Dr. Strangelove: The Humor in Horror

[@seraslain962]

From the looks of it, this entire movie can be summed up with the phrase "I bet he's compensating for something" Oh yeah, and I swear with each scene the cigar gets longer and longer.

[@mattmorehouse9685]

Considering how often our media conflates sex and violence I think this is the ultimate example of that. Also, apparently Dr. Strangelove is rated PG. Weird for a movie about ending the world due to sexual impotence.

[@jweilage]

looking through your backlog of videos, I will never understand how these videos didn't get views when they were uploaded and how they still don't have views today. your videos have always been quality and I'm so happy I've found them

[@franl155]

I only found this vid by accident and now I'm off to check out the rest

[@funnyfella8198]

I thought this was a James bond film for the longest time

[@Mikewee777]

Casino Royale ended the same way as multiple James Bonds sabotaged the other James Bonds in a war against Austin Powers.

[@1fanoforange]

I think you’re thinking of “Doctor No” and “From Russia With Love”

[@beepboop9464]

I did to! 😅

[@sergeantmarcusstackerM1903]

To give a nutshell explanation to someone on this movie, its 300 IQ sex jokes

[@mattmorehouse9685]

Considering our current entertainment, I don't think that's all that out of place. Look at music, or HBO.

[@pyrofyrestudios2615]

Helluva Boss, but it's a warning about Nuclear Armageddon

[@parkerlincoln49]

I know this video is a little old, but I think another theme of the movie (albeit a more minor one) is conveyed with the last line. Strangelove, a Nazi scientist, describing how this group of men, all white, will get to mate with a hand picked group of woman, chosen specifically for their sexual characteristics, is effectively laying out what amounts to a eugenics plan. Not only that, but he is laying out a plan of eugenics in the midst of a nuclear holocaust. His last words are "Mein Fuhrer, I can walk." The man, who is explicitly noted as a nazi in the movie has a plan for eugenics and works and theorizes about how to best perform a genocide. He regains his ability to stand to show that Nazism, in all but name, is still alive in America, and its thinking is the foundation for the arms race and the cold war.

[@cipherclone2661]

Watched this movie in class to talk about irony, it was really funny

[@lilcritic3260]

I think this is one of my favorite endings to any movie MIEN FURHER! I CAN WALK!

[@ps4vortex903]

I agree.

[@West_Coast_Mainline]

Yup

[@leobe2104]

Still waiting for the day someone will write this sentence correctly

[@brushfuse]

I'm glad Kubrick didn't finish with the food fight in the war room. The last line spoken by Strangelove is just so iconic. It was destined to be the end of the film.

[@00oa4]

I feel so dumb for not recognizing the significance of the title until now...

[@olstar18]

Wish there was a mention of the dual meaning of the bomber crews theme. It was a musical version of 'when johny comes marching home' but it is also the theme to a song with a very different meaning called 'johny I hardly knew ye.' When I found out about the different song with the same tune those scenes gained so much more meaning.

[@elevenseven-yq4vu]

Same with the scribblings on the bombs, one reads "Hello there" and one "Dear Johnny": One about sprouting hope, one about hope crushed.

[@papapanara1774]

you're criminally underrated

[@johnbeauvais3159]

I recently finished reading Catch-22 and I have to say that book makes this movie substantially more hilarious. For instance in your statements about the cigar, in C22 Colonel Cathcart has a long ebony cigarette holder and he’s constantly wavering on if this gives him an aristocratic masculine look to the men or if it makes him looks like a working girl. The idea of bureaucracy and the absolute incompetence of elements in this vast web creates a feeling I can only describe as “Frustratingly funny”. What I mean is that there’s this constant hang up that leads to this belief that if you go up the chain far enough you can fix your problems only to have this not work either.

[@M4ruta]

Interesting analysis. Another way of viewing the movie (aside from the overt sexual under/overtones) is that a lot of the scenes deal with mis- or non-communication. The planes carrying the bombs have shut down radio connections, people constantly talk passed each other, sometimes even through language barriers, people in the war room fight with each other rather than coming to an agreement. The scene at 2:22 is a great example of this: the military adviser is in the bathroom while his ditzy girlfriend tries to get the message between him and his superior through but does not comprehend the gravity of the situation. In an ever more complex world, clear communication is key, but at every step of the plot, there we see sender and receiver missing each other.

