{"id":1482,"date":"2020-03-02T18:32:06","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T18:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/?p=1482"},"modified":"2025-05-29T18:10:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T18:10:50","slug":"dr-strangelove-1964","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/?p=1482","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Strangelove<\/em> (1964)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dr. Strangelove<\/em> (1964)<\/h1>\n

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Peter Sellers as ex-Nazi scientist Dr. Strangelove<\/em><\/p>\n

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This dark cold war\u00a0comedy presents Peter Sellers playing multiple characters.\u00a0In this scene, his flat American accent and bald spot makeup portray the US President (some say Sellers modeled himself to look and sound like Adlai Stevenson<\/a>\u00a0— the man who ran unsuccessfully against Eisenhower twice). The President is in the\u00a0“situation room”\u00a0trying to calm down his Russian counterpart as a result of a little mishap that occurred in our country’s nuclear arsenal. George C. Scott appears on the other side of the table as one of the Joint Chiefs.<\/p>\n

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And lest this seem\u00a0like a pure fantasy we need to be reminded of the 1983 incident of a real (and nearly disastrous) snafu on the Russian side. Stanislav Petrov, a 44-year-old lieutenant colonel in the Soviet Air Defense Forces,<\/a><\/strong> by virtue of trusting his gut<\/strong> rather than the technology at his disposal (which later was shown to have been faulty), arguably prevented the outbreak of nuclear war<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Footnote: <\/strong>This article<\/a>\u00a0details some of the little-known facts regarding last-minute changes made to Strangelove as of result of it being intended for release around the time of the assassination of President Kennedy.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Strangelove<\/em> proceeds from the premise that a film about an accidental nuclear war can, in fact, be funny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.oganovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Peter-Sellers-as-title-character-in-Dr-Strangelove.jpg?fit=1445%2C901&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1482"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3146,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482\/revisions\/3146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}