'Dr. Strangelove' as a War Film

Strangelove is black comedy in its purest form and the director achieves this by following a very unique yet effective style, in this style, we can find plenty of components that make this movie of the greatest Hollywood movies ever made.

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 narrative of Davis’s monograph and Vigne’s movie has similarities and differences as well. For example, the return of Martin Guerre after eight years to the court in the neck of time is basically the same in both works, but the starting point is different in terms of time and place. The book starts with a detailed background of Martin’s family, their journey from the Basque region to Artigat, and how they adopt the life of the new place by changing their names, changing their customs, and learning the language so that they become like the villagers. On the other hand, the film begins with villages of Artigat and soon with the marriage of Martin and Bertrande in order to capture audience’s attention to be engaged in watching the film. However, the movie’s director ignores all the background of the Martin’s family.

In the 1940’s a series of propaganda films titled Why We Fight were produced for the purpose of defining the enemies of World War 2 to justify the necessity of America’s involvement in war. Hitler needed to be defeated, Nazism had to be destroyed, and tyranny had to be stopped for the sake of the American way of life by any means necessary. How could society argue against America’s role in the world war when freedom was being threatened? As Martin Luther King Jr. said “Injustice anywhere is a threat to everywhere.” No questions asked, Americans mobilized in the name of liberty and freedom. However the 2005 documentary film Why We Fight directed by Eugene Jarecki is not a sequel or war propaganda. The film informs the audience and questions America 's military industrial complex that has since dictated policy since the victory of World War 2. With the help of narration, soundbites, and credible speakers Jarecki shines light on the pernicious impact of the armed industry on our government, army, and citizens.

Every war will have those who support the war and those who are against the war. In 1965, those who were against the Vietnam War made their views known by many forms of protesting such as forming organizations, rallying, and anti-war protest music. Anti-war protest music was an opportunity to put people’s perspectives into song to hopefully spread their message. Buffy Sainte-Marie wrote the song “Universal Soldier” in 1962 and her message was that “Universal Soldier is about individual responsibility for war and how the old feudal thinking kills us all” (Boulanger). The song “Universal Soldier” was used as a protest anthem during the Vietnam War and attempts to untangle one of the paradoxes of life that war never leads to peace through

The movie had some true events like the bombing and the march. The bombing toke place at a church were four girls died and one survived. They five girls had went to do a job for their teacher when they went inside the bomb went off. The kids all were screaming and scared people went inside the church to find the five girls. The movie gave visual of what was happening. The Watson's Go to Birmingham is a good example of the bombing and marching for the 1963. The movie was a good experience to learn about 1963. It is fiction because there were no Watson’s and there were no such thing as a worldpool

To show satire in Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, director Stanley Kubrick uses parody, exaggeration, and incongruity. One effective method Kubrick uses is parody. In the movie, Kubrick plays on actors and typical stereotypes. Major Kong, as played by Louis Burton Lindley, Jr. or Slim Pickens, is a play on the American Cowboy. When Major Kong goes down to the bombs to open the doors he gets dropped with the bomb.

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

How can it be considered an anti-war film if none of the characters question the reason for war, or any politicians for that matter? The film does not focus on the purpose of the war but more so on how the war is conducted.

I think the events that happened in the movie Dr. strange might happen in the real world not in view of his action but the action is seen from the meaning of the story, the reason is because there is no name for this negative energy to destroy the country but that there are events that the negative nature of the

The film takes place in Amsterdam in 1942, during World War II. Germany was rebuilding its economy and Hitler was in power. There was deportation of Jews and other minorities, air raids, bombings, and food rations. Some of the major themes of the film are family, faith, change, growing up, sacrifice, loss, love, and death. The Frank family learns that Margot is to be deported. Otto Frank, Anne and Margot’s father, has already made arrangements for them to go into hiding above his spice factory in an annex. In the annex the Franks are joined by the van Daans and Dr. Dussel (a dentist), a total of eight people and one cat. The families must stay silent for most of the day until the factory workers go home, which strains their relations. They

Kubrick dramatizes the absurdity of Cold War Logic throughout the whole movie Dr. Strangelove. In the pre film lecture we talked about the two cornerstone ideas in Cold War America. First, democracy was the “highpoint of human history” and things were based on technological advances. Second, was that communism was the only real danger to America which is why mutually assured destruction (MAD) was created. In this particular scene, Kubrick is using the doomsday machine as a direct representation of MAD. They describe the machine as essentially having a mind of its own; once it is triggered it cannot be untriggered. The absurdity of this whole idea is that if one side believes the other will attack, they start a nuclear war. Once a nuclear war

V for Vendetta is a movie that immediately grasps the viewers attention. It has a tendency to seem twisted and dark. However, after examining the film more closely the themes began to emerge and started to make sense. V for Vendetta seems to align with Plato’s ideals making V’s actions seems less terroristic and begin to shape up to be that of a vigilante.

The war film genre includes films about warfare, including naval, air or land battles. Films in this genre may focus on the battles, prisoners of war, military training, life during wartime or morality and humanitarian issues of warfare. This genre commonly includes works of fiction, works based on historical facts and occasionally works based on alternate-history fiction. According to American Cinema/American Culture, the genre also includes four narrative elements: the suspension of morality during times of war, the prioritization of collective goals over individual motivations, the rivalry between men and their objectification of women and the issues of reintegrating veterans. (Belton 165-71)