Week 7 - Auteurs: The 50’s & 60’s part 3-Cold War Politics & Satire

Question 1

Dwight D Eisenhower warns against the _________ in his __________

Answer 1

the military industrial complex in his farewell address

Question 2

What year was farewell address? What happened next year?

Answer 2

61, in 62 the Cuban Missile crisis happened

Question 3

For a few weeks during the cuban missile crisis

Answer 3

the us came [this close] to nuclear holocaust

Question 4

2 leaders involved in missile crisis

Answer 4

kennedy and krusghov

Question 5

when did manchurian candidate come out?

Answer 5

62, same year as missile crisis

Question 6

‘63 what happens?

Answer 6

JFK assasination

Question 7

What did the JFK assassination do to 2 films

Answer 7

• delayed dr.strangelove

- made manchurian candidate nearly dissapear

Question 8

Cold war mentality of the 60s

Answer 8

any second someone could “press the button”

Question 9

Satire exposes ___________ in order to ______________

Answer 9

exposes follies to ridicule in order to provoke CHANGE

Question 10

Manchurian candidate took place in

Answer 10

Post-Korean war 1950s

Question 11

In MC ______ plays Korean War hero

Answer 11

Hardy

Question 12

Ice Queen mother of MC

Answer 12

Angela Lansbury

Question 13

Famous stance MC took on sides

Answer 13

The right is out of their minds, but so is the left

Question 14

Camera work in garden scene

Answer 14

Slow circular 360 pans w/ subtle changes

Question 15

Garden scene is a

Answer 15

PTSD nightmare that actually exposes real truth of the plot

Question 16

Soldiers bizarre experience in MC

Answer 16

kidnapped by communists and brainwashed to believe one of them is a hero

Question 17

MC is an imaginary game of ______

Answer 17

cards, Sinatra knows somethings wrong & arranged to meet Harvey in NY bar

Question 18

NY bar scene

Answer 18

Harvey does anything he hears in conversation at bar

Question 19

Harvey falls for _______ and they _______

Answer 19

Person his mom hates, daughter of political leader, they elope

Question 20

What does Lansbury want from Harvey?

Answer 20

For him to act as sniper and kill presidential nominee (her husband is vp nominee)

Question 21

Lansbury’s revenge is

Answer 21

on the system for making her son into a robot soldier

Question 22

Though Lansbury is posing as extreme conservative,

Answer 22

she is working w/ communist china and russians to produce assassin (it ends up being her son)

Question 23

End of MC

Answer 23

Harvey kills his moms husband, mom, and self

Question 24

Myth of MC

Answer 24

Sinatra paid off people to keep it under wraps, hard to see for next 20 years

Question 25

Dr. Strangelove Quote about room

Answer 25

“you can’t fight in here, this is the war room”

Question 26

Mise-en-scene in dr.strangelove

Answer 26

clear & crisp

Question 27

Dr.S harnesses a ______ use of _______

Answer 27

inappropriate use of vocab (ex. army members with funny names)

Question 28

How do those in Dr.SL talk about mass murder?

Answer 28

Lightly & with humor, especially those at the top

Question 29

Russian’s secret

Answer 29

the doomsday machine

Question 30

All planes recalled because of _______ but

Answer 30

because og Go-Code but this planes machine doesn’t receive it and keeps going.

Question 31

Soviet Military shipments of 2,454 tons were discovered on September 23, 1960. The actual confrontation began on October 14, 1962, when U.S. reconnaissance photographs taken by an American U-2 spy plane revealed missile bases being built in Cuba, in response to similar U.S. bases built at the Turkish-Soviet border.

Answer 31

cuban missile crisis

Question 32

On October 22, 1962, after reviewing newly acquired intelligence, President John F. Kennedy informed the world that the Soviet Union was building secret missile bases in Cuba, a mere 90 miles off the shores of Florida. , Kennedy ordered a naval quarantine (blockade) of Cuba in order to prevent Russian ships from bringing additional missiles and construction materials to the island.

Answer 32

Khrushchev authorized his Soviet field commanders in Cuba to launch their tactical nuclear weapons if invaded by U.S. forces. Deadlocked in this manner, the two leaders of the world’s greatest nuclear superpowers stared each other down for seven days

Question 33

ultimate cmc decision made with un

Answer 33

agreed to remove their respective nuclear weapons

Question 34

Russian Premier conceded to President Kennedy’s demands by ordering all Soviet supply ships away from Cuban waters and agreeing to remove the missiles from Cuba’s mainland
and the world…

Answer 34

world breathed a sigh of relief.

Question 35

number of anti-Communists during the Cold-War period were convinced that the proposals to reduce tooth decay by fluoridating the water supplies were actually

Answer 35

a Communist plot to poison us.
as General Jack D. Ripper puts it in Stanley Kubrick’s classic Cold War satire Dr. Strangelove, the fluoridation of the water supply is a -

“Commie” plot to “sap and impurify all our precious bodily fluids.”

