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Topic	The SephG Top 250 [movies] - Topic II: the top 75
Nelson_Mandela 06/24/19 2:01:21 PM #22:	#65. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e6/Dr._Strangelove_poster.jpg Dir: Stanley Kubrick Genre: Comedy, War Year: 1964 It was completely unintentional to list three of the most biting satires in movie history in a row, but here we are. Dr. Strangelove is the cinematic Cold War satire. There was nothing before it, and everything else that came after was a mere imitation. Kubrick perfected the wartime black comedy in his first go, thanks largely to a landmark performance by the GOAT Peter Sellers. Dr. Strangelove is so nonsensical and so frenetic that it makes you feel like an insane person, which I'm sure was the intent. You start to understand the distrust and the paranoia that represented the American government at the peak of the arms race, driving the world ever so closer to total annihilation. There is so much content packed into every scene that it's impossible to dissect it all here, but the ending (yet again) is probably all you need to remember to understand the tone and theme of the film. The cowboy pose atop the nuclear bomb is about as iconic as it gets, and the cut to real footage overlaid with "We'll Meet Again" is just pure genius. --- "A more mature answer than I expected."~ Jakyl25 "Sephy's point is right."~ Inviso <cite>Nelson_Mandela posted [p:923779467] in The SephG ... [t:77811548]...</cite> <quote>#65. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e6/Dr._Strangelove_poster.jpg Dir: Stanley Kubrick Genre: Comedy, War Year: 1964 It was completely unintentional to list three of the most biting satires in movie history in a row, but here we are. Dr. Strangelove is the cinematic Cold War satire. There was nothing before it, and everything else that came after was a mere imitation. Kubrick perfected the wartime black comedy in his first go, thanks largely to a landmark performance by the GOAT Peter Sellers. Dr. Strangelove is so nonsensical and so frenetic that it makes you feel like an insane person, which I'm sure was the intent. You start to understand the distrust and the paranoia that represented the American government at the peak of the arms race, driving the world ever so closer to total annihilation. There is so much content packed into every scene that it's impossible to dissect it all here, but the ending (yet again) is probably all you need to remember to understand the tone and theme of the film. The cowboy pose atop the nuclear bomb is about as iconic as it gets, and the cut to real footage overlaid with "We'll Meet Again" is just pure genius. --- "A more mature answer than I expected."~ Jakyl25 "Sephy's point is right."~ Inviso</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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