Kubrick spoke on the layered sexual imagery in the film and he said it was because when he researched the film and heard academics and other experts speak on the theoretical strategy of nuclear conflict they ALWAYS used sexual metaphors.
@ether494 жыл бұрын
"Mandrake, come over here and help me with this belt" "I havent had much experience"
@jcc4tube3 жыл бұрын
"Madrake get over here. The redcoats are coming."
@merkin3k7 жыл бұрын
Well now, what happened is, uh, 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 uh, he went and did a silly thing.
@AtheistAnarchoCommie4 жыл бұрын
Why did I read this in a Trump voice?
@jblock24903 жыл бұрын
They had a bit of a nuclear exchange, no big deal.
@foodank_atr8176 жыл бұрын
Favorite line: "sir, you can't let him (the Russian ambassador) into the war room. ...why ...he..he'll see the big board!"
@bigronnie96295 жыл бұрын
"But the deciding factor was when we learned that your country was working along similar lines, and we were afraid of a doomsday gap." Greatest line in film history
@pnutz_23 жыл бұрын
Our source was The New York Times
@johnbull15683 жыл бұрын
My favourite is 'Mr. President, we must not allow a mine-shaft gap!'. Scott's character panicking about a gap in something that was invented minutes before and doesn't even exist yet, that always makes me chuckle.
@Jared_Wignall8 жыл бұрын
This is my favorite Kubrick film and my favorite comedy. This film is brilliant.
@SpasticSpelunker Жыл бұрын
I feel like “when Johnny comes marching home” is the most ironic and paradoxical of the songs. By completing their mission and dropping the bomb they are effectively erasing their chance of going home, as after MAD there will be no home to go back to. But the only way they’re going back is after they drop the bomb.
@Redwhiteblue-gr5em5 ай бұрын
They knew it was a suicide mission because after dropping the bomb they would have to crash land it in the ocean.
@MrDanielEarle8 жыл бұрын
and here I only knew the song as "the ants go marching on"
@KingSlimjeezy4 жыл бұрын
im sorry but the funniest line is "animals could be bred and SLAUGHTERED"
@highlonesomed5 жыл бұрын
Always grateful to my dad for introducing this movie, and the book Catch 22 to me when I was 12. Along with George Carlin. I don't think he realizes how much that stuff informed my worldview/politics.
@theamazingbiff2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this essay! I was a news reporter on 9/11 and it made me crazy being forced to listen to all the talking heads on network news all day who clearly had no idea what was going on. On the way home I stopped and rented a copy of Doctor strange Love and it was the perfect way to sum everything up and allowed me to sleep that night. It's been a cherished annual tradition ever since, and even 21 years later is still the best explanation of what happened.
@TheRhino1548 жыл бұрын
Great video. Dr. Strangelove is without a doubt my favorite move.
@shallendor5 жыл бұрын
I love how great Dr Strangelove and Failsafe were, so alike yet so different and yet both were so great!
@jamesburgess2k6 жыл бұрын
Am I the only one who picked up the sexual innuendo when Mandrake tells the general to shoot the coke machine for coin... He gets sprayed in the face, as he is on his knees?
@SatanasExMachina3 жыл бұрын
No, no you were not. Lol
@polreamonn2 жыл бұрын
Prevert.
@crystalkellim98507 жыл бұрын
we need Kubrick now more than ever
@michaelcarbajal.3 жыл бұрын
He’d be 90 years old... I don’t think he’d be able to make movies
@ontic_3 жыл бұрын
@@michaelcarbajal. Clint Eastwood can, and he is 91
@SonofSethoitae4 жыл бұрын
"Mandrake" also used to be slang for homosexual.
@technopoptart3 жыл бұрын
"drake" possibly but i am not sure on "mandrake" as that is a type of plant that causes sleepiness, lack of awareness and death. it sometimes bears resemblance to a man in its shape and was believed to thrive when given blood
@kyleshiflet79325 жыл бұрын
THIS IN MY OPINION IS THE BEST KUBRICK MOVIE
@SatanasExMachina3 жыл бұрын
I agree, and definitely my favorite.
@brandonharrison77732 жыл бұрын
@@SatanasExMachina Kubrick is without a doubt the greatest filmmaker of all time. Almost any of his movies could be someone’s favorite and I could understand why.
@mmaafwaa2 жыл бұрын
@@brandonharrison7773 couldn't have said it any better
@jcc4tube3 жыл бұрын
"there gone be medals and commendations for ever last one of yuh - and that goes regardless of your race or your creed"
@paulflood27096 жыл бұрын
Its also visually arresting because she is HOT AS THE SUN!!
