Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey
Blank Check with Griffin & David
I'm Ready to Fuck, Right?
There's a lot of unfortunate kind of like sexual metaphor to read into the entire movie. Like he's trying to put a prophylactic around the whole base, right? And everybody else, especially George C. Scott is like, I'm ready to fuck. The idea of being able to dominate on this scale to control that much power, conquering if it fucking kills them. Right. They feel like I'm going to die like John Wayne. It gets back to like the weird cowboy sort of fascination with the bomb for these guys.
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