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Dr. Strangelove
or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
If you haven't seen it, you should. This movie is one of Stanley Kubrick's masterpieces. If you need more than intelligent dialogue to keep you interested, it has some pretty funny parts (a lot of black humor). It's interesting how some things stand the test of time. The movie gives a satirical view of government and nuclear holocaust. Here's the deal: an insane US military general (General Jack D. Ripper) gives an order that will end in nuclear holocaust while the rest of the government frantically tries to stop it. George C. Scott's performance in this movie as Gen. 'Buck' Turgidson is nothing short of awesome, and Peter Sellers does well in this film too, a somewhat serious deviation from his previous work in the Pink Panther series (yes jahannamig, it's the pink panther
).
Dr. Strangelove is also the source of this famous line said by President Merkin Muffley after a scuffle breaks out in the middle of a meeting: "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!"
Here's to movies that make you think.
Strangelove's plan for post-nuclear war survival involves living underground with a 10:1 female-to-male ratio.]
General "Buck" Turgidson: Doctor, you mentioned the ratio of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?
Dr. Strangelove: Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious... service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.
Ambassador de Sadesky: I must confess, you have an astonishingly good idea there, doctor.
[The President calls the Soviet Premier to tell him that Russia is about to be obliterated.]
President Merkin Muffley: [to Kissoff] Hello?... Ah... I can't hear too well. Do you suppose you could turn the music down just a little?... Oh-ho, that's much better.... yeah... huh... yes... Fine, I can hear you now, Dmitri.... Clear and plain and coming through fine.... I'm coming through fine, too, eh?... Good, then... well, then, as you say, we're both coming through fine.... Good.... Well, it's good that you're fine and... and I'm fine.... I agree with you, it's great to be fine.... a-ha-ha-ha-ha... Now then, Dmitri, you know how we've always talked about the possibility of something going wrong with the Bomb.... The *Bomb*, Dmitri.... The *hydrogen* bomb!... Well now, what happened is... ah... one of our base commanders, he had a sort of... well, he went a little funny in the head... you know... just a little... funny. And, ah... he went and did a silly thing.... Well, I'll tell you what he did. He ordered his planes... to attack your country... Ah... Well, let me finish, Dmitri.... Let me finish, Dmitri.... Well listen, how do you think I feel about it?... Can you *imagine* how I feel about it, Dmitri?... Why do you think I'm calling you? Just to say hello?... *Of course* I like to speak to you!... *Of course* I like to say hello!... Not now, but anytime, Dmitri. I'm just calling up to tell you something terrible has happened... It's a *friendly* call. Of course it's a friendly call.... Listen, if it wasn't friendly... you probably wouldn't have even got it.... They will *not* reach their targets for at least another hour.... I am... I am positive, Dmitri.... Listen, I've been all over this with your ambassador. It is not a trick.... Well, I'll tell you. We'd like to give your air staff a complete run-down on the targets, the flight plans, and the defensive systems of the planes.... Yes! I mean i-i-i-if we're unable to recall the planes, then... I'd say that, ah... well, ah... we're just gonna have to help you destroy them, Dmitri.... I know they're our boys.... All right, well listen now. Who should we call?... *Who* should we call, Dmitri? The... wha-whe, the People... you, sorry, you faded away there.... The People's Central Air Defense Headquarters.... Where is that, Dmitri?... In Omsk.... Right.... Yes.... Oh, you'll call them first, will you?... Uh-huh... Listen, do you happen to have the phone number on you, Dmitri?... Whe-ah, what? I see, just ask for Omsk information.... Ah-ah-eh-uhm-hm... I'm sorry, too, Dmitri.... I'm very sorry.... *All right*, you're sorrier than I am, but I am as sorry as well.... I am as sorry as you are, Dmitri! Don't say that you're more sorry than I am, because I'm capable of being just as sorry as you are.... So we're both sorry, all right?... All right.
