Essay #3

Strange times in StrangeLove

Kid's These Days

Stanly Kubrick’s film Dr. Strangelove or How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is a hilarious take on the most dire of “what if” scenarios that preoccupied the world for decades. Before I get into the details of the film itself I want to talk about something I found interesting, that a good of the class didn't seem to "get it". I don't think is due to students lack of understanding about the cold war era but because of the film has characteristics, that wile adding to the story make it seem more dated. The two main things that lend to this perception are it being in black and white and the songs in the film are considerably older or sound like they are than the film.

Ohh The Irony

in this image is one of the starkest examples of irony I have ever seen. In it George C. Scott character, Gen. Buck Tugidson, is as stated by Stillman "Turigdson is portrayed as paranoid over the threat of Soviet spying by diplomats with hidden cameras." (pg. 491) gets in a fight with the Russian ambassador as Peter Sellers character President Merkin Muffey shouts that "there is no fighting in the war room"

Works Cited

Kubrick, Stanley, dir. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.

1964. Columbia Pictures, 2009.

Stillman, Grant, “Two of the MaDdest Scientists.” Film History. 20 (2008): 487-500.

Richardson, Jack. "Strangelove and the Silence." The Hudson Riview. 17.2 (1964): 250-255.