[@elevenseven-yq4vu]

It's notable how the military advisor is far more ditzy than his girlfriend. After all she is the one reasonably concerned with the situation whereas he brushes it off and can only think about ass while it is being communicated to him.

[@M4ruta]

@@elevenseven-yq4vu Good point.

[@AndrewGivens]

To be completely fair to Miss Scott, she is being absolutely first-rate professional, despite lounging in the boudoir, pre-coitus, in her skimpies: she does not attempt to interpret the meaning of the message whatsoever (that's not her job, and would lead to a case of Chinese Whispers, with potentially disastrous consequences), but instead she conveys coolly - and gets him to the phone by successfully communicating the key facts. If anything, it's women who are the only ones not being straight-up lampooned in the film. This movie is absolutely about the stupidity of men, not mankind.

[@seankim2743]

Thanks. I learned today for the first time the not-so-hidden meaning behind this movie - impotence and insecurity. Watched this more than three times and now I finally get it.

[@rexnihilum7822]

weirdly this reminds me of End of Evangelion

[@kortomor8003]

Lmao sort of

[@rexnihilum7822]

@@kortomor8003 for me it's the board of shadowy figures sorta like SEELE, what about you ?

[@rexnihilum7822]

@@kortomor8003 mate ?

[@veleriphon]

I get the SELEE reference. Pretty spot on!

[@mohitonon-alco4287]

"Man wants to destroy the world to revive his wife" yeah pretty close

[@lovaszaron3138]

Not a comedy? It is advertised as a "light-hearted black comedy" here in Hungary. Yes, with the same ending where the entire world dies. We had similarly dark comedies for stage and movies.

[@TheMrPeteChannel]

I am told that there's always at least 1 person who dies in almost every Hungarian film.

[@lovaszaron3138]

@@TheMrPeteChannel Almost, yes. Comedies aren't keen on that but dark comedies regularly come with a death toll.

[@Neo-st3su]

Man, you deserve the influx of new subscribers you’re getting - this shit is top tier

[@DruNature]

one of the most prolific inspirations in American media ever, I remember seeing Tom and Jerry cartoons riding on the bomb as a kid. KUBRICK IS A GENIUS!~

[@supersteve1440]

The mineshaft gap was a play on the "bomber gap".

[@nigelft]

... then the missile gap, hence the idea behind the whole (and honestly, bonkers*) MX programme, which was eventually scrapped to just upgrading Minuteman IIIs warheads ... or so I gather ... [Edit: *= the reason why I call it bonkers is this: The concept, depending on which version, called for a large, Minuteman-esque missile, on a even larger TEL, which would be shuttled between about a dozen, hardened shelters, all connected by a paved road, or rail track. Instead of being launched directly out of a silo, the missile would fired from the TEL itself. The idea was, as the Soviets wouldn't know which of the 12 shelters it would be in, they'll have to hit all of them, expending a huge number of warheads, thus preventing, or so it was believed, a further retaliatory strike, after an American counterattack, after expending most, if not all their arsenal. Except, due to MAD (which was never exactly sane to begin with ...), it became quickly obvious that the Soviets would, and could 'account' for that, by simply increase their capacity, and capability, especially SLBMs (which created a mini-arms race itself between whom could build a submarine with the largest number of deployable missiles ...), only further ratcheting up both the number of missiles, and especially warheads, such as can be air dropped ... for a while their arsenal greatly exceeded the American's ... Honestly, the 1980's was a weird time to be an child-to-teenager, in Britan, caught between the two, especially between, in my experience, 1982-89, as you never knew when everything was going to go bang, especially whilst at school ... we didn't even have 'Duck and Cover', as, if you were that close to see 'the flash', you were good as dead ... Even the Russians knew that, going by a joke of that period: "Comrade, what should I do if nuclear war starts ...?" "Simple: Cover yourself with a white sheet, and make your way slowly to the nearest cemetery ..." "But why slowly ...?" "So not to panic anyone else ..."]