Dr. Strangelove
or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
If you haven't seen it, you should. This movie is one of Stanley Kubrick's masterpieces. If you need more than intelligent dialogue to keep you interested, it has some pretty funny parts (a lot of black humor). It's interesting how some things stand the test of time. The movie gives a satirical view of government and nuclear holocaust. Here's the deal: an insane US military general (General Jack D. Ripper) gives an order that will end in nuclear holocaust while the rest of the government frantically tries to stop it. George C. Scott's performance in this movie as Gen. 'Buck' Turgidson is nothing short of awesome, and Peter Sellers does well in this film too, a somewhat serious deviation from his previous work in the Pink Panther series (yes jahannamig, it's the pink panther
). Dr. Strangelove is also the source of this famous line said by President Merkin Muffley after a scuffle breaks out in the middle of a meeting: "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!"
Here's to movies that make you think.
Strangelove's plan for post-nuclear war survival involves living underground with a 10:1 female-to-male ratio.]
General "Buck" Turgidson: Doctor, you mentioned the ratio of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?
Dr. Strangelove: Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious... service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.
Ambassador de Sadesky: I must confess, you have an astonishingly good idea there, doctor.
[The President calls the Soviet Premier to tell him that Russia is about to be obliterated.]
President Merkin Muffley: [to Kissoff] Hello?... Ah... I can't hear too well. Do you suppose you could turn the music down just a little?... Oh-ho, that's much better.... yeah... huh... yes... Fine, I can hear you now, Dmitri.... Clear and plain and coming through fine.... I'm coming through fine, too, eh?... Good, then... well, then, as you say, we're both coming through fine.... Good.... Well, it's good that you're fine and... and I'm fine.... I agree with you, it's great to be fine.... a-ha-ha-ha-ha... Now then, Dmitri, you know how we've always talked about the possibility of something going wrong with the Bomb.... The *Bomb*, Dmitri.... The *hydrogen* bomb!... Well now, what happened is... ah... one of our base commanders, he had a sort of... well, he went a little funny in the head... you know... just a little... funny. And, ah... he went and did a silly thing.... Well, I'll tell you what he did. He ordered his planes... to attack your country... Ah... Well, let me finish, Dmitri.... Let me finish, Dmitri.... Well listen, how do you think I feel about it?... Can you *imagine* how I feel about it, Dmitri?... Why do you think I'm calling you? Just to say hello?... *Of course* I like to speak to you!... *Of course* I like to say hello!... Not now, but anytime, Dmitri. I'm just calling up to tell you something terrible has happened... It's a *friendly* call. Of course it's a friendly call.... Listen, if it wasn't friendly... you probably wouldn't have even got it.... They will *not* reach their targets for at least another hour.... I am... I am positive, Dmitri.... Listen, I've been all over this with your ambassador. It is not a trick.... Well, I'll tell you. We'd like to give your air staff a complete run-down on the targets, the flight plans, and the defensive systems of the planes.... Yes! I mean i-i-i-if we're unable to recall the planes, then... I'd say that, ah... well, ah... we're just gonna have to help you destroy them, Dmitri.... I know they're our boys.... All right, well listen now. Who should we call?... *Who* should we call, Dmitri? The... wha-whe, the People... you, sorry, you faded away there.... The People's Central Air Defense Headquarters.... Where is that, Dmitri?... In Omsk.... Right.... Yes.... Oh, you'll call them first, will you?... Uh-huh... Listen, do you happen to have the phone number on you, Dmitri?... Whe-ah, what? I see, just ask for Omsk information.... Ah-ah-eh-uhm-hm... I'm sorry, too, Dmitri.... I'm very sorry.... *All right*, you're sorrier than I am, but I am as sorry as well.... I am as sorry as you are, Dmitri! Don't say that you're more sorry than I am, because I'm capable of being just as sorry as you are.... So we're both sorry, all right?... All right.
I understand not seeing The Graduate or Dr. Strangelove but you haven't seen Willy Wonka? You don't have a Blockbuster membership? Jesus.
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