Please note that the movie depicts Kong as a highly competent officer. Everything by the book except for taking off his helmet. He hel;d his crew together after the SAM strike. He chose a third target from an approved list after they were unable to make their main targets. He gave his life repairing the bomb release systems and knew his crew would kill him once they were over target. That's a good commander.
I was a B-52 pilot in the early 1970's. There were many "good ole southern boys" in the service then. As I was told by one of them: "There is no place else for a young man, in the South, to go for a career. There's no heavy industry or high tech. There's only one place..the military". YES many of them had all the homey expressions Slim Pickets expressed in this movie...but everyone of them I knew were just as sharp and just as professional as Major Kong's display in this movie.
@@badguy1481 The South was the poorest part of the country from the end of the Civil War through the 1970s. Many Southerners, both Whites and Blacks saw military service as the only way to improve their lives and those of their families.
Didn't know that! wow! And you probably also know he STARTED OUT as a rodeo rider and rodeo clown and became quite famous for that. Served him well when he rode that bomb down, didn't it? Also, because his father forbid him to become a rodeo rider, he asked the lady at the first fair ground he went to to apply for that job: "What's the possibility of getting into the business and making money? She answered: "Very SLIM PICKINS". Hence the name.
Legend has it that Stanley Kubrick didn't tell Slim Pickens that Dr. Strangelove was a comedy until they filmed the bomb scene in order to get him to deliver his lines like this.
If that's true, that's just good directing. It was important to the movie's greater message that these scenes were all played straight. That's the whole comedy of the movie: the lower ranking soldiers were all exceptionally professional and capable, doing their duty. Then we cut back to the high command and their loony antics.
James Earl Jones said about Pickens “Pickens was not told that the movie was a black comedy, and he was only given the script for scenes he was in, to get him to play it "straight".”
I don't know about that, every person I've ever talked to about this film always brings up Slim and his role. Especially riding the bomb... but also people love this speech.
I don't think Slim Pickens was the first or even the second choice to play Major Kong but he was perfect. After you get over the shock of seeing him not playing a cowboy then comes the cowboy hat and the scene is complete. Just brilliant. Dr. Strangelove was absolutely brimming with crazy ideas that all somehow worked beautifully together.
He was actually injured. The mockup flight deck was 10 above the ground and he fell getting in or out, not sure. That is when he said enough is enough.
Kubrick led Pickens to believe that the film was supposed to be a serious war drama, prompting him to carry himself as he might in any of his Western pictures. Furthermore, according to James Earl Jones (who made his film debut in Dr. Strangelove) and Kubrick biographer John Baxter, Pickens behaved, and dressed, identically onscreen and off…not because he was “staying in character,” but because he apparently always acted like that. mentalfloss.com/article/63436/15-things-you-might-not-know-about-dr-strangelove
It was also supposed to be a jab at American arrogance. That with a few bomber wings they can save the nation as well as being inspirational to the crew.
Of course, in this movie scenario, the crew had no idea about the "Dooms day Machine". They were doing what they were trained and ordered to do...BOMB RUSSIA. And as a former B-52 pilot, I don't think any REAL B-52 crewmembers thought they would survive the mission...so receiving medals for it would have been the LAST thing on their minds.
Legend also has it that when Pickens appeared on the set in cowboy boots and with a cowboy hat they said "Hey, great, youre already in role!" And he said "Im what?!"
Nearly every Stanley Kubrick movie is a crowning achievement. Dr. Strangelove has an amazing element of timelessness that keeps it relevant today. Dr. Strangelove changed the world for the better if moved us significantly away from Nuclear Way. Apparently in 2022 we have forgotten the insanity--but we were warned of meeting again and it is time for everybody to watch this one again.
those shots with the plane. it flies in sick angles i tell you whut. major kong must'of just trimmed those flappers outta like hell just for you folks!
