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Adam Gifford 11-2
Dennis Fillebrown 11-2
Eric Augenbraun 11-1
"Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb"
"Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" is comedy that portrays the situation during the Cold War in comical fashion. The movie is about the United State's attempt to recall the planes ordered by the paranoid General Ripper to attack the Soviet Union and essentially save the planet from destruction. Producer and director Stanley Kubrick, basing the movie on the novel Red Alert intended the movie to be a straightforward drama but was unable to without using crucial scenes of the story that seemed to give the movie a more comical view of the plot.
The first scene of the movie is the mid-air refueling of a fighter plan, where the refueling is depicted as a sort of sexual intercourse. The movie then shifts over to Burpleson Air Force base where General Jack D. Ripper, played by Sterling Hayden, gives his planes flying......

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