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Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with today’s Behind the Scenes Pic!
So, I promised a “limey” image today, but then realized I had forgotten America’s birthday, so in order to make things right, I chose a good ol’ American war image instead of anything that even remotely hints at being British. What’s more American than Slim Pickens standing on a nuclear warhead for Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb? Nothing, I say.
Thanks again to Pat Barnett. Click to enlargen and Happy Fourth!
If you have a behind the scenes shot you’d like to submit to this column, you can email me at quint@aintitcool.com.
Tomorrow’s pic is full of lime, for real this time.
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USA! USA!
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Slim Pickins was not standing on the bomb as it went down to the ground. He was riding it like a bull and waving his cowboy hat with glee.
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would spurt everywhere if I saw Quint's Hobbit Set Reports
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I took the reference to standing as a description of the actual picture posted, rather than the film.
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This is a behind the scenes shot. Think about you're actions before throwing out false accusations.
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I dreamt last night that I'd see an image of Slim Pickens from this film today. Strange.
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July 5, 2012, midnight CST
Slim Pickens in 1941, may be slightly more patriotic...
by Stereotypical Evil Archer
Over there, over there, Send the word, send the word over there!
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July 5, 2012, 12:55 a.m. CST
Good picture...good movie..but best B&W movie? Who the fuck said that?
by DementedCaver
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlSQAZEp3PA
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Although you may see it as a deeply American film,, it was in fact shot in the UK - Shepperton Studios. Also (bizarrely)- it was due to be screened to President Kennedy on November 22 1963. (*All according to IMDB*)
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Ever? That's a little hyperbolic, don't you think? Did you really mean "my favorite" and not "the best"? What qualities make DR. STRANGELOVE the best? I enjoy the movie a great deal. I think it's clever and well-acted, but the best? No. Or, saen, was your post cut off? Maybe the body of your text wasn't posted and just the title? So we're left wondering what the best B&W movie of all time is... "The Best Black and White movie... ...is CASABLANCA. ...is CITIZEN KANE. ...is THE BACHELOR AND THE BOBBY-SOXER."
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Have you abandoned the Hobbit set reports? Because I don't think you've ever said one way or the other but a lot of us are really wondering what happened to the greatest thing AICN has ever done, ever. Please, if you are done with them, just tell us straight.
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July 5, 2012, 3:23 a.m. CST
No one could take such a horrifying premise and mold it into one of the greatest comedies of all time. But then there's Kubrick.
by Christian Sylvain
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July 5, 2012, 3:40 a.m. CST
Hmmmm....not sure I'd say Casablanca is better than Dr Strangelove
by Mel
It's a great movie, no doubt, but the ending with Louis bugs me. I just don't get how he forgives Rick so easily after being betrayed. Dr strangelove is amazing, no doubt. I've never been a huge Citizen Kane fan. It was way ahead of it's time in terms of direction and cinematography, but I was never a fan of the story. Also, we have to consider great foreign films like Rashomon and Seven Samurai as well.
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July 5, 2012, 3:41 a.m. CST
I've seen it at least 20 times, and every single time I say outloud "Hey look! It's James Earl Jones!"
by Mel
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She just doesn't get Kubrick the way we do. It's sad really.
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July 5, 2012, 3:46 a.m. CST
Also, I would just like to say that it SERIOUSLY SUCKS COCK that Kubrick is dead...
by ChickenStu
With all the crap that comes out in cinemas these days it's a shame that Kubrick isn't around to give us his unique populist art. I just hope none of the older generation took Kubrick for granted when he was alive. FUCK ME that cat made some amazing films.
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July 5, 2012, 3:49 a.m. CST
Such a great movie and a great comedy. Cinematic excellence on show. Now compare this to modern comedies. Yes, I thought so.
by higgledyhiggles
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in my high school chemistry class. this one was by far my favorite, and i think maybe the only one. why the hell did our teacher show it to us?
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Of course I like talking to you, Dimitri, of course I like saying hello!...Not just now, but anytime!... I could quote this movie all day!