He did that with many actors in many films. Asked them to not act or to over act. And usually the actors didnt have a clue that he was foolin them and they were often amazed that Kubrick put that take in the movie which they were lulled to over act or something. Some were enraged by this method. George C. Scott didnt like that Kubrick made him do two portrayals of each scene, which were totally different he said. Other was the one that he thought would be on a movie, which Kubrick let him to believe, and other was the one which Kubrick always said to overact and make it too crazy. He said that he worked 95% of the time acting the way he thought was the one would be on a film, and made the actual scenes that really appeared on movie with little try and few takes only. Kubrick was most obviously control freak. And i think he thought that big name actors always create themselves image of their role and character. Well he was the director and hes image of the characters was the one he wanted to film, so he in some cases let the actors think that they were allowed to portrait their vision on a film. Thats why many actors said that he made them do dozens and dozens of takes. Cause he knew what the character was suppose to be and wanted to dig it out. He didnt give them a lot of leeway. Only one actor he let improvise and didnt interfere with their acting and it was R. Lee Ermey on Full metal jacket.
Word is that the 'Singin' in the Rain' scene in Clockwork Orange was ad-libbed and it sure came off as inspired script writing on film. Although a different director, the 'I'm walkin' here!' line from Dustin Hoffman in Midnight Cowboy made the director and writer sound brilliant, too. It was perfect coming from that character.
Pickins was a late addition to the cast, and Kubrick only gave him a script with his scenes in it. I don't think he was entirely in the dark about the tone of the film; it would be hard to rehearse that 'a guy could have a pretty good weekend in Dallas [original scripted line; overdubbed with 'Vegas' after the JFK assassination] and not know this movie was a farce.
Oh yes! And in spite of all his quirks Major Kong is depicted as a highly compentent and dedicated commander. He never gives up and never lets his crew give up. The whole ride the bomb thing was an accident. Kong repaired the bomb bay at great risk to himself and the crew dropped the bomb on time even though they didn't know where Kong was.
at age 16 my dad and his family were sharecroppers and picked cotton on contract by the bale. by age 26 he was an electronic engineer on the atlas ICBM with four stripes in the airforce
Jodi Jean Sanders (Monday, 7 December 1964 - October 2014), She and I met on Monday, 17 April 1978 around 10:23 am, and last met on Saturday, 18 February 2012 Around 11:30 am
@grumpypant I wouldn't necessarily bet on that. I have a relavtive that flew in C-141's. He said they had a "Miller Time" neon sign in one of their forward windows. He said they occasionally carried hydrogen bombs. He also said the colonel or general or whatever made them take it out.
It's quite a speech, particularly 1:17 in when he talks about promotions and personal citations irrespective of race, colour and creed. In 1963, civil rights demonstrators were striving to achieve that in the U.S.
Hold on there young feller. Leonard Cohen says the "good guys" lost! Also mushroom Armageddon may be coming back into vogue. The United States with all of their covert and overt aggression, destabilization programs, and regime changing are bound to run into someone who has the resources to put up an argument.
I agree....the U.S. carried out a lot of nefarious acts in pursuit of victory over the Reds. But if you compare our system of relative freedom in the pursuit of the most toys vs. the Soviet system, with 5 years plans, shoddy cars and secret police....I believe we were the better of the two.
sillyone52062 I see this "nefariousness" employed not only against the Reds, but against all competitors or would be competitors around the world, and innocent apolitical people not even in the fight. Is it all feasible that the U.S has become a greater monster than the monsters it has tangled with in light of the NSA revelations, remote controlled assassinations, and the erosion of the Constitutional rights of the very populace of the U.S.?
The Russkies had nerve gas, mustard gas and wanted all of Europe under their heel. We wanted to sell them Coca Cola and pizza. Which was the good side, and which was the bad?