@fantact4 жыл бұрын
There is such a system and its called Systema Perimetr, and its still active today, also they forgot to tell anyone about it until like 10-20 years ago.
@fiendishdevil8083 жыл бұрын
Came across your channel a few weeks ago and I've been watching your old videos. I just had to let you know how much I enjoy all your content.
@ctkatz4 жыл бұрын
there are only two movies where I stop channel surfing: office space and dr. strangelove or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb.
@CaptainCalculus7 жыл бұрын
Jack D Ripper....I never noticed that before!!
@isaacbetternotthinkthisnam95397 жыл бұрын
Captain Calculus did you even watch the movie?
@thefrenchbastard16467 жыл бұрын
I also missed that one maybe because i am french didn't miss the laputa part of the joke however that one is more obvious in french
@daricklapaglia43374 жыл бұрын
the reason they didnt tell anyone about the doomsday device is because thats what happened in the cuban missile crisis. the missiles werent meant as a deterent and would be announced at a soviet celebration but the us discovered them before they could announce it at the conference they were saterizing the cuban missile crisis
@timtheskeptic11473 жыл бұрын
"Visually arresting", that's one way to describe the scene withe Miss Scott.
@windalfalatar3332 жыл бұрын
Kubrick actually admitted to an American academic that the film's theme was sex.
@justiziabelle5 жыл бұрын
"it decodes as wing attack plan R, R for Romeo"
@WednesdayAddamsMW4 жыл бұрын
Goldie, did you say Wing Attack Plan R?
@jacobwhitley18203 жыл бұрын
How many times have I told you guys I don’t want any playing around in the airplane?
@yellowbeans016 жыл бұрын
Man the funniest lines in the film come at the end when Peter Sellers is going back to his Nazi roots. He even starts walking again!
@thorn2625 жыл бұрын
Nazi roots get it up enough to launch a thing called, NASA. 'BL-AASS-TT OFF!!'
@acasualcactus58782 жыл бұрын
The best lines come from improvisation. “I can walk!” “Flames on The Side of my face” and many others come to mind.
@takayasu20094 жыл бұрын
This Gen. Ripper is played by the guy who played Capt. Macluskey in ‘The Godfather’.
@waitbalthy63426 жыл бұрын
Fantastic review! Extremely insightful, this is one of my all-time favorites and I had failed to see any of this. Thank you for this
@SmilingGrouch4 жыл бұрын
James Earl Jones in his first ever movie role spotted at 1:44.
@GeorgeSemel3 жыл бұрын
Yep Major King Kong side seater!
@JoshBurcham1042 жыл бұрын
The way he says bodily fluids has such comic music to it
@koryschulein77785 жыл бұрын
Something interesting I just saw in another video that relates to the merger of sex and warfare. Valkyries in Old Norse myth may have been a way to explain men's desire for war and fighting by comparing it to a sexual lust. Heroes of the sagas were often pursuing Valkyries as the object a conquest. Usually the hero becomes infatuated with a Valkyrie who then tells him that she has been promised by her father to another man (usually a king) and the hero must fight and kill said king to win the Valkyrie (along with the kingdom of the hero's rival.) So, I guess what I'm saying is, people have been conflating sex and violence for a long long time.
@KutWrite4 жыл бұрын
There was a supersonic US bomber called the Valkyrie. It never really "got up."
@Gixwing8 жыл бұрын
This is my 2nd favourite Kubrick one (after 2001), great analysis. Hoping for the Shining to be re-uploaded next, anyway, that reminds me I still have to watch a Clockwork Orange, I've been sitting on the Blu-ray for months
@houstonharwood71975 жыл бұрын
Have you seen Barry Lyndon? 2001 was my favorite until I read Barry Lyndon and then watched Kubrick's movie.
@MightyQuinn20218 жыл бұрын
great analysis, your video covered things I didn't even think about
@ihorpozdniakov81357 жыл бұрын
Renegade Cut you are awesome. Period
@stancarpenter88544 жыл бұрын
Renegade Cut does an excellent job of anaysizing the elements of the movie Dr. Strangelove which make it a Cult Comedy Classic.
@larryshores94025 жыл бұрын
You know it's a great film, when it's so damn funny. And it's not supposed to .
@MungareMike7 жыл бұрын
Dr. Strangelove... Strange Love.
@dcartier1692 Жыл бұрын
Ripper: “women sense my power, Mandrake - but I deny them my essence.”
@captjim0077 жыл бұрын
Hey............Where's Major Kong?????????? Yeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaahhhhhooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!
@user-yk7dc9hu2k8 жыл бұрын
Great job man. You helped me a lot with my essay, thanks. I'll be sure to cite you
@willlait7 жыл бұрын
iller What's the essay for?
