dr. strangegloves
Feb. 13th, 2004 10:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theladyroseDr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is one of the most brilliant and hilarious films I've ever seen. I thought the title made it a very appropriate choice of movie to watch the day before Valentine's Day, and on Friday the 13th nevertheless. I've never had any fear of Friday the 13th, as it's just another silly day on the calendar. Who really cares? But anyway, I've always been a Peter Sellers fan ever since I saw that Pink Panther movie, the one whose title I never remember, the one about Chief Inspector Dreyfuss going insane and attempting to take over the world in order to get the major foreing powers to kill Clouseau. But this really is a really wonderful satire. It's one of those movies that I dub to be in my favorites list after seeing it just once. I love the whole phone booth and Coca Cola scene.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Colonel... that Coca-Cola machine. I want you to shoot the lock off it. There may be some change in there.
Colonel "Bat" Guano: That's private property.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Colonel! Can you possibly imagine what is going to happen to you, your frame, outlook, way of life, and everything, when they learn that you have obstructed a telephone call to the President of the United States? Can you imagine? Shoot it off! Shoot! With a gun! That's what the bullets are for, you twit!
Colonel "Bat" Guano: Okay. I'm gonna get your money for ya. But if you don't get the President of the United States on that phone, you know what's gonna happen to you?
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: What?
Colonel "Bat" Guano: You're gonna have to answer to the Coca-Cola company.
(courtesy of the IMDB)
Classic. And Laurie Johnson's rendition of "the ants go marching" with the B-52 bomber sequences is really quite ingenious. If it wasn't for that one piece being played so insistently I wouldn't realize that the score was done by the same person who scored the Avengers series.
Happy Valentine's Day in approximately an hour.
On a completely random note, I find it amazingly annoying how people generally assume that everyone is a capitalist and/or Christian. People generally treat atheists worse than they do socialists/communists. Often, but not always, atheists often are people who aren't capitalists, or who are more for a mixed state economy. It's even more annoying when people mix up socialism and communism. They're different. With communism there is no such thing as private property; at socialism there's still some balance between private/state corporations and things.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Colonel... that Coca-Cola machine. I want you to shoot the lock off it. There may be some change in there.
Colonel "Bat" Guano: That's private property.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Colonel! Can you possibly imagine what is going to happen to you, your frame, outlook, way of life, and everything, when they learn that you have obstructed a telephone call to the President of the United States? Can you imagine? Shoot it off! Shoot! With a gun! That's what the bullets are for, you twit!
Colonel "Bat" Guano: Okay. I'm gonna get your money for ya. But if you don't get the President of the United States on that phone, you know what's gonna happen to you?
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: What?
Colonel "Bat" Guano: You're gonna have to answer to the Coca-Cola company.
(courtesy of the IMDB)
Classic. And Laurie Johnson's rendition of "the ants go marching" with the B-52 bomber sequences is really quite ingenious. If it wasn't for that one piece being played so insistently I wouldn't realize that the score was done by the same person who scored the Avengers series.
Happy Valentine's Day in approximately an hour.
On a completely random note, I find it amazingly annoying how people generally assume that everyone is a capitalist and/or Christian. People generally treat atheists worse than they do socialists/communists. Often, but not always, atheists often are people who aren't capitalists, or who are more for a mixed state economy. It's even more annoying when people mix up socialism and communism. They're different. With communism there is no such thing as private property; at socialism there's still some balance between private/state corporations and things.
