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   Tuckers Nuts Resist! 🇺🇦  (jstatepost@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 23-May-2025 09:23:49 JST Tuckers Nuts Resist! 🇺🇦 

   @jalefkowit
   Dr Strangelove should be at the top of the list of black and white movies that stand the test of time.
   Battle of Algiers and To Kill a Mockingbird are two others Eye could mention, Jason.
   Eye grew up on B&W, so Eye find it hard to relate to people who reject out of hand films in this medium.
   Yes, depending on the film, the acting is different. But IMHO it still beats giant digital toys and stuff getting blowed up real good.

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     Joe Ortiz (joeo10@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Friday, 23-May-2025 09:23:46 JST Joe Ortiz

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     • Lucky Zelle ✨

     @lucky @jstatepost Also do watch Fail Safe which is a great companion double feature. Released at the same year, weeks apart even.

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     Lucky Zelle ✨ (lucky@mastodon.nz)'s status on Friday, 23-May-2025 09:23:47 JST Lucky Zelle ✨

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     @jstatepost I went to see if anyone had suggested Dr Strangelove already. So good.

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     Joe Ortiz (joeo10@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Saturday, 24-May-2025 07:44:53 JST Joe Ortiz

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     • Lucky Zelle ✨

     @CardboardRobot @lucky @jstatepost

     There's more to the story:

     "Fail Safe and Dr. Strangelove were both produced in the period after the Cuban Missile Crisis, when people became more sensitive to the threat of nuclear war. Fail Safe so closely resembled Peter George's novel Red Alert, on which Dr. Strangelove was based, that Dr. Strangelove screenwriter/director Stanley Kubrick and George filed a copyright infringement lawsuit."

     https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail_Safe_(1964_film)

     https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Strangelove

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     Cardboard Robot (cardboardrobot@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-May-2025 07:44:55 JST Cardboard Robot

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     • Lucky Zelle ✨

     @joeo10 @lucky @jstatepost Always amazed by this… coincidence? It’s as if Airplane! And Zero Hour were released within weeks.

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     Joe Ortiz (joeo10@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Saturday, 24-May-2025 07:45:24 JST Joe Ortiz

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     • Lucky Zelle ✨

     @CardboardRobot @lucky @jstatepost

     "The case was settled out of court. The result of the settlement was that Columbia Pictures, which had financed and was distributing Dr. Strangelove, also bought Fail Safe, which had been an independently financed production. Kubrick insisted that the studio release his movie first."

     https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Strangelove

     https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail_Safe_(1964_film)