11 Fun Facts About the Movie Dr. Strangelove

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May 9, 2017 10:00 AM EDT
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    Text - MAJ. KONG'S PLANE'S PRIMARY TARGET IS ANICBM COMPLEX AT LAPUTA. IN JONATHAN SWIFTS1726 NOVEL 'GULLIVER'S TRAVELS', LAPUTAIS A PLACE INHABITED BY CARICATURES OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHERS. IT'S ALSO A PLAY ON WORDS:"LA PUTA"-SPANISHSLANG FOR "PROSTITUTE."
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  • 02
    Eyewear - DR.STRANGELOVE APPARENTLY SUFFERS FRÓM AGONISTIC APRAXIA, ALSO KNOWN AS "ALIEN HAND SYNDROME IT'S CAUSED BY DAMAGE TO THE CORPUS CALLOSUM, THE NERVE FIBERS THAT CONNECT THE BRAIN'S TWO HEMISPHERES. RESEARGHERS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN WHO IDENTIFIED IT NAMED IT DR. STRANGELOVE SYNDROME.
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    Text - 84 8OMB WING STRATEGIC AR COMMAN Рeace IS QUR AIR FOR PROFESSION DURING THE ATTAGK ON BURPLESON AIR FORGE BASE, A SIGN READING "PEAGEISOURPROFESSIONISSEEN. THATS NOTASATIRICALSIGNMADEUPBY THE FILMMAKERS IT'S ACTUALLY THE MOTTO OF THE STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND.
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    Photograph - PETER SELLERS WAS THE FIRST ACTOR TO BE NOMINATED FORA SINGLE ACADEMY AWARD (BEST ACTOR) FOR A.FILM.JN.WHICH HE PORTRAYED THREE. DIFFERENT CHARACTERS IN THE SAME FILM.
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  • 05
    Text - THE FILM LED TO ACTUAL CHANGES IN POLICY TO ENSURE THAT THE EVENTS DEPICTED COULD NEVER REALLY OCCUR IN REAL LIFE.
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  • 06
    Drum - NUCLEAR WARHEAD HANDLE WITH CARE LEAR WARHEA0 LE WITH CARE DEAR JOHN THERE! WAT WHEN SLIM PICKENS WAS GAST ASMAJ. KONG, HE HAD NEVER TRAVELED OUTSIDETHE US IN His LIFE. PRODUCTION WAS DELAYED FOR OVER AMONTH WHILE HEAPPLIED AND GOT A PASSPORT TO TRAVEL TO ENGLAND TO FILM HIS SCENES. WHICH WERE THE VERY LAST ONES TO BESHOT
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    Helmet - THE BOMBER SCENES, SHOT IN AN AREA NOT MUCH BIGGER THAN A CLOSET, WERE VERY TIGHTLY FRAMED TO EMPHASIZE THE CLAUSTROPHOBIC CRAMPED SPACE AND FILMED WITH AVAILABLE LIGHTING ONLY.
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    Photo caption - GEORGE C. SCOTT WAS REPUTEDLY ANNOYED THAT STANLEY KUBRICK WAS PUSHING HIM TO OVERACT FOR HIS ROLE. WHILE HE VOWED NEVER TO WORK WITH KUBRICK AGAIN, SCOTT EVENTUALLY SAW THIS AS ONE OF HIS FAVORITE PERFORMANCES.
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  • 09
    Text - FOR THE ROLE OF GEN. JACK D. RIPPER, STANLEY KUBRICK WAS ABLE TO TALK STERLING HAYDEN INTO COMING OUT OF RETIREMENT TO MAKE HIS FIRST FILM IN FIVE YEARS. KUBRICK HAD PREVIOUSLY USED HAYDEN IN THE KILLING (1956).
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    Photograph - THE CHARACTER OF GEN. BUCK TURGIDSON (GEORGE C. SCOTT) WAS PATTERNED AFTER THE CHIEF OF STAFFOF THE AIR FORCE, GEN. CURTIS LEMAY, WHO WAS RENOWNED FOR HIS EXTREME ANTI-COMMUNIST VIEWS AND WHO ONCE STATED THAT HE WOULD NOT BE AFRAID TO START A NUCLEAR WAR WITH THE SOVIET UNION IF HE WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT.
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  • 11
    Aircraft - Ne U.S.AIR FORCE WHILE SHOOTING AERIAL FOOTAGE OVER GREENLAND, THE SECOND UNIT CAMERA CREW ACCIDENTALLY FILMED A SECRET US MILITARY BASE. THEIR PLANE WAS FORCED DOWN, AND THE CREW WAS SUSPECTED OF BEING SOVIET SPIES
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