• 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