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Although I like the film, it's a pity Stanley directed it. Although Dr. Strangelove and Lolita were comedies, it didn't seem as if he 'got' comedy. Oliver Stone directing Natural Born Killers is similar. It's odd, most great directors include great comedies in their oeuvres, but there are a very few who have made a comedy or two in spite of their own interests and abilities.
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Kubrick had a wicked sense of humour. It was somewhat macabre and dark though which fair enough isn't everybody's cup of tea. I didn't really find "Lolita" funny, but the reason for that was the subject matter made me feel uncomfortable. But "Dr Strangelove" is hilarious, and "The Shining", "Full Metal Jacket" and even "Eyes Wide Shut" have some darkly funny moments. The end of "Dr Strangelove" where We'll Meet Again is playing as the world is destroyed in a nuclear holocaust - is one of the funniest things I've ever seen in a movie. Only Kubrick could've made that funny.
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. . . you are so out of touch it's a PITY I typed even this much in response to your stupid post.
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Obligatory Simpsons reference as required by law.
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July 5, 2012, 9:12 a.m. CST
Pirandello, STOP being a cancer on society and start liking GREAT COMEDIES!
by Dogmatic
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I may have said it wasn't the best B&W film of all time, but I find STRANGELOVE to be genuinely (and more often than not—very) funny. I'm sorry you disagree. (I never watched LOLITA all the way through, though. Just pieces here and there. The book, however, is brilliant.)
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July 5, 2012, 9:31 a.m. CST
Pirandello, did you know that "Dr. Strangelove" was actually started as a serious film about the threat of nuclear war along the lines of Lumet's "Fail Safe"...
by ChaunceyGardiner
but that as Terry Southern and Kubrick wrote the screenplay they found ample opportunity for satire. Not only that, as they went along the details of the film seemed so ridiculous, the military mentality, the nationalism, the madness of the apocalpytic mindset, that they found that they could make nothing more than a comedy so absurd had the material become for them, so deadend the psychologies that they were exploreing. The fact was, the film (like all Kubrick films, except I believe "Fear and Desire") is based on a book which was a thriller. So, objecting to your theory, I find that it is Kubrick who made the material funny and not the other way around. Personally, I've shot milk out of my nose laughing while watching "Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb." George C. Scott's Buck Turgidson gets me every time - and that is part of Kubrick's genious, his great performances. Few people could direct actors quite the way that a young Kubrick could. As he progressed as an artist I feel that at times he maybe became less interested with the people in his films, having them absorbed into the background a little, like characters lost in a painting, but it is still one of his chief attributes when it comes to making films that he could elicit from his actors a performance befitting the granduer and/or minimal closet-sized scale of the film he was working on. Of course, your idea of comedy may be different from mine, and "Dr. Strangelove" is most certainly a farce. But in my opinion much of the power of the comedy is hidden in the shading: the way that General Jack D. Ripper (very broad colouring there, almost outlandishly so) reveals his madness to Peter Sellar's Capt. Mandrake, in a hilarious straightfaced parody of a lifelong British militaryman, is both a series of scenes that border on the edge of the ridiculous and the terrifying. Sterling Hayden lays out his reasoning for his "plan" in deadpan scenes that you can take either way. What makes them funny is that Mandrake is trying his British best to use decorum, to play the part of a British military officer in a way that would make his country proud, to stay both calm and sane while he is clearly in the presence of a man who has completely and irrevocably lost his mind, and in doing so, threatened the entire population of the world. It is an intellectual humour, one to savour and think about, but it is humour none the less. There is most certainly nuance in this film, and it plays its comedy punches in an array of degree and form. There is much fun to be had with Kubrick's comedy about the end of the world, one in which we all go out singing, oblivious.