@grungeisdead44557 жыл бұрын
he was riding the bomb like a crazy cowboy on a bull...
@liamWagnon4 жыл бұрын
That was a very good movie dissection
@AxelGizmo2 жыл бұрын
Johnny comes marching home _is_ the original song and melody. There is also an obscure song to the melody. It goes _The animals went in two by two, hurray, hurray!_ , thereby making it a creationist children song. Kubrick learnt this during production and was enchanted.
@b1merio8 жыл бұрын
It's a M.A.D., M. A.D., M.A.D., M.A.D. world :P
@kyleshiflet79325 жыл бұрын
Clever joke from another movie i love
@sebas80628 жыл бұрын
Favorite kubrick film. Thats all i can say. Oh, and great video.
@mrunseen37976 жыл бұрын
Commenting to push the rank of the video
@nateemond1974 жыл бұрын
After being followed by a bunch of corrupt cops I told em, " Well boys I reckon this is it!" They got scared and stood in awe. Needless to say they tried again and I ripped a couple eyes out
@badasunicorn68704 жыл бұрын
The song is deffenetly deliberate. Look at the text on the bombs in the plane again. One of the songs is meant to be a letter, like "dear john" while the other is meeting in the flesh, or "hi there". Both meanings apply at the same time.
@martihill36115 жыл бұрын
There actually was and is a doomsday device. It may have been a joke in the movie but it was really in place on both sides.
@grungeisdead44557 жыл бұрын
I don't remember the Playboy mag...
@tbeller806 жыл бұрын
It's a blink and you'll miss it moment in the plane.
@jasonharding964 жыл бұрын
No fighting in the war room
@louro90014 жыл бұрын
Mmmm... I think the "Doomsday device" might be a reference to the russian missiles in Cuba. Same thing, they built silos in Cuba and they were waiting to make the annoucement during the WW2 parade, but USA found it before.
@ZillMob5 жыл бұрын
Holy God I just got jack d. ripper, jeez
@kai15867 жыл бұрын
Any change of a bibliography? It would be a big help to find that opening quote online. Thanks
@MegaJJ19685 жыл бұрын
Great vid and analysis 👍
@dharma_star5 жыл бұрын
Tracy Reed.....'nuff said :)
@thegreenbaron64395 жыл бұрын
there are NO coincidence in Kubrick films. I never noticed the Jack the Ripper parallels, and about killing a prostitute and the target laputa
@paulhayes5978 жыл бұрын
wait, what happened to Kurosawa month?
@paulhayes5978 жыл бұрын
+Leon Thomas oh I see! As always said well timed for fallout 4 release.
@Ansonidak4 жыл бұрын
I thought the funniest line was when Trugedson was complaining about what a serious breach of security it was to bring the Russian in the War Room.
@pjford52543 жыл бұрын
Enjoyed this thanks
@Frosty44477 жыл бұрын
Amazing channel
@MasonDeanSteinerRedScare4 жыл бұрын
The device does exist, it's called Dead Hand.
@thelonious-dx9vi2 жыл бұрын
I would say that it's *really* quite very strong in terms of visuals. The thing about Bucky's bedroom scene is that Miss Scott is no less perfect than George C. himself. Over time, and probably a hundred viewings, Captain Mandrake has become my most favorite among all the perfect characters and casting. I don't say that lightly.
@JasonT4043 жыл бұрын
Fwiw, I don't think Gen. Ripper is concerned about fluoridized water directly, but rather it's impacts on our precious bodily fluids. The fluorine would impurify those fluids.
@isabelmachado28457 жыл бұрын
Can someone explain me what is the deal with Dr. Strangelove himself?? like whats up with his hand and why does he keep saying mein fuhrer without actually wanting to say it?
@holdenfatheree58845 жыл бұрын
Dr. Strangelove as a character is a reference to former Nazi scientists brought to the U.S. in Operation Paperclip following World War II. After WWII, the U.S. wanting to get a technological edge on the Soviet Union, located German scientists who had worked for the Nazis and brought them to the U.S. to work for different government research agencies, including NASA. The research these scientists were conducting during the war was in areas that the U.S. had not engaged in so that's why they were chosen. The military engaged in a lot of whitewashing and tried to cover up the connections of many of these scientists to the Nazi party. For example, Wernher von Braun, one of the leading rocket scientists in the space race, was a member of the Nazi party and actually selected people from concentration camps to work in V2 rocket factories. Dr. Strangelove is the president's scientific advisor and obviously a Nazi. He tries to resist saying mein fuhrer because that's what he is used to calling his leader. His hand tries to do the Nazi salute but he is fighting with his own body to not do it because naturally a Nazi can't be openly serving in the U.S. government... well at least in the 1960s.
