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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb – 1964 Kubrick
- Comedy or otherwise, it’s one of the greatest screenplays of all-time
- Justifiable oscar nom for Peter Sellers- should’ve been one for George C. Scott and Sterling Hayden (as the ultimate straight man here) as well—- along with Slim Pickens— this is a major career work for all 4 actors
- Love the skywriting title credit sequence
- “peace is our profession” slogan and banner rich in the mise-en-scene
- The war room set piece- picture above- is absolutely spectacular and Kubrick brilliant uses a wide shot of the men in the room with their phones, etc. Very well done with the lighting
- The content and narrative is, of course, an absolute flamethrower at the establishment and military- much like full metal jacket – so dark and cynical- you have the ironic “we will meet again” song here with the final shot of Alex in clockwork paired with the “Mickey Mouse” club anthem in full metal jacket
- Indelible images and sequences- Slim Pickens on the bomb and Sellers as Strangelove doing the heil hitler
- Masterpiece
Drake2020-07-03T10:31:39+00:00
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what a great film. Hey have you seen fear and desire. It was kubricks first fiction film and although it feels like an amateur film it is worth seeing.it establishes kubricks aesthetic. Great cinematography, cynical yet humanist satire, anti war, pictures like no one else.
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