Dr Strangelove

waynejkruse10 · 10-14-2005, 06:23 AM

I just saw Dr Strangelove or how i stopped worrying and love the bomb - yes that is the entire title. I loved it, it was hilarious and i am really aquiring a taste for Stanley Kubrick movies. Some of my favourite quotes are:

President of the USA talking to the President of Russia:

Quote:

Hello?... Ah... I can't hear too well. Do you suppose you could turn the music down just a little?... Oh-ho, that's much better... yeah... huh... yes... Fine, I can hear you now, Dmitri... Clear and plain and coming through fine... I'm coming through fine, too, eh?... Good, then... well, then, as you say, we're both coming through fine... Good... Well, it's good that you're fine and... and I'm fine... I agree with you, it's great to be fine... a-ha-ha-ha-ha... Now then, Dmitri, you know how we've always talked about the possibility of something going wrong with the Bomb... The *Bomb*, Dmitri... The *hydrogen* bomb!... Well now, what happened is... ah... one of our base commanders, he had a sort of... well, he went a little funny in the head... you know... just a little... funny. And, ah... he went and did a silly thing... Well, I'll tell you what he did. He ordered his planes... to attack your country... Ah... Well, let me finish, Dmitri... Let me finish, Dmitri... Well listen, how do you think I feel about it?... Can you *imagine* how I feel about it, Dmitri?... Why do you think I'm calling you? Just to say hello?... *Of course* I like to speak to you!... *Of course* I like to say hello!... Not now, but anytime, Dmitri. I'm just calling up to tell you something terrible has happened... It's a *friendly* call. Of course it's a friendly call... Listen, if it wasn't friendly... you probably wouldn't have even got it... They will *not* reach their targets for at least another hour... I am... I am positive, Dmitri... Listen, I've been all over this with your ambassador. It is not a trick... Well, I'll tell you. We'd like to give your air staff a complete run-down on the targets, the flight plans, and the defensive systems of the planes... Yes! I mean i-i-i-if we're unable to recall the planes, then... I'd say that, ah... well, ah... we're just gonna have to help you destroy them, Dmitri... I know they're our boys... All right, well listen now. Who should we call?... *Who* should we call, Dmitri? The... wha-whe, the People... you, sorry, you faded away there... The People's Central Air Defense Headquarters... Where is that, Dmitri?... In Omsk... Right... Yes... Oh, you'll call them first, will you?... Uh-huh... Listen, do you happen to have the phone number on you, Dmitri?... Whe-ah, what? I see, just ask for Omsk information... Ah-ah-eh-uhm-hm... I'm sorry, too, Dmitri... I'm very sorry... *All right*, you're sorrier than I am, but I am as sorry as well... I am as sorry as you are, Dmitri! Don't say that you're more sorry than I am, because I'm capable of being just as sorry as you are... So we're both sorry, all right?... All right.

Russian Ambassador:

Quote:

There were those of us who fought against it, but in the end we could not keep up with the expense involved in the arms race, the space race, and the peace race. At the same time our people grumbled for more nylons and washing machines. Our doomsday scheme cost us just a small fraction of what we had been spending on defense in a single year. The deciding factor was when we learned that your country was working along similar lines, and we were afraid of a doomsday gap.

Wayne

waynejkruse10 · 10-15-2005, 07:41 AM

sorry, wrong forum. It was supposed to be in Off Topic. My Tech-Forums bookmark now goes to create a new thread in computer hardware rather than the main page. And i must have got confused with what forums i was in.

gaara · 10-15-2005, 10:28 AM

lol I was wondering what Dr. Strangelove had to do with hardware...no harm done

But I agree it's a brilliant movie

c0rr0sive · 10-15-2005, 11:22 AM

I don't get it.....

gaara · 10-15-2005, 11:41 AM

Dr. Strangelove is a comedy that pokes fun at how close the world was to complete destruction during the cold war...basically America gets the threat of a nuclear attack from the Soviets and dispatch their own attack

Later the president tries to recall the attack however one plane has gone into radio silence and the commanding general seems to believe the Soviets are brainwashing Americans with toothpaste I think it was so he has no intention of stopping the plane

Wayne posted some dialouge of a phone call between the US and Russian leaders in which they are all panicking over the plane about to attack Russia

Qiranworms · 10-15-2005, 01:51 PM

That movie was pure genius.

Quote:

(General Ripper)
"Have you ever heard of a thing called fluoridation? -- fluoridation of water? . . . Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous Communist plot we have ever had to face? . . . Do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water -- why, there are studies under way to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk, ice cream? Ice cream, Mandrake! -- children's ice cream!

"Do you know when fluoridation first began? . . . Nineteen hundred and forty-six. 1946, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your post-war 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 -- certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core Commie works."

GameGURU · 10-15-2005, 02:55 PM

Oh man, I love that movie.

Best part is the end, when he rides the bomb down.

waynejkruse10 · 10-15-2005, 05:52 PM

yeah.

And Dr Strangelove with his "alien hand syndrome" that keeps doing Nazi salutes. And one time he goes: "mein Fuhrer, umm, i mean Mr President".

And how Mandrake finds out the codes to stop the planes but he cant call the president because he doesnt have change to use the payphone and the president wont accept the collect call.