Dr. Strangelove - What's the Difference?

Stanley Kubrick's satirical masterpiece is over half a century old but it's as relevant and hilarious as ever. But the humor of Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb doesn't come from its source material, Peter George's Red Alert.
So how did George C. Scott and three Peter Sellers characters wind up being so funny? It's time to ask What's the Difference?!
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[@narabdela]

" You can't fight in here, this is the War Room" has got to be one of the all time great movie lines.

[@writerpatrick]

It was 64 on the AFI top 100 list.

[@gregoryneely8704]

narabdela True! Also, "If you let Ambassador Kissoff in the war room, he'll see the BIG BOARD!" (< As he starts futily grabbing & scooping up maps & papers:) Plus, love S. Kubriks use of B & W. Oh, BTW...the shadow of Slim Pickens B-52, on the snowy mountains is the shadow of a B-17. Not a B-52. It's an unmistakable B-17 silouette/ outline, if you know WW2 vintage aircraft...and I do;) Just kinda funny when you see the use of WW2 stock footage in old movies. They didn't care about that stuff too much.

[@mastercheif5366]

You are amazing

[@mastercheif5366]

Scribeiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiq

[@trickydick991]

A great play on words meant to psychological shock people. Like I keep saying they are good at what they do! Be a good bad or ugly can't deny the fact. To the victor goes the spoils

[@tedioustotoro4885]

Interesting how a serious director got a serious book and made it silly

[@morb0yo]

It was really a basis for insipration rather than a movie adaptation

[@nckv]

At the time Kubrik was not as serious as he would become later. He also filmed Lolita as a comedy

[@Shiva108]

even Barry Lyndon was not really that serious...

[@freetoplayking7362]

he filmed WHAT as a comedy????? oh wow, he must have been on some stuff (I've never read it and I ain't planning to but I know what happens)

[@mikepuppetz9]

Kubrick was always darkly humourous and had a lot of tongue-in-cheek moments sprinkled throughout his work. Ex: The "Zero Gravity Toilet" in 2001, or R Lee Ermey's entire performance in Full Metal Jacket. There are a lot more examples, but Kubrick had a huge funny side to him.

[@TheMilitantHorse]

"Alright. But if you can't reach the president, you'll have to answer to the Coca-Cola company."

[@robertmartinez1645]

Major Bat Shit!!!

[@SovereignStatesman]

Yep no president mess with coke except Bill Clinton.

[@SovereignStatesman]

@@robertmartinez1645 That's COLONEL Bat Shit

[@Tadicuslegion78]

You don't think I go into combat with loose change in my pocket do you?

[@josefk7437]

That was the funniest part of the movie. It is my favorite movie quote.

[@samdiego1965]

Fun fact: Vera Lynn, the original singer of the song “we’ll meet again”, is still alive. She used to sing that song for the troops during WWII. She’s now 101 years old

[@TheRachaelLefler]

Oh that explains that Pink Floyd song. Here I thought he was just talking about an ex, lol!

[@leftyfusion88]

Rachael Lefler "...how she said we would meet again some sunny day. Vera, Vera! What has become of you.....?"

[@rogerwhite9484]

@@leftyfusion88 ....."does anybody else in here, feel the vvay I do "....

[@havoccorner3715]

There is a woman who lives at the retirement home I work at. She is 102 years old and was one of three women to work in the air core in WW2. She worked in Great Britain in a radar booth. She is such a badass tbh. (Unrelated story, but I thought it was fun)

[@bedstuyrover]

@@havoccorner3715 . Would be great if you can make an account of any comments she makes about ww2, or better still a video if permitted.

[@thatonesound2211]

gentlemen you can't say anything in here this is the comment section

[@mattmarzula]

Gavrilo Princip Reaching...

[@aaronlemus4158]

KZbin! I CAN WALK!

[@Tadicuslegion78]

That fool tried to plant that ridiculous meme on me.

[@thrashpondopons2776]

I fear a 'comment gap'!

[@kansascityshuffle8526]

You forgot the word intelligent

[@123haninhk]

"Mein Führer! I can walk!" This movie was really great. The cast (and Peter Seller) is amazing. His American accent was flawless.

[@susman4232]

Peter sellers was the cast (kinda)

[@SvenTviking]

Him and George C Scott.

[@ILoveDawko]

That scene, and line, (getting out of the chair) was 100% ad-libbed when Sellers accidentally stood up and momentarily went out of character (before returning into character to come up with one of the great comedic lines of all time). True story.

