Mineshaft gap - Dr. Strangelove

[@mcnamaraky]

"Animals could be bred and *SLAUGHTERED"* The delivery of that line NEVER fails to make me crack a smile at minimum.

[@stevekaczynski3793]

The emphasis he gives to "SLAUGHTERED" gives away the beast within.

[@clementwolf4081]

can i pet him ?

[@MichaelFreckelton]

Also the edit to the closer shot just makes it all the more hilarious

[@ja3482]

What about his eugenics based recovery plan? 🤣

[@redshuttleredacted6422]

@@ja3482 which is why his nazi right arm is doing the hitler salute

[@rosePetrichor]

idk i'd say it's the fact that he is physically fighting to stop himself doing a nazi salute at any given time tbh

[@sananto6896]

Dr. Strangelove fighting his own right hand that is trying to choke him at 2:40 is about as creative as any comic can be. Peter makes it look so freaking real, which only adds to the comedy.

[@ja3482]

What's funny (and probably tragic if you suffer from it) is that "Dr. Strangelove Syndrome" (also called Alien Hand Syndrome) is a real thing.

[@-Trauma.]

@@ja3482 😒

[@jtgd]

Love how deadpan and unreactive everyone is

[@twobellz]

“Wouldn’t that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called sexual monogamous relationship?”. Sellers: “ regrettably yes“. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@mahmoodsheikh136]

"It would be absolutely vital that our top government and military men be included........ to foster and impart the required principles of leadership and tradition......." Right arm immediately goes up into a Nazi salute.

[@lewiemcneely9143]

Just like today. The slink off to their rat holes and leave the rest of us to turn to dust.

[@johnirish2969]

Damn, I've watched this movie twice, good eye

[@stoopidpants]

This is literally, in my opinion, the single funniest line in any movie or TV show ever. It's fucking perfect.

[@christopherkempf1507]

3:15 "Each man would be required to do prodigious... - Gloved hand grabs *something* below the frame - …service along these lines..."

[@BoxStudioExecutive]

Lmao I’ve never noticed that

[@jtgd]

lol i figured something down there started moving

[@martymcdonough1111]

"It would not be difficult, Mein Fuhrer!" - lost it! LEGENDARY!

[@Radnally]

George C Scott's facial expressions.... Fantastic actor

[@agwhitaker]

Exactly ! - @ 1:30 to 1:45 - did much without saying a word.

[@jamesanthony5681]

A mineshaft gap? Priceless! I used to hear a lot about gaps during the JFK era. Missile gap, tank gap, warship gap.

[@marjanp]

Now we have trumpism gap.

[@LordVader1094]

@@marjanp lolwut

[@polygondwanaland8390]

We must not allow a spy balloon gap!

[@timhidden559]

Now they are complaining about a warship gap with China. Just for the record we have a tonnage lead, but it just goes to show human nature never changes.

[@callmema14]

I love watching the people on the back because if you watch closely you can see some of them struggling to not laugh while Peter acts.

[@MrDiddyDee]

Totally agree, Ashley, it's brilliant. Peter Bull doesn't have the benefit of being in full shadow and at [2:08] is barely holding it together, doing his best not to laugh. Trying to play it straight when you have Peter Sellers really going for it couldn't ever have been easy.

[@2011littleguy]

I never looked at the background actors. But now that you mention it, I'm sure they struggled to remain in character. I read that Kubrick always filmed with at least four cameras going at all times so he could choose what he wanted in the editing room. Also, he wanted to be sure that if an actor had a really good take... he got it on film.

[@davidcarter2720]

@@MrDiddyDee - love this observation. Peter Bull's character, juxtaposed against George C Scott's character, set amidst an array of "central casting" military and senior government types with their seriously bland faces... pure gold.

[@alexmarshall4331]

The Russian diplomat around 2.07...imagine Kubrick behind the camera and Sellers in full flow... How would you not crack up larfing...!! I know Kubrick was hard work but don't tell me he wasn't struggling not to fall off his stall👉😷👉🇬🇧💎

[@idontknow164]

Sellers had Kubrick rolling over laughing while directing.

