Comparing The Rules Of The Game And Dr Strangelove: An Extension Of Modernism

The Cold War was a period from 1947 to 1991 that adhered erratic tension and constant threat of nuclear conflict between the two remaining superpowers that emerged from WWII, the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The 1964 film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, directed by Stanley Kubrick, depicts the overlying themes of the Cold War in a comedic fashion. This film’s full embodiment of the Cold War is seen through its representation of the time period, and the sheer competitiveness between the United States and Russia. Additionally, due to many of Kubrick’s movie decisions, the film has helped society

Stanley Kubrick’s sexual parody, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, illustrates an unfathomed nuclear catastrophe. Released in the midst of the Cold War, this 1964 film satirizes the heightened tensions between America and Russia. Many sexual insinuations are implemented to ridicule the serious issue of a global nuclear holocaust, in an effort to countervail the terror that plagued America at that time. Organizing principles, such as Kubrick’s blunt political attitudes about the absurdity of war and the satirical genre, are echoed by the film style of his anti-war black comedy, Dr. Strangelove.

Even though Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb screened in the midst of the sobering Cold War, critics were keen on praising the film for its mastery of humor applied to such a sensitive matter. The film is exceedingly loaded with metaphors, innuendos, and allusions that nothing can be left undissected or taken for face value; the resulting effect is understood to be part of Kubrick’s multifarious theme. Kubrick has stated that what began as a “the basis for a serious film about accidental war ” eventually birthed an absurd and farcical classic comedy. The director fuses together irony, satire, and black humor to create a waggish piece but most of all the situation of the times and its

The lovers are in love with themselves being in love. They love each other, but are more preoccupied with being seen as lovers. They often feign mild hatred. She is extremely aware of being watched and plays with the audience for sympathy in their plight and ccasionally flirts with spectators.

Richard Connell’s The Most Dangerous explains multiple theories, such as nature versus nurture, and survival of the fittest. This short story also seems to have an underlying theme of Social Darwinism (Of Two Classes). Throughout the entirety of the short story, Connell shows a character change of a main character, Rainsford, who is at a constant battle with General Zaroff, the antagonist. This character change shows the importance of the mindset of characters, and how it can be applied to everyday life.

Dr. Strangelove is a comedy about the Cold War intended for a young adult or adult audience due to the topic of the Cold War not being understood easily by children. The reason for creating this film is for the comedic spin on a very serious historical event, making it truly a one of a kind movie.

He hurts people, and does not want Christine to marry Raoul. The relationship between the Phantom and Christine is a conflict that affects how she acts towards Raoul. The phantom has instilled fear in her, for example, after the fight at the graveyard, the Phantom declared “Now let it be war upon you both!” The Phantom also had killed other people up into this point, during the production of Don Juan, the Phantom crashed the chandelier upon the audience, and then set fire to the theatre. Also, due to fear, Christine keeps their engagement secret from the world, and then upon the Phantom finding out, he reacts in a rage of fear and hatred, If she chooses Raoul, she has reasonable evidence to believe that they both should die. If the Phantom had not instilled this fear in her before, and they had not formed a rather (mean, abusive, dating) relationship, they could have reasonably worked this out between the three of them. Christine also has a relationship with Raoul, and then proceeds to become engaged to him. Their engagement becomes a source of fury to the Phantom that caused him to go into solitude and set fire to the theatre. The Phantom made her choose, to prove that she still “belonged” to the Phantom, even after her engagement to

Strangelove are anti-war movies, although they portray it in very different ways. WarGames depicts this by showing the consequences of the war via simulation, while Dr. Strangelove showed the consequences of the war simply through discussion, and implied that those repercussions actually occurred after a bomb was dropped at the end of the movie. In WarGames, the famous line “the only way to win is not to play” was first uttered, which completely captures the spirit of the Cold War - any move by any party would have caused the extinction of the human race. Kubrick embodied this in Dr. Strangelove with the plot point of the doomsday device, showing that if the United States engaged the Soviet Union at all that it would assure their own destruction. Overall, while WarGames made the statement that tensions during the Cold War were so high that a teenager playing a videogame could set off a nuclear war, Dr. Strangelove simply ridiculed the attitudes of those involved in the Cold War and mocked those who took it seriously, under the pretense that mutually assured destruction would prevent any real war from breaking out. It’s clear that WarGames was written to show that a worst-case scenario, which we consider today to be highly unlikely, was actually quite the possibility during the peak of the Cold War. In Dr. Strangelove, the director Stanley Kubrick showed that no sane person could possibly believe that the Cold War could have come to fruition in a way

In this essay I will analyze two Cold War American Films, War Games and Dr.Strangelove. Both of these films portray the cold war era, where it was uncertain when and if nuclear fallout would happen. I will start off by giving a brief summary of both films. Then talk about some cold war culture such as posters, TV shows, and historical events discussed in class, as well as some aspects of plot in the films, such as the leaders in power in each film and finally compare both films to the culture shown and argue that they both accurately portrayed it.

Charles Maland’s argument for the 1964 film Dr. Strangelove is that it was one of the most “fascinating and important American films of the 1960s.” He backs up his argument with evidence of the films rejection of the Ideology of Liberal Consensus, its attack on “crackpot realism” and critique of life in the 1960s Cold War era, and finally its paradoxical revolution that sets an example for other films to come after.

It is my intention to compare the book, Dangerous Liaisons by Choderlos de Laclos, to its modern movie version, Cruel Intentions starring Sarah Michelle Gellar. I intend to examine how the original French text was modified in reference to plot, character, morals/values, and themes. I also plan to discuss how these transformations change the meaning of the story and reflect different cultural/historical contexts. There are some major differences between these two works, if only because of when they were written.

This movie definitely displayed our thoughts and emotions dealing with the Cold War, right up to the very end. Our sentiments

Christine is his entire in life. She is constantly in his

The French New Wave, or Nouvelle Vague, is among the most revolutionary film eras in the history of cinema. Spurred as a result of major shifts in economic, social and technological norms within post-WW11 France, the New Wave conceived a renewed mode of expression across various creative industries. Francois Truffaut’s The 400 Blows (1959) and Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless (1960) are two films, which despite major disparities, would go on to exemplify integral characteristics of the movement in the following years. Perhaps, the best way to truly appreciate the fervor of New Wave cinema is to examine the context of its inception. Both the stylistic and thematic qualities of French New Wave works directly reflect the implicit values, virtues and vices possessed by the emerging youth culture of the late 1950s, which consequently posed a fundamental challenge to the institutions, ideas and attitudes of the past.

    The next time Raoul sees Christine is at her debut, singing the leaf as a standin for the ill Carlotta, during the gala at Palais Garnier. He instantly falls back into the inescapably, deep love he has for her. His heart races quickly, as if it were about to explode through his