[@lezlezman1843]

He was meant to also play the bomber commander Major "King" Kong but he broke his foot mid-production so Kubrick recruited Slim Pickens for the role.

[@donjones4719]

So few realize it's one of the many sexual references in a film full of them. Dr Strangelove is suddenly "erect" at the thought of the power of the nuclear war he has so long contemplated. Because of course power=sex=power=sex... is an ages old human theme. Also erect at the thought of assembling a select few and reproducing a superior race, with him in a bunker of women at a ratio of 10 women for every man.

[@davestone3853]

You missed the best bit of trivia. After they couldn't make the custard pie scene work, Peter Sellers phoned up Spike Milligan and told him they were stuck for an ending. And Milligan told em, off the top of his head, to have the bombs dropping to Vera Lynn. And that's how one of the most iconic sequences in the history of cinema happened.

[@moviesgalore9947]

Here's better trivia - the CRM-114 on the B-52 bomber was used by Kubrick again in Clockwork Orange under the label Serum 114 which was injected into Malcolm McDowell's Alex to make him sick when he saw any violence or thought of any violence. CRM-114 = Serum 114 when I first read this I thought it was brilliant.

[@MarcillaSmith]

They also missed the catalyst which set all the other events in motion. General Ripper was not tired after an act of intimacy, he "felt a profound sense of fatigue" and it was _during_ the act. As the saying goes, "that's not uncommon for a man his age." It isn't just a meaningless oversite, either. At the heart of the story - as with many of Mr. Kubrick's stories - is obsession with virility.

[@TedBronson1918]

This was, hands down, EASILY one of the best movies ever made. Not many can compare with satire of this order.

[@tanveerhasan2382]

I concur

[@fr73ed38]

Lazarus...is that you ?

[@TedBronson1918]

@@fr73ed38 aaayup ! Another life. Another time. lol Who is this from my past ?

[@XDRONIN]

Peter Sellers is truly one of the greatest of all time, the man could just play as anyone.

[@jb888888888]

Except himself. kzbin.info/www/bejne/sIStlGpohKhqesk

[@cchanc3]

anyone but himself

[@neiloflongbeck5705]

​@@cchanc3or a Texan.

[@MrShaclakclak]

we cannot allow a mineshaft gap!

[@joesomenumbers]

A very timeless sentiment

[@donjones4719]

And they'd been worried about a missile gap. The two kinda... fit together.

[@thomasmullaney3472]

As a NJ native, Atlantic city being the fist offer to get nuked is hilarious and a good strategic choice.

[@TheRachaelLefler]

They could have Chicago as soon as I get my stuff/family out of it. The place is just an armpit filled with crime, rodents, and fake beggars. It's always either too hot or too cold, and it rains and snows most days it feels like. Nobody knows about Peoria, Bloomington/Normal, Champaign/Urbana, or the Quad Cities but those are all better places to live in Illinois.

[@Kehwanna]

No! I lived there once! They make fantastic pizzas and delicious unhealthy foods there. Are you freaking mad? Take out Cherry Hill or Trenton, there's nothing in those towns. I would say Camden, but not only do they make great food too, but that would also effect Philadelphia who makes the best sub sandwiches.

[@comradesky5931]

@@TheRachaelLefler Found the white alt right lady

[@topnug7626]

@@comradesky5931 Her stating facts makes her alt right?

[@BadazzGregg]

@@Kehwanna we call them hoagies around here

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

3:25 Slim Pickens wasn’t putting it on. That’s how he normally talked. Oh, and he wasn’t told it was a comedy.

[@timbuktu8069]

What in the wide wide world of sports is going on here?

[@hiramhackenbacker9096]

The part was originally to be played by Sellers as well. But 4 characters was proving 1 character too many. I'm glad that happened. Pickens performance was epic , even if he was just playing himself really.

[@stevenvicino8687]

Saw this movie, believe it or not when I was about 12. Didn't understand why I was laughing. My mom explained "sardonic humor" and I got it. My brother, a life-long chain-smoker, died of liver cancer. While smoking one of his last, he joked that at least he never got lung cancer. I love this movie.

[@bertimusprime7900]

From what I understand, the US government actually changed the procedures on nuclear launches because of this movie, so that such a thing could never happen.

[@magpieram]

I think it also had to do with the ability of someone with urgent information to contact the war room, as Capt Mandrake found difficulty in getting through, and had to get Bat Guano to shoot the coke machine to get change.

[@branphillips9546]

That is honestly one of the most terrifying bits of the trivia I have ever heard in my entire life.