Now look boys I am not much of a head of making speeches but I got a pretty fair idea. That’s gosh darn important is going on back there and I got a fair idea that that a personal emotions some of your fellows may be thinking heck I even reckon and you will be even human beings if you didn’t had any had some strong personal feelings about nuclear combat but I want you to remember one thing those folks back home or counting on you by golly, we ain’t about to let them down tell you something else this thing turns out this thing is half important I figured just might be i’ll say you’re all in line for some important promotions and personal citations, when this things over with and that goes for every last one of your regardless rece color creek now get this thing on the hut we got some flying to do! Greatest speech of all times
And so you see the cinematic view of why the Air Force changed the old failsafe to the newer rapid communication system that informed all bases in the system instantaneously, all so using telephonic system that made it possible for those college professors to bring us the internet.
yeah, me too. i loved his straight forward, bumpkin persona. turns out you were right though, according to the wikipedia article on him (but with wiki be sure to have your bullshit filter turned way up, lol), kubrick only gave him the pages of the script that applied to his character and told him to play it straight. good results
Actually, Pickens DID "play it straight". The The southern/western "homey" expressions he came up with was the kind talk that actually went on in SAC crews. Very little "slapstick" in the scenes inside the bomber.
@emoviebuff87 It also happend that the talented Sellers could not do a Texas accent properly, so he deferred to Slim. Slim was not told anything else about the movie except his lines, so as to have him do them with a serious tone, in contrast to the rest of the movie.
but, imagine if peter sellers hadnt broken his leg which prevented from climbing into the cockpit set and done the role of major kong as originally planned? pickens was brillant, but would love to see how sellers would have done.
A bit strange that Stanley Kubrick ( who as we all know was a stickler for detail), let a flying scene print, when the gauges on the console didn't budge an inch. lol
Around 1960, the songwriter Phil Ochs wrote a song, "Bye Mom, I am off to drop the Bomb" polking fun at Strategic Air Command and it's can- do .attitude. I believe this was at least in part, the inspiration for "Dr. Strangelove".
Tom Lehrer - So long, mom! I'm off to drop the Bomb So don't wait up for me But while you swelter Down there in your shelter You can see me On your TV While we're attacking frontally Watch Brin-k-ley and Hun-t-ley Describing contrapuntally The cities we have lost No need for you to miss a minute Of the agonizing holocaust Yeah! Little Johnny Jones He was a US pilot And no shrinking violet Was he, he was mighty proud When World War III was declared He wasn't scared No siree! And this is what he said on His way to Armageddon: So long, mom! I'm off to drop the Bomb So don't wait up for me But though I may roam I'll come back to my home Although it may be A pile of debris Remember, mommy! I'm off to get a commie So send me a salami And try to smile somehow I'll look for you When the war is over An hour and a half from now!
"...regardless of your race, color and greek!" This is perfect comedy film. Great comedy is often the one that doesnt make person to laugh loud on several scenes, but the one that kinda makes you laugh inside of you for whole running time. Slim Pickens as Maj. Kong is a character that keeps you laughning constantly inside. He nails this brashing cowboy yankee stereotype perfectly. No offence to any Americans here, everybody knows that you can find stereotypes of which ever country you want. Positive and negative types. And this was the type that non-americans saw negative type american in '60s, somewhat a loose cannon and 'rowdy' and cowboyish, overly patriotic, little naive and not war loving quite but ready for battle type of guy. Basicly a good person but one who is narrow minded and very, very limited in knowledge of world outside of America. And btw anybody who says that this is your basic American, i say that the creamy ass, pompous, all-knowing, little feminine type that Americans think of Europeans to be is then true too. Im from Europe but im not european but Scandinavian, and yes there is stereotype of my countrys people too and its closer to that American one. Just something i needed to make clear, in europe if you are idiot without opinion of world, politics etc. Etc. You can always critizize, blame and demonize Americans... Which is kinda silly cause some 70y ago they probly liberated your country.
Well, my country (in Europe) was libereted by Soviet Red Army in WWII and best thing is they didn't stay in my country, so my country was not in Warsaw Pact.
Тhis mоviеeeе is nоw avаilаblе tо wаtсh herе => twitter.com/8a41c53c14101267a/status/795841760396124161 Slim Рiсkеns Dr Strаngelоve Nоо ku lar Cоmbаt Monоlоgueeе
"Noo-ku-lar combat?" Now I know where Fmr. Pres. Georgie (as I call him) got that annoying little verbal tic... XD Awesome video, though. Slim Pickens did a great job as Major Kong, & I agree with Bacopa68 that Major Kong was one of the coolest & most admirable characters in the movie. ^_^
After all these year I finally found out where this clip came from. A band called Passifist used it in a song which I in turn used in video my roomate & I made called Operation Hornet Kill!
Please note that the movie depicts Kong as a highly competent officer. Everything by the book except for taking off his helmet. He hel;d his crew together after the SAM strike. He chose a third target from an approved list after they were unable to make their main targets. He gave his life repairing the bomb release systems and knew his crew would kill him once they were over target. That's a good commander.
Woosh
Disagree, it's the inverse of a whoosh. It's deliberate characterization on the part of the filmmakers. It enhances the irony.
I was a B-52 pilot in the early 1970's. There were many "good ole southern boys" in the service then. As I was told by one of them: "There is no place else for a young man, in the South, to go for a career. There's no heavy industry or high tech. There's only one place..the military". YES many of them had all the homey expressions Slim Pickets expressed in this movie...but everyone of them I knew were just as sharp and just as professional as Major Kong's display in this movie.
That was the point of the B-52 scenes; that these competent well trained can-do kids would be the death of eeverybody in a Nuclear War.
@@badguy1481 The South was the poorest part of the country from the end of the Civil War through the 1970s. Many Southerners, both Whites and Blacks saw military service as the only way to improve their lives and those of their families.
Slim Pickens actually was a pilot (multi-engine rated) and used to fly in his green flight suit and cowboy hat around California, where he lived.
Didn't know that! wow! And you probably also know he STARTED OUT as a rodeo rider and rodeo clown and became quite famous for that. Served him well when he rode that bomb down, didn't it? Also, because his father forbid him to become a rodeo rider, he asked the lady at the first fair ground he went to to apply for that job: "What's the possibility of getting into the business and making money? She answered: "Very SLIM PICKINS". Hence the name.
@@badguy1481 Hilarious 😆
Legend has it that Stanley Kubrick didn't tell Slim Pickens that Dr. Strangelove was a comedy until they filmed the bomb scene in order to get him to deliver his lines like this.
Kubrick told Pickens to "play it as straight" as he could --- sounds like you might be severely underestimating Burt Lindley aka Slim Pickens.
If that's true, that's just good directing. It was important to the movie's greater message that these scenes were all played straight. That's the whole comedy of the movie: the lower ranking soldiers were all exceptionally professional and capable, doing their duty. Then we cut back to the high command and their loony antics.
one of the greatest movie lines in all cinema.
joeviking61 Don’t you have anything better to do than rank movie lines by opinion?
@@corey-bird3489 probably not. and at least he picked a unique one.
@@JackJackKcajify Fair enough
Please note that Major Kong is the only character in the entire movie that actually does his job right.
There is the rest of the crew of the B-52, the soldiers on the base, those that attacked also…GC Mandrake… no?
Slim Pickens always seems to get short shrift when people talk about the movie, but to me his performance is integral to the film's overall power.
Yes, and I especially appreciate that they wrote his character as a competent officer.
Pickens' role was originally set to be Peter Sellers' fourth role in the movie, but Sellers was not satisfied with his own Texas accent.
@@ColonelFredPuntridge Plus the fact Sellers got injured during filming, which limited his movement.😉
James Earl Jones said about Pickens “Pickens was not told that the movie was a black comedy, and he was only given the script for scenes he was in, to get him to play it "straight".”
I don't know about that, every person I've ever talked to about this film always brings up Slim and his role. Especially riding the bomb... but also people love this speech.
"Well boys, I reckon this is it: Nuclear combat, toe to toe, with the Russkies"!
Nucular Combat. *NUCULAR*
@@tom2659 I heard him (Slim, Major Kong) say "Nuke-Lar"
The greatest movie of all time...
Voodooswampthang How do you know the next movie you see won’t be better?
don't insult the man's intelligence. when he read the script i'm pretty sure he figured it out inside of ten minutes
r.i.p. slim
LOL when he pulls out his cowboy hat.
