Take Two Kubricks and Call Me in a Week?

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Lolita is always open for discussion but Kubrick-fest 06 is now in session.

Kubrick-fest 06 - Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

[203.01.01_BKP0MC-626x1024] After the success of Lolita , Kubrick turned to another novel as source material, Red Alert . He began with an idea to make a thriller about a nuclear accident that played with Cold War paranoia. After selecting Red Alert as the source material he and noted satirist Terry Southern turned the taut thriller novel into a satirical comedy thriller farce (?!?), or as Kubrick termed it a “nightmare comedy”. Again, completely dispensing with the actual themes and intent of…