Dr. Strangelove - Ending

[Shiryutherain]

Best movie ending IMO

[wrath231]

"The court of inquiry will give you such a pranging..."

This film is so quotable.

[wicked4584]

Apparently it was Spike Milligan's idea to use "We'll Meet Again".

[bryangutierrez5]

you know that MIEN FURHER! I CAN WALK! was completely improved, preety awesome

[chuggachuggawoowoo]

@bryangutierrez5 ... "improved"???...compared to what? What does that mean? Do you mean improvised?

[bryangutierrez5]

@chuggachuggawoowoo gah! yeah sorry that was a typo, ment improvised, my spelling isnt all that great not being form the US and all

[universeturtle]

For our precious fluids B)

[kubrox91]

Sir... I have a plan...... MEIN FURHER! I CAN WALK!

[vk732]

" Gentlemen please! No fighting in the War Room."

One of the best quotes from the movie.

[chumpusmaximusohnose]

watched this movie about 10 times, still doesn't fail to give me shivers up my spine.

[The3rdTri]

Oddly enough, two things come to mind when seeing this scene: Superman and Batman; I think about Superman during the war explosions and Batman for after the war explosions. Considering that they were characters that came out in the 50s and were associated with being icons of war It only seemed natural for me to think this......let me know how odd this sounds, lol

[MenwithHill]

I'll never stop worrying.

I hate the bomb.

[Bluzme]

@MenwithHill you'd better try to enjoy life instead

[Miroshinen]

Fallout 2's War never changes fits this perfectly.

[sedcontra]

There are a lot of compelling moments in this movie, but for me, these last two minutes have always stuck out as the cleverest and most memorable, and as the part that elicits the strongest emotional response from me. There's something awesome about how Kubrick has the audience share one brief instant of total shock and even elation with Strangelove, smile at his overjoyed reaction, and then cuts rapidly between shots of the world ending. It's a pretty perfect way to end the movie.

[Fizwalker]

@sedcontra It's a dark classic of a movie.

[MinamuTV]

I think the reason it's funny is because of the random mood change. As soon as Dr. Strangelove can walk and enjoy life to a fuller extent..but there's no use, because then they all just die. ROFL, CLASSIC black comedy.

[moviebakerperson]

god i love this movie

[Lazarus0357]

As Maxwell Smart could have said, "We missed it by THAT much"! Regards

[quinner111089]

I wonder how the original 'pie fight' ending would've gone down in comparison to this!!! AN AMAZING CONCLUSION

[Schizima]

I've heard that this was a mistake and the character wasn't supposed to get up. Presumably Kubric did multiple takes with Sellers acting utterly ridiculous jerry-lewis style in some and ended up keeping them all in. Who knows what the actual ending was.

[vvvvviiiiiiiccccccc]

RIP Peter Sellers

RIP George C. Scott

RIP Stanley Kubrick

[werqa123]

One of the best final of world cinema history!

[MrRomain2206]

I'm almost ready to accept war, provided great directors such as S.Kubrick use it to shoot outstanding movies !

[Richierua]

dammit i misspelt Highlander

[Richierua]

not everyone dies. True most but Muffkin and the rest make it out. They even say so. Add several hundred thousand people and a few vault suits and we have a sequel!

[grausammesser]

@Richierua

attention any and all movie producers ... please ignore these comments.

[Richierua]

@grausammesser hey sequels have been made out of worse premises- Hilander 2's Zeist?

[7vs100]

MIEN FUHRER!!! I can walk!

[MegaRiver97]

i think the greatest endings of all time are The searchers and the best is On the waterfront. Those endings never get old(i am 18) those movies where film ages before i was born and i still love them

[gombodog]

I was in a packed theater in Reno during the Paramount 75th anniversary watching this film. half the people were singing along with Vera Lynn at the end!

[LAUANGIU]

Big Kubrick



[SwimFellow]

That was possibly the greatest ending to a movie ever. :D

[peacesellsstevebuyin]

trippiest. ending. evar.

[gustovo134]

SPOILER ALERT: everyone dies... literally

[mrbloodmuffins]

starting at 0:45 just goes to show that the nuklear fusion reaction can sometimes be a thing of beauty.

[21Blitz]

but i'll know were meet again some sunny day!

[MrTurnthatfrownaroun]

@21Blitz i think she means that cause it will be a beautifil back then everyone loved the sun in the 50s even more then us in this century

[MrTurnthatfrownaroun]

hangon so everone in the movie died :( what a sad ending but a good ending sorta its amazing how old this movie is and it has such good graphics

[camarorider67]

@MrTurnthatfrownaroun The movie was a satire of the Cold War and M.A.D. so it's probably the best fitting ending.

[MrTurnthatfrownaroun]

@camarorider67 yep the music fits it and the quality of the music

[MrTurnthatfrownaroun]

hangon so everone in the movie died :( what a sad ending but a good ending sorta

[PurpleCloud619]

The Irony, the moment he walks the world ends

[MrAirpirate]

MIEN FUREUR, I CAN WALK!

[oorgah]

7 fuckers dont like this . life is a mystery

[hughpower123]

@oorgah Thye like the song, just they don't like that the world ended, and who can blame them?

[MyteBluDemon]

something about this reminds me of how fallout one

[MrSratticusFinch]

@MyteBluDemon Something about Fallout reminds me of Dr. Strangelove.

[MyteBluDemon]

@MrSratticusFinch touché

[whalethelibertarian]

7 people haven't learned how to stop worrying and love the bomb.

[Agent1W]

Ron Perlman then starts narrating: "War...war never changes..."

[KristinSpradling]

Great movie. :-D

[Eligaxen]

love it

[RyoMasterSan]

so cynic, just brillant. Kubrick is huge

[LtBriJMAC]

WTF BOMB

[LtBriJMAC]

0:21

[walruspower60]

The Premier loves surprises.

[lukebccb]

Vera Lynn. Big "propaganda" voice for the brits during WWII.

[zomgtehrei]

what a spooky/satire of an ending

[roofrack101]

not trying to hate or anything, but is there a specific reason the film is in black and white?

[iAfrikai]

@roofrack101 Because the movie is old...

I suppose all movies are always supposed to be in color all the time right?

Even the really old ones.

Good work friend.

[roofrack101]

@iAfrikai spartacus came out 4 years earlier than this, and it was directed by stanley kubrick. so obviously theres another reason.

[OrchardFilm]

@roofrack101 I think he was trying to mimic old propaganda films from WW2 era, but that's just my take on it. I feel that color would have taken away from the film; the dark, high-contrast tone really sets the mood. Compare this to 4 years later when he made "2001: A Space Odyssey" which is like a psychedelic explosion of color. Kubrick was one versatile director.

[Cup12321]

@roofrack101 It was made in 1964, so it was quite typical of films to not have color back then.

[clashrogers]

@Cup12321 1963 atually

[Boxingmagnet74]

@clashrogers nope, 1964

[aligborat]

@Cup12321 That's not true, most movies were in color by that time, look at any list of famous movies from the early 1960's, probably 95% or more of them were in color. Kubrick shot it in black and white to set the right atmosphere, just like Mel Brooks did with Young Frankenstein in 1974 and Martin Scorsese with Raging Bull in 1980. Remember most of the Wizard of Oz was in color and it was made in 1939.

[morgantown1]

"We'll Meet Again" ha satire at its best

[gustovo134]

So in this movie everybody dies... literally

[rutabagasteu]

Interesting comment on the times, very realistic.

[KillerX3189]

When I watched the ending to the movie, I thought they cropped it wrong.

Then i realized it was a cobalt thorium G bombs erupting.

[eugenemagic]

great movie

great song - scary but great

[Darkpaint84]

allegedly fellow goon spike milligan came up with this ending

[sorrycaps]

Probably the best ending to a movie ever. Yep.

[plehetoeple]

@sorrycaps one of the best i agree as the movie.

[00Division]

LOOL...one of the greatest movies of all time, no doubt!! Somehow I have to think of the game "Fallout" when I watch this now!! "Dr. Strangelove" would be a nice Prologue, I guess - hits the special cynicism of the game very well in my oppinion!

