Staines (Jack Creley) that it is not a "Kraut name," Staines responds that Strangelove's original German surname was "Merkwürdigliebe," without mentioning that "Merkwürdigliebe" translates to "Strangelove" in English. Twice in the film, Strangelove "accidentally" addresses the president as "...
Dr. Strangelove Every time you see a great film, you find new things in it. ViewingStanley Kubrick‘s “Dr. Strangelove” for perhaps the 10th time, I discovered whatGeorge C. Scottdoes with his face. His performance is the funniest thing in the movie–better even than the inspired triple...
the forty-five minute "Inside the Making of Dr. Strangelove" is far more educational. Multiple crew members who worked on the film are interviewed, as is James Earl Jones, and each provide some neat little known tidbit about the film. For instance, we learn that the film...
This poster has two printings, one with regular ink, and this the other, with Day Glo ink, which was very popular in the 1960s. This black comedy was directed by Stanley Kubrick, and stars Peter Sellers, who played three different characters, together with George C. Scott and ...
Dr. Strangelove is one of the great American films: not just a savage anti-war satire but a jeremiad against the mechanization (and resulting dehumanization) that spawned the nuclear-war machine and might turn a burst of insanity into the death of all life on the planet. (The film’s subt...
Dr Strangelove (1963) “I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.” The hypothetical prospect of total nuclear annihilation provided the ...
Free Essay: In the1964 film Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, (Dr. Strangelove) the Director Stanley Kubrick makes use of...
•Dr Strangeloveis a good film to watch if you have a sense of humor, and can take some really dark black humor to heart in this day and age. It became a dark comedy after director Stanley Kubrick read the straight drama screenplay and felt it was so absurd that only a comedy could...
Strangelove" allowed audiences to laugh about the very threat that constantly loomed over them, but it was far from escapism. As infantile as its characters are portrayed to be, the film never loses sight of the gravity of the political and military situations imagined within. It is a ...
Free Essay: One film during the 1960’s that had a great impact on American culture, was Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop...