Didn't you tell me that you agreed with me on this?
Something about the way the last few scenes were scripted was odd and even somewhat confusing. The scenes were long and seemed to be either simultaneous or in the wrong order -- it kinda felt like the scenes should have been shorter and perhaps should have cut back and forth.
I thought maybe Kong riding the bomb should have been saved to the very end, just prior to the bombing montage.
Am I making sense to anyone? If I could remember some more specifics (lines, shots, etc.), I'd be able to tell you exactly what I mean. But I have a terrible memory for stuff like this.
Well, Kong’s bomb triggered the Soviet doomsday bomb. Then Dr. Strangelove proposed riding out the fallout from that device by having a special elite live in deep mines. But then everybody quickly realized that the Soviets might have their own elite in mines as well. So the worry turned to who would have the upper hand when both sides came out of their holes in a hundred years. Not knowing the answer, they turned to an all nuclear war now to avoid maybe losing a century later. The end.
They were coming up with this plan to maintain the human race, but then the general raised the idea that the Russians might get a leg up on them. They couldn't let that happen, so they started dropping bombs. Of course the Russians retaliate, and so on. Hence the montage.
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Didn't you tell me that you agreed with me on this?
Something about the way the last few scenes were scripted was odd and even somewhat confusing. The scenes were long and seemed to be either simultaneous or in the wrong order -- it kinda felt like the scenes should have been shorter and perhaps should have cut back and forth.
I thought maybe Kong riding the bomb should have been saved to the very end, just prior to the bombing montage.
Am I making sense to anyone? If I could remember some more specifics (lines, shots, etc.), I'd be able to tell you exactly what I mean. But I have a terrible memory for stuff like this.
Well, Kong’s bomb triggered the Soviet doomsday bomb. Then Dr. Strangelove proposed riding out the fallout from that device by having a special elite live in deep mines. But then everybody quickly realized that the Soviets might have their own elite in mines as well. So the worry turned to who would have the upper hand when both sides came out of their holes in a hundred years. Not knowing the answer, they turned to an all nuclear war now to avoid maybe losing a century later. The end.
Yes. The "mine gap."
Not knowing the answer, they turned to an all nuclear war now to avoid maybe losing a century later.
I didn't catch that part at all, I guess.
They were coming up with this plan to maintain the human race, but then the general raised the idea that the Russians might get a leg up on them. They couldn't let that happen, so they started dropping bombs. Of course the Russians retaliate, and so on. Hence the montage.
That makes a lot more sense to me now. I thought the montage was supposed to be the same bomb over and over again. I'm so stupid.
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