |
Disaster Dominoes: A very long row of dominoes falls, resulting in the end of the world. Arguably the first domino to fall was the invention of nuclear weapons in the first place. But it carries on from there: 1. The decision of the United States to have nuclear-armed bombers patrolling in constant readiness to launch an immediate nuclear attack on Russia. 2. The conception and implementation of Plan R, giving a lower-echelon commander the potential authority to order a nuclear strike. 3. The failure of the military to successfully screen for mental health issues, allowing an unbalanced individual like General Ripper to reach such a command position. 4. The order to attack being given when the planes were already at their fail-safe points, meaning they will proceed instantly to their targets without requiring a second order to proceed. 5. The planes encrypting their radios, making communication with the planes without a three-letter code (known only to the commander who issued the attack order) impossible. 6. The base commander sealing off his base, making communication with him equally impossible. The Americans then decide to pursue two courses of action: 1. Enter the air base by force and reestablish contact with General Ripper. 2. Inform the Russians of the situation, and try to assist them in shooting down the American bombers. Despite all of this, the worst case scenario would still be "merely" the destruction of Western civilization due to an unintentional nuclear war... if not for the fact that the Russians: 1. Had built a "Doomsday Machine" designed to eliminate all life on Earth if it detects a nuclear attack on Russia. 2. Designed the machine to trigger automatically if any attempt is made to deactivate it. 3. Had activated this machine a few days before declaring its existence to the world. The Russians successfully shoot down four of the bombers by the time the Americans successfully enter the air base and find the encryption code, enabling communication with the remaining bombers and the issuing of the recall command. All bombers turn around except for one: it was not shot down by Russian air defenses, but only damaged, and the damage destroyed its radio equipment, making communication with it impossible (a further domino is that the aircrafts have no "do not bomb if you are incapable of receiving a recall message" regulation). The Americans urge the Russians to concentrate all their air defenses around the bomber's primary and secondary targets. However, unbeknownst to both sides, the damaged aircraft is also losing fuel, and diverts to the nearest target of opportunity. At this final moment, it seems the world may still be saved: the electronics fail and the bomb fails to eject. However, the aircrew manages to repair the system in the nick of time, and the bomb falls on the Russian base and explodes... resulting in the end of the world. | |
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Expy | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_e5421161 | comment |
Strangelove is an expy of Rotwang from Metropolis, and the black and white chiaroscuros are also a nod to German Expressionism. | |
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Determinator | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_e567510d | comment |
Determinator: Major Kong is dead set on delivering his payload no matter what gets in the way. Just when everything seems aligned to finally bomb their target, the bomb gets stuck. But no, Kong will try to drop that bomb even if it's the last thing he does. | |
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Milkman Conspiracy | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_e82bc849 | comment |
Milkman Conspiracy: General Ripper tries to start nuclear war with the Russians over one such conspiracy. While tampering with our water supply would be a good way to deal a lethal blow to major population centers in the United States, Ripper comes to the conclusion that the Russians are doing this because when he tried having sex his "essence" was denied exit from his body. If he had seen people dying or getting sick from drinking water then there would be some validity to Ripper's claim, but as it stands, the General brought on nuclear war with Russia just because he couldn't get it back up after intercourse. | |
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business | |
Dr. Strangelove / int_e83f211c | comment |
O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Strangelove's Large Ham behavior is so distracting that it's jarring during a brief shot of him in shadow, calmly smoking while the others wonder who set up the Soviet doomsday device, underscoring that Strangelove is the new shadow leader of the western world. Turgidson spends much of the film acting like a belligerent and loud jerk, but clams up when he realizes the world may end. | |
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Freudian Slip | |
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Freudian Slip: Strangelove, when selling Muffley on the idea of surviving in mineshafts, accidentally calls him, “Mein Fuhrer.� He completes his whole sentence, but corrects himself afterward: “I’m sorry, Mr. President.� | |
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Windmill Crusader | |
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Windmill Crusader: Ripper, for his belief that the Russians are using water fluoridation to "sap and impurify our precious bodily fluids." | |
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No Ending | |
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No Ending: Dr. Strangelove suddenly stands up out of his wheelchair, screams "Mein Führer...I CAN WALK!" and the film suddenly cuts to a series of atomic explosions to the tune of Vera Lynn's "We'll Meet Again." | |
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Casual Danger Dialog | |
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Casual Danger Dialog: Imagine, if you will, the American president speaking over the telephone to the Soviet premier in an extremely timid, friendly voice: | |
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Freud Was Right | |
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Freud Was Right: Invoked by the film itself, as a central theme of the movie is the portrayal of sexual symbolism as more than symbolism. Kubrick transparently paraphrases Clausewitz as in "war is the continuation of sex by other means." It turns out that Ripper's real motivation for launching nuclear war is to make up for his impotence "Bat" Guano thinks everything is some kind of "preversion," and ironically his stupidity carries some meta-truth. | |
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Decapitated Army | |
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Decapitated Army: "Plan R" is designed to defy this contingency: if Washington leadership is incapacitated, regional commanders have the authority to launch a counter-attack. Ripper exploits this by telling his base soldiers and the B-52 bomber command that Washington has been wiped out and ordering them to nuke their targets in the Soviet Union. | |
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World Gone Mad | |
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World Gone Mad: Every single group of people are various sorts of insane, incompetent, and/or incapable of focusing on the important subject at hand...except for the bomber crew, who are all well-trained and manage to adapt to the various obstacles in their path. Too bad they're the one group that desperately needs to fail to avoid global annihilation. Mandrake isn't too bad, either. He manages to figure out the recall code and get the attack canceled...except for one plane... | |
