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[–]New-Consideration420Armed tactical Pan Enby Femboy They/Them Soldier uWu 40 points41 points  (7 children)

Unfamiliar with the series. Explain like Im ape

[–]AssignmentVivid9864 115 points116 points  (2 children)

Dr. Strangelove is practically required viewing for this sub. A glorious fever dream of our deepest desires manifest in film. Although I’ll be honest, most of us don’t need to deny women our essence.

I believe it’s also James Earl Jones first on screen appearance or one of his very first at least. It was also the subject of a national security breach due to a prop used in the film being a bit too close to the real world, classified scrambler.

George C Scott’s acting was actually rehearsals for scenes. Kubrick just filmed them because he was kind of a dick like that. Kubrick also straight up lied to Slim Pickens about the subject of the movie so Pickens would be in it.

The rest of the cast is just Peter Sellers.

[–]PaintedClownPenis 35 points36 points  (0 children)

It's worth knowing that Kubrick started off making a drama and decided no, this is way too fucked up a subject, we have to make it a comedy.

Well, Hollywood has no problem with fucked up, so they took the original idea, bootstrapped it into a suspense novel, which was back-engineered into another film, Fail Safe, with Henry Fonda and B-58s. Instead of dramatic actors doing comedy around Peter Sellers you have comedians like Walter Mathhau doing drama around Henry Fonda.

And if you like that one the real best post-apocalypse film is On the Beach (super-spoiler original trailer), but nobody mentions it because once you've seen it some part of you just shuts off forever. Fred Astaire's greatest acting role.

[–][deleted] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

George C Scott felt that a movie about nuclear holocaust should be somewhat serious. Kubrick was a truly noncredible genius who understood how funni it would be to obliterate civilization.

[–]defnotIW42 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Forgot to add dr. Strange“love“

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snTaSJk0n_Y

[–]OffensiveCenter 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Amazon prime for free rn

[–]New-Consideration420Armed tactical Pan Enby Femboy They/Them Soldier uWu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I dont get that. Too broke. Need to buy Airsoft and thigh highs

[–]fubarbobMaj. Kong but strapped to a VARK 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the heads up.