Posted on 04/16/2012 7:59:16 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
A list of unused titles for Dr. Strangelove, lifted from Stanley Kubrick’s notebooks
From the notebooks of Stanley Kubrick comes this most excellent list of movie titles that never saw the light of day, but were evidently considered for the film that Kubrick would eventually name Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
There are plenty of mentions of Dr. Strangelove, bombs, and even implications that one should love and cherish said "wonderful bomb," but you won't find the final title in this list. Still, it gives one pause to think how this movie would have been received had Kubrick settled on the decidedly tantalizing title of Dr. Strangelove's Secret Uses of Uranus.
Doctor Doomsday
Don't Knock the Bomb
Dr. Doomsday and his Nuclear Wiseman
Dr. Doomsday Meets Ingrid Strangelove
Dr. Doomsday or: How to Start World War III Without Even Trying
Dr. Strangelove's Bomb
Dr. Strangelove's Secret Uses of Uranus
My Bomb, Your Bomb
Save The Bomb
Strangelove: Nuclear Wiseman
The Bomb and Dr. Strangelove or: How to be Afraid 24hrs a Day
The Bomb of Bombs
The Doomsday Machine
The Passion of Dr. Strangelove
Wonderful Bomb
Slim Pickens rules!
And for trivia lovers, the character of Dr Strangelove was inspired by Herman Kahn, author of ‘On Thermonuclear War’:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Thermonuclear_War
Dr. StrangeObama: or “How he helped the Iranians get the bomb to wipe Israel off the map”
Peter Sellers was supposed to also play Maj. Kong, but he fell out of the B-52 mockup, and broke a leg on the first day of filming as Maj. Kong. Kubrick, faced with financial catastrophe, if he had to wait weeks for Seller's leg to heal, before he resumed shooting, looked for someone who could walk onto the set and speak in the Texas accent that Sellers had struggled for months to master. Pickens, a Californian who had spent years on the rodeo circuit, got the job, and went immediately to work.
#1 on my personal list of 100 greatest movies of all time.
#1 on my personal list of 100 greatest movies of all time.
That is my favorite.
“Well boys, I reckon this is it.
Nuclear combat toe to toe with the Rooskies.”
“Pickens, a Californian who had spent years on the rodeo circuit, got the job, and went immediately to work.”
Yep, Pickens was a Bakersfield cowboy if memory serves. Quite a few Bakersfield cowboys were in the movie business as well as the music business.
Goldie:
Major Kong, I know you’re gonna think this a crazy but I just got a message from base over the CRM 114. It decodes as Wing Attack plan R. R for Romeo.
Kong:
Goldie, did you say Wing Attack, plan R?
Goldie
Yes Sir, I have.
Kong:
Goldie, how many times have I told you guys that I don’t want no horsin’ around on the airplane?
Slim Pickens rules!
It would have not been anywhere near as good a movie without him. I’m glad Sellers broke his leg.
“Now see here, Colonel Bat Guano, if that really is your name!”
There are just so many great lines, from beginning to end. Every time I watch it, it still amazes me how well it was done. Great job by Sellers and Scott.
The black and white (message) adds to the dark contrast (reality) of the movie.
My husband and I fight over what role Sellers most excels in. I love Dr. Strangelove but he loves The President. (”I feel bad too, Dmitri!”)
Did you know that that line was changed?
The movie was released in late January of '64, just months after the Kennedy assassination.
The next time you watch it, watch Pickins lips very closely. They dubbed it.
The original line was, “Shoot, a fella could have a pretty good weekend in Dallas with all this stuff!”
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