[@definitelyhooman7939]

Obligatory comment for the algorithm because more people need to see this video

[@thescreentroll8632]

this essay got me to watch Dr. Strangelove and I absolutely loved it. Thank you

[@Rotsteinblock]

Regarding the ending of the movie, it is my understanding that the US launched a nuclear attack on Soviet mine shafts and possibly also nuclear arsenals. Reason for this is Dr. Strangelove proclaiming "I have an idea" in response to the "we cannot allow a mineshaft gap", furthermore the Doomsday device was desrcibed to be a single installation so there wouldn't be a need for nuclear detonations in different places around the world if the ending was just the Doomsday device going off.

[@surfq9313]

...and or some real footage of the 1950's Bikini Atoll atomic tests...

[@silviareyes136]

Brilliant! 👏👏👏

[@Nosirrbro]

5:50 That's not quite right, the doomsday device would be a single, stationary salted bomb of some kind that releases a massive amount of nuclear radiation, probably a cobalt bomb. Basically just a nuke on the ground surrounded by a bunch material that turns radioactive when exposed to neutrons from the nuke. Thats why it would be necessary to create a nuclear powered underground bunker, because while normal nuclear radiation is bad its not nearly as long term as the radiation from a cobalt bomb, which would keep the surface uninhabitable for several decades. Otherwise a normal fallout shelter like the US already had would be just fine.

[@lemiwinks9124]

Good movie and game analysis? Drew me in with the Prey analysis, but I've deff stayed for the Strangelove. subbed

[@0Chill]

Congratulations. I’ve watched this movie a dozen times appreciating it in a different way every single time, and never thought about half the points you made in this essay. Very impressive. Idk if I’m heartbroken or thankful that Kubrick isn’t alive today to narrate the world currently around us. But damn, I’m glad people like you are. Kudos

[@coffin7904]

your videos are great. hope to see you succeed.

[@patrlim]

100k, looks like he did

[@brandondasher261]

damn I completely missed all of the subext when I watched this movie

[@AndrewGivens]

Great analysis. - One beautiful little detail which eluded me until now, given the themes, is that the bomber is not only successfully penetrating the enemy defences (don't need to explain that one) to drop its payload (oh dear), but the act of using decoys to draw an enemy missile just far enough away from your own 'target centroid' to minimise damage to yourself at the last moment is called... - *'Seduction'*

[@veleriphon]

This movie truly proves Kubrick's brilliance. Is there any current movie director/creator who can compare, and is still working?

[@franl155]

These days what films are made is decided by suits with balance sheets; nothing like this would receive any backing, even if there were someone to write it and direct it.

[@veleriphon]

@@franl155 Every movie needs a bankroll. These days though, it's either a sure thing or not happening.

[@barsdogukankarakoyun8798]

8:57. That pilot is literally a reverse cowboy.

[@DanMcLeodNeptuneUK]

One of my favourite movies. Every time I watch it I gain some new insight about the film...

[@EXMachina.]

My interpretation about the movie was about a satire about American Ignorance at his finest, like my favourite bit being the shootout scene showing the US soldiers killing each other with a Big Billboard in the middle of the shot saying "Peace is our Profession".

[@TombomOfficial]

This reminds me a lot of Collative Learning's interpretation. Great video.

[@isabeamon1190]

Excellent essay! I thoroughly enjoyed your video. Keep up the good work.

[@rapauli]

Great summary -- best I have seen for this movie. Based on the stories of its production and especially the script wrangling it was not clear that Kubrick did not start out with making this movie ... there were tremendous dynamic changes during shooting that allowed this story to emerge. You seem to nail it perfectly.

[@TooMuchSascha]

Kubrick simply had no cap lmfao, he made stellar horror movies, stellar comedies, and incredibly important philosophical scifi films. What a madman

[@LowSkillSurvival]

I just realised I have been watching your videos for far longer than I thought. Watched this one when it was uploaded. Huh.

