It is odd to think that at one time, cuts that reasoned about the duration of time passing between them did not exist. When I began filming my film, these things are obvious to me and in the direction I gave, all of these assumptions were already made. I think the fact that there existed film that did not do this prior to the film that did do this is somewhat of a proof that our minds benefit from centuries of developing not only ideas such as the nouns of bird or tree, but of logical structures such as that of Socrates, Aristotle, and Plato and of approximations of the laws of reality such as gravity.

another proof that the Saudis were not as benignantly welcoming as portrayed

Similar to the pearls being fished out of the Gulf. They were hard capped on the number of pearl beds and no increase in efficiency could change that fact.

Saudi Model is equitable. This could only take place because of the oil industry basically providing a fountain of paradise.

It's amazing that this was completely unknown until about 1930

Was King Aziz getting scammed in this deal? What percent of the income went to Arabia?

This passage is incredibly relevant. What would become one of the biggest oil suppliers was the result of King Aziz basically just wanting a loan.

port city on the coast of the Red Sea close to Mecca

So it sounds like he used them as a militia for a time

Aziz did give concessions but probably just because he was intelligent enough to know that if they made the British angry, they'd be blown off the Earth. The characterization of him in the documentary seems to be somewhat correct.

Wait so was this a development that occurred outside of Aziz's control?

All fairly recent developments. This probably helps to understand Aziz's character and his sense of conquest probably showed itself in his interactions with Aramco.

This contrasts the 'tractable' image that Americans tried to portray. Saudis were not willing to simply subsume to American ways that were supposedly superior. They held convictions against them.

His image isn't so sparkly. He cares more about his own fantasies than his people.

This probably led to a distortion in how the Aramco company perceived Saudi Arabia. The King most likely tried to make Dhahran look better than the rest of the country, similar to how Kim Jong Un has built large cities that no one lives in for the international community to be impressed by.

timing is what drives most of the plot events.

There is a good point that the time limit that the characters and audience are aware of drives the suspense of the film. It is the reason that Muffley Merckin's conversation with Premier Kissov is comical.

This part is not pictured in the film, although it really is not really relevant to the event at hand since the event takes such a small amount of time that none of these developments occur.

The ridiculousness lies in the construction of this system.

This is what allows for the irony. This is where a good bulk of the comedy outside of the performances lies.

This is exactly my point of view.

As we see in the film, though, the Burpelson Air Force Base ends up turning into the highest command unit, of which the others must react to.

This has been the goal of the US military. As said within the paragraph, there is evidence of this in smart bombs and in the use of drones in the middle east. Apparently someone near where I live recently bought a vineyard to retire on after making a career selling drones to the military.

If I were to make a film about running, I would want to research all of the possible streams from which an individual like the one I would like to describe could come from. You'd want to look at Olympians, and then work your way back from there.

None of these were inherent in the script, although the alien documentary version does include a zoom in of earth.

Yes, this is how I broke it up as well.

They rename this the bland corporation in the film. Edward Teller, Herman Kahn, and Henry Kissinger. Inspirations for Strangelove. Strangelove originally composed of two different characters. I appreciate the combination very much. They serve basically the same role.

Jonathan Swift. He wrote that essay Pelster gave us that was a satire about eating babies or something.

A pushover. Although, not a complete pushover. Because of his rank, he has no trouble scolding Turgidson. But he handles Russia so delicately, not necessarily a bad policy in this situation.

At the same time, I think public debate would not have done anything. It is something that could not have been prevented. Game Theory dictates that it had to. Will genius minds simply not engage their intellectual curiosity. They had to come up with the bomb. Will the US try to not win the war. This would mean more losses for the country but a lesser loss for the world. But in this case, it is still in the best interest of the nation to create the bomb. Because if Russia or Germany would do this first, it would similarly mean greater losses for the nation and for the world as the US sees it. The public would only have slowed things and made the situation worse. It is not out of stupidity. Our leaders are likely the most competent among humans. But they are still humans in that they are driven along human systems of logic, human desires.

This is a beautiful quote. This is my exact interpretation of the film.

This is why I know I would probably not be successful within the film industry. I have a distaste for the current attitudes and whims. I would be trying to create something eternal, something that I would believe to be 'true,' and I would feel wrong if the public bought it but did not understand it. If I created a new trend.

This sounds like how Red Alert approached the subject matter. Kubrick took the plot points, but put his view on it, stripped away this simple-minded, rule following, conformist thinking that the people above you are also more rational than you. You know yourself to be a biological creature, driven by sex urges, simplistic urges to keep your family happy, etc, to get food. The people above you hold these too and can get away with indulging them to a higher degree.

He is described as a gradeschool teacher talking to kids on the phone in the script.

George Scott. He would play a more realistic interpretation of a military man in Patton about WWII General Patton, the screenplay of which was written by Coppola.

This was a civil war song. Back when war was simple. Men willing to die fighting men willing to die, each believing in a noble cause.

stage name. He was a known rodeo performer, which found its way into the final product with the dropping of the bomb and his cowboy hat.

Implies power. This is a trademark cinematic trope, but it works.

Everyone immediately accepts Dr. Strangelove's vision for the future of humanity. A lot of it is borne out of sexuality, which this essay has already addressed. Women are the prize that drives men. Men will sacrifice their lives, the whole time trying to live up to what a woman would consider a real man. The leaders of the nation would blow up another one if a reality can still be achieved where men can have sex with beautiful women. And additionally with the talk of 'technocratic' values, men lend authority to those who understand the world in a physical sense better than they do, the men that are capable of building machines with greater physical power than the entirety of all of humanity, and assume that this greater intellect implicates a parallel greater understanding of the designs of society and morality. I would argue these fields are completely separate and the understanding of the one is, while not mutually exclusive, independent of the other.

Yes, for Kubrik it had to be real. However he discovered by accident that the things that were real were the most hilarious

For Kubrik, I think what he was portraying had to feel real to him. He had to exactly see that this was true, that this could veritable happen.

American economist involved with nuclear policy

He even tried to slip this into The Shining with The Gold Room, which people have speculated is about the United States gold policy and how it increased power to the wealthy and elites. Not sure about the validity of this take, though.

this is the exact rhetoric that Dr. Strangelove uses in his admiration for the doomsday device that he has theorized and that the Russians have built

German born American. This is who I am guessing Doctor Strangelove was inspired by in part.

It's funny how the same app that is being used to deliver religious moral support is also used for, say, sending memes.

How exactly is this integrated into the Islam religion? Is the worship of saints okay?

Is this intentionally done as to not have publicly traded in regions that are technically not sanctioned to be traded in?

a kind of motionless constant motion. A kind of worldly domesticity.

Michael Foucalt essay which is extremely abstractly written and hard to grasp, but seems to indicate that a heterotopic space is a space that projects a utopia, which is an unreal space, yet is also grounded in something real. Perhaps this is calling upon the fact that a vahan is an itinerant, a wanderer of many places and holds all of those places inside it in a sense due to its history, but is grounded in one small boat.

seem to have an advantage in flexibility to the mess of world markets and borders. It can move freely in and out of them to find the highest advantage

an interestingly powerful facet of globalization is the dhow.

third most populous city in UAE

south Oman, known for banana plantations