@RX552VBK5 жыл бұрын
I'm sorry too, Dmitri...
@timswartz45208 жыл бұрын
This should be required to watch and understand.
@juljul1845 жыл бұрын
this makes me think of the music video of My Trigger by Miike Snow.
@ethanthompson31987 жыл бұрын
"a preoccupation with humanities preoccupation with sex." hohoooo
@jegantdragoch.70886 жыл бұрын
sry but i hope someone could still answer this question, what was with the clock at the end that the ambassador of russia doing, like setting a new time zone that he is going to spend the rest of his life in america in a mine or some other secret weapon which doesnt not seem to be the case.
@jegantdragoch.70886 жыл бұрын
lol so in the end he was a spy all along and no need to show what happens next just that after killing each other with bombs they are still fighting each other till the very end after the end.
@tbeller806 жыл бұрын
Yep, the irony and futility of the Cold War in that he's accused of being a spy when he walks in, denies it, and after everyone confirms that they're all likely to die soon he still takes the time to snap photos of "the big board" now made irrelevant by events.
@danutmh4 жыл бұрын
Those devices do exist though ,the russians have the Dead Hand(which allegedly is still functional to some extent) and the americans have\had the ERCS.
@nishidohellhillsruler67315 ай бұрын
Okay, but what about the U.S. government, or at least a core representation of the executive, and the military branch, relying on a Naz1 for guidance?
@yesway4 жыл бұрын
it's pretty frightening realizing that the worlds is still being held hostage by psychopaths with the bomb, and it can only be disarmed in the next 10 years or so
@yesway4 жыл бұрын
oh my god, did i just came up with a conspiracy theory that nazi's and capitalist's secret plan is to do the climate change Holocaust?
@yesway4 жыл бұрын
fellas is it gay to recycle?
@pooryorick8314 жыл бұрын
I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed...
@mj.l4 жыл бұрын
"bat guano" = bat shit = crazy
@aidani46333 жыл бұрын
4:26 also because she’s hot.
@grendelum4 жыл бұрын
0:50 Uhm, *Fail Safe* ?
@SebastianSeanCrow3 жыл бұрын
8:31 isn’t fluoride in the water added to it by the US?
@SatanasExMachina3 жыл бұрын
SHHH. That's top secret information.
@sheepewe45058 жыл бұрын
What is the music that comes into the background at around 5:30?
@sheepewe45058 жыл бұрын
+Renegade Cut Thanks :)
@RDO-tw4qn3 жыл бұрын
MAD
@GirGir1834 жыл бұрын
8:43 Shades of JFK here.
@Daniel-Rosa.8 жыл бұрын
Your videos are incredibly interesting to people who've seen the films, like me! But... I can't feel they're much inviting to people who have not. And there's still time! What if you adjusted the language of your text (which is good) to leave people feeling "Shoot, I gotta watch this, and now, do it _knowing_ there'll be a lot to dig from it"?
@Daniel-Rosa.8 жыл бұрын
Alright, then. Yeah, I didn't doubt it _could._ Heck, when I think of the stuff that pulled _me_ into the movies I love... But I guess that's how I would do it, still: make sure to sound inviting.
@millhousemillard21403 жыл бұрын
There is a doomsday device btw
@adikravets36323 жыл бұрын
3:13 - 3:30 pretty important
@formulajuan60383 жыл бұрын
Major Kong. National Hero. Lest we forget.
@leeturton9254 Жыл бұрын
I wonder if curtis lemay ever saw this film?...🤔🤪😆
@suasspeaks54962 жыл бұрын
okay but whats the point of strangelove i dont get it
@suasspeaks54962 жыл бұрын
the character that is
@cow_tools_4 жыл бұрын
Wish it was in colour. I wonder if movies like this will be colourised? I only say that because I feel like the greyscale palette was not artistically important to this film, so it could be colourised without ruining it.
@hddun4 жыл бұрын
AHEM----100% agree---"You can't fight in here -- this is the War Room---the funniest line from any movie ever in its context. I would put Full Metal Jacket's line from Pvt Joker (Modine) when told the VC had struck the US forces all over Viet Nam---"Sir, does this mean that Ann-Margret IS NOT COMING" (Its not a big jump to say that in what context did he mean for cumming..er...coming?)
@nebojsag.58716 жыл бұрын
Actually, nukes could not destroy the world.
@grmpEqweer4 жыл бұрын
The biosphere, though, nukes could render it pretty much uninhabitable.