Strangelove is a 1964 black comedy film that satirizes the cold war fears of a nuclear conflict between the soviet union and the united states the film was directed produced and co written by stanley kubrick and stars peter sellers george c.
Dr strangelove war room scene.
In 1964 with the cuban missile crisis fresh in viewers minds the cold war at its frostiest and the hydrogen bomb relatively new and frightening stanley k.
The real highlight for all the guys in the room is that every man would have to mate with around 10 women to help repopulate the earth.
As most everyone knows the ending to stanley kubrick s 1964 anti war black comedy dr.
And the location it occurs in has been described as the best film set ever designed by no lesser an authority than steven spielberg.
One day during the cold war general jack d.
Strangelove was also scripted to conclude with a huge three stooges style pie fight in the war room which was actually filmed but cut before the film s release because kubrick thought such obvious slapstick would move the film into the realm of pure farce and blunt its satiric edge a wise decision.
This was so that the actors sitting around it would feel like they were sitting at a poker table playing a game of poker that would decide the fate of the world.
How i learned to stop worrying and love the bomb.
It s worth considering that the.
Scott of the warmongering maniacal general turgidson and his unhinged plan to launch a massive preemptive strike on.
Strangelove was being shot in black and white and the colors of the set didn t matter too much stanley kubrick made the tablecloth in the war room green.
Strangelove 1964 the war room scene.
Lew remember how hard we laughed at this scene.
But strangelove tries to cheer everybody up by explaining how the human race could survive by living at the bottom of mineshafts for hundreds of years.
Gentlemen you can t fight in here this is the war room it s one of the great film quotes of all time from stanley kubrick s 1964 classic dr strangelove or.
Ripper sterling hayden goes a little funny in the head and does a silly thing.
Scott sterling hayden and slim pickens.
Or how i learned to stop worrying and love the bomb ended with the title character played by peter sellers emerging from his wheelchair and taking a few steps then a cut to a montage of atom bombs.
Picture from the chaotic pie fight scene.
However in a cut extended ending the film went.
Everybody s in shock in the war room.