The War Room

Dr. Strangelove or how i learned to stop worrying and love the bomb.

This movie holds a strange place in my heart it is one weird movie ( it is directed by Stanley Kubrick). I first saw Dr. Strangelove in 7th grade and liked it but at the age of 13 missed out on some of the more adult imagery and many of Kubrick's stabs at the world. but it is not the strange character names and great quotable lines like the one at the end of this video that draw me to this movie. It is the amazing things that happened behind the scenes.

         There is a story about the set for the cockpit of the bomber where most of the film takes place. The story goes that the pentagon didn't allow any members of the set design team to look at the interior of the bomber that was being recreated for the film all that they had was one photo. after touring the set and looking at the replica that had been created pentagon officials commented that every detail on the prop bomber was nearly perfect down to the classified radio code transmitter. This brought about the fear that some of the folks working to build the set had not stuck to the rules and Kubrick began to fear an FBI investigation. no investigation was ever formalized and the movie went on to finish production.

It is the small things like this in films and the strange quirks that come from talking to film makers that makes film and television so interesting to me. I live for directors tracks on films and even more so the other personnel. hearing the stories about how a shot was done or something that went wrong shrinks the sometimes huge silver screen down to a much more manageable size.