by: Regina Simmons

Dr.Stranglove or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb! (1964)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057012/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

“An insane general starts a process to nuclear holocaust that a war room of politicians and generals frantically try to stop.” (imdb)

The analyzation of the Dr. Stranglove ‘s  elements was how the director use the soundscape. The film had a lot of sound bits of bombs blowing up, the rocket blasting off, and AKA47 automatic shooting bullets. Plus, old veteran marching songs like “When Johnny Comes Marching Home” played in the background of the scene where the two airmen are preparing for war. Also at the end of the film, a song called “We'll Meet Again” played while some old film projector clips of a collection of bombs blowing up ran across the screen.

The Director Stanley Kubrick loosely based Dr Strangelove’s plot on the novel “Red Alert”. I think the director’s theme of the film questions if mankind’s paranoia going to be the death of the human race? Kubrick’s film took the audience back in time to an era, where panicky and paranoia ran the government and Americans had to make dangerous decisions over the nuclear bomb. Kubrick satire in the film pokes fun at the type of propaganda and subliminal messages that was put into films for advertisement and marketing for the war in the 1960. I think the film was supposed to be funny and weird but it makes you think about our future towards Doomsday.