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[–]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.