Dr Strangelove Well Meet Again Meaning

Peter Sellers trying to control his autonomous right arm in the title role of Dr. Strangelove

" "As you know, the Premier loves surprises.

—Soviet Administrator DeSadesky

" "Gentlemen, y'all can't fight in here! This is the War Room.

—President Muffley

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Cease Worrying and Love the Bomb is a 1964 satirical (specifically, a black comedy ) picture directed by Stanley Kubrick, and co-written with Terry Southern and Peter George.^[1] The moving picture was based on the 1958 novel Red Alert (a.one thousand.a. Two Hours to Doom) by Peter George under the pseudonym Peter Bryant.^[2] The plot of Red Warning very closely resembled that of the 1963 novel Neglect-Safe by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler, and resulted in a copyright-infringement lawsuit and an out-of-court settlement.^[3] Fail-Safe also went on to a get a less-successful and less-memorable, non-satirical pic in 1964, which also resulted in an out-of-court settlement over copyright infringement.^[4] Dr. Strangelove is the best black comedy film of all time, at least by some accounts.^[5]

The film stars Peter Sellers playing three major roles (the meek President Merkin Muffley;^{[note 1] [note two]} the half-broken human, half-broken auto Dr. Strangelove;^{[notation 3]} and the overly polite British Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake)^{[note iv]} and features a much-parodied scene of Slim Pickens bull-riding an atomic bomb. It was less well known for beingness Darth Vader's James Earl Jones' beginning movie.

The movie depicts a series of fictional events leading to a World State of war Three scenario involving mutually assured devastation (MAD) between the U.s. and the Soviet Union. Plot elements involve various Cold War themes, including McCarthyism and the influences of Nazi scientists. At that place is also a plethora of sexual undertones to the movie, such as General Jack D. Ripper's ostensibly fluoride-fueled impotence, Dr. Strangelove'due south recommendation of a ten:1 female to male ratio for the post-apocalyptic globe, the hyper-masculine overcompensation of military men, and the inability of the bomber crew to "perform" (drib the flop) after much elaborate foreplay (in-flight build-upwardly).^[8]

The film's primary thrust (and so to speak), however, is to mock the nuclear arms race and tensions betwixt the Us and the USSR by showing the insanity of predicating 1's entire national defence on the thought of the fittingly-acronymed MAD. The characters go from talking most "missile gaps" and "bomber gaps" to challenge vast communist conspiracies at every level of government (they're poisoning our precious actual fluids!) to, later the guarantee of apocalypse, worrying about a "mineshaft gap" with the Reds. It's either the scariest one-act ever made, or the funniest disaster film ever fabricated.^{[note five]}

Contents

• ane Themes
  • 1.1 Fluoride is a commie plot
  • 1.2 The game of doom
  • 1.3 Racism
• two "Mein Führer! I can walk!"
• 3 Gallery
• iv Trailer
• 5 See also
• half dozen External links
• 7 Notes
• viii References

Themes [edit]

Besides the Cold War and MAD, Dr. Strangelove touches on a number of themes, including the Red Scare, water fluoridation, conspiracy theories as i grouping, and game theory and a doomsday scenario as a second.

Fluoride is a commie plot [edit]

Ripper: Have you ever seen a commie drink a glass of water?
Mandrake: Well, no I… I can't say I take, Jack.
Ripper: Vodka. That'south what they drinkable, isn't information technology? Never h2o?
Mandrake: Well I… I believe that's what they drink, Jack. Yes.
Ripper: On no business relationship will a commie ever potable h2o, and not without good reason.
Mandrake: Oh, ah, yes. I don't quite… come across what y'all're getting at, Jack.
Ripper: Water. That's what I'chiliad getting at. Water. Mandrake, water is the source of all life. Seven tenths of this Earth's surface is water. Why, you lot realize that… lxx percent of you is water.
Mandrake: Uhhh God…
Ripper: And as human beings, you and I need fresh, pure water to replenish our precious bodily fluids.
Mandrake: Yes. (chuckles nervously)
Ripper: You beginning to sympathise?
Mandrake: Aye. (chuckles. begins laughing/crying quietly)
Ripper: Mandrake. Mandrake, have you never wondered why I drink only distilled water, or rain water, and but pure grain alcohol?
Mandrake: Well it did occur to me, Jack, yes.
Ripper: Have you always heard of a thing called fluoridation? Fluoridation of water?
Mandrake: Ah, yes, I have heard of that, Jack. Yeah.
Ripper: Well do you know what it is?
Mandrake: No. No, I don't know what it is. No.
Ripper: Do you realize that fluoridation is the nearly monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face?
Mandrake: Jack… Jack, heed, tell me, ah… when did yous showtime become, well, develop this theory?
Ripper: Well, I ah, I, I outset became aware of information technology, Mandrake, during the physical act of dearest.
Mandrake: (sighs fearfully)
Ripper: Yes, a profound sense of fatigue, a feeling of emptiness followed. Luckily I was able to interpret these feelings correctly: loss of essence.
Mandrake: Aye…
Ripper: I can assure you it has non recurred, Mandrake. Women… women sense my power, and they seek the life essence. I do non avert women, Mandrake, simply I exercise deny them my essence.^[9]

Preceding this commutation, Ripper has directed — without authorization — bomber shipping to fly to the the Soviet Matrimony and initiate nuclear war. This passage introduces Ripper's conspiracist mindset and his obsession with fluoride, indicating that he but drinks water or grain booze (40%-95% alcohol), the latter of which is demonstrably worse than fluoridated h2o — though nuclear state of war would of course be worse even so past many orders of magnitude. The passage further shows Ripper blaming fluoridation on communism (Red Scare) and blaming it for his presumptive impotence (the correlation does not imply causation fallacy and the phallic-weapon trope.^[ten]

Ripper: Stay with me Mandrake. Ripper and Mandrake crawl to one side of desk. Alright, Mandrake, at present feed me. Feed me.
(Ripper stands and exchanges burn down with attacking troops. Enemy fire subsides.)
Mandrake: (laughs) Jack, don't yous call up we'd be better off in some other role of the room, abroad from all this flying glass?
Ripper: Ah, naah. Nosotros're OK here. Mandrake, do you realize that in improver to fluoridated water, why, in that location are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, carbohydrate, milk, ice foam? Ice foam, Mandrake. Children's water ice foam?
Mandrake: Good Lord.
Ripper: You know when fluoridation starting time began?
Mandrake No. No, I don't, Jack. No.
Ripper: Nineteen hundred and xl six. Nineteen forty-half dozen, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your postwar commie conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual, and certainly without whatsoever choice. That'south the fashion your hard core commie works.^[ix]

In this scene, Ripper and Mandrake are attacking US troops under the delusion/misunderstanding that they are foreign invaders. Ripper then calmly continues on about the dangers of fluoride. Despite the imminent threat of nuclear war killing millions, Ripper uses the "retrieve of the children" fallacy confronting fluoridation.

Since Kubrick was known to have been a perfectionist,^[11] it is likely that the date of fluoridation inception was intentionally erroneous; the first city to fluoridate water was actually 1000 Rapids Michigan in 1945.^[12] Ripper's complaint that "A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual." foreshadows the "personal pick" argument of the anti-vaccination motion.

The game of doom [edit]

