351 - Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, United States, 1964. Dir. Stanley Kubrick.

Sunday, December 17, 2017

351 - Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, United States, 1964.  Dir. Stanley Kubrick.

Keep your fingers away from that button.  It might just be a hydrogen bomb.

Kaboom!

We have just seen Sterling Hayden in two films.  The Asphalt Jungle (1950) and The Killing (1956).

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Now we see him in his third role as General Jack D. Ripper.

We have not seen Peter Sellers yet at all.

Now we see him in his first, second, and third roles as Group Captain Lionel Mandrake, President Merkin Muffley, and Dr. Strangelove himself.

One each in the three locations of the film.

The office.

The bomber.

The War Room.

In each of these three locations, things happen that might make you shake your head.

How can people be so ridiculous? you may ask.

To which Kubrick might answer, "That is the question."