One of my new favorite quotes from Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. I had my first experience with this movie on Tuesday in my film class and was surprised but pleased to say the least. This movie certainly accomplishes the goal of making you laugh at things you would not necessarily expect to laugh at, which are atomic bombs.
Stanley Kubrick, the director, was quite the character. Prior to watching the movie, we watched a documentary about the process of making the film and about Kubrick in general.
Not going to lie, Kubrick seemed like a pretty awesome guy. Even described as a "hipster." Now I know this makes some people cringe(for reasons which are unknown to me) but I was truly interested by this and immediately started looking up the history of the hipster movement, which started around the 1940's, right around when Kubrick was getting into his teen years.
Basically, Kubrick was among the original hipsters.
And you can't out hipster that.
The eccentric way in which he approached film all seemed to come from this world around him. From the way that boundaries were being pushed by others was brought into the film world with Kubrick's work and it had a great impact on society.
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