(word in The War Room)
DeSadeski: (after getting off the phone with the Soviet Premier) The fools… the mad fools.
Muffley: What's happened?
DeSadeski: The doomsday car.
Muffley: The doomsday auto? What is that?
DeSadeski: A device which will destroy all human being and beast life on Earth.
Muffley: All human and brute life?
DeSadeski: When information technology is detonated, it will produce enough lethal radioactive fallout so that within ten months, the surface of the Earth volition be as dead as the Moon!
Turgidson: Ah, come on DeSadeski, that's ridiculous. Our studies show that even the worst fallout is down to a safe level after two weeks.
DeSadeski: You've obviously never heard of cobalt thorium Thou.
Turgidson: No, what most it?
DeSadeski: Cobalt thorium G has a radioactive half-life of ninety three years. If you accept, say, fifty H-bombs in the hundred megaton range and jacket them with cobalt thorium Grand, when they are exploded they will produce a doomsday shroud. A lethal cloud of radioactive decay which will encircle the world for ninety 3 years!
Turgidson: Ah, what a load of commie bull. I mean, afterall…
Muffley: I'chiliad afraid I don't sympathize something, Alexiy. Is the Premier threatening to explode this if our planes deport out their attack?
DeSadeski: No sir. It is non a thing a sane man would exercise. The doomsday automobile is designed to to trigger itself automatically.
Muffley: But surely you tin disarm it somehow.
DeSadeski: No. It is designed to explode if any attempt is e'er made to untrigger it.
Muffley: Automatically?
Turgidson: Ahh… it'southward an obvious commie pull a fast one on, Mr. President. (walks backwards towards the big board.) Nosotros're wasting valuable time. (falls over backwards and does a somersault, and brings himself dorsum onto his anxiety) Look at the large board! They're getting ready to clobber us!
Muffley: But this is absolute madness, ambassador. Why should you lot build such a matter?
DeSadeski: There are those of u.s. who fought confronting it, simply in the end we could not keep up with the expense involved in the arms race, the space race, and the peace race. And at the same time our people grumbled for more nylons and washing machines. Our doomsday scheme toll us just a small-scale fraction of what we'd been spending on defense in a single twelvemonth. But the deciding factor was when we learned that your country was working along similar lines, and we were afraid of a doomsday gap.
Muffley: This is preposterous. I've never approved of annihilation like that.
DeSadeski: Our source was the New York Times.
Muffley: Dr. Strangelove, do we take annihilation like that in the works?
…
Strangelove: (in wheelchair) A moment please, Mr. President. (stomps one foot on the tile floor, pushes back from the table and begins wheeling towards the discussion between Muffley and DeSadeski.) Nether the authority granted me as director of weapons enquiry and development, I commissioned terminal year a report of this projection past the Bland Corporation. Based on the findings of the report, my conclusion was that this idea was not a practical deterrent, for reasons which, at this moment, must be all too obvious.
Muffley: And so you mean it is possible for them to have congenital such a thing?
Strangelove: (carefully plucks cigarette from his shaking right hand, which is in a black glove) Mr. President, the technology required is easily inside the means of even the smallest nuclear power. Information technology requires only the volition to practise so.
Muffley: But, how is it possible for this thing to be triggered automatically, and at the same time incommunicable to untrigger?
Strangelove: Mr. President, it is non only possible, it is essential. That is the whole idea of this machine, you know. Deterrence is the fine art of producing in the heed of the enemy… the fear to attack. So, because of the automatic and irrevocable conclusion making process which rules out man meddling, the doomsday machine is terrifying. It's simple to understand. And completely credible, and convincing.
Turgidson: Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines, Stainsy.
Muffley: Simply this is fantastic, Strangelove. How can it exist triggered automatically?
Strangelove: Well, it's remarkably simple to do that. When you merely wish to bury bombs, at that place is no limit to the size. After that they are connected to a gigantic circuitous of computers. At present then, a specific and conspicuously defined prepare of circumstances, under which the bombs are to be exploded, is programmed into a record memory bank.
Turgidson: Strangelove. What kind of a name is that? That own't no kraut proper noun, is it, Stainsy?

Stains: He changed information technology when he became a denizen. It used to be Merkwurkdigliebe.^{[notation half dozen]}
Turgidson: Hmm. A kraut, past any other name, huh, Stainsy?
Strangelove: Yes, but the… whole point of the doomsday machine… is lost… if you proceed information technology a hole-and-corner! Why didn't you tell the world, eh?
DeSadeski: Information technology was to be announced at the Party Congress on Monday. As yous know, the Premier loves surprises.^[ix]

Dr. Strangelove describing the doomsday auto

"Cobalt thorium G" is not a an actual thing, but is plain a reference a cobalt-spiked nuclear weapon conceived by physicist Leó Szilárd, that would increment the corporeality of radioactive fallout and potentially could end human being and other life on Earth.^[13] The "Bland Corporation" is an innuendo to the RAND Corporation, which performed much enquiry on nuclear war strategy and game theory.

Turgidson brings usa to the phallic-weapon trope again with "I wish we had i of them doomsday machines," even though information technology is becoming apparent that bigger/badder is not necessarily better.

In this scene, which in the film is intercut with the previous Ripper-Mandrake scene, ane sees the laying out of the game theoretic aspects of nuclear war strategy: the strategic ability of nuclear deterrence and the importance of fore-cognition. If one does non know the deterrent power of the adversary, one may act rashly and cause very bad consequences for both the antagonist and oneself.