[@RoamingAdhocrat]

I've seen the film a bunch of times, so the part where you recap the film in detail dragged a bit, but I really loved how you explained the meaning of the title - I'd never thought of that!

[@Playitsam]

Great essay! Keep it up

[@detritus10001]

Our bodily fluids.

[@matthewmontgomery7764]

Wow love the doom beat as the background noise!

[@bazillio69wotblitz5]

Was always waiting till my English level gets up high enough to understand this movie. Now i get, that I'm never be that good in foreign language. Cause reading comments made me know - there are plenty of things, that could be understood only for one who's in American/British culture for decades

[@markcoupe5748]

This is my favourite film and dont know of any other films of this length with only 1 female in it!

[@uvbe]

i waited 5 years until i finally crossed this movie from my watchlist so i can watch this video

[@norikofu509]

The most underrated movie.

[@haidenlotze7530]

Might just be me not "reading into it" / "seeing it" due to being asexual (short of the blatant shit like the f l u i d s ), but i didn't get all that bit until reading the Wikipedia afterwards, and videos like these. Makes sense, just found it odd how i didn't see that.

[@haidenlotze7530]

9:40 I was just annoyed at this bit of his oddness distracting from fallout shelter design stuff lol i am the big d u m b

[@thesmilingman7576]

7:59 wasn't the survival kit scene earlier in the film

[@zeitgeist5134]

Apocalypse Now is also a comedy, just nobody's noticed. Duvall's two-dimensional Kilgore strutting around saying fatuous stuff. And Brando's mumbling Jabba-the-Hut Kurtz, hilarious. And then there are the idiotic French planters, like something out of Monty Python, or maybe Bunuel's Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie. But Coppola wasn't as smart as Kubrick. He also didn't notice.

[@atompunk5575]

I have this movie on BluRay, such a great movie

[@kaymuldoon3575]

So do I. Love it.

[@prettycolors2]

man I love this movie.

[@ethanhainey3682]

Great use of Mullein in the background, definitely works with this movie

[@MrUltrabanton]

You deserve more views dude

[@thepsplayer6039]

I think that Dr. Strange love and Fail-Safe are almost anti-war movies

[@kaljic1]

Sexual innuendos, hidden, throughout the movie. What else could we expect from a master who previously made Lolita acceptible to the mainstream?

[@nigelft]

Funny ... James Earl Jones, in perhaps his first movie, was a relatively junior rank in that bomber crew ... ... later he plays an Airforce General (Alice) in charge of the SAC Airborne Command Post, in that other nuclear war movie 'By Dawn's Early Light ... ... and, of course, Admiral, and perhaps Chair of the Joint Chiefs, in 'Red October' ...

[@RobFieldFlorida]

The fatigue Gen. Ripper describes isn't erectile dysfunction. It's the soporific refractory period men often feel after ejaculation, which is why he now "denies woman his essence," which he preserves by not ejaculating, which is possibly Kubrick's theory of how he lost it. I was surprised, because he explicitly connects the two.

[@mrlastos888]

damm you need more views

[@Mikewee777]

Deep

[@brucemacmillan7128]

Yep. There's always another war just around the corner. Water wars anyone?

[@robzilla730]

Its funny: in this movie, America has at best, 12hrs left to survive. How are they gonna get the mineshaft shelters set up and provisioned, much less hand pick the 10 beautiful women for each man in that time? Strangelove is completely delusional...

[@angelogarcia2189]

She IS the girl in the playboy magazine.

[@abcrane]

This could also be called Dr Wilhelm Reich

[@Cephlin]

Doesn’t seem like a comedy at first glance? The whole thing screams comedy lol Maybe it’s a British thing to see it so obviously as a comedy?

[@blackroses6315]

I love this movie

[@KatieLHall-fy1hw]

I didn’t think this movie was that funny. It felt too real

[@iluvatar2239]

damn, MUCH LESS CLEVERLY!! jkjk

[@tagtag123]

very similar tone from Cat's Cradle

[@t4ky0n]

I thought this was about moshi monsters

[@PsychOsmosis]

Wow...

