Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Writer: Stanley Kubrick,Terry Southern,Peter George

Countries of origin: United Kingdom

Language: English, Russian

Release date: January 29, 1964

Runtime: 1h 35min

Sound mix: Dolby Digital

Also known as: A Delicate Balance of Terror

" Dr. Strange-love" ( Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb ) is based on the American director Stanley KubrickA black humorous comedy adapted from the novel "Red Alert" was released in the United States in 1964.

The film won four nominations for the 37th Academy Awards, and is called the " Future Trilogy " along with " 2001: A Space Odyssey " and " A Clockwork Orange ".

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By Catalina 2022-04-24 07:01:01

"Dr Strangelove"

"Dr. Strangelove" expresses director Stanley Kubrick's anti-war sentiments in a darkly humorous way. The movie is as absurd as its full title, Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Fearing and Love the Bomb. The film tells the story of the crazy US Air Force general Jack Ray assigned bombers to kill the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union decided to apply an irreversible "doomsday machine" that could destroy the world to counter this nuclear threat. In this film, the frontline soldiers...
By Dylan 2022-04-23 07:01:01

dark humor

Just like the black and white tone of this film, the whole film is also full of the director's black humor. The bullets are flying outside, but General Repi is still casually talking with Captain Mandek about his R plan; the Soviet Union is about to start The doomsday device of the United States, but American politicians are still meeting and discussing seemingly easily; in the end, the world is about to be destroyed, the United States is still thinking about how the living people should...
By Idell 2022-04-23 07:01:01

Doctor Strange

The camera angles of the film are classic and peculiar. In roundtable meetings, there is often a camera angle that looks from between two people, a bottom-up camera angle when a close-up of a character is taken, and a missile plane camera angle that contains human impulses and desires. The so-called peace during World War II was a false peace when both the United States and the Soviet Union possessed nuclear weapons. Both sides fear the end of the world that would result from the use of...
By Alanna 2022-04-23 07:01:01

cold war bound madness

"Dr. Strangelove" is definitely an anti-Cold War theme. A mediocre director would choose to shoot the impact of the Cold War head-on, but Kubrick chose black humor to do the opposite, using countless absurd elements to form a A "Cold War" game full of sex, Nazis, race, religion. War is the conflict between one's own reason and the enemy's reason. When everyone is rational and everyone is just, everyone is irrational and everyone is guilty.
The story...
By Felipe 2022-04-23 07:01:01

Dr. Strangelove

In fact, I haven't fully understood the film Dr. Strangelove. I feel that there are many aspects. I may need to watch it twice more to have more ideas. The main content is that an American military officer who is extremely anti-communist gave orders to drop nuclear weapons on the Soviet Union. At this time, the White House held an emergency meeting and learned that only the military officer knew how to retrieve the password, and the President of the United States did not want to do so, but...

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By Lambert 2023-07-20 03:20:07

Nope, I'm going to laugh shit. A movie full of black jokes from start to finish, Kubrick, you are the...
By Leif 2023-05-16 17:06:38

Kuye is a dark and violent version of...
By Elta 2023-04-20 11:55:33

It may be a movie that saves the fate of...
By Eloy 2023-04-10 04:17:40

Gotta watch it again, but it's really...
By Ashly 2023-04-07 21:33:05

Japan's nuclear radiation, NATO launched Syria. Watching this movie now feels more joyful than ever. . . Kubrick is...

Movie quotes

General Jack D. Ripper: Mandrake, do you recall what Clemenceau once said about war?

Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: No, I don't think I do, sir, no.

General Jack D. Ripper: He said war was too important to be left to the generals. When he said that, 50 years ago, he might have been right. But today, war is too important to be left to politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought. I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
General "Buck" Turgidson: Mr. President, about, uh, 35 minutes ago, General Jack Ripper, the commanding general of, uh, Burpelson Air Force Base, issued an order to the 34 B-52's of his Wing, which were airborne at the time as part of a special exercise we were holding called Operation Drop-Kick. Now, it appears that the order called for the planes to, uh, attack their targets inside Russia. The, uh, planes are fully armed with nuclear weapons with an average load of, um, 40 megatons each. Now, the central display of Russia will indicate the position of the planes. The triangles are their primary targets; the squares are their secondary targets. The aircraft will begin penetrating Russian radar cover within, uh, 25 minutes.

President Merkin Muffley: General Turgidson, I find this very difficult to understand. I was under the impression that I was the only one in authority to order the use of nuclear weapons.

General "Buck" Turgidson: That's right, sir, you are the only person authorized to do so. And although I, uh, hate to judge before all the facts are in, it's beginning to look like, uh, General Ripper exceeded his authority.
General "Buck" Turgidson: General Ripper called Strategic Air Command headquarters shortly after he issued the go code. I have a portion of the transcript of that conversation if you'd like me to to read it.

President Merkin Muffley: Read it!

General "Buck" Turgidson: Ahem... The Duty Officer asked General Ripper to confirm the fact that he *had* issued the go code, and he said, uh, "Yes gentlemen, they are on their way in, and no one can bring them back. For the sake of our country, and our way of life, I suggest you get the rest of SAC in after them. Otherwise, we will be totally destroyed by Red retaliation. Uh, my boys will give you the best kind of start, 1400 megatons worth, and you sure as hell won't stop them now, uhuh. Uh, so let's get going, there's no other choice. God willing, we will prevail, in peace and freedom from fear, and in true health, through the purity and essence of our natural... fluids. God bless you all" and he hung up.

[beat]

General "Buck" Turgidson: Uh, we're, still trying to figure out the meaning of that last phrase, sir.

President Merkin Muffley: There's nothing to figure out, General Turgidson. This man is obviously a psychotic.

General "Buck" Turgidson: We-he-ell, uh, I'd like to hold off judgement on a thing like that, sir, until all the facts are in.

President Merkin Muffley: General Turgidson! When you instituted the human reliability tests, you *assured* me there was *no* possibility of such a thing *ever* occurring!

General "Buck" Turgidson: Well, I, uh, don't think it's quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.