Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Number 20 on IMDb's Top 250
Nominated by Mick and Anonymous Ken
Number 20 on IMDb's Top 250
Nominated by Mick and Anonymous Ken

Trivia: Peter Sellers was cast in four roles, but experienced problems when trying to develop a Texas accent for Major T. J. "King" Kong. After Sellers coincidentally broke his leg, Kubrick was forced to find another actor. Convinced that nobody could have acted the part as well as Sellers, Kubrick decided to cast someone who naturally fit the role. Remembering his work on the western One-Eyed Jacks (1961), Kubrick cast Slim Pickens as Kong, the gung-ho hick pilot determined to drop his bombs at any cost. Pickens was never shown the script nor told it was a black comedy; ordered by Kubrick to play it straight, he played the role as if it were a serious drama - with amusing results.
This is one of the best black comedies out there and is Kubrick at his twisted best. Sellers is perfect in his three roles, the proper british exchange officer, the meek President, and the psychotic science advisor and title character, but Slim Pickens and George C. Scott as General "Buck" Turgidson, the neurotic general who pretty much advocates killing all the Rooskies, you know, since the planes are already on their way, who really steal the show. "Well, I've been to one world fair, a picnic, and a rodeo, and that's the stupidest thing I ever heard come over a set of earphones." Thanks Mick and AK.
* The dynamic aspect of the top 250 list strikes again. This time I lost a movie, so that is the reason 128 was repeated.
2 comments:
I knew Peter Sellers played Dr. Strangelove and the english officer....but it wasn't until after I watched the whole thing that I realized he was also the president. I felt pretty stupid.
Man, don't do that to me. I read your comment and I laughed so hard I started hic-coughing (it goes like this, cough-hic, cough-hic)
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