Hmm I’ve just seen Fail Safe and agree and disagree. Once again, there is an irony in Dr. Strangelove in that it was the more respectful of military personnel out of both films, even though some of the characters were portrayed as buffoonish or wacky. The reason why is that as I get older, I’ve been noticing an irksome trend. Dr. Strangelove is a masterpiece. If you look at other characters in Fail Safe, you will see that many of them act in this way. Fail- Safe is a good picture. So American engineers can design an intricate system to warn of a Russian attack, but can’t figure out what might constitute a plausible set of criteria to indicate an attack? Not very nuanced for what’s supposed to be a “thoughtful”, serious film. I would argue it is this which makes it a classic. The first thing the movie did was alert the military to not take protocols for granted. Strangelove is twenty times the movie Fail-Safe is, even though I still like Fail-Safe. In Fail Safe, we weren’t dealing with a preemptive nuclear strike, but an accident–one that even officials in Moscow acknowledged. During a VIP visit to the headquarters of the Strategic Air Command (SAC), at Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha, Nebraska, the Air Force's early warning radar indicates that an unidentified aircraft has intruded into American airspace. Because by having the sociopathic war hawk declare that NYC shouldn’t be nuked, this would manipulate naysayers into reconsidering their objections based on the fallacy that an idea must be wrong if someone of questionable morality believes in it or wants it for the wrong reasons. He doesn’t even consider the possibility. As far as he’s concerned, he doesn’t care if all signs point to the fact that he’s not being tricked at all. They also realized that it was also pointless to remind the public of the obvious, that nukes were bad. It goes without saying that Major Kong is a complete and total goofball, the kind who would hop on top of a falling nuke and ride it like a bronco to his death. Like, they argued about painting the porch last week, or something like that? "A Viewer's Guide to Aviation Movies". In this scene, The President and both Grady’s wife are on a communications line begging him to realize that his order to nuke Moscow is a mistake. Films, Deconstructed is a blog dedicated to looking at films in a new way. The reason why WW3 accidentally happens in Dr. Strangelove is that the US military designed a set of safety protocols that on the surface looked fool proof, but had become so convoluted that a loose cannon was able to slip through the cracks and set off a comedy of errors that led to nuclear war.
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