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 MARxaTax rated 6 months ago - Boomer Humour
From the page: "The story concerns a mentally unstable US Air Force general who orders a first strike nuclear attack on the Soviet Union, and follows the President of the United States, his advisors, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a Royal Air Force (RAF) officer as they t...
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- advena rated 8 weeks ago
- I find myself thinking about this film a lot these days - and all the more so since the latest outbreak of US fomented conflict, cynically cooked up to try and make McCain look good - if the murder of a thousand people is your idea of looking good...
- ottererik rated 6 months ago
- Saw the movie again very recently--Boomer Humor indeed, just refer to The Boomer Bible for more insight!! LOL
- MARxaTax rated 6 months ago
- Boomer Humour
From the page: "The story concerns a mentally unstable US Air Force general who orders a first strike nuclear attack on the Soviet Union, and follows the President of the United States, his advisors, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a Royal Air Force (RAF) officer as they try to recall the bombers to prevent a nuclear apocalypse, as well as the crew of one B-52 as they attempt to deliver their payload."
The Director, Stanley Kubrick, had this to say about the movie:
"I started our being completely unfamiliar with any of the professional literature in the field of nuclear deterrence. I was at first very impressed with how subtle some of the work was -- at least so it seemed starting out with just a primitive concern for survival and a total lack of any ideas of my own. Gradually I became aware of the almost wholly paradoxical bature of deterrence orm as it has been described, the Delicate Balance of Terror. If you are weak, you may invite a first strike. If you are becoming too strong, you may provoke a pre-emptive strike. If you try to maintain the delicate balance, it's almost impossible to do so mainly because secrecy prevents you from knowing what the other side is doing, and vice versa, ad infinitum..."
Brian Siano has written "A Commentary on Dr. Strangelove" that gives a lot of background to the movie. In that article he says: "Strangelove is not without precedent; in fact the film is one of the best examples of a brand of humour designated, by Tony Hendra, as "Boomer humour." It's a vein of humour that takes a strong anti-establishment stance, frequently with a very dark or "black" tone, and usually raises very unsettling questions about modern life."
The concept of 'Mutually Assured Destruction' deeply affected my peers. We became a bunch of nihilists, hedonists and drug fiends. Our bemused High School teachers, many of them veterans of WWII, could not understand why we had no interest whatever in scholastic achievement. It was one of them who arranged an illicit screening of 'The War Game' for us. It is difficult to explain how unsettling that movie was then. Coming to a town near you soon.
Here Terry Southern has Slim Pickens as 'Major Kong' losing his Lone Star Blues by riding a Nuke home bare-back.
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