Peter Sellers as Dr. Strangelove number one color added 2016
by David Lee Guss
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Peter Sellers as Dr. Strangelove number one color added 2016
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David Lee Guss
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Photograph - Photography
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"The character (Dr. Strangelove) is an amalgamation of RAND Corporation strategist Herman Kahn, mathematician and Manhattan Project principal John von Neumann, rocket scientist Wernher von Braun (a central figure in Nazi Germany's rocket development program recruited to the US after the war), and Edward Teller, the 'father of the hydrogen bomb.'
There is a common misconception that the character was based on Henry Kissinger, but Kubrick and Sellers denied this; Sellers said, 'Strangelove was never modeled after Kissinger - that's a popular misconception. It was always Wernher Von Braun.'"
"Strangelove's appearance echoes the mad scientist archetype as seen in the character Rotwang in Fritz Lang's film Metropolis (1927). Sellers's Strangelove takes from Rotwang the single black gloved hand (which, in Rotwang's case is mechanical, because of a lab accident), the wild hair and, most importantly, his ability to avoid being controlled by political power.
According to film critic Alexander Walker, Sellers improvised Dr. Strangelove's lapse into the Nazi salute, borrowing one of Kubrick's black leather gloves for the uncontrollable hand that makes the gesture. Dr. Strangelove apparently suffers from diagnostic apraxia (alien hand syndrome). Kubrick wore the gloves on the set to avoid being burned when handling hot lights, and Sellers, recognizing the potential connection to Lang's work, found them to be menacing."
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