[Vandor2]

@00Division

I agree. "We'll meet again" would definitely be a great song for the ending credits of a future Fallout prequel :)

[TheDerbyhat1]

MEIN FUHRER I CAN WALK!!!!!

[ToniMontana4000]

finally afther 45 years the nuclear holocaust

is nice and funny

[dougith]

@ToniMontana4000 It was funny then too.  That why it was such a great hit. Dark humor is timeless.

[tommyopera]

Fallout: The Movie! Should pick up right after this scene!! Right after the song ends you here Ron Perleman say "War... War never changes."

[XXGDUBSXX]

I guess if our doom comes the best thing to do would be to be prepared to die and sing a song with you human family better that than to be die scared afraid of the inevitable.

[SirNotAppgInThisFilm]

Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn?

Remember how she said that we would meet again some sunny day?

Vera! Vera! What has become of you?

Does anybody else in here feel the way I do?

[Boomkin1337]

@SirNotAppgInThisFilm Bring... the boys... Back home!!

[Kochiha]

@SirNotAppgInThisFilm Is there anybody out there?

[MrEifla]

@SirNotAppgInThisFilm

Roger Waters was right wasn't he my friend? Bring the boys back home.

[chg657]

@SirNotAppgInThisFilm She's still very much alive, at 93.

[deusirae76]

@SirNotAppgInThisFilm I do, thanks to a wonderful BBC WW2-themed documentary. My granddad never heard of her because he was a German soldier, but the German singers weren't bad either (try Lizzi Waldmüller or Lale Andersen).

[TheDirectorofFoo]

I guaruntee you every man on that set lost it, and they had to cut it before they did.

[MrAdmiralsnackbar]

Then Fallout 1 starts

[commandshark]

57

I was on that plane!

[ZanyAnton]

I've watched the first 2 seconds over and over again and can't stop laughing at the way he pronounces "sir" and how General Buck turns around xD

[NewYorkComedian]

i shed a tear when i saw this the first time.

[yakkahDotCom]

great video. thank you

[dcbandnerd]

0:11

Boom.

[bdobbsthepipe]

You know, this ending is actually pretty sad. In a good way.

[Misha9380]

Американские заклятые друзья порверьте ценные жидкости своего организма.

Да кстати, мы можем опередить вас по бомбоубежищам.

[fargoth7]

glorious film

[bryanpatrick33]

Mein fuher means "my leader" in German.

[agnernai]

Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn?

[TheMasterOfPuppets44]

@agnernai Remember how she said that we would meet again some sunny day? Vera? Vera? What has become of you? Does anybody else in here feel the way I do?

I hope we're on the same page. The Wall <3 favorite album ever.

[agnernai]

@TheMasterOfPuppets44 Alan Parker's little flick isn't so bad either!

[TheMasterOfPuppets44]

@agnernai Love that Movie! And the concert was without a doubt the greatest night of my life. Roger Waters still has it.

[MrEifla]

@agnernai

Remember how she said that

We would meet again

Some sunny day?

[138FrOsTy138]

@agnernai remember how she used to say, we will meet again

[DarKGun68]

The original ending was a pie fight involving everyone in the war room, but was changed because everyone looked too happy and were having a good time, and Kubrick wanted the fight to look darker.

[pirate1guy]

@DarKGun68 yeh they only had one take. Im sure if kubrick was allowed to do more takes to get what he wanted it would of stayed

[owenmcgarel]

so did they die in the end? oh well does it matter this is still epic

[matbru1986]

just saying => there not dead, the adventure is just beginning... there going to the caves, find some real good looking, atletic woman for themselfs and reproduce... actualy, they gonna creat "super"-ras .... where did that idee come from :p explains the title "dr.strangelove: "WHY I STOPPED WORRIING AND START LOVING THE BOMB" if you dint gott that you didnt gett the movie

[IAmTheForeigneeer]

I dont exactly get a few things

he calls the president fuhrer accidently because he used to be german and work for hitler (right?) but what exactly does the whole "mein fuhrer, i can walk mean?"

also i almost understand everything

when the nuclear bomb hit russia, did it then cut back a few minutes ago to the war room a bit before the bomb es-ploded, if that makes sense

and why did the pilot strt riding the bomb, was it just joy cuz he got it done and celebratd r wat?