[@jltorres6320]

It's even worse now. Watch some Daniel Ellsberg talks.

[@harkonen1000000]

Well, Russians, for their part, installed a system of automatic retaliation, and it could even go off by accident, and almost did.

[@robinhood5627]

until quite recently the land based ICBMs in the USA had a default launch code of just a bunch of 0s to launch them. So unknowingly the operators of the missile silos could have at anytime they liked launched the missiles without any orders just by punching in the default code. It has been fixed now once someone released after decades.

[@roryscott2941]

I love the look on Captain Mandrake's face when he relied Gen. Ripper is nuts "if a Russian attack was not in progress then your use of plan R, in fact your orders to the entire wing... oh. Well I would say, sir, that there was something dreadfully wrong somewhere." My favorite scene.

[@fredweller1086]

The movie had the genius of Peter Sellers. Talent beyond words.

[@Pointblankmos]

Precious bodily fluids.

[@Gabriel-re6sw]

Your profile pic makes this comment even better.

[@ILoveDawko]

Scary that it's so easy to imagine 'president' Trump saying this, but for real.

[@BrokenCurtain]

@@ILoveDawko two words: "golden showers"

[@curtiskretzer8898]

cinefix times his expostion w/Ripper saying it,like perfect voiceover😹

[@gfarrell80]

Tell me Jack... when did you ..uh.. first develop this theory?

[@ljdasilva3139]

"Well Colonel ... Bat Guano, if that really is your name" "Shoot! With the gun! That's what the bullets are for, you twit!" Group Captain Lionel Mandrake - it's a cruel world.

[@MyLateralThawts]

I thought the guy was bat-shit crazy!

[@ahseaton8353]

But did the Coca-Cola police ever catch up with him?

[@TheMReuo]

"The whole point of this doomsday machine is lost... if you KEEP IT A SECRET, RIGHT?" God this movie is good, and maybe Pete Sellers' highest moment on screen. When I noticed he also was Strangelove I had to google it and just then realized he was ALSO the president. He is just so amazing in this movie

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

Legend has it that Major Kong still ride on a nuclear bomb until to this day. *_AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!_*

[@robertrichard6107]

Sellers was going to play Kong also, but broke his arm. So, they had to bring Slim Pickens in. He certainly made the movies' serious subject a glorious gufaw of our nuclear blackmail foreign policy.

[@billsmith5166]

Peter Sellers should have won three Academy Awards for Best Actor.

[@marklmansfield]

As a kid I was forced to sit in a theater and watch this movie in ~64 , now I can't stop watching it . Scott with his arms out like he's a plane acting like a kid 😂

[@peterblood50]

It would be hard to find a better comedy. Funny, scary, shallow and deep all at the same time. Kubrick was a genius.

[@Beanbag1]

2 words: Monty python

[@SvenTviking]

Apparently the USAF sent a couple of officers to check out the set and make sure there was no secret info being revealed from whatever source in the movie. Anyway Ken Adam, the set designer, was showing them around, and everything was ok until they got to the B52 cockpit and the device that received the secret code messages to confirm a real mission. Adam had designed this from vague reports in the aviation press and had got it virtually bang on, so these two airforce officers turned white as sheets!

[@halbiggiam3320]

When Slim Pickens ( Major Kong) is going through "survival kit", he says you could have a good time in Vegas with all this stuff. Vegas actually was dubbed for Dallas, (read his lips 👄) because the films release date was soon after JFK was assassinated, in Dallas. Kubrick decided to change the city, wisely. FYI

[@sammolloy1]

hal biggiam I wondered about that

[@philperry4699]

@@sammolloy1 The critics screening was scheduled for the evening of 22 November 1963. We all know what happened that day. Besides the reference to Dallas, the custard pie scene and its reference to "our gallant young president" falling was cut. The film was delayed into early 1964 as a result.

[@sammolloy1]

Phil Perry Thank you. Very interesting.

[@billypilgrim7838]

hal biggiam sellers was originally going to do the Pickens character

[@toddboughn5168]

Vegas makes more sense in the context of the scene, anyway.

[@jasonblalock4429]

Hey, speaking of serious books turned into satirical films, you should do Starship Troopers.

[@VoiceofKane3]

Seconded.

[@AWSOMEPOSSUM16]

That would be amazing! That movie never has gotten the love it deserves.