[@xfirexrainx6668]

I thought this was a serious drama...

[@OGTwistedDobermanXCVI]

Might I suggest using a better quality mic, or possibly editing the audio so your voice'd sound clearer instead of getting drowned out by your bg music. Also, not offense, but you kinda started to ramble a bit... I'm barely a minute and 8 seconds in and i completely lost focus on the point you were trying to make. Some people have ADHD or generally shorter attention spans. If you practice improving the sentence structure of your script, emphasizing and highlighting key points of your subject matter, it'd be easier listening to it. By feeding us the information in bite sized chunks, your video would be a lot less overwhelming whereas shoving massively long paragraphs of words down our throats make it harder to follow and more likely to move on to a different video. Lastly, you should try to use your tone of voice to interest the audience and subconsciously entice them to listen. You sound very monotone, it's kinda reminescent of being back in a desk in high school during an Economics lecture... Not very invigorating or exciting if im honest... If you practice your reading your script in a recording and listen back to it, you can judge by your tone how interesting your input on the subject sounds. And typically, if your audience can feel your passion and interest in your opinion on a subject, they in most cases will be interested in what you have to say about that subject. I'm not trying to discourage you from making videos. I think you might have some potential. I'm just giving you a little friendly advice and constructive criticism. Hope it helps .

[@Leadhead]

Oh yeah I had barely any experience doing any of this back when I made this one. Most of my old videos were kind of a mess. Thanks for the feedback regardless

[@OGTwistedDobermanXCVI]

@@Leadhead No problem. I like the commentary. It's just kinda hard to follow lol. Glad to help. :) I know I sure wouldn't be able to make a commentary myself, that takes speaking skills. I'm better at writing than speaking lol. Great job. 👌

[@ohno8589]

The last famed words said by this very sexy man finally made me realize how horrible the Chinese Communist Government truly is, also foreshadowing Edit: For more information on this topic the yt channel, “serpentza” a white South African who lived in China, made a video called “is China DESTROYING Africa?” Discussing China’s Belt and Road(beat and rob) program

[@wagiqwq]

What does the "mineshaft gap" mean in that Context?

[@cartooncharacter9920]

good video, also whats the song at the beginning?

[@insuficienciarenalcronica]

what music did he use on the intro?

[@curly_wyn]

I honestly don’t get why people think this is a great comedy. I didn’t find it funny and didn’t laugh once.

[@hooty7179]

hey r u ok?

[@surfq9313]

The horror of this humor is the missing facts that weren't mentioned like the green felt Kubrick veneered the war room table with, even though its a black and white film it was a pure Kubrick touch of genius...also the fact that Peter Sellers was the only actor that Kubrick let work without a script in this film all of his 3 roles was pure ad lib acting, and he was even supposed to act in a 4th role as a member of the bomber crew, but was too sick to do those scenes due to a cold, and that James Earl Jones almost didn't get his speaking role, and fates humor is the about the only horrible fact about this film, the movie was scheduled to debut on Nov.22,1963 the day Kennedy was killed and that was filmed in color... Interestingly Kubrick later was hired to shoot the staged lunar landing films for NASA, ironically in the same year that 2001 came out? Mr. Kubrick still had the artistic tenacity to put his little innuendos on those films too, like in certain key frames ie. leaving in some shadows on the moon? Another funny fact is what was a mysterious and sadly uncredited camera man doing on the outside of the lunar lander waiting to film Armstrong's iconic ladder descent and not even a hint of dust specked on that camera lens?... and man those sixties moon helmets have great crisp sound for being an air tight helmet...blocks air, but not sound? At that distance, Are u sure? Try that with a 1960's or even a modern full visor motorcycle helmet for starters. So let me get this straight, in 1969 we could spend buku bucks to go to the moon, but somehow not even afford to use color cameras by Westinghouse to document that monumental leap in our human history? Now there's some humor for you.

[@seansmith3058]

For those who have never seen the film you have now spoiled it. For those who have you have offered no insight or perspective. Was there a point to this?