Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb • Rebroadcast • The Next Reel

The Next Reel Film Podcast · Nov 12, 2023 · 1h 13m

"Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the war room!"

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Stanley Kubrick didn’t do comedy often which is a shame because “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb” is arguably one of the funniest films ever made. What’s interesting is that Kubrick intended on making a serious film about one of his greatest fears at the time: the threat of nuclear war. But after several attempts at finding the right way to tell the story seriously (including one involving aliens watching us from above, discussing our penchant for destruction), he hit on the idea of…