Racism [edit]

The "our precious actual fluids" line was a satire on eugenicist Madison Grant'due south concept of "germ-plasm", which was what made Nordic people (the people Grant put the highest in his work) supposedly superior.^[14]

"Mein Führer! I can walk!" [edit]

The film ends by cutting-back to our reality—with a montage of nuclear explosions, captured from historical footage—while the cheerful, hopeful song, "We'll Come across Once more" plays. During the Common cold State of war, Vera Lynn's WWII yarn— "We'll Meet Again"—was included inside bunkers in United kingdom, as a morale-boosting song, should in that location take been a nuclear assail …^[xv]

Gallery [edit]

• 

  The War Room

• 

  Peter Sellers as President Merkin Muffley

• 

  George C. Scott as General Buck Turgidson

• 

  Sterling Hayden equally Ripper (left) with Sellers as Mandrake, discussing fluoridation subsequently killing The states troops

• 

  Slim Pickins as Major T. J. "King" Kong (right) opening Fly Attack Program R

• 

  A imitation book prop, "Holy Bible and Russian Phrases"

• 

  Major T. J. "Male monarch" Kong riding the bomb downwardly

• 

  The nuclear bomb prop

• 

  Product notes

Trailer [edit]

Don't be fooled past the blackness screen. Information technology'll play.

See also [edit]

• A Clockwork Orange — some other pic by Kubrick
• Putsch
• Jack the Ripper
• Nuclear war
• Water fluoridation

External links [edit]

• Inside the Making of Dr. Strangelove
• If one wishes to telephone call Stephen Colbert this generation's Sellers, [Gawker.com: archive.is, web.archive.org they can nowadays this as evidence.]
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to End Worrying and Beloved the Bomb — A Continuity Transcript, Visual Memory: Stanley Kubrick

Notes [edit]

1. ↑ "Merkin" is a pubic wig. Yes, really.
2. ↑ Muffley was based on Adlai Stevenson, which is a tad bit ironic (perhaps intentionally) considering of his role in defusing the Cuban Missile Crisis.
3. ↑ The titular character, Dr. Strangelove, was based on a combination of 4 people: Herman Kahn of the RAND Corporation, mathematician John von Neumann of the Manhattan Project, Nazi Frg rocket scientist Wernher von Braun, and Edward Teller of H-Bomb fame.^[vi] An alternate view, that of Kahn himself, was that the character was based on three people: Kahn, Henry Kissinger, and von Braun, though Kissinger was not that well known until 1969.^[7]
4. ↑ Originally he was supposed to play four, simply he felt he wasn't able to exercise a skillful plenty Texan accent for the final part.
5. ↑ And retrieve to answer to the Coca-Cola company, prevert!
6. ↑ Merkwurkdigliebe translates from German every bit "strange beloved".

References [edit]

1. ↑ Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb IMDb.
2. ↑ Ii Hours to Doom by Peter Boardman (1958) T. V. Boardman.
3. ↑ Fail-Safe past Eugene Burdick & Harvey Wheeler (1963).
4. ↑ Come across the Wikipedia article on Fail Safe.
5. ↑ 10 all-time black comedies of all time, from Dr Strangelove to Withnail and I: These are the Movies that Some Sections of the Audience Simply Didn't Get by Graeme Ross (22 February 2019 13:48) The Independent.
6. ↑ Paul Boyer, "Dr. Strangelove" in Marker C. Carnes (ed.), Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies, New York, 1996.
7. ↑ Who Was Dr. Strangelove? (March 09, 199911:49 AM) Slate.
8. ↑ Detailed assay of sexual themes
9. ↑ ^{nine.0 ix.1 ix.2} Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Honey the Flop — A Continuity Transcript, Visual Memory: Stanley Kubrick
10. ↑ Phallic Weapon TV Tropes.
11. ↑ The Kubrick FAQ Visual Memory: Stanley Kubrick.
12. ↑ The Story of Fluoridation
13. ↑ See the Wikipedia article on Cobalt bomb.
14. ↑ When W. E. B. Du Bois Made a Laughingstock of a White Supremacist, Ian Frazier, New Yorker, Ian Frazier. «Ripper talks of a supposed Communist plot to put fluoride in drinking water, soup, and ice cream—in order, he says, to pollute and degrade "our precious bodily fluids." Mandrake asks how he adult this theory. Ripper replies, "I get-go became aware of it, Mandrake, during the physical act of love." The wait Sellers gives him at this juncture reaches the pinnacle of movie comedy. "Our precious bodily fluids" is certainly the direct descendant of the vaunted Nordic "germ-plasm." The supposedly life-generating secret of the Nordics never generated any real offspring except the deranged Full general Ripper'southward "precious bodily fluids."»
15. ↑ See the Wikipedia commodity on We'll Meet Again.

holtlabley.blogspot.com

Source: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Dr._Strangelove

Share this post