[@jasonblalock4429]

Nah, American Psycho was always a satire. The film version just seems "wackier" because a lot of the scenes are inherently more ridiculous when put onscreen. Either way, it'd be interesting seeing them do a What's The Difference on them, although I'd feel sorry the guy handling the book side of things since the biggest difference is that the book is much, much, MUCH gorier.

[@Creepershark77]

Yes, I would love to see how both the book and movie fail in terms of military tactics when fighting the bugs

[@patpatterson12]

Well, except for the fact that the book has been loved by a select group of individuals for a couple of generations, and the film was exactly the worst insult deliberately aimed at that population, ummm..what else is there?

[@kurtlindner]

Man, anytime something comes up about Dr. Strangelove I remember just how much I love it.

[@n0denz]

Before I learned that Dr. Strangelove walking at the end was a blooper that was left in, I had this philosophical theory behind it. I thought Strangelove was a physical manifestation of war and death. When mankind's near-extinction is at hand, the impending apocalypse instills him with vigor, allowing him to rise from his chair.

[@AmyMarieJackson]

the beauty of art is that your interpretation can still work. it was an idea that sellers came up with himself, and since they left it in, kubrick must have thought it contributed meaningfully to the story. even without strangelove standing up, your interpretation would still work

[@ebashford5334]

I had a very similar interpretation, that Strangelove embodied nuclear war. His arm with a mind of his own represented the self-destructive part of humanity (military and nuclear forces in particular) and twisted nuclear war logic of mutually assured destruction as a doctrine. Strangelove literally emerges from the shadows when nuclear war seems likely.

[@n0denz]

@@johnstarwright2029 No, for the last time, I am not Hideo Kojima.

[@GeneralSamov]

​@@n0denz Ok, Toshiro Mifune.

[@naradaian]

I’m surprised you don’t know he is a pastiche of SS major Werner von Braun and his boss under Hitler and the yanks Walter Dornberger who got NASA to the moon and Dornberger was still in charge …

[@joaquinandreu8530]

The crew of the "Alabama Angel", one of the B-52 sent to Russia. - Silhouette of a B-25 Mitchell.

[@jamesalexander5623]

Indeed!

[@stvdagger8074]

Well he was using P-3 Orion silhouettes as both the refueling plane and the recipient.

[@random3x70]

one of the best bits of trivia about the film is that Kubrick and a number of the crew almost got arrested by the secret service. You see they had no idea what the inside of a nuclear bomber looked like. So they made some guesswork from an earlier model of the plane and filmed that. Well, the Pentagon upon seeing an early version of the film panicked and thought there were spies that leaked the details of the insides of the bombers. That's how well they recreated the bombers.

[@VoraciousRdr]

Seems like whenever Kubrick adapts a book he just took the overarching theme/idea as inspiration

[@TheRachaelLefler]

Yeah, I love that Kubrick does this but he's really more focused on themes in general. Each movie of his is about some aspect of human psychology or social behavior. Like 'The Shining' was originally about King's fear of turning into a monster from his own alcoholism. But in Kubrick's hands, the movie became about the more universal themes of genocide and how war is an eternal part of human nature.

[@SovereignStatesman]

Of course, he always bought complete creative control. Stephen King wasn't going to tell him what to do.. thank God.

[@pale_saint]

Tom Evans yes King is awful and Kuvrick is genius. No wonder poor Steven still hates the movie, it revealed that King is the monster as he put himself in as Jack

[@KevinR1138]

Well, aside from Clockwork Orange I would agree, there were a few small details changed but generally speaking it’s an extremely faithful adaptation of the book. The only thing missing is the final chapter and that’s because Kubrick read the American edition which didn’t have that final chapter.... good thing too frankly because I’ve always felt that final chapter was a narrative copout.

[@kreatywny3606]

The quote "You can't fight in here, this is the War Room" is even better in Polish - in Polish "room" is "pokój" which also happens to mean "peace" :D

[@donjones4719]

The difference is that the same cautionary tale gets its message through a lot better as a satire. Keeps the attention of a lot more people, and the sharpness of satire penetrates our thick minds so we actually consider changing a position on something. It sure helps that this film is genius, in its writing and many performances. Peter Sellars best performances. And when Darth Vader is one of the bomber crew, you know things aren't going to end well.

[@StoicTheGeek]

But does the book contain the line "Shoot, a fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff"? Comedy gold!

[@emirlsanchos6302]

And that wasn't even the original line, either. Kong was supposed to joke "A fella could have a pretty good weekend in Dallas with this kinda stuff". But shortly after the film was complete, President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas so Kubrick had Slim Pickens dub over that line so it wouldn't sound insensitive. If you watch carefully, you can see Kong's lips form the word "Dallas".

