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Old 07-22-14 | 12:13 AM
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Can anyone explain "Dr. Strangelove" movie?

i saw this movie recently, i cant understand, i read imdb synopsis & wikipedia article of this movie,
still didn't get it, i only understand one thing, there are so many "camera sudden zoom in" effects in this movie.

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Old 07-22-14 | 12:47 AM
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Re: Can anyone explain "Dr. Strangelove" movie?

I don't understand your post. Maybe watch the movie again?

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The movie is a satire and that can be difficult to come across if it's not in your native language.
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Old 07-22-14 | 01:08 AM
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both sides want to bomb each other but then dont but then do but then dont and this zanyness is why it's funny.
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The movie is a satire and that can be difficult to come across if it's not in your native language.
Indeed. Even English speakers often fail to realize its a comedy.
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a pie fight would've tied the film together, I can understand why you don't understand it.
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Re: Can anyone explain "Dr. Strangelove" movie?

A little background might help.

During the Cold War (1945-1989), the US and USSR both had a policy called Mutual Assured Destruction. That means that they were willing to destroy all life on Earth rather than lose the war. If you lived in a town with more than 100,000 people, you were a target for a nuclear bomb. I lived in a town of only 10,000 people, but it was close to a military base so I was a target anyway.

Dr Strangelove shows how ridiculous the situation was.

A lot of the jokes are topical, and don't make sense if you don't know the history. For example, John Kennedy was elected president partly by claiming that there was a missile gap (he tried to frighten people by saying that the USSR had more missiles than the USA). So at the end of the movie, men are arguing about a mineshaft gap.

Air Force bases really did have a billboard at front gate that read "Peace is our profession!" The joke is that the movie shows US troops shooting each other in front of the billboard. Those billboards were taken down after the movie became popular, and didn't reappear until the 1980s.

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how is babby formed?
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It's a homoerotic tale about men in power wanting to annihilate each other with huge phallic objects.
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As well as the poisoning of our precious bodily fluids.
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Also... White people!

Damn those saltined bastards.
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Here's more over-analysis of the movie then you'd have ever though possible. Happy ?
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OP, there's probably not enough spontaneous dance numbers in the movie to pique your interest, you should give up now.
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OP, there's probably not enough spontaneous dance numbers in the movie to pique your interest, you should give up now.
please give relevant reply to my question.
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Originally Posted by Ganesh Ujwal
please give relevant reply to my question.
Relevance? You're in the wrong forum, pal.
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Re: Can anyone explain "Dr. Strangelove" movie?

Originally Posted by Ganesh Ujwal
please give relevant reply to my question.
There are several relevant replies to your question. I have a question for you: After reading everything people have linked for you, what is it that you failed to understand?
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Ganesh will explain all...
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If the information about a Kubrick film isn't in the link I posted, there isn't any info . That guy knows a terrifying amount.
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The film is an extended metaphor for American imperialism as epitomized by Slim Pickens.
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First, There's no fighting in the war room.

Second, they all blowed up real good.
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Re: Can anyone explain "Dr. Strangelove" movie?

ok finally why this movie placed in imdb top 250, what so great in movie?
& also i didn't laugh while seeing this movie, so why it is comedy movie?
i saw hangover, i just laughed a lot, so i believe hangover is comedy movie.
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Old 07-28-14 | 03:00 AM
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Dr Strangelove funny as man? Who is? But went 3 times Peter Sellers. Colaborate is jew for a man Stanley Kubrick. Always cowboy Slim Pickenpah. Excellence. Rumble young man, Roomba.
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Dr Strangelove funny as man? Who is? But went 3 times Peter Sellers. Colaborate is jew for a man Stanley Kubrick. Always cowboy Slim Pickenpah. Excellence. Rumble young man, Roomba.


(Just don't post that Marlon Brando "still" here.)
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Re: Can anyone explain "Dr. Strangelove" movie?

Originally Posted by Ganesh Ujwal
ok finally why this movie placed in imdb top 250, what so great in movie?
& also i didn't laugh while seeing this movie, so why it is comedy movie?
i saw hangover, i just laughed a lot, so i believe hangover is comedy movie.
I think it is Kubrick's best film, and one of my favorite films of all time. I also find it hysterically funny but it is a super topical and subtle type of satire that could be completely missed and just seem dumb to certain people.
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Re: Can anyone explain "Dr. Strangelove" movie?

Originally Posted by Ganesh Ujwal
& also i didn't laugh while seeing this movie, so why it is comedy movie?
i saw hangover, i just laughed a lot, so i believe hangover is comedy movie.
One movie depends on subtlety and the nuances of language for its laughs. The other is more visually based slapstick.

The language barrier has been explained to you in this and other threads, but you seem to be ignoring people's responses.

Maybe Google Translate will help:

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