Miller: "That’s why I like Bush. He doesn’t overthink it. He wakes up every morning, jumps out of bed, lands on his two feet, scratches his balls, and says, “Let’s kill some fu#%ing terrorists!!”
This stuff is getting more surreal on both sides. I can imagine John Kerry, Slim Pickens-style, riding one of those nuclear bunker-buster bombs down from the heavens, screaming “YEE-HAAAAW” at the top of his lungs and wildly waving a straw boater hat.
Kahuna - that came from one of my favorite movies. I liked it when the cryptologist got the orders and handed them to slim. He opened his safe and indicated that ‘this is serious boys’ at the same time he removed his flight headgear and donned his cowboy hat.
Another part of the movie I like the constant multi turbo prop engine drone from the cockpit of a BUFF. Only in the movies.
I knew that you’d get that scene. That movie is one of the all-time classics, in my book. That whole engine-drone thing was way ahead of its time, too. James Earl Jones had the part as the bombardier/navigator in the B-52.
Who would have thought that he’d go on to such great things, especially as the voice of Darth Vader in the original three Star Wars movies ;-))
This week there was an article in the NY Times about the release of Dr. Strangelove on DVD and the social context at the time of the movie. www.nytimes.com
Wasn’t the complete title of the movie something like “Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love the Bomb”?
It was sneakily anti-war, anti-nuke and anti-authoritarian. George C. Scott, as Air Force General Buck Turgidson, was a hoot.
Who was the actor that played that psycho Air Force General at that British military base, the guy who was so concerned about the “purity of essence”? Remember, he and Peter Sellers’ character had barricaded themselves into that office, and the general wouldn’t hand over the codes to recall the bombers? Sterling Siliphant, I think it was.