plz wb, no mre spce lft

[matbru1986]

@IAmTheForeigneeer

lol, the pilot thinks he is doing a heroic act, he is sacrificing himself for his country and his proud, he thinks he is a great man for doing so... hes a real life cowboy deiing for hes country... the ironie, love it

[tall32guy]

The shot at 1:17 is breathtaking in color, even though it is what it is. It's the only nuclear bomb I've ever found beautiful. lol

[yarbles67]

@tall32guy

yup. It also makes recall the emotional interview Oppenheimer gave when he hurled out a quote from Bhagavet Gita in reference to the geanie they let out of the bottle: "Now I have become Death, the Destroyer of worlds".

[RMSTitanicWSL]

"Mein Furher" actually means "My Leader" in German. You have this confused with "Heil Hitler" which was the vocal salute to him. I means "Hail Hitler"

[kiismeman]

lmao "i can walk".....BOOM! THE ULTAMITE PWN HAHAHA EVEN BAQ THEN THEY HAD IT HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA

[RYNO2511]

such a great movie. i want the 40th anniversary edition.

[adrekke]

BAM- everyone dead!

[matbru1986]

@adrekke there not dead, the adventure is just beginning... there going to the caves, find some real good looking, atletic woman for themselfs and a few selected men and reproduce... actualy, they gonna creat "super"-ras whit beautifull woman-inteligent and atletic men - and themselfs.... where did that idee come from :p

[KentuckyFriedGunman]

This was the funniest movie ever.

[lucius1976]

Dr. Strangelove is a methapor to all that nazi scientist turned into american scientist over night. Like Werner von Braun and such.

[KilltheFuckingYanks]

My leader-

[AshCosgrove]

My favorite movie of all time, simply genius.

[Hissanrach]

Mein Fuhrer!!

I can walk!

[XTwina]

Awesom movie :D

[THORDEN86MX]

when I saw this movie for first time, I stood up and clapped, simply one of the best movie endings of all times, the music, the scenes, truly a movie to laugh until the end of the world

[raikitsune]

i learned to stop worrying and love the bomb

[RavenDayexMilhas]

@raikitsune 7 obviously haven't

[SpaFon222]

OMG!

[HsEembryo]

Absolutely sublime ending. first time watching it and i'm going to watch it again. one of my favorite movies ever now.

[davidatheist]

This is my all time favourite movie seen it 5 times now. It never gets old.

[tropicalpimp]

this song puts me in such a great mood!

[prowdigy]

lol

[augsbuerger]

Does anyone know who is singing the song in the end sequence?

[TashkentFox]

Vera Lynn.

[londongamer]

DAME Vera Lynn. Don't forget that. ;)

[TashkentFox]

Sorry.

(PS. I got her No. 1 album for christmas)

[londongamer]

Actually, I think I stand self-corrected, at the time she originally sang the song, I don't think she was a Dame, but of course now she is. I bet she has some great songs on there; I really ought to audition it. :)

[TravelerKM]

Vera Lynn

[COLORFULxKID]

Vera Lynn - We'll Meet Again

[Ikari2030]

Mein Führer, I can walk!

Cool.

[slavkei]

Actually, the actor wasn't supposed to stand up. He did so by mistake and Kubrick liked it so kept it as a part of the movie. It wasn't planned, it was a happy accident.

[assiost]

Haha, what was the planned ending quote then?

[ThaMahstah]

Can you direct me to a website to verify that? It sounds just like a made-up story. =]

[jazzfreak11]

@slavkei yeah, Sellers improvised a lot of his stuff. The nazi salute was totally improvised too. Kubrick later retroscripted and added the improvised lines into the movie.

[12345obama]

how do you know?

[RaddSpencer]

@slavkei The whole movie had these unsettling moments where the comedy would be stripped away and there would be nothing but bonechilling terror. Like when you see Strangelove sitting silently in the corner of the room, just watching from the shadows and there's no punchline to the moment. Then this ex-Nazi just gets more and more animated and lively as the world inches closer to doom. That moment with him stepping out of the chair was just the perfect climax to that.

