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Much is being made of the alleged "trick" pulled by Kubrick to dupe George C Scott into a "more outlandish performance than he was comfortable with".
This is from an early 2000s account written by veteran actor James Earl Jones. Jones appeared in the film as part of Major Kong's B-52 crew, and is only seen on-screen with that portion of the cast, and only on the bomber interior set.
Jones at no point appears on the same set as, or actin g alongside, Scott. Their characters never interact nor are aware of one another individually.
Scott, if 'tricked' as alleged by Jones almost forty years after the event, thus performed every single one of his character's scenes in a faultlessly comical or farcical manner, without once suspecting that the entire movie was a farcical comedy in actual fact.
Scott's character was named 'Buck Turgidson' and was senior to one named 'Jack D Ripper', acting alongside a noted comedic actor playing a character named 'Merkin D Muffley'. Scott did not realise this was a comedy? Or was simply