[@DigbyOdel-et3xx]

Interestingly I recall the same year Dr. Strangelove was released another nuclear bombing movie was released called Fail Safe. It was not a satirical comedy, but a quite sobering and scary movie in that a rogue US nuclear bomber making it through to bomb Moscow. It starrred Henry Fonda as the President and a young Larry Hagman as his Russian translator, who btw played that role well. Watching both movies especially one right after the other is an interesting contrast in how to view the Cold War going hot.

[@MG-ge5xq]

Peace is our Profession. Therefore we use Bombs.

[@DanyJoshuva]

Kubrick is the greatest of all time

[@bradleyweiss1089]

Dany Joshuva Was.

[@pale_saint]

Bradley Weiss in the field of art no one stops being as good as they were living after they die

[@lucidexistance1]

Before going any further I just wanted to say that I finally saw this film about a month ago. And I'm glad I waited. I'm not a big fan of Kubrick so I didn't have that drive. I'm sorry, I don't know why. I see what people say about him, but it just seems... simple to me. I don't know. But for me it's like pointing at a ball saying it's a ball. But in saying that I love directors and their ability to do their best at communicating their vision and thoughts and this movie was the one that made me finally think of Kubrick as a genius. It even made me quit methadone cold turkey and I'm now where my body is hating me still, but the part that nearly killed me is over. It's not all from him though, it also took Exurba1, CGP Grey, Bill Wurtz and oddly Munkey Jones to break the spell and make me see the cycle for what it is and throw a stick into it and break it for good. (You guys too, but that should've been a given since I'm saying this to you) So thanks to all of you for giving me a reason to want to live. Who cares who loves me or who I influence. My life is mine to see and enjoy or not. Feeling is living and I need to embrace that. So thanks to all of you all for that lesson. I don't know why this movie sparked it though. Maybe because I watched it in hopes of finding a reason to laugh at humanity and I haven't stopped laughing yet and now I want to see the show.

[@TedBronson1918]

Toxic - Welcome to the land of the the living !

[@dearbrad1996]

I went from peeing myself laughing to crying for the ending with the bombs was just so sad. PS Sterling Hayden did his best work as the crazed general. Brilliant film. Four stars 🤩

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

09:05 Peter Bull (Soviet ambassador) cracking up.

[@toddboughn5168]

Not only my favourite Kubrick film, my favourite film ever.

[@IndependentBear]

I lived in the USA and saw this film when it was released. It was NOT, I say again, NOT funny. It was an all-too-believable satire about why all of us might not wake up tomorrow. Yes, the characters were actually comical, but in a way that real humans too often are comical. The absurdity of the film reflected the absurdity of political thinking of the time.

[@bradleyweiss1089]

Ron D'Eau Claire I agree. It’s funny in retrospect. But hauntingly. With the present circumstances.

[@mk1st]

Jojo Rabbit has recaptured this level of satire.

[@nicknet9269]

Mark Furst It kind of did yeah, glad a movie like this was made again and became successful

[@brettpacker2779]

I grew up on a council estate and clockwork orange was more of a fly on the wall documentary

[@robg521]

Ron D'Eau Claire I totally agree, not a funny subject but funny characters in a comical situation. But that’s the whole point isn’t it..... it’s a satire. It exposes the foolishness and stupidity of people and governments by using humour, irony and exaggeration. .... Everyone convinced themselves that they could see the emperor’s new clothes until the little boy laughed and woke them up to the truth.

[@thegreatchain7112]

The greatest sitcom of all time, after our recording sessions we'd always watch clips of Dr Strangelove

[@artmcclusky7334]

I was 13 yrs old when I saw this movie back in 1964. I loved it then and still love it

[@planetdesign4681]

Dr. Strange love’s character in the movie is literally one of the best characters in cinematic history.

[@PolishGod1234]

@@mxhdd_6 hi overrated, i'm dad

[@bglover4269]

This is by far the most interesting content on youtube to me. I check this channel every other day hoping you guys have made another "What's the Difference". Please keep this series alive and as always thank you for uploading.

[@XKillertofuX]

Designer/animator decides to find some clip-art of a B52... procedes to type in B25 into google image search. But that's just my own perfectionism haunting me I guess.

[@daveh3997]

Yep. And the clip-art for the KC 135 and B52 refueling scene are two Lockheed P3 Orion patrol bombers.