[GutsyguyPrime]

@slavkei THANK YOU for pointing out what i was thinking. This was one of movie history's greatest accidents :)

[tommyopera]

@slavkei Knowing Peter Sellers, I bet he just did it to try it out with consulting Kubrick. Both man were the epitome of artistic genius.

[staydput]

@slavkei

And it perfectly ties in with Biblical prophecy!

At the end of the world the crippled will be able to walk... etc.

[Dalek1230]

@slavkei PETER SELLARS

[Sweetheart45745]

So, after laughing your ass off, here's Kubrick slapping you in the face, as if to say, "It's the end of the world, idiot."

[Gunnman941]

@Sweetheart45745

Haha,

That's the idea of satire!

[worthlessdollar1]

I wonder, is this the most depressing movie ending of all time?

Seeing all those mushroom clouds, accompanied by the desperate futility of "We'll meet again", leaves me with ice for blood.

[pacman5698]

Mein Fuehrer...I can walk!!!

[NeptunII]

ah, now I get it. Dr. Strangelove represents the nazis. They lost WWII and a lot of power so Strangelove is a cripple. Now that the US adopted his idea about the caves and all the subtle nazi stuff, the ideology of the nazis would finally become reality and so he can stand up.

clever

[Bimkovitz]

Oh yeah. I never thought of it like that.

[alamgiry2k]

i hate mad scientists .....

[arlpoon]

... i'm a mad scientist.

[lagstronaut]

can someone please explain to me why this is the "greatest ending ever"? why is it so intelligent? i'm completely lost on this one

[DCStream]

Have you seen the movie? If not, go watch it and you'll understand.

[lagstronaut]

i have seen it, just last night, but i was extremely tired entering the last 30 minutes. damn i don't wanna watch it again to understand lol

[DCStream]

It was ironic. The world was about to end, and they were talking about the dumbest things. Man was going back to live in caves and they were only primarily concerned with bringing women back. The were dumb cavemen.

Dr. Strangelove going from a cripple in a wheelchair to standing up was symbolism for evolution of man. We were evolving into idiots.

[lagstronaut]

how was Strangelove being able to stand, a symbolism for human evolution? because everyone in the world was about to change and right before, one man who you didn't think could ever change (crippled to walking) also did?

[Hatchetboy9011]

Also the insane juxtaposition of playing an old love song on top of the coming apocalypse is very common today and is a very interesting, and dare I say artsy style, This is where that common contrast came from.

[Bimkovitz]

It's surprising how influential this movie has been. For instance, this is one of the earliest examples of "guerrilla style" war scenes.

[darraghtank]

guerilla style ? may i ask

[Bimkovitz]

@darraghtank You know. Gritty, handheld camera documentary style.

[darraghtank]

Bimkovitz !!! thanks a lot ! im writing a screenplay right now and i dont even know what guerilla style meant now aint that a farce ?

[superexcellent12]

I dunno, it's a matter of taste I guess.

I just really liked how unexpected both the explosions and the song were.

[lordmaldad]

this IS the best ending to a movie ever.

[Hatchetboy9011]

It's one of the most intelligent, hilarious, endings to a movie that I have ever seen. Stanley Kubrick is a freaking genius.

[TJHARR007]

what exactly does mein fuhrer mean? I kno its wat the germans said to hitler to hail him, but wat does it mean? Its the most epic ending to a movie.

[Laurenan69]

"My leader "

[1cyborch]

@TJHARR007 it´s a freüdian slip, from dr. strangelove. the paradocs is that, allthough he used to hail his führer, and turned to work with the enemy. He never let go to the naziregime, during his work for the masterrace ( the allied forces) It´s a "pleonasmic joke" that keeps feeding it self in all eternity. Hence the human nature in a nutshell ;-)

[jgrab1]

@TJHARR007 Fuhrer means "guide" or "leader." It's disconcerting at first to go to museums in Germany and see their guidebooks, with FUHRER on the cover, but that's what the word means.

[Thoraseya]

@TJHARR007 It is one of those German words that is impossible to truly translate, but it means something like "My shepherd" or "The guider of my life."