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"Mitchell Holman" wrote in message
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![]() "Alan Erskine" wrote in message ... "Mitchell Holman" wrote in message ... EEEEEEHAAAAA!!! That's the funniest thing I've seen all week. ZW |
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"Zomby Woof" wrote in news:7N5Mj.46957$Cj7.44928
@pd7urf2no: "Alan Erskine" wrote in message ... "Mitchell Holman" wrote in message ... EEEEEEHAAAAA!!! That's the funniest thing I've seen all week. You don't think I would overlook the most famous bombing run in movie history, do you? |
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"MWB" wrote in news:480118d5$0$20196
: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcW_Ygs6hm0 Major Kong riding the bomb Mark I remember hearing that the movie was a standard "Fail Safe" project that ran out of money and Kubrick picked up the screenplay cheap and turned it into, well, Dr Strangelove. |
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On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 16:53:33 -0500, Mitchell Holman
wrote: "MWB" wrote in news:480118d5$0$20196 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcW_Ygs6hm0 Major Kong riding the bomb Mark I remember hearing that the movie was a standard "Fail Safe" project that ran out of money and Kubrick picked up the screenplay cheap and turned it into, well, Dr Strangelove. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Str..._Love_the_Bomb Novel and screenplay Kubrick on the set of Dr. Strangelove.Kubrick started with nothing but a vague idea to make a thriller about a nuclear accident, building on the widespread Cold War fear for survival.[12] While doing in-depth research for the planned film, Kubrick gradually became aware of the subtle and unstable "Balance of terror" existing between nuclear powers and its intrinsicaly paradoxical character. At Kubrick's request, Alistair Buchan (the head of the Institute for Strategic Studies), recommended the thriller novel Red Alert (1958) by Peter George.[18] Kubrick was impressed with the book, which had also been praised by game theorist and future Nobel Prize in Economics winner Thomas Schelling in an article written for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and reprinted in The Observer,[19] and immediately bought the film rights.[20] Kubrick, in collaboration with George, started work on writing a screenplay based on the book. While writing the screenplay, they benefited from some brief consultations with Schelling and, later, Herman Kahn.[21] In following the tone of the book, Stanley Kubrick originally intended to film the story as a serious drama. However, as he later explained during interviews, the comedy inherent in the idea of mutual assured destruction became apparent as he was writing the first draft of the film's script. Kubrick stated: My idea of doing it as a nightmare comedy came in the early weeks of working on the screenplay. I found that in trying to put meat on the bones and to imagine the scenes fully, one had to keep leaving out of it things which were either absurd or paradoxical, in order to keep it from being funny; and these things seemed to be close to the heart of the scenes in question.[22] After deciding to turn the film into a black comedy, Kubrick brought in Terry Southern as a co-writer. The choice was influenced by reading Southern's comic novel The Magic Christian (1959), which Kubrick had received as a gift from Peter Sellers.[8] Sellers is also sometimes considered an uncredited co-writer, as he changed many lines by way of improvisation. Please take out the DAWGS for e-mail adress |
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