[@jdfox37]

im dumb, I just figured it was a b25 in the book but that's probably stupid, considering Fat Man was about 7000lbs over a Mitchells weight capacity.

[@ThatGuy-a48]

Kllrtofu not to mention the fighters are not mid cold war aircraft and look like F16s or something

[@odysseusrex5908]

You notice the tank silhouettes were M-1s rather than the M-48s that actually would have existed at the time.

[@redenginner]

@@odysseusrex5908 Or the Humvee that should have been a jeep derivative

[@cha5]

(Gen Jack 'D' Ripper) "Fluoridation of water is the single most monstrous Communist plot we have ever faced." >:-8 (Mandrake) "Jack...Tell me Jack; When did you first become...well...develop this...theory?" :-0 (Gen Ripper) "...Well I uh..I..I..first became aware of it, Mandrake, during the physical act of love." :-/ (Mandrake) "Huh..." :-[ (Gen Ripper) "Yes, a, uh - a profound sense of fatigue, a feeling of emptiness followed. Luckily I was able to interpret these feelings correctly. Loss of essence." :-| (Mandrake) "Yeah..." :-[ (Ripper) "I can assure you it has not recurred, Mandrake. Women, uh - Women sense my power and they seek the life essence. ..... I do not avoid women Mandrake." :-{ (Mandrake) "-No." :-| (Ripper) "But I do deny them my essence." :-( (Mandrake barely chuckling in a whisper) "Yuh.... Yes Jack." :-} X-D That scene is one of my all time favorites. I always wonder how many takes it took to keep Hayden and Sellers from cracking a smile and breaking out laughing during that scene?

[@HAL-vc3of]

I love this scene to, and sometimes I find it kind of sad, especially after the suicide scene

[@SovereignStatesman]

Hayden wasn't a humorist.

[@donjones4719]

Yes! Amazingly, so many people miss the fact that the whole movie is set in motion by his inability to deal with impotence. When he can't screw, he claims it's because it's his choice to "deny them". Oh yeah, he's psychotically in denial! The ultimate compensation of power ensues. If only he'd just bought an expensive sports car.

[@memisemyself]

I've had a slightly altered version of this plot explained to me as a reason why we shouldn't put fluoride in our water. The man was completely serious and claimed that its supported by science. Instead of effecting our life essence it was making us placid and compliant. The USSR is still trying to take over the world, all these years after it ceased to exist. Modern Russia is just a front for it. I wonder how many more think the same. This same individual also believes that the moon landings were fake, the earth is flat and that the climate is controlled by NASA, among other things.

[@pale_saint]

memisemyself it’s the same powers who were behind USSR and who are behind CCP, the big 👃ses

[@TheHomelessDreamer]

3:00 The B-25... The dyslexics version of the B-52. Funny. (And yes, despite my certainty, I still double checked that it wasn't a B-24. It has a dorsal turret, and higher tailfins, etc)

[@jamesalexander5623]

Yes a B-25! ... My Dad was in in B-24's at Tibbenham in the 445th Bomb Group with Jimmy Stewart!

[@Nordy941]

This movie is funny because everyone plays it straight. The entire premise of the film is plausible and all the characters actions seem reasonable, at least in their own minds. That what makes this movie so funny. The whole situation is completely absurd (Ending civilization) but the characters react to this paradox of a totally ridiculous but complexly possible situation.

[@nickelpython357]

One of my all time favorites and one of (or three of) Peter Sellers finest performances. He was actually going to play four different characters at one point.

[@sallychi8406]

One predecessor is Lubitsch's 1942 comedy "To Be Or Not To Be," about the German invasion of Poland, and a successor is "The Producers" (1967).

[@Machinelf]

I had seen George C Scott in Patton and The Hustler before watching this and him doing a back roll while pointing at the big board was way too funny

[@sparkfilms558]

Your illustrations of what happened in the book were really good.

[@Maazzzo]

One of my favourite films ever. Cheers!

[@noncounterproductive4596]

This movie was made as an attack on Wernher von Braun. Dr. Strangelove's dark glasses and the way his hair is groomed make him look similar to some images of Wernher von Braun at Cape Canaveral.

[@kyleshiflet7932]

I love how Stanley Kubrick is laughing at the state of the world at the time pointing out the paradoxal idea of the nuclear arms race during this time

[@TheRachaelLefler]

I'd also like to see Bladerunner. I love both but I liked that 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep' had a lot more religion and spirituality in it.

[@thefurrybastard1964]

Good video, love how you point out how similar the book and movie are and how the slight changes made the difference between satire and serious story. But the song We'll meet again, it's don't know *where,* don't know when.