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July 5, 2012, 9:36 a.m. CST
Troll, I agree, President Muffley's mannered, almost efeminate, demuring is one of the funniest things in the film for me now. What's also funny, I think I would have voted for him. He's an idiot, but he seems like a nice guy. A very American mentality
by ChaunceyGardiner
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July 5, 2012, 9:43 a.m. CST
"Don't say that you're more sorry than I am Dmitri, because I'm capable of being just as sorry as you are... So we're both equally sorry, alright? Alright."
by ChaunceyGardiner
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July 5, 2012, 9:47 a.m. CST
Actually, there are a few times when President Muffley is a voice of reason. It is just that he get lost among the crowd under all the excitement surrounding the underground bunkers. "since each man will be required to do prodigious... service along the
by ChaunceyGardiner
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"2001" was based on a pair of short stories by Arthur C. Clarke: "The Sentinel" and "Take a deep Breath." After the script was written, Clarke wrote the novel.
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Children's ice cream.
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July 5, 2012, 1:13 p.m. CST
The point I was making Hipshot was that every mature Kubrick film was based on previous material...
by ChaunceyGardiner
It has always been interesting to me that, considering his tremendous intellect and astonishing visual imagination, Kubrick relied on source material for inspiration and mooring. I think that it was probably resultant of Kubrick's particular process. Not that it would not have been odd to have an "original Stanley Kubrick production," as many of his films differed greatly from their source material, but as a Kubrick fan I do see how Kubrick's desire for control would lead him to adapt other people's work - especially if that meant that the final products were completely unreminiscent of that which inspired them. There is also the element, for me, of the bread crumb trail from inspiration to final film that helps bring to life Kubrick's creative process and his personal peculiarities. I do not like Kubrick's "Clockwork Orange" but I like reading about it and though the events on screen transpire not too differently than on the page, you can see Kubrick's intellectual process when you look at the philosophical underpinings that make the book and film so different, the fact that Kubrick made the film in such a way that the viewing itself acts as a challange to one's precepts of free will, that we feel confronted by Alex and thus must find within ourselves the choice between love and forgiveness or disgust and hate (Alex personally is an afront to almost all my own personal moral codes and in shattering them, he shatters my own personal belief in love and forgiveness, therefore making it a very very hard film for me to watch). By considering source material with Kubrick you get a broader and yet more intimate view of him as an artist. I also love the fact that he favoured pairing with authors as his screen writing partners. The list of his collaborators, the artist he chose to parry ideas with, is quite impressive: Jim Thompson, Dalton Trumbo, Terry Southern, Vladimir Nabokov, and Michael Herr.
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Ah knew it, yer all in cahoots!
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And you were never invaded because we went over there and stopped the Germans from taking your little islands. You're Welcome.
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July 5, 2012, 5:27 p.m. CST
and I did mean best Dollar, Citizen bore and Casacrapca cant touch it
by Saen
Strangelove holds up, Citizenkane and Casablanca dont.
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sigh... strangelove is a good piece of filmmaking but the "comedy" falls flat. i've only seen it once mind you, not my favourite kubrick film at all.
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July 6, 2012, 12:15 p.m. CST
DrSL is very funny for those who are intelligent and informed; others simply cannot "get it"...
by chris
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My precious. Yessssssssssss Whoever says this is the best B&W movie must have never seen any B&W movies besides this movie. Citizen Kane for example or one of my favorite B&W movies...The Night of the Hunter with Robert Mitchum.
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The revolutionaries did not fight because they thought their country (they were British subjects still) was war mongers but because they were governed without due representation (i.e. they felt they were getting the shaft). The Founding Fathers were not worried about war mongering. After the war like any other war there were cutbacks in the standing army but that was more due to the fact that there was little money in the coffers (some soldiers never got paid). There were long standing struggles to build up the military after the war but again it was due more to money concerns as well as a differing ideology. Some leaders felt militias should be stronger than a central army. In order to become a world power a nation needs to project influence and power. Britain didn't suddenly become anti-war hippies. Up until WWII they were a major world power and had a large navy and military that was always in some conflict in the world. The USA pretty much took over that role near the end of WWII and beyond. There is ALWAYS at least one superpower in the world doing policing. Right now it is the USA. With the rise of China it may well become China in the future at which point there will be funny posts like "Why China such war mongers. Why they not peaceful like Americans" :)
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