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.

"Mandrake, come over here and help me with this belt" "I havent had much experience"

@jcc4tube

3 жыл бұрын

"Madrake get over here. The redcoats are coming."

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.

@AtheistAnarchoCommie

4 жыл бұрын

Why did I read this in a Trump voice?

@jblock2490

3 жыл бұрын

They had a bit of a nuclear exchange, no big deal.

Favorite line: "sir, you can't let him (the Russian ambassador) into the war room. ...why ...he..he'll see the big board!"

"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_2

3 жыл бұрын

Our source was The New York Times

@johnbull1568

2 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.

and here I only knew the song as "the ants go marching on"

This is my favorite Kubrick film and my favorite comedy. This film is brilliant.

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?

@SatanasExMachina

2 жыл бұрын

No, no you were not. Lol

@polreamonn

2 жыл бұрын

Prevert.

I love how great Dr Strangelove and Failsafe were, so alike yet so different and yet both were so great!

Great video. Dr. Strangelove is without a doubt my favorite move.

"Mandrake" also used to be slang for homosexual.

@technopoptart

3 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

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.

im sorry but the funniest line is "animals could be bred and SLAUGHTERED"

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-gr5em

5 ай бұрын

They knew it was a suicide mission because after dropping the bomb they would have to crash land it in the ocean.

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.

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_

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelcarbajal. Clint Eastwood can, and he is 91

"there gone be medals and commendations for ever last one of yuh - and that goes regardless of your race or your creed"

THIS IN MY OPINION IS THE BEST KUBRICK MOVIE

@SatanasExMachina

2 жыл бұрын

I agree, and definitely my favorite.

@brandonharrison7773

2 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.

@mmaafwaa

2 жыл бұрын

@@brandonharrison7773 couldn't have said it any better

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.

Jack D Ripper....I never noticed that before!!

@isaacbetternotthinkthisnam9539

7 жыл бұрын

Captain Calculus did you even watch the movie?

@thefrenchbastard1646

7 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

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.

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.

Its also visually arresting because she is HOT AS THE SUN!!

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

"Visually arresting", that's one way to describe the scene withe Miss Scott.

"it decodes as wing attack plan R, R for Romeo"

@WednesdayAddamsMW

4 жыл бұрын

Goldie, did you say Wing Attack Plan R?

@jacobwhitley1820

3 жыл бұрын

How many times have I told you guys I don’t want any playing around in the airplane?

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

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!

@thorn262

5 жыл бұрын

Nazi roots get it up enough to launch a thing called, NASA. 'BL-AASS-TT OFF!!'

@acasualcactus5878

2 жыл бұрын

The best lines come from improvisation. “I can walk!” “Flames on The Side of my face” and many others come to mind.

James Earl Jones in his first ever movie role spotted at 1:44.

@GeorgeSemel

3 жыл бұрын

Yep Major King Kong side seater!

This Gen. Ripper is played by the guy who played Capt. Macluskey in ‘The Godfather’.

The way he says bodily fluids has such comic music to it

great analysis, your video covered things I didn't even think about

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.

@KutWrite

4 жыл бұрын

There was a supersonic US bomber called the Valkyrie. It never really "got up."

Kubrick actually admitted to an American academic that the film's theme was sex.

Renegade Cut you are awesome. Period

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

@houstonharwood7197

5 жыл бұрын

Have you seen Barry Lyndon? 2001 was my favorite until I read Barry Lyndon and then watched Kubrick's movie.

Hey............Where's Major Kong?????????? Yeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaahhhhhooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!

You know it's a great film, when it's so damn funny. And it's not supposed to .

Renegade Cut does an excellent job of anaysizing the elements of the movie Dr. Strangelove which make it a Cult Comedy Classic.

Dr. Strangelove... Strange Love.

Great job man. You helped me a lot with my essay, thanks. I'll be sure to cite you

@willlait

7 жыл бұрын

iller What's the essay for?

Favorite kubrick film. Thats all i can say. Oh, and great video.

Great vid and analysis 👍

Any change of a bibliography? It would be a big help to find that opening quote online. Thanks

It's a M.A.D., M. A.D., M.A.D., M.A.D. world :P

@kyleshiflet7932

5 жыл бұрын

Clever joke from another movie i love

That was a very good movie dissection

Enjoyed this thanks

Amazing channel

he was riding the bomb like a crazy cowboy on a bull...

Commenting to push the rank of the video

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.

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.

Ripper: “women sense my power, Mandrake - but I deny them my essence.”

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.

I don't remember the Playboy mag...

@tbeller80

6 жыл бұрын

It's a blink and you'll miss it moment in the plane.

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

What is the music that comes into the background at around 5:30?

@sheepewe4505

8 жыл бұрын

+Renegade Cut Thanks :)

wait, what happened to Kurosawa month?

@paulhayes597

8 жыл бұрын

+Leon Thomas oh I see! As always said well timed for fallout 4 release.

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.7088

6 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.

@tbeller80

6 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.

Holy God I just got jack d. ripper, jeez

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.

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?

@holdenfatheree5884

5 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.

No fighting in the war room

8:31 isn’t fluoride in the water added to it by the US?

@SatanasExMachina

2 жыл бұрын

SHHH. That's top secret information.

this makes me think of the music video of My Trigger by Miike Snow.

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.

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.

This should be required to watch and understand.

The device does exist, it's called Dead Hand.

MAD

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?

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.

Tracy Reed.....'nuff said :)

I'm sorry too, Dmitri...

0:50 Uhm, *Fail Safe* ?

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.

I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed...

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

@yesway

4 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?

@yesway

4 жыл бұрын

fellas is it gay to recycle?

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.

"a preoccupation with humanities preoccupation with sex." hohoooo

8:43 Shades of JFK here.

There is a doomsday device btw

okay but whats the point of strangelove i dont get it

@suasspeaks5496

2 жыл бұрын

the character that is

3:13 - 3:30 pretty important

"bat guano" = bat shit = crazy

4:26 also because she’s hot.

there are NO coincidence in Kubrick films. I never noticed the Jack the Ripper parallels, and about killing a prostitute and the target laputa

I wonder if curtis lemay ever saw this film?...🤔🤪😆

Major Kong. National Hero. Lest we forget.

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.

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?)

Actually, nukes could not destroy the world.

@grmpEqweer

4 жыл бұрын

The biosphere, though, nukes could render it pretty much uninhabitable.

Strangelove, a strange love, homosexuality

Am I the only one that doesn’t like this movie?