“Kubrick had also intended Sellers to play Major Kong, the commander of the only bomber to get through to its Russian target. Sellers hesitated to take the role of Kong, because he was uncertain that he could master Kong’s Texas twang, but Kubrick remained adamant that he play it. Finally, Sellers accidentally injured his ankle, when he tripped while emerging from his limo, and begged off from doing Kong’s scenes. Kubrick complied, but wondered if Sellers had suffered the fall “accidentally-on-purpose,” to get out of playing a part he was not comfortable with. Kubrick was disappointed that Sellers declined to play the fourth part, since, in his view, that would have meant that almost everywhere the viewer looks, there is some version of Peter Sellers holding the fate of the world in his hands.” [x]
On the set of Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
“As I kept trying to imagine the way in which things would really happen, ideas kept coming to me which I would discard because they were so ludicrous. I kept saying to myself: ‘I can’t do this. People will laugh.’” — Kubrick on why he decided to make Dr. Strangelove as a comedy.
“The lasting and ultimately most important reputation of a film is not based on reviews, but on what, if anything, people say about it over the years, and on how much affection for it they have.”
Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999)
Sellers and Kubrick on the set of Dr. Strangelove
Dr. Strangelove // dir. Stanley Kubrick
Is there a Fuck Yeah Pablo Ferro? Because there should be.
Dr. Strangelove // Stanley Kubrick
Dr. Strangelove // Stanley Kubrick
