I must admit, you have an astonishingly good idea there.
Indeed! After all, the boom operator’s catch-phrase is “Your hole is my goal”…
Of course not much has been revealed on what the Pentagon has, but somehow many do think that the War Room room was in the White House, but when one sees the movie it is clear that the War Room in the movie is located in the Pentagon.
The pie fight will never be seen.
“I’m calling about the bomb, Dmitri… the bomb, Dmitri… the hydrogen bomb…”
Churchill and Roosevelt both had versions of them.
Modern U.S. versions:
National Military Command Center - Wikipedia (and a picture: http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/facility/images/nmcc6.jpg)
NORAD - Wikipedia
Yeah that’s…hey, James Earl Jones is listed in the credits! I forgot he was in it!
Ooh, Jones wrote an article about the making of the movie. It was his first part.
A Bombardier’s Reflection on Dr. Strangelove
There’s an ad, but you can close it and read. Good writing, Mr. Jones.
Back in college, some friends and I got the idea to do pleas for our campus radio station’s pledge drive as parodies of Strangelove:
“Now then, Dmitri, you know how we’ve always talked about the possibility of something going wrong with the radio station. The radio station, Dmitri. The community radio station. Well now, what happened is, uh, one of our listeners, he had a sort of - Well, he went a little funny in the head. You know. Just a little funny. And uh, he went and did a silly thing.
Well, I’ll tell you what he did. He listened to the station…without supporting it.”
“Subscriber kit contents check.
One K-A-O-S bumper sticker.
One combination Roosian phrasebook and programming guide…”
That sort of thing.
We never got around to doing it, but I still like the idea.
Hmm, it won’t let me close the ad, which is annoying because I’d really love to read what he had to say about that movie.
I remember wondering about actors whose best movie was the very first (or at least, very early) in their careers, and James Earl Jones is a perfect example. Think about that, he went on to be in some damn good movies, but his first is still the best.
“Mandrake, come over here and feed me this belt, boy!”
“I’d love to Jack, but you see the problem is, the string in my leg is gone.”
Also, in case no one else has mentioned it yet, the music playing over the opening credits is “Try A Little Tenderness”.
I saw the movie when I was 13. I thought it was the best movie I’d ever seen.
I’ve seen a lot of movies since then, and it’s still near the top. And I’m amazed that I thought that so young.
Great name for the air force base: Burpleson.
And the sign outside: “Peace Is Our Profession”.
“I’m sorry too, Dimitri. I’m very sorry. Alright! You’re sorrier than I am! But I am sorry as well. I am as sorry as you are, Dimitri. Don’t say that you are more sorry than I am, because I am capable of being just as sorry as you are. So we’re both sorry, alright? Alright.”
Interesting draft - a whole lotta stuff here that sure didn’t end up in the final cut:
http://scifiscripts.com/scripts/strangelove.txt
You understand, of course, that “Peace Is Our Profession” really WAS the sloganof the Strategic Air Command.
Ah I see…Ignorance tolchocked.
In the yarbles.
Two films later.
Ignorance tolchocked with an antelope bone. It was redrum, in a world of shit.
That’s some very large talk behind my sleeping back, oh me droogie…