From the safe with the classified material.
Pickens prounounced the word 'nuclear' correctly, unlike most government leaders.
Jimmah Cahtuh for instance.
Or, as my drug-addled hippy neighbor used to say, "No nukes - just nookie!"
I don't think Slim Pickens was the first or even the second choice to play Major Kong but he was perfect. After you get over the shock of seeing him not playing a cowboy then comes the cowboy hat and the scene is complete. Just brilliant. Dr. Strangelove was absolutely brimming with crazy ideas that all somehow worked beautifully together.
Actually Peter Sellers was supposed to do it but apparently he thought he had done enough. Something like that.
He was actually injured. The mockup flight deck was 10 above the ground and he fell getting in or out, not sure. That is when he said enough is enough.
Apparently Walter Brennan was the first choice- after his perfromance as Stumpy in Rio Bravo - but he was not available
"Let's get this thing on the hump . . . we got some flyin' to do!"
Gotta love Slim.
i like the title "noo-ku-lar" combat.
Kubrick led Pickens to believe that the film was supposed to be a serious war drama, prompting him to carry himself as he might in any of his Western pictures. Furthermore, according to James Earl Jones (who made his film debut in Dr. Strangelove) and Kubrick biographer John Baxter, Pickens behaved, and dressed, identically onscreen and off…not because he was “staying in character,” but because he apparently always acted like that.
mentalfloss.com/article/63436/15-things-you-might-not-know-about-dr-strangelove
I love the music that follows with the mission
I LOVE that he brought a cowboy hat on the plane just for when shit got real!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
That actually wasn't a bad motivational speech! And he still pronounced nuclear better than Dubya.
“IS OUR CHILDREN LEARNING”!!! -Dubya- (circa 2000)
Slim Pickens was also brilliant in "1941".
I’ll never forget “prune juice!”.
Nuclear combat, toe-to-toe with the Rooskies. Love it. :D
1:05 ironic and funny line.
Planet will be destroyed but the crew will get useless awards and medals.
It was also supposed to be a jab at American arrogance. That with a few bomber wings they can save the nation as well as being inspirational to the crew.
Worth it
Of course, in this movie scenario, the crew had no idea about the "Dooms day Machine". They were doing what they were trained and ordered to do...BOMB RUSSIA. And as a former B-52 pilot, I don't think any REAL B-52 crewmembers thought they would survive the mission...so receiving medals for it would have been the LAST thing on their minds.
@@JumpinJoe The whole movie was anti-American and pro-Commie
The planet will be just fine. Humans will be starting over though.
"When Johnny Comes Marching Home."
G'n'R rocks!
Top ten of the scenes in this movie. I love this whole movie.
"You can't fight in here, this is the war room!"
"Where's Major Kong?"
YeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehaaaaaaaAAAAaaaAAAAAaaaaa
Darth Vader's best line
Legend also has it that when Pickens appeared on the set in cowboy boots and with a cowboy hat they said "Hey, great, youre already in role!" And he said "Im what?!"
I love this movie, one of Kubrick's crowning achievments.
Nearly every Stanley Kubrick movie is a crowning achievement. Dr. Strangelove has an amazing element of timelessness that keeps it relevant today. Dr. Strangelove changed the world for the better if moved us significantly away from Nuclear Way. Apparently in 2022 we have forgotten the insanity--but we were warned of meeting again and it is time for everybody to watch this one again.
slim pickens is hilarious in Dr. strangelove almost as much as peter sellers
The music makes this entire scene
Johnny does try to come marching home.
Loved Slim Pickens in Blazing Saddles.
that texan accent is not a coincidence!! fucking master work!!
Born in Texas, but moved to California with his parents. There, according to Wikipedia, they owned a ranch.
those shots with the plane. it flies in sick angles i tell you whut. major kong must'of just trimmed those flappers outta like hell just for you folks!
PIckens played this movie straight! He had NO idea it was a comedy! Kubrick completely fooled him. Pure genius!
