1: Why is the "combination Russian-phrasebook and Bible" that they have in their emergency-kits in the plane supposed to be funny? That joke went over my head.
2: Why does Dr. Strangelove keep referring to the President as "Mein Fuhrer?" I know that Strangelove is a Nazi (or was one?), but what is the intended joke/commentary here? The President is merely trying to avert nuclear war, and it was crazy general who started the whole mess (not the President), so why is the President seemingly being compared to Hitler here?
3: What is the whole deal with Dr. Strangelove's gloved hand that does not obey him and that he constantly struggles with? It's funny, and brilliantly acted by Sellers, but I don't get the deeper point/commentary/meaning.
4: What's up with the whole "Mein Fuhrer, I can walk," thing, which seems random/cryptic? It's funny, but cryptic. I know that the original ending included a pie-fight, which was cancelled after Kennedy was shot and it was thought to be too insensitive to the office of the POTUS (Muffley was supposed to get a pie in the face and so on), but that doesn't explain what this "I can walk" part means. Is it a metaphor for the reanimation of fascism, because there will be a eugenics-program carried out in the mines? The program definitely has a "eugenics" flavor to it, but it's not a Nazi program...Nazis will not conduct it...it's still an American program, so that doesn't fully fit a Nazi-agenda...
5: Beyond the somewhat-obvious character-names like "Turgidson" and "Muffley" and so on, what are the sexual things referred to below that a viewer might not catch?
It wasn’t until around two months after the release of Dr. Strangelove that Kubrick heard anyone mention the movie’s vast array of visual and verbal sexual euphemisms. The first person to contact him about the in-movie prevalence of double entendre was Cornell University art history professor LeGrace G. Benson; Kubrick replied two weeks later with a letter of gratitude.
6: What are the various deeper points/commentaries/meanings within the whole "mineshaft"-plan discussion (about living/breeding underground and so on) at the end that a casual viewer might miss? Clearly it satirizes how ENDLESS Cold-War paranoia is--now they have to worry about the "mineshaft gap," so the paranoia/conflict seems truly endless.
7: I also wonder about Strangelove's phrase, "I have a plan!" before he realizes that he is standing; what was his plan? What is the significance of that phrase?
8: In general, what are all the most important/funny/interesting things that are genuinely non-obvious to a casual viewer of the film?
Submitted February 24, 2019 at 11:25AM by FunUniverse1778 https://ift.tt/2EtGN5j