[@douglaskalberg8899]

Kubricks best film and still holds up in every way, especially comedy which is rare this much later. So fortunate that he scrapped the horrible pie fight scene that they filmed for the ending.

[@danielgengler4342]

I still want to see one of these on Frankenstein and Dracula, if you didn't already

[@TheRachaelLefler]

Seconded! I loved the book Dracula but I haven't seen the 1930's film.

[@fartzerelli1385]

Forget 2001, this is Kubrick's masterpiece!

[@thelonious-dx9vi]

The song is Try a Little Tenderness. While the planes are coupling in flight.

[@josephyn89]

YES, I love this. Thanks CineFix.

[@petenelson4396]

Funniest movie of all time!!! “Mein Führer I can walk!”

[@christianfoster3806]

George C Scott was thoroughly pissed when the final cut was revealed. He had wanted to play the Turgidson character, and his war hawk philosphy seriously, and did so in multiple takes of each scene. Kubrick insisted on filming a comedic, satirical take of each scene, and Scott grudgingly obliged. When the final cut was revealed, Kubrick included only the most absurd takes.

[@Machinelf]

This and Taxi Driver are my favourite movies.

[@packerpf]

Thanks for this, one of my favorite satires.

[@thomasneal9291]

the reviewers here seem to have forgotten that the impetus for the "precious bodily fluids" stuff came directly from the John Birch society at the time, who were indeed completely insane conspiracy theorists (and still are!). the political satire runs VERY deep in this film, and exposes a lot of america's more insane underbelly. most reviewers weren't even born when the concepts driving the satire in this movie happened, and barely know the history.

[@mirriulahwaterdog]

Wouldn't be 'Merica without full blooded, wide ranging conspiracy somewhere.

[@indiosveritas]

Even though you might not think so , little Thomas Neal , communism is cancer .

[@spaceman081447]

@Thomas Neal You are absolutely right. Most reviewers today would not catch the real life political, social, and military references.

[@spaceman081447]

@@indiosveritas Thomas Neal was not promoting communism. Why would you think that?

[@indiosveritas]

@@spaceman081447 Did I say he was ? Please explain.

[@Brianna-eo8nu]

You guys should do a WTD video on the Secret of NIMH/Mrs. Frisby and the rats of NIMH

[@emmettpepito]

Because everything was completely different?

[@pkunkbwok]

Definitely!

[@elimidd6626]

Man, I love this movie, I watched it in film studies and am now keeping my eyes peeled for a DVD

[@philperry4699]

The DVD has been available for a long time. I think my copy is from 2001.

[@ILoveDawko]

In one scene towards the end of the movie as Sellers does the nazi salute you can see actors in the background, particularly the Russian diplomat, literally breaking down into laughter on camera. What a film. What a performance.

[@dmac7128]

The doomsday machine in the movie actually turned out to be a real thing. The Soviet Union had a "Dead Hand" system that could be activated during a crisis. In the event of the loss of command and control of the strategic rocket forces, a retaliatory strike against the United States would be launched autonomously.

[@mjwbulich]

" Heck, I reckon you wouldn't even be human bein's if you didn't have some pretty strong personal feelin's about nuclear combat." Quite possibly my favorite movie quote of all time.

[@misternewoutlook5437]

The opening music is "try a little tendrness" - a song popular in Bing Crosby's younger years.

[@nthombell]

I first saw the movie at a college in about 1975. It included a big food fight that was later cut out of the movie for some reason. I don't know if it is lost or put away somewhere. You can see shots of a large table full of pastries still in the film.

[@philperry4699]

It was removed due to the reference to "the loss of our gallant young president" in the pie fight, and JFK's assassination the day of the scheduled screening for critics. Also the reference to "could have a pretty good time in Dallas" was changed "Vegas" due to the assassination. One sequence that WAS lost was the original chaos inside the plane when the missile exploded, and they had to recut the whole thing in a hurry.

[@StephenLeGresley]

You should do a comparison of Dr Strangelove and Fail Safe (1964).

[@jeffcoat1959]

The movie Fail Safe creeped me out way more than Dr Strangelove.

[@SovereignStatesman]

There IS no comparison. Fail Safe was an epic.... FAIL.

[@aidani4633]

Posibly the greatest comedy of all time!

[@jamesalexander5623]

This and Duck Soup!

[@Beanbag1]

Monty python

[@GiantButterKnife]

I was stunned to see how funny it still is when I saw the movie a few years back. Y'all should do The Color Purple at some point.