Question 36

Satire is a literary technique of writing, or art (cinema), which exposes the follies of its subject (events, individuals, organizations, or states) to ridicule, often as an intended means of provoking, or conversely, preventing - change.
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Answer 36

n/a

Question 37

Satire does not sermonize; rather is often implicit, assuming its audience can inherently grasp its underlying moral clues. Satire is witty, ironic, and often exaggerated. It uses extremes to bring its audience to a renewed awareness of its ethical and spiritual danger.
**********

Answer 37

n/a

Question 38

MC based in

Answer 38

Richard Condon’s paranoid novel.

Question 39

Harvey returns from the Korean War a superhero and holder of the

Answer 39

Congressional Medal of Honor

Question 40

those in harvey’s platoon–including his own commanding officer, Sinatra

Answer 40

are vague about what Harvey actually did to win the medal

Question 41

Sinatra and others put the story together. It turns out

Answer 41

the entire platoon was captured by North Koreans and brainwashed to think Harvey was a hero when, in truth, he had been programmed as a killer.

Question 42

Harvey goes to work as a journalist, but when his control contacts him with the code________ 1st victim?

Answer 42

he kills without mercy or memory; a liberal columnist-publisher is his first victim

Question 43

THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE takes aim at

Answer 43

both the Left and the Right, rendering them both dangerous fraternal twins

Question 44

mc won acclaim for its political themes and the exploration of

Answer 44

the connection between the far left and far right in cold war America

Question 45

“Manchurian candidate,” spawned by the book and later films, refers to

Answer 45

an individual who has undergone brainwashing and / or mind control with the intent of creating a “Sleeper” personality within that individual

Question 46

type of humor in dr.sl

Answer 46

ebony-black humor

Question 47

The film revolves around General Ripper’s plan to level the Soviet Union with hydrogen bombs because he does not want the “precious bodily fluids” of Americans polluted by insidious Communist infiltration. Refusing to listen to his assistant, played adroitly by Peter Sellers, Ripper kills himself before revealing the codes needed to recall the bombers already sent on this mission. If the bombers are successful, the Soviet Union’s newly-created Doomsday Machine will automatically launch a nuclear attack on the United States, guaranteeing global immersion in a Third (and probably final) World War.
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Answer 47

n/a

Question 48

dr.sl based on

Answer 48

serious thriller novel Red Alert

Question 49

brainwashed, swaggering, hormonal, men-children. Indeed, Kubrick has great fun by pointing out the parallels between military might and sexual prowess throughout the film, beginning with the refueling B-52 over the opening credits (the planes look like they’re copulating) to General Turgidson’s adolescent obsession with sex and violence.

Answer 49

characters in dr.sl

Question 50

director Stanley Kubrick decided to adapt Peter George’s thriller Red Alert for the screen, he also

Answer 50

recruited the author to help with the script

Question 51

dr.sl opening

Answer 51

deranged General Ripper declaring a “Code Red”, sealing off his airforce base, and ordering a nuclear attack on Russia.

Question 52

In Washington D.C., an emergency meeting is called to

Answer 52

determine how to react to the crisis.

Question 53

. Certainly, the “balance of power” nuclear deterrent policy gets the most obvious jabs (although ardent supporters may not see this – Dr. Strangelove’s attacks are subtle enough that it’s possible for an unsophisticated viewer to miss the point).
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Answer 53

n/a

Question 54

the world was learning to be comfortable with the term “nuclear deterrent,” which meant that if

Answer 54

you blow me up, I’m gonna blow you up, and then we’ll all be dead.

Question 55

not men at the mercy of machines, but

Answer 55

machines at the mercy of men

Question 56

jack d ripper plot

Answer 56

He refuses to reveal the code, which could recall the nuclear-armed planes, and eventually shoots himself while the world careens toward doom.

Question 57

dr.sl & real life

Answer 57

The film’s anti-war fears actually became a plausible scenario, shortly after the assassination of President Kennedy, the Bay of Pigs fiasco and the heated-up intensification of the Cold War and nuclear arms race.

Question 58

Dr. Strangelove

Answer 58

an eccentric, wheel-chair bound German scientist, a Presidential advisor - similar to real-life Secretary of State Dr. Henry Kissinger, who has an uncontrollable mechanical hand that involuntarily makes Nazi salutes and threatens homicide

Question 59

Mr. Merkin Muffley

Answer 59

an egg-headed President of the US with a bland American accent, similar to 50s Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson

Question 60

“erotic displacement” or sexual allegory.

Answer 60

including large phallic cigars, mating airplanes, guns, Ripper’s impotent “loss of essence”, and the orgasmic atomic bomb that Kong rides between his legs

Question 61

• The bombs were Inscribed with

Answer 61

“Dear John” and “Hi There”