Dr. Strangelove

[Goosemaster]

"mine Furher, I can walk!"

WTF....The whole movie was fine until the end. Did they get blown up? anyone have a good link explaining the end of the movie?

I am sure a "mine shaft gap" has something to do with it .... concerning upsurdity to the bitter end, but I don;t get why Kubrick finished the movie so abruptly

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

I guess I don't know what you don't get. The bomb set off the Soviet Doomsday weapon. That was the blasts you see at the end. It explains that people could survive in mine shafts while the radioactivity subsides after quite some decades.

 

[AnitaPeterson]

everybody dies in the end - they get "shafted"

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: WinstonSmith
I guess I don't know what you don't get. The bomb set off the Soviet Doomsday weapon. That was the blasts you see at the end. It explains that people could survive in mine shafts while the radioactivity subsides after quite some decades.

But the transition into that was rather, if not incredicbally abrupt. It seems as if Dr. Strangelove mwas in mid-sentence whe nthey cut to the explosions

 

[BornStar]

I think that they all died. My guess is that it was because they were all planning too much instead of actually doing something to fix the problem.

 

[Goosemaster]

I had no qurrels with the rest of the move. It is a great piece.

good quote by R. Ebert

Yet out of these rudimentary physical props and a brilliant screenplay (which Kubrick and Terry Southern based on a novel by Peter George), Kubrick made what is arguably the best political satire of the century, a film that pulled the rug out from under the Cold War by arguing that if a ``nuclear deterrent'' destroys all life on Earth, it is hard to say exactly what it has deterred.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: WinstonSmith
I guess I don't know what you don't get. The bomb set off the Soviet Doomsday weapon. That was the blasts you see at the end. It explains that people could survive in mine shafts while the radioactivity subsides after quite some decades.

But the transition into that was rather, if not incredicbally abrupt. It seems as if Dr. Strangelove mwas in mid-sentence whe nthey cut to the explosions

Hmm... Perhaps it's just a difference of perception. I had no problem with the ending. Given the story line, there really couldnt be a conclusion to it in a "coventional" sense. The whole movie was a huge ironic statement about nuclear wars, so ending with "We'll meet again" while the earth goes up into ashes seemed natural to my twisted sense of humor 😀

 

[Goosemaster]

Appearantly Ebert agrees with me

I've always thought the movie ends on an unsure note. After the first nuclear blast, Kubrick cuts back to the War Room, where Strangelove muses that deep mines could be used to shelter survivors, whose descendants could return to the surface in 90 years (Turgidson is intrigued by the 10-to-1 ratio of women to men). Then the film abruptly ends in its famous montage of many mushroom clouds, while Vera Lynn sings ``We'll Meet Again.``


It seems to me there should be no more dialogue after the first blast; Strangelove's survival strategy could be moved up to just before Slim Pickens' famous bareback ride to oblivion. I realize there would be a time lapse while Russian missiles responded to the attack, but I think the film would be more effective if the original blast brought an end to all further story developments. (Kubrick originally planned to end the film with a pie fight, and a table laden with pies can be seen in the background of the War Room, but he wisely realized that his purpose was satire, not slapstick.)

I think the ending would have been more effective if done differently as well. As for the rest of the film, it is is truely a classic.


The last time I say George C Scott in a film was whe nI watched "patton"...oh my what a change in roles😛

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Peter Sellers was a brilliant actor. Played all the roles perfectly. Did you notice how much Strangelove resembles Kissinger? 😛

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: WinstonSmith
Peter Sellers was a brilliant actor. Played all the roles perfectly. Did you notice how much Strangelove resembles Kissinger? 😛

Actually, he wasn;t meant to portray him, but it works😀

Watch it again and you'll the russian ambassador cracking up when Seller does the "hand choking " bit..I think he smiles during the furher bit too...

 

[0roo0roo]

only part of the movie iliked was the scientist.

 

[TommyVercetti]

Originally posted by: WinstonSmith
Peter Sellers was a brilliant actor. Played all the roles perfectly. Did you notice how much Strangelove resembles Kissinger? 😛

He only played 2 roles right, the military officer and the scientist.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: TommyVercetti

Originally posted by: WinstonSmith
Peter Sellers was a brilliant actor. Played all the roles perfectly. Did you notice how much Strangelove resembles Kissinger? 😛

He only played 2 roles right, the military officer and the scientist.

+ El Presidente.

 

[BornStar]

Originally posted by: TommyVercetti

Originally posted by: WinstonSmith
Peter Sellers was a brilliant actor. Played all the roles perfectly. Did you notice how much Strangelove resembles Kissinger? 😛

He only played 2 roles right, the military officer and the scientist.

And the president.

 

[Balt]

I saw it like this.

Nuke hits soviet site, so they know that the doomsday weapon will be automatically detonated soon (there is a delay). Dr. Strangelove tells War Room about how the human race can survive by moving in mine shafts.

Mine shafts become the new "arms race" They can't let the russkies get an edge in the new "mine shaft race"

soooo....

rather than waiting for the doomsday weapon to go off, they nuke the hell out of the russians w/ conventional nukes (and presumably the russians do the same to us).

Did that make sense to anyone? 😕

 

[TerryMathews]

Originally posted by: BornStar18

Originally posted by: TommyVercetti

Originally posted by: WinstonSmith
Peter Sellers was a brilliant actor. Played all the roles perfectly. Did you notice how much Strangelove resembles Kissinger? 😛

He only played 2 roles right, the military officer and the scientist.

And the president.

Also represents the only time in history that one person was nominated for three Academy Awards, each for a different character in the same movie.