Dr.Strangelove

I found it very hard to believe that the movie was originally made to be a serious movie about the Cold War because of the large amount of ridiculous things that go on in it. There are only so many serious scenes throughout the whole movie and even in the serious ones such as the speech the pilot gave to the rest of his crew ( might I mention he was wearing a cowboy hat as well), the speech was a joke and I don't think it was meant to be scene as an actually moving thing. I think that the beggining of the movie was very approriate with the bomb representing a big penis. After all, all the Civil War was was a battle over who will give up first, and the reason each side found it so hard to give up was because of the great amount of pride and "strongso" they were trying to show. This is the problem with most males and I found it very interesting how the director chose to show this in the opening scene. And that wasn't the only time the penis was mentioned. It was also referenced when the pilot fell off along with the atomic bomb. I think this was representative of an erection and once again was meant to ridicule the "masculinity" that America possesed. I didn't really like the character of Dr.Strangelove because I felt like he had 1) very corny jokes, 2) I thought the arm thing was pretty stupid, and 3) I didn't excactly understand the purpose of him in the overall movie. I'm sure he represented some real life guy that was sent over from Germany to help the Americans, but I thought the movie could have easily done without him, and he certaintly shouldn't have been the name of the movie.