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BEHIND THE SCENES * CUT SCENES SUBJECT: NOTES:.
"After all, what could be more absurd than the very idea of two mega
powers willing
to wipe out all human life because of an accident, spiced up by political differences that
will seem as meaningless to people a hundred years from now as the theological conflicts
of the Middle Ages appear to us today." Because Peter Sellers was involved in a divorce and was not allowed to leave the country, the film was shot in England, at Shepperton Studios outside of London. Sellers played three roles in this film. He was originally set to play a fourth role, Major Kong, but couldn't due to an injury. Had he done so, a Sellers character would have been present in each of the three key locations in the film: the Pentagon War Room, the air base, and the bomber. This was a more sophisticated version of the multiple role play device which was used by Kubrick in his first feature Fear and Desire. Since there was no military cooperation in the making of the film, the design of the interior of the bomber was based on a single photo of a real bomber published in a British aviation magazine. Most of the exteriors of the plane were shot using a 10 foot long model. The finished film is a bit different than the shooting script. Most notably, the script begins and ends with narration from an alien civilization which has been studying Earth during its nuclear development. The most famous deletion was of a War Room pie fight scene which ended the film. Of the cut, Kubrick said: "...it was too farcical and not consistent with the satiric tone of the rest of the film." -- 3 TRIVIA: The novel Red Alert by Peter George on which Dr. Strangelove is based was first published in Britain as Two Hours to Doom by Peter Bryant. Production Designer Ken Adam says that when Ronald Reagan asked to see the real War Room in the Pentagon, he was surprised to find it didn't look like the Strangelove movie set. --10 After describing the contents of the survival kit Slim Pickins says, "A fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff." He originally said Dallas, but after President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, the city of Vegas was dubbed in. --2 Survival kit contents from Dr. Strangelove:
Meanings of the weird names in Dr. Strangelove:
Running time: 94 minutes --2--Stanley Kubrick Directs by Alexander Walker, expanded edition, 1972, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich --3--Stanley Kubrick: A Film Odyssey by Gene D. Phillips, 1977, Popular Library --6--The Cinema of Stanley Kubrick by Norman Kagan, expanded edition, 1991, Continuum --10--American Film, February 1991, Dialogue On Film with Ken Adam.
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