President Muffley contacts the Soviet premier, Kissov, to warn him about the incoming nuclear attack. Strangelove is fictional, the Russian and American nuclear arsenals function as de facto Doomsday Machines, since a first strike by either power against the other would be more than enough to plunge the world into nuclear winter. Strangelove is miraculously healed.
Strangelove is a black and sarcastic comedy about a commander of a U. Ripper, who diverts his B bombers from airborne alert to an attack on the Soviet Union with nuclear weapons. This threatens to set off a doomsday device which endangers all life on the surface of earth.
He seems too self-involved. I think Lolita has some brilliant elements, and they are the elements I associate with all my favourite Kubrick movies. We are never asked, in any moment, to empathise with Humbert Humbert. We observe him and his choices, and the way his reality crumbles.
Ad — content continues below. Dr Strangelove has the same black humour, the same dry detachment, and relies heavily on the improvisational skills of Sellers. Dr Strangelove is based on a thriller by Peter George called Red Alert , and George worked on the screenplay along with Kubrick and Terry Southern, changing the story to a comedy.
A US Brigadier General has a breakdown and orders a nuclear strike on Russia — it would take a particular kind of mind to see this plot as humorous, but Kubrick saw the potential in it. After all, what else can you do about global nuclear war but laugh? That must have been extremely hard to maintain, particularly with at least three cameras on him at all times, so that no tiny moment of creative inspiration would be missed. The three roles Sellers did play are all very different.
I like frowning, reasonable Lionel Mandrake the most, who seems warmer and more believable than Sellers had managed before, but I think Kubrick got the best out of Sellers in all three performances. The President calls upon eccentric scientist Dr Strangelove, a former Nazi and weapons expert, for help. Dr Strangelove explains the technology behind the Doomsday Device and suggests it would also detonate if anyone attempted to deactivate it.
In the cola wars of the s, Pepsi were known for fighting dirty. Army forces arrive at the air base to arrest General Ripper and obtain the recall code from him. Fearing torture, Ripper shoots himself without revealing the code. However, Mandrake correctly guesses it from some scribbles that Ripper had made on a pad, and he eventually manages to contact the Pentagon and get the code to the President. The recall code is issued to the planes, and they turn back toward base, except for one whose radio has been damaged by an anti-aircraft missile.
That plane continues towards Russia. The mechanism for releasing the bomb has also been damaged, so aircraft commander Major T. When he effects his electrical patches, the bomb bay doors suddenly open, the bomb releases and Kong rides it to the ground like a rodeo cowboy, whooping and waving his cowboy hat.
The bomb detonates, triggering the doomsday machine. Dr Strangelove begins to outline a plan for saving the fittest and most intelligent of the human race in a nuclear bunker, with ten attractive women to every man, to enable repopulation.
The War Room — during peace time it was used for training TV weathermen. This story is usually told with a wry smile, and yes, it is a funny story, but I actually find it quite comforting. I think that it is a good thing that the man with his finger on the button at the height of the cold war had seen Dr Strangelove — maybe he learned a valuable lesson from it that saved us all from world war three. I think all presidents of all countries should be made to watch it before their inauguration.
Sometimes I yearn for the days when we all believed that nuclear annihilation was imminent. It seemed inevitable that America and Russia between them would destroy the world; there was nothing we could do about it, so there was little point in worrying about it. Furthermore, there was little point in worrying about anything else, since we were all going to die soon anyway!
Ever since the end of the cold war I have done nothing but worry about things — about global warming, AIDS, paedophiles, the millennium bug, whether or not I will get cancer if I only eat four portions of fruit and veg per day, the banking crisis, mad cow disease, gun crime, Sarah Palin, bird flu, swine flu, and what will happen if I put the wrong sort of cardboard in the recycling bin.
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