[@johnirish2969]

"To foster and impart the required principles of leadership and tradition"- *Immediately* *performs* *Nazi* *salute*

[@jtgd]

*Use nearly all his might to will his other arm to retrieve the saluting arm*

[@brianwilliams6549]

Still the greatest satirical film ever made. Captures the evil absurdity of the military industrial complex brilliantly. And still way too timely

[@barrybarnes96]

and the right wing morons.

[@vanpenguin22]

"We'll meet again, Don't know where, don't know when, But I know creepy old Joe pushed up the day..."

[@SugarDaddy_88]

@@barrybarnes96 , the famous " right wing morons " of USSR

[@mikaelarkanghel5094]

They carry on their plan to this day.. Executing coldly. This satire should be evident in todays reality. Only it is not with nukes but rather it's with a "Plandemic". And their "solution" complete with "boosters" are the nuclear missiles. Much more efficient and it does not destroy the infrastructure.

[@mikaelarkanghel5094]

@@barrybarnes96 Pardon me but this has to be said, Correction: Rather it's the Left wing morons. Because the left wing nuts are the true "useful idiots".. The one's at the top who are carrying out their long held plans even now, as i send this comment are just: plain evil. There's no other party they belong to but with Evil.

[@NothingMaster]

To me Peter Sellers has always been the comic-version equal of Marlon Brando. Pure genius at work.

[@165Dash]

One of the greatest and most frightening documentaries in US history.

[@SuperKizHabib]

@Alchemist Actually, the accuracy of this "fiction" is so uncanny that some people who did nuclear planning for the USG have called this their favourite documentary. There is nothing in here that doesn't correspond to reality, except for the final outcome.

[@165Dash]

Alchemist Of course it’s fiction. Every twat, idiot, boob, ...(your favorite insult HERE)...on the planet knows that Doctor Strangelove is fiction. But so is the “nuclear football” and that idiotic Oval Office “big button” that occasionally gets referenced. The term “documentary” was commonly assigned to this film at the time, as a form of gallows humor by many at the RAND Corporation and Pentagon with intimate knowledge of USA vs USSR nuclear war plans as well as remote yet known flaws in “command and control” systems of the period. Strangelove’s character...depicted in comic satire...was not so loosely based on the John von Neumann, the father of MAD... and the highly classified existence of nukes around the world that had the potential of being delivered in error from airplanes DID exist during this period. The concept of “nuclear winter”... which would essentially create conditions similar to that of a “doomsday machine”...was not introduced and validated until the early 1980s.

[@nicholasoneal1521]

@Alchemist No, this really happened

[@Lilferiby]

@alexanderbretta "You probably think COVID-19 is purely accidental too" That's certainly one way to destroy your own credibility in a single sentence; ironic too, that you began by calling someone an idiot and then immediately followed it with that dross, hahah. Also, don't use words that you can't define (I.e. gaslighting), especially when the person that you accuse is doing essentially the opposite of what you say (gaslighting is manipulating a person to doubt their own sanity; Alchemist was only really reiterating that this is a work of fiction, which I'd say promotes sanity).

[@Lilferiby]

I do agree also with Alchemist, even though he was unnecessarily rude, as this is not a documentary, it is a work of fiction designed for entertainment before it is anything else. A documentary is based on the documentation (clue is in the name) of real events, thus, there's no such thing as a fictional documentary; it's either based on actual evidence, or it's not, and this film is clearly not. I'm not denying that there is inspiration from real life, obviously there is, but I'm denying the legitimacy of SuperKizHabib and 165Dash's claims of unsourced anecdotal evidence about a film that was made 56 years ago. I think you'd have listed sources if you had them, and the fact you didn't leads me to believe you don't have any. I certainly don't buy that SKH knows anything about the opinions of "nuclear planners" on this film, neither do I buy that 165Dash knows anything about the reception of this film, or the intricacies of the time period it was made in either (again, if you have sources, why did you not list them?). Just accept things for their own merits, don't bullshit and try to inflate their importance just because you, personally, like it. It's a great film, but it's nothing close to a documentary; don't continue to defend that weak assertion, just accept you used an incorrect term to describe it and move on.

