Nicole Carroll's response to Dr. Strangelove
As a comedy film lover I thought that Stanley Kubrick’s, Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and The Love Bomb, was a genius idea. I found this film to be as loved as Knocked Up, because it is quite hysterical in its own way. As known back then, many people thought that world was coming to an end during the time of the Cold War. This is what created such a vigorous plot of for Kubrick to work from. I find that only back in the time of the Cold War could this movie have been made. If a director such as Kubrick tried to recreate it in present day he would have missed the sarcasm that lies within the Cold War era. It would have lost its black and white filming to color and many over used technological effects. Yes, this movie may not appeal to our generation today, but this is why it is used as a historical part of our pop culture era. It’s important for us to see these kind of films, so we know every once an awhile that our movies today aren’t anywhere near the affect that past films have left.
One scene that got a laugh out of me was the part where the Texan (Slim Pickens) and the Colonel (Kenan Wynn) behaved outrageously funny when the Alert Force ordered to drop the bomb. Kubrick was a genius to cast these two actors in these roles. He also masterminds the ability of using human to see themselves with many flawed characteristics as the society emerges with technological advances. This is shown throughout the movies as the technological advances of the missiles cannot be stopped, because they are stupified as to how they turn them around. This can be related to our technological advances today as well. We are found that as we gain more knowledge on technology, we also get ignorant as to what can happen. For example, internet bullying, fake profiling, murders through websites that are "selling" products, stalking, and much more.