He did that with many actors in many films. Asked them to not act or to over act. And usually the actors didnt have a clue that he was foolin them and they were often amazed that Kubrick put that take in the movie which they were lulled to over act or something. Some were enraged by this method. George C. Scott didnt like that Kubrick made him do two portrayals of each scene, which were totally different he said. Other was the one that he thought would be on a movie, which Kubrick let him to believe, and other was the one which Kubrick always said to overact and make it too crazy. He said that he worked 95% of the time acting the way he thought was the one would be on a film, and made the actual scenes that really appeared on movie with little try and few takes only.
Kubrick was most obviously control freak. And i think he thought that big name actors always create themselves image of their role and character. Well he was the director and hes image of the characters was the one he wanted to film, so he in some cases let the actors think that they were allowed to portrait their vision on a film. Thats why many actors said that he made them do dozens and dozens of takes. Cause he knew what the character was suppose to be and wanted to dig it out. He didnt give them a lot of leeway. Only one actor he let improvise and didnt interfere with their acting and it was R. Lee Ermey on Full metal jacket.
Word is that the 'Singin' in the Rain' scene in Clockwork Orange was ad-libbed and it sure came off as inspired script writing on film. Although a different director, the 'I'm walkin' here!' line from Dustin Hoffman in Midnight Cowboy made the director and writer sound brilliant, too. It was perfect coming from that character.
Pickins was a late addition to the cast, and Kubrick only gave him a script with his scenes in it. I don't think he was entirely in the dark about the tone of the film; it would be hard to rehearse that 'a guy could have a pretty good weekend in Dallas [original scripted line; overdubbed with 'Vegas' after the JFK assassination] and not know this movie was a farce.
Kubrick told Pickens to "play it as straight" as he could --- sounds you severely underestimate Burt Lindley aka Slim Pickens.
Major Kong and Mandrake were the only two competent officers in the entire movie.
This is a pretty good speech lol
The song they're humming
Oh yes! And in spite of all his quirks Major Kong is depicted as a highly compentent and dedicated commander. He never gives up and never lets his crew give up. The whole ride the bomb thing was an accident. Kong repaired the bomb bay at great risk to himself and the crew dropped the bomb on time even though they didn't know where Kong was.
Slim Pickens.. Yeeeeee Yaaaaaaaaawww.. We got some Flying to do
at age 16 my dad and his family were sharecroppers and picked cotton on contract by the bale. by age 26 he was an electronic engineer on the atlas ICBM with four stripes in the airforce
Jodi Jean Sanders (Monday, 7 December 1964 - October 2014), She and I met on Monday, 17 April 1978 around 10:23 am, and last met on Saturday, 18 February 2012 Around 11:30 am
Well, boys, I reckon this is it!
Thats precisely the irony.
Slim Pickens walked onto the set and ad-libbed most of his lines on the spot.
Sounds to me more like noo-kler. My wife gets annoyed when I repeat this line. What a great clip, thanks for posting!
I’ve seen 4 Star Generals on TV pronounce nuclear just like Slim.
anyone here today ? yay...i fucking hate this timeline sometimes...
@grumpypant I wouldn't necessarily bet on that. I have a relavtive that flew in C-141's. He said they had a "Miller Time" neon sign in one of their forward windows. He said they occasionally carried hydrogen bombs.
He also said the colonel or general or whatever made them take it out.
It's quite a speech, particularly 1:17 in when he talks about promotions and personal citations irrespective of race, colour and creed. In 1963, civil rights demonstrators were striving to achieve that in the U.S.
He was the best.
thanks
It was a great speach.
This is great. Way to talk Slim!
I grew up with him. He didn't know ANY OTHER way to talk. Slim was a REAL as it gets! Roger W. Morgan
Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity
2 people do not have strong feelings about "Noo-ku-lar Combat". ;)
greatest movie EVER.
Wow, that's so cool... :D
WHEN...JOHNNY...COMES...MARCHING...HOME
0:48.....wow how old was James Earl Jones when he filmed this??
+tommy1gtr ...about 33 by my math...