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Do Unto Others Before They Do Unto Us | |
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Do Unto Others Before They Do Unto Us: Ripper claims he's giving the US the best kind of head start he can. | |
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Unbuilt Trope | |
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Unbuilt Trope: The movie created General Ripper. However, the Trope Namer isn't a bombastic military man and acts calm, collected, and suave. The keyword being "acts." Ripper's ability to hide his nervous breakdown from the psychological evaluations, Mandrake, and everybody else is what allowed him to be in the position of power he needed to be in to set his demented plot into motion. The news of his insanity is a shock to everyone involved. Buck Turgidson could be seen as the more standard version of this trope, with his loud threats against Communism, but was (wisely) ignored by the diplomatic President Muffley. Ultimately, Turgidson comes to realize the disaster that will unfold. | |
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Attack Pattern Alpha | |
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Attack Pattern Alpha: Delivered via Sealed Orders — Wing Attack Plan R, which is removed from a whole safe full of attack plans. This was Truth in Television. | |
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Evil Hand | |
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Animals...vill be brred...and SLAUGHTERED... HAAAAAA! (wrestles with own arm) MEIN FUHRER! I CAN WALK!!! | |
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Dumbass Has a Point | |
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Dumbass Has a Point: When Mandrake is trying to reach the President by placing a collect call, he's told they won't accept, so he tries bumming 55 cents off of Guano...who rightfully points out "You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do you?" | |
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Product Placement | |
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Product Placement: The Coca-Cola machine. It (literally) gave its all to help in what turns out to be a futile attempt to avoid a nuclear winter. | |
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Sealed Orders | |
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Sealed Orders: The bomber crews only unseal their targeting orders after the attack command is given. | |
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The War Room | |
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The War Room: The Trope Codifier (just see the Trope page). A huge, elaborate set designed by Ken Adam. Also sparked the most famous quote from the movie. | |
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Forever War | |
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Forever War: Implied. The jingoist generals and advisors are planning After the End schemes to maintain the status quo of the Cold War, and prevent Soviet expansionism and a "mine-shaft gap." Reinforced by the use of "We'll Meet Again" over the final Apocalyptic Montage. | |
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Comically Missing the Point | |
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Comically Missing the Point: The Movie. After being informed of the badness of the Doomsday Machine, a world-ending device, Turgidson's first reaction is, "Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines." Also played with by one of the moments shortly afterward, as Turgidson gleefully details the last bomber's chances...then realizes they're screwed if the bomber succeeds. Another Turgidson one comes when Plan R is in danger of causing the end of the world, and he says that the reliability of it (and the psychological screening process given to those who can enable the plan, whose whole purpose is to prevent this situation from ever happening in the first place), shouldn't be written off after a "single slip-up." DeSadesky is going to be trapped with the US officials or left to die in the upcoming radioactive wasteland. He still sneaks photographs of the Big Board after this is a foregone conclusion, even though the photos would be obsolete and he'd die long before he could deliver them anyway — symbolic of the pointlessness of the war, and its probable continuation. | |
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Artistic License – Physics | |
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Artistic License – Physics: Major Kong reading the profile for Wing Attack Plan R states that a 30 megaton nuclear device will be used to hit their primary target, while a 20 megaton target can be used to destroy a secondary target. The biggest nuclear weapon in the US arsenal at anytime in history had a yield of 25 Megatons. | |
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Gallows Humor | |
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Gallows Humor: Given that it was made against the real-life backdrop of the Cuban Missile Crisis, in which nuclear war was a genuine possibility, much of the film's humor would have qualified at the time. Many contemporary viewers called "Dude, Not Funny!" — to the point that some scenes had to be cut or edited. | |
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Theme Naming | |
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Theme Naming: Almost all of the major characters' names have sexual connotations: The title character is self-explanatory. General Jack Ripper is named after a serial killer who targeted prostitutes. Colonel Mandrake is named after a plant which, in many mythologies, is said to encourage fertility or childbirth. President Merkin Muffley: his first name "merkin" is the term for a pubic wig. "Muff" is a slang term for female genitalia. Ambassador DeSadesky is named after the Marquis de Sade, a French nobleman infamous for his violent and blasphemous sexual fantasies. Soviet Premier Kissoff, whose name evokes "kissing." Major "King" Kong is named after a monster known for its uncontrollable, destructive fascination with a human woman. General Buck Turgidson's first name evokes the thrusting/bucking of intercourse. "Turgid" is a term meaning "swollen" or "firm," usually in reference to an erection. One of the bases the American bomber is targeting is "Laputa." In Spanish, "la puta" means "the whore" or "the bitch." | |
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Survivor Guilt | |
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Survivor Guilt: President Muffley discusses it paraphrasing Khrushchev; won't "the living envy the dead?" Strangelove easily dismisses the concept. | |
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Shown Their Work | |
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Shown Their Work: The movie is filled with references to military life and quite obscure research. Also subverted. What the cockpit of a B-52 looked like was classified, so Kubrick and crew just made what a B-29 would look if the plane was shaped like a B-52, based on only one photo of a B-52's cockpit. They were so close to being exactly correct that they were briefly investigated to make sure there was no spying going on! Also, all the procedures inside the aircraft (e.g. going through the checklists) are absolutely believable. Also, the combat scenes could easily pass as actual war footage, with the exception of Gen. Ripper hip-firing a M1919 machine gun (but then again, he is crazy). | |
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Chromosome Casting | |
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Chromosome Casting: The film has precisely one female in the movie, a secretary, who is also a Playboy centerfold model. | |
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