[@Kickex]

I LOVE THESE EPISODES!!

[@kayzeaza]

Hands down my favorite Kubrick film!

[@pauleveritt3388]

In my book, 2001 has it beat all to heck and back.

[@dynamis8381]

@@pauleveritt3388 how

[@daleeasternbrat816]

As they fly over the Arctic "they may hang sleigh bells on us, but they ain't gonna get us on no radar." If you look out the cockpit window the B-52 is casting the easily recognizable shadow of a B-17. The arctic shots for this film were made by a chartered B-17. The shadow was supposed to be morphed into that of a B-52. Stanley Kubric left the B-17 shadow in the film. Nice little touch.

[@philperry4699]

According to the DVD documentary, when they were filming from a B-17 over Greenland or Iceland, they overflew a secret US airbase by accident, and were forced down by fighters.

[@philperry4699]

@Charles Ross Sometimes it was so cold that the film shattered into dust, ruining a whole day's work. Also, fly high enough and the shadow would just be a dot, so maybe Kubrick was counting on the fact that shadows get fuzzier the farther away you are, to fool audiences.

[@daleeasternbrat816]

@Charles Ross It is exactly the kind of thing a kid would notice. Which I did the first time I saw the movie,

[@TheGandorX]

3.5 years later, very nice video.

[@mullaoslo]

Im seeing it on the big screen tonight, i cant wait!

[@twirlipofthemists3201]

Not "felt tired after sex;" IMPOTENT. He blames Russia. (Santayana quote here.)

[@LikeTheBuffalo]

Gentlemen, we *cannot allow* a mine-shaft gap!

[@notme1048]

Buck is dating the 'Miss Foreign Affairs' centerfold featured in the magazine that Major Kong is reading in the B-52 cockpit.

[@buckturgidson1448]

Not Me Nice catch, never noticed that.

[@philperry4699]

They interviewed the actress who played the only female part in the movie, for the DVD documentary. She was not only the centerfold, but Gen. Turgidson's secretary (who he was bedding on the side).

[@ottobaron6392]

In 1964, we had two films released about a bomber heading into Russia, and the potential of a Nuclear holocaust. There was "Dr. Strangelove", with Peter Sellers, and "Fail Safe", with Henry Fonda. Stanley Kubrick, even sued to delay "Fail Safe" from being released. In the end, Dr. Strangelove was the better film, but when I saw it on Television, I was certain Dr, Strangelove was a parody of "Fail Safe".

[@SaintNixon_]

Do you think that the book Darkly Dreaming Dexter and the TV show Dexter could be the premise of one of these videos

[@rickyricardo6725]

If a movie has Slim Pickens in it, it’s great hahaha

[@gilarivergirl7710]

Unusual nomenclature abounds in the film, from characters like Jack D. Ripper (a nod to the infamous serial killer) to Major “King” Kong (reminiscent of the misunderstood ape from the 1933 movie).

[@lockwood_4284]

Yes, i love this series

[@dobiedude7479]

Like Airplane and the original movie Zero Hour.

[@sammygirl6910]

Please do No Country For Old Men! Please, please, please!

[@TheCreepypro]

been awhile since I've seen this got to rewatch this

[@rossdiamondthief6627]

The addition of Peter Sellers in the film is a stroke of genius.

[@artistwithouttalent]

2:58 Funny that, this is something people actually believe 4:43 (sheepishly) "It was to be announced at the Party Congress on Monday. You know how the Premier loves surprises." 5:17 Cute. 9:55 *where

[@ectofriend]

Does this movie become more relevent each year, or is it just me?

[@timmyteaches7663]

Just you, and probably a dozen other conspiracy theorists.

[@ikr9358]

I dunno, I could name a couple world leaders that would fit right in with the movie.

[@isheetfromaswhole3657]

Alec Michael It does not become more relevant. A government can create propaganda just as a person can. In other words, this movie is propaganda staged by one man. Ponder the possibilities.

[@APAL880]

wow you're edgy and enlightened.

[@ectofriend]

Is joke.

[@1982nsu]

Fun Fact... Originally, Sellers was cast as four characters in : Group Captain Lionel Mandrake, President Merkin Muffley, and the titular mad scientist (all of whom he played in the movie), as well as Major Kong. After Sellers injured his leg and with the Texas accent, Kubrick brought in Slim Pickens to play Kong.

[@farbodfasihi1401]

Awww, now I want to watch it again.