+tommy1gtr 33
9
I'm using this monologue for play tryouts at my school xD
How'd that go?
And Darth Vader was the Flight Engineer !
Radar Navigator: The guy that drops the bomb.
indeed!
@jeselmira2 You are absolutely correct.
Like that Slim Pickens AMEN for saying all of that!
I served during the Cold War, and am now about to pass. Very glad that the GOOD guys won, and it didn't require popping any mushrooms!
Thank you for your service sir! It is much appreciated. I hope that you may pass peacefully!
Hold on there young feller. Leonard Cohen says the "good guys" lost! Also mushroom Armageddon may be coming back into vogue. The United States with all of their covert and overt aggression, destabilization programs, and regime changing are bound to run into someone who has the resources to put up an argument.
I agree....the U.S. carried out a lot of nefarious acts in pursuit of victory over the Reds. But if you compare our system of relative freedom in the pursuit of the most toys vs. the Soviet system, with 5 years plans, shoddy cars and secret police....I believe we were the better of the two.
sillyone52062 I see this "nefariousness" employed not only against the Reds, but against all competitors or would be competitors around the world, and innocent apolitical people not even in the fight. Is it all feasible that the U.S has become a greater monster than the monsters it has tangled with in light of the NSA revelations, remote controlled assassinations, and the erosion of the Constitutional rights of the very populace of the U.S.?
The Russkies had nerve gas, mustard gas and wanted all of Europe under their heel. We wanted to sell them Coca Cola and pizza. Which was the good side, and which was the bad?
He couldn't act - He didn't have to. He lived the part.
Now look boys I am not much of a head of making speeches but I got a pretty fair idea. That’s gosh darn important is going on back there and I got a fair idea that that a personal emotions some of your fellows may be thinking heck I even reckon and you will be even human beings if you didn’t had any had some strong personal feelings about nuclear combat but I want you to remember one thing those folks back home or counting on you by golly, we ain’t about to let them down tell you something else this thing turns out this thing is half important I figured just might be i’ll say you’re all in line for some important promotions and personal citations, when this things over with and that goes for every last one of your regardless rece color creek now get this thing on the hut we got some flying to do! Greatest speech of all times
And so you see the cinematic view of why the Air Force changed the old failsafe to the newer rapid communication system that informed all bases in the system instantaneously, all so using telephonic system that made it possible for those college professors to bring us the internet.
Yes, indeedy! :D Right on! ^_^
Thank you biged004552 !!!!!
@koookeee Yeah! He was playing it totally straight. Well, as straight as anyone could.
Well boys, I reck'un this is it. Noo-klur combat, toe to toe with the Rooskies!
After reading the news about Russia invading Ukraine I immediately came to this.
@Fent90 oh ok tanks man
They would close off the base housing road to the main base when they moved nukes across the road.
what a lovely contrast with mandrake, linguistically speaking
Hey! It's the Kunta Kente guy! And, the "voice of CNN."
Lord Vader, too
yeah, me too. i loved his straight forward, bumpkin persona. turns out you were right though, according to the wikipedia article on him (but with wiki be sure to have your bullshit filter turned way up, lol), kubrick only gave him the pages of the script that applied to his character and told him to play it straight. good results
Actually, Pickens DID "play it straight". The The southern/western "homey" expressions he came up with was the kind talk that actually went on in SAC crews. Very little "slapstick" in the scenes inside the bomber.
"Goddamit Goldie; you said you could get me to the primary..."
why, i oughta... thank you! I resemble that remark.....
Slim Pickens FTW!
@emoviebuff87 It also happend that the talented Sellers could not do a Texas accent properly, so he deferred to Slim. Slim was not told anything else about the movie except his lines, so as to have him do them with a serious tone, in contrast to the rest of the movie.
whats the song that plays when he puts on the cowboy hat at beginning?
@GiantEnemyCrab63 He learned to stop worrying and love the bomb!
I don’t know bout yall but that sure as hell motivated me…
but, imagine if peter sellers hadnt broken his leg which prevented from climbing into the cockpit set and done the role of major kong as originally planned? pickens was brillant, but would love to see how sellers would have done.
