Dr Strangelove Cold War

The novel, The Culture of the Cold War, is the all about the cold war and how that time period effected America in the 1960s. It talks about how the Cold War era haunted America with constant threats, and the talk of communism all across the nation. The author of the book, Stephen J. Whitfield, described that the Cold War gave the nation an identity crisis and that suspicion started to arise. The novel is very descriptive on that topic and elaborates on certain ideologies during that time.

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 Cold War was a clash between the ideologies of the United States and the Soviet Union, even though there was no actual fighting between them, it still had a drastic impact on the lives of people who were alive at the time. As a result of experiencing the Cold War some creators used it as influence for literary works. For instance, The Butter Battle Book by Dr. Seuss and Over the Hedge directed By Tim Johnson and Karey Kirkpatrick, reveal the political nature experienced by the opposing sides during the Cold War. Satirical devices in the forms of parody and exaggeration are used to further convey the message the creators want the audience to understand.

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.

Books would give an insight to how the government’s were handling the cold war. That is what Dr. Seuss did with his book called The Butter Battle Book. Dr. Seuss is known for using short phrases with lots of literary devices and doesn’t shy away from them to show how The Butter Battle Book is related to the cold war. Conflict development, imagery, irony, and onomatopoeia’s are all used in the Butter Battle Book to show how The Butter Battle Book is related to the cold war.

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

What I Learned Since I Stopped Worrying and Studied the Movie: A Teaching Guide to Stanley Kubrick 's Dr. Strangelove

Dr. Strangelove is an ex-Nazi scientist, he takes passing shots at numerous Cold War attitudes, such as the "missile gap". It focuses its satire on the conception of mutual assured destruction in which each side is supposed to be deterred from a nuclear war by the prospect of a universal cataclysmic disaster regardless who "won"worried him that the military might like the idea of a doomsday machine and build one. If it came to nuclear war, there might, in fact, be a limited one, and options should be kept open. Throughout the film, sexual references are made through the characters’ names and actions. In the beginning of the film, Kubrick places two B-52s refueling in mid air.

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

The purpose of the novella was clear, it is a piece of political satire, mainly concerning the Russian Revolution. I did not feel however, that this came across in the film in any way. The film was clearly aimed at children, as the simplicity of the converted storyline was obvious. Although they kept to the basic structure of the novella, I felt that they did not successfully altar

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

In this film, there were two different groups of people who were against each other, they were not friends, they were enemies. The film shows us that it is not all make believe that some places are scared of other places just because the other place has better weapons, more power or even more people. The Russians were the communist, and the Americans were afraid that Russian was going to be dropping bombs on them. The Americans went ahead and made a plan on how they were going to drop the bombs on Russia. They made plans on what to do and how to do it because they were terrified that Russia was going to drop bombs on them. There were equalities and inequalities in this movie. The Russians were the inequalities in the film because they did not have any advantages. The Americans were the equalities because they had more gear and were more aware of what was going on, they were prepared a lot better then Russia, also. The Americans thought that they were being attacked so they started to go and attack Russia, Russia had no clue what was going on, they got frightened because they were afraid of the American weapons.

Stanley Kubrick’s, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, is a political satire of the Cold War that displays the fear of nuclear devastation after World War II, which created an atmosphere of suspicion, with everyone prepared and waiting for the bomb to drop. Kubrick’s film portrays a worst-case scenario in which humans become the victims to the machines of destruction they have created and depend on for safety. At a time when the whole country was terrified of the Soviet Union, Kubrick’s film portrayed the issue through humor, instead of fear. Through the link of symbolism between a male’s ego and the underlying sexual nature of war, a relationship between Stanley Kubrick’s satirical film and the realities of

The characters in this movie were great actors. They acted so realistic that it looked as if it was occurring live from the scene of the action. All of the characters were excellent , especially the women when they got their hair cut off in the concentration camp.

The world becomes a giant M.C. Escher picture where buildings fold on each other and sorcerers bend reality with impunity. This movie is nothing like another Marvel movie. Inescapable elements are everywhere and magic plays a key role that points out real world dangerous directions for some viewers. But you can also see that Christian themes are played too throughout the movie. In the beginning, Strange is a selfish atheist who believes that the material things the world offer is the key to happiness. Then, he is introduced to the spiritual world. He is asked to make a sacrifice of the person he was to become a better person. This is where we see a similarity of Jesus own sacrifice for the world. To think it is a good movie it all depends on how you see it suitable for your family because of the message it is sending towards the spiritual