[@ZGundam83]

“MEIN FURHER! I CAN WALK!” - Love that line.

[@Seriousgreeen]

it's as though his nazi part won and took total control of his body

[@TheApocalypseLive]

The Russian almost breaks at 2:05

[@QuarrellaDeVil]

This scene is brilliant as it is, but watching Peter Bull as the Russian Ambassador, trying to not laugh showcases that even professionals were not immune from the absolute genius that was Peter Sellers.

[@bkech81]

I've seen this movie probably 50 times from start to finish, and this scene in particular 100-200 times, and I just noticed that now. Kubrick was known to be a bit hard on actors that break down laughing during filming of his films (see Shelley Duvall, lol) and you could see the actor doing everything in his power to not make this take a wash. But yeah, I just noticed this for the first time. Good catch.

[@bkech81]

@@QuarrellaDeVil I completely agree. Mother of god, what a special and unique actor he was. We will never see his like again.

[@2011littleguy]

Good catch! I was so fixated on watching Sellers that I never looked up at the other people. It looks like he came within one hair of bursting out in wild laughter.

[@purpandorange]

Which is interesting for a Kubrick movie, you would think he would have redone it with how much of a perfectionist he was.

[@TralfazConstruction]

My parents took me to see this and Fail Safe (1964) when I was eight years-old. Both films' dark themes went _way_ over my little head save for the scenes when airplanes ✈ were featured. I appreciate both movies now beyond how words can describe and I appreciate my forward-thinking parents for bringing me along.

[@neilrankin4133]

George C. Scott was brilliant.

[@lovekesh88]

Same. it's him when i think of this movie and guy in B52 bomber.

[@paulajaneabel5205]

I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed!

[@neilrankin4133]

Five. . .

[@tubhair]

At 2:08 watch the Russian character Alexi de Sadesky (Peter Bull) almost break character and start laughing when Sellers punches his own arm. God I love this movie.

[@aaronTNGDS9]

Definitely a favorite, and outlandishly hilarious.

[@Jdtheepic]

You did that entire thing, you might as well have just gone all the way to the ending.

[@TheNavyShark]

We never did find out if Dr. Strangelove could walk.

[@davecrupel2817]

@@TheNavyShark he would probably goosestep everywhere he went.

[@jamesanthony5681]

The George C. Scott character is reminiscent of General Curtis LeMay, who upbraided JFK at the end of the Cuban missile crisis for missing the opportunity to destroy the Russians once and for all.

[@autry33]

"In order to breed more prodigiously than we do"

[@stevenpilling5318]

You can see Peter Bull desperately trying to suppress his laughter at Sellers' crazed performance!

[@charlescanterbury9762]

I personally think Scott steals every scene, his facial expressions are hilarious. For my money, the greatest American Actor ever.

[@thetooginator153]

Charles Canterbury - This may be a cinema myth, but I heard that Kubrick had Scott read the lines seriously, then Kubrick asked Scott to go WAY over the top - and those were the scenes that ended up in the movie. I bet this movie helped make Scott a seriously hot commodity. This showed his amazing range - without typecasting him in the slightest. Scott was awesome! I have to figure that Sellers improvised a lot of the totally insane stuff, that also ended up in the final cut.

[@KGraceSpeaksKea1335]

Agreed ✋

[@fordburkett9444]

I am not an intellectual, just your average 65 yr old citizen of America who remembers how the ending of this movie was terrifying in that these people thought that a Russian nuclear attack was survivable. When I see this scene, I always remember the running joke in school in the early 60s, which went, when the air raid sirens sound, don't go to the nuclear shelters, don't hide under your desk, but what you should do is sit down on the floor, put your head between your legs, and kiss your ass goodbye. Those were the times we lived in back then, think about it, and have a nice day.

[@havadatequila]

Never gets old... unfortunately.

