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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Kubrick adapted a straight nuclear thriller, kept finding the material absurd, and gave up and made a farce.

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[icon:CLOCK] Runtime | 93 minutes
[icon:STAR] Director | Stanley Kubrick
[icon:CHART] Budget | $1.8 million
[icon:TRENDING_UP] Box office | $9.5 million worldwide
[icon:FIRE] Cinematography | Gilbert Taylor

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The Joke Is The Procedure
Kubrick bought Peter George's novel Red Alert intending a tense procedural and discovered while writing that the logic of deterrence could not be dramatised straight without becoming ridiculous. So he kept the procedure exactly and changed nothing but the tone. Every step in the film is correct: a wing commander issues a legal recall code, the fail safe works as designed, the Soviet doomsday device is a rational response to the American one, and the world ends because each system performs as specified. Ken Adam's War Room, a black triangle with a ring of light over a poker table, was so convincing that Ronald Reagan reportedly asked to be shown it after taking office and was disappointed to learn it was a set at Shepperton.

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Watching Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
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4 Convened
4 Apologetic
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5 Released

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Peter Sellers plays three parts and was meant to play four. Major Kong went to Slim Pickens after Sellers injured an ankle and could not manage the Texan accent to Kubrick's satisfaction.

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The release was delayed from November 1963 to January 1964 after the Kennedy assassination, and a line about Dallas was redubbed to Vegas.

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Gentlemen, you can't fight in here. This is the War Room.

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057012/
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