A bit strange that Stanley Kubrick ( who as we all know was a stickler for detail), let a flying scene print, when the gauges on the console didn't budge an inch. lol
Me whenever I got work I gotta do
Let's get on the hump!
Around 1960, the songwriter Phil Ochs wrote a song, "Bye Mom, I am off to drop the Bomb" polking fun at Strategic Air Command and it's can- do .attitude. I believe this was at least in part, the inspiration for "Dr. Strangelove".
Was it Phil Ochs or Tom Lehrer?
@@Reilly-Maresca I believe it was Phil Ochs who wrote that song.
Tom Lehrer - So long, mom!
I'm off to drop the Bomb
So don't wait up for me
But while you swelter
Down there in your shelter
You can see me
On your TV
While we're attacking frontally
Watch Brin-k-ley and Hun-t-ley
Describing contrapuntally
The cities we have lost
No need for you to miss a minute
Of the agonizing holocaust
Yeah!
Little Johnny Jones
He was a US pilot
And no shrinking violet
Was he, he was mighty proud
When World War III was declared
He wasn't scared
No siree!
And this is what he said on
His way to Armageddon:
So long, mom!
I'm off to drop the Bomb
So don't wait up for me
But though I may roam
I'll come back to my home
Although it may be
A pile of debris
Remember, mommy!
I'm off to get a commie
So send me a salami
And try to smile somehow
I'll look for you
When the war is over
An hour and a half from now!
It's Mr. Taggart.
When you check the news in 2021.
reminds me of the century bomber from red alert 3
@skifiles When johnny comes marching home.
"...regardless of your race, color and greek!" This is perfect comedy film. Great comedy is often the one that doesnt make person to laugh loud on several scenes, but the one that kinda makes you laugh inside of you for whole running time.
Slim Pickens as Maj. Kong is a character that keeps you laughning constantly inside. He nails this brashing cowboy yankee stereotype perfectly. No offence to any Americans here, everybody knows that you can find stereotypes of which ever country you want. Positive and negative types. And this was the type that non-americans saw negative type american in '60s, somewhat a loose cannon and 'rowdy' and cowboyish, overly patriotic, little naive and not war loving quite but ready for battle type of guy. Basicly a good person but one who is narrow minded and very, very limited in knowledge of world outside of America. And btw anybody who says that this is your basic American, i say that the creamy ass, pompous, all-knowing, little feminine type that Americans think of Europeans to be is then true too. Im from Europe but im not european but Scandinavian, and yes there is stereotype of my countrys people too and its closer to that American one. Just something i needed to make clear, in europe if you are idiot without opinion of world, politics etc. Etc. You can always critizize, blame and demonize Americans... Which is kinda silly cause some 70y ago they probly liberated your country.
Fuking weed...
+joonas lehtonen Creed not Greek
Well, my country (in Europe) was libereted by Soviet Red Army in WWII and best thing is they didn't stay in my country, so my country was not in Warsaw Pact.
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Didn't hear him say 'greek,' either; it sounded like a somewhat clipped enunciation of the word 'creed.'
Sarah Freaking Strangelove ... Someone help us!
@emoviebuff87 Pickens really was just like the character. Hes pretty funny
what is the name of the song?
gotta watch out fer them Rooskies !!! 😂
He doesnt even say "Noo-koo-lar".
He says "noo-kler"
"Noo-ku-lar combat?" Now I know where Fmr. Pres. Georgie (as I call him) got that annoying little verbal tic... XD
Awesome video, though. Slim Pickens did a great job as Major Kong, & I agree with Bacopa68 that Major Kong was one of the coolest & most admirable characters in the movie. ^_^
Sound like "new-klee-are" combat to me. ???
After all these year I finally found out where this clip came from. A band called Passifist used it in a song which I in turn used in video my roomate & I made called Operation Hornet Kill!
Kubricks trick was not to tell Pickens that this movie was a satirical parody!
Until the shot the scene riding the bomb down - Slim had to know it was a comedy to pull that off properly.