[@lisvender]

I read a bunch of reviews for this movie to gain insights into it. One said, and I think it was Ebert, that Strangelove's speech should have been placed before the fall of the bomb. I disagree, though, because I think the bombing pushes us over the falls emotionally. It gives this final scene a resignation that makes Strangelove's optimism incredibly off-putting. It also digs the film's thematic knife all the way to the hilt. It exposes not only the most far-flung, wacko plans these weirdos formulated years in advance, but their cheerful presumptions about how readily a populace will go along with them. Another reviewer described this disturbing aspect very well by saying that none of these men seem capable of mourning what is about to be lost. I understand the need for preparedness, to keep calm in a crisis, to keep moving and always try to survive, but if you can't break down at the end of the freaking world, I'd say that something is missing from you.

[@Thursdaym2]

Peter, one of the greatest performances of all time.

[@actionms8566]

Cold War logic in a nutshell.

[@sparkster65]

“SLAUGHTERED”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Lmfao

[@MuzixMaker]

How the cast and crew got through this without cracking up is amazing.

[@PuppetierMaster]

Mr. President WE MUST NOT ALLOW A SPY BALLOON GAP

[@AverageThinking]

We must not allow an AI gap!

[@goldgeologist5320]

This was one if not the most brilliant movies ever made!

[@ultrakool]

0:08 buck all snuggled up to the prez. lol

[@lewiemcneely9143]

Yet and still. Different actors but same script.

[@ChitlinsLaundry]

“I must confess you have an astonishingly good ideia there doctor…” - …”thank you, sir!” 😂😂😂

[@nateds7326]

Out of context this feels like a god damn snl skit

[@Chickenjump]

And that's how Vault-Tec was created!

[@lonster1monster]

pure brilliance...a great loss.....true comic genius

[@RealityTrailers]

Animals could be bred and ssssssllaaaauughtered.

[@mikecapp7864]

The Russians must have laughed their asses off when this film made its way over to the black market in the Soviet Union.

[@jimmyfischbeck9872]

Best line in a movie FULL of great lines!

[@cheeseandonions9558]

Mineshaft gap keeps me awake at night...

[@sammyvh11]

We had a talent show in high school 50 years ago and a guy did the bit on this scene . He brought the house down.

[@Zonatewalter7]

Considering Stranglove's policies, replace the uniforms and then you got a room full of nazis. This cracked me up.

[@andreasmoser6365]

Or Elon Musk.

[@angelofiron4366]

I have to confess as well, but that is a brilliant idea.

[@ughmazing8073]

He sounds like Kermit trying a German accent 😂

[@tungs1065]

Sellers Strangelove is a kind of like Edward Teller meets Henry Kissinger.

[@starseed96]

Dr. Henry "Strangelove" Kissinger

[@humblescribe8522]

I think the 'Nazi scientist working for the USA' trope leans more heavily on Werner von Braun.

[@iitzfizz]

@@humblescribe8522 Once zee rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department, says Werner Von Braun

[@docmalthus]

@2:08 you can see Peter Bull cracking up. Who couldn't watching Peter Sellers in this?

[@Kingrob30]

U can see the wheels turning in the Generals head in 1:43

[@alexG106]

For context, in the 1960 US presidential election the John F. Kennedy campaign made a lot of hay about the United States having a "missile gap' with the Soviet Union, the notion that the US had less nuclear missiles than the Soviets.

[@luke-alex]

I've got to say, and I didn't notice this before, the idea that a computer algorithm will decide who lives and who dies is incredibly prescient for a film from the sixties.

[@Fedakeen]

George C. Scott was told to warm-up by acting wildly. He did not realize that Kubrick would use the takes he did for warm-up, which ended up pissing off Scott a great deal. There probably were very serious takes, but clearly, not all of them were used.

[@erikpeterson25]

No mine shaft gap....I agree....that could be disastrous in the long run....good thinking General

[@feldheim3219]

It's sad but true. Thank goodness for these lizards in suits that walking into rooms such as these with their shaved faces, all to plot doom in every imaginable way possible. I think.

[@filmtajm35]

A master piece.

[@frillydress]

I’m like 16 and I find this movie to be absolutely hilarious. I doubt any kids at my school would get how funny this is. And it’s all thanks to good ol' George C. Scott. (Kind of surprised he never guest starred on sitcoms, or even The Simpsons.)

[@HiVizCamo]

Klaus Schwab, Dr. Strangelove minus the wheelchair.

[@martm216]

A true Black Comedy. It's scary and prophetic about the way that procedures and systems, 'Plan R', and sheer technology, 'The Doomsday Machine', can take over from human command and control.

[@pickeljarsforhillary102]

Mein Fuhrer, I can walk!!!!

[@atilllathehun1212]

When he strangles himself.... Sellers was never better than in this scene, fantastic support cast too.

[@minesg9511]

By far, my favorite character in Dr. Strangelove.

[@N0rmandy]

What a fantastic film. Resulting to living underground due to overreacting about current events then going straight to overreacting of possible future events.

[@stevenpeeven3169]

The way Peter Sellers fights with his right arm reminds me of Jim Carrey in Liar Liar and 'the pen is blue' scene

[@michaelcrews6725]

When Dr strangelove has a spastic attack at 2:16 check out the Russian ambassador he can hardly keep a straight face.

[@TheFi0r3]

Damn, This movie is definitely the prequel to Fallout. The only thing missing would be the power armor, the FVE and the Enclave.

[@BeezOne84]

"So called monogamous relationship"

[@martm216]

Probably Sellers' finest performance. Mind you, George C Scott was excellent as well. And so was the guy who played General Ripper, whose name I can never remember.

[@pmw8000]

Sterling Hayden. Fun fact: At the outbreak of WWII he was a commando in the COI, which morphed into the OSS and then the CIA.

[@martm216]

@@pmw8000 thanks! That's very interesting. He would have had quite a feel for that particular part then. So funny where Ripper has found himself evidently impotent, and has to find something to blame it on. So he hits on fluoridation, a dastardly commie plot!

[@SupremeLeader673]

@@pmw8000 Sterling Hayden also played the Policeman who got shot by Al Pacino in The Godfather.

[@stephenmark6781]

Peter Sellers manages to make the character of Dr. Strangelove both sinister and hilarious. He was truly a comic genius.

[@Bytewalker]

this is so fucking brilliant and hilarios

[@2011littleguy]

I saw this movie when i was 17. i usually went alone to the movies and always sat in an aisle seat. I remember watching this scene and laughing so hard that I actually fell out of my seat into the aisle doubled over with laughter. I never laughed so hard in my entire life. My sides ached. Eventually (I would estimate about 30 seconds), I settled down enough to climb back into my seat. I was still laughing, but had control enough not to fall out of my seat again. I would say that was the funniest scene I have ever seen. Sellers said he based the character on the German rocket scientist Wernher Von Braun who America brought over after the war to run America's space program. Damn, what I wouldn't give to feel that way again! Pure joy.

[@sarcasticstartrek7719]

and then everyone clapped and obama gave you a medal.

[@2011littleguy]

@@sarcasticstartrek7719 JFK gave me the medal. Obama was three years old when Dr. Strangelove was released.

[@johndaugherty7465]

Watch the face of the Soviet ambassador (Peter Bull) starting at the 1:51 mark, he is trying not to crack up.

[@lineshaftrestorations7903]

Love how the Russian ambassador is doing all he can to keep from breaking character.

[@eagleswings5693]

“Mr president , we must not allow a mineshaft gap” . 😂😂😂

[@elliotwalton6159]

Greatest comedic performance EVER!

[@Mephistocephalic]

At 2:06, you can see the Soviet ambassador trying not to crack up at Peter Sellers.

[@edwardherbert882]

Dark funny and Brilliant from start to end and if you listen and watch you can see how this sort of logic would ultimately went out let that sink in

[@Lullaby454]

so this is essentially what Captain America: Winter Soldier was going for?

[@manofsan]

yeah, but his arm worked a lot better than Strangelove's - must've grabbed all the better German engineers

[@CBeard849]

Still waiting for a Director to even come close to this film's unique sense of humor. This^^ right here is freakin' hilarious!!

[@dr.lyleevans6915]

First time I say this, I thought the ambassador was the one who actually set off the bomb

[@chrislingre9175]

Best. Anti-war. Movie. Ever. . .

[@nicktombs1876]

Sellers at his best, he based this on a real life character who was a full Nazi and a war criminal wanted for the murder of several thousand innocent civilians, but the Americans let him off because of his rocket building capabilities, Werner Von Braun.

[@samcostello2861]

"Sir, I have a plan. I...Mein Fuer! I can walk!"

[@lutherrhein7697]

The Black Hand!

[@NiallBradley]

Reminds me of daily statements from the US government.

[@gmodrules123456789]

He seems so excited at the prospect of making a computer that picks who lives and who dies.

[@ButlerWho]

2:02 Multiple people in the background struggling to hold it together.

[@mcnamaraky]

So glad Kubrick played George C Scott because without that we would not have gotten one of the greatest (unintentional) comedic acts as a parody of a gung-ho military man.

[@BarrySlisk]

They don't make them like that anymore.

[@fenwaypark1725]

Love to see strangelove meet the mohel from Seinfeld.which line is better, Slaughtered or like an animal.

[@captjim007]

Dr. Strangelove was a spoof on Dr. Edward Teller, the father of the hydrogen bomb.

[@namulit]

When you think the movie is almost over it becomes the meanest and funniest...

[@kamranii]

Never was a better case for nuclear warfare made. Seems the current president's cabinet is well stocked with Dr. Strangelove and General Buck Turgidson types.

[@None-zc5vg]

At about 2.10 Peter Bull can't stop himself laughing at Sellers' antics in the wheelchair.

[@N4TCM]

Love this movie.All candidates would look like Kate Upton and have PHD's. Yeah

[@N4TCM]

Hmmmm.......

[@N4TCM]

Kieran Garnett apparently the guy has never seen her. The only woman that ever came close to Kate in the 60's was Raquel Welch and she's in her 70's now I think.

[@SeymourButz2]

Apparently you haven't seen many women from the 60s. In fact if you had been alive in the 60s you would have found many women of that era extremely attractive, even if you have a different opinion of them now. Like it or not, if you find Kate attractive then you're a slave to current trends, so you would have been just as much one then too.

[@N4TCM]

Seymour were not all children. I was born in 64' the same month the Beatles came to America. British Invasion.

[@N4TCM]

Not a slave to current trends.....good taste. Yes Raquel Welch is still a babe at her age.

[@alexmarshall4331]

Take a look at the character playing the Russian diplomat around 2.07....Put Kubrick behind the camera and Sellers in front WOW!! You've gotta hand it to Sellers..and of course Kubrick that it will never come again... Pure gold👉😷👉🇬🇧👉💎👈

[@thetooginator153]

I have little doubt that this movie helped avoid a nuclear war. There are some things people have a REALLY hard time accepting - like the idea that no one would survive a full-scale nuclear war. But brilliant comedy allows ideas like that the break down people’s natural denial. Before this movie, many people thought a nuclear war would be like a conventional war - with winners and losers. This movie put that idea to rest for the vast majority of Americans. Another idea that lost favor was the idea that America had to relax civilian control of the nuclear arsenal to ensure a retaliation against a first strike. The bigger threat was having some rogue commander start WWIII by himself. It was hard enough safeguarding against accidents, much less an INTENTIONAL use of nuclear weapons by some nutcase.

[@MarcillaSmith]

Perhaps, but then you also have to consider the trade off, and what has become of our precious bodily fluids

[@angelofiron4366]

General Ripper is a sane man. *Peace is our Profession.*

[@billypilgrim7838]

sellers Kubrick way ahead of their time

[@MarcillaSmith]

Our time, as well

[@rogueriderhood1862]

At 2.08 Peter Bull is doing his best not to laugh! Great performance from Peter Sellers.

[@KillTeamHungary]

Love how the Russian ambassador almost busts a gut in the background

[@PunkFace04]

What did the ambassador do at the end?

[@mgninja2052]

Took pictures of the American war plans that were on the big monitors with a spy camera hidden inside his pocket watch

[@lightswitch0000]

I'm still waiting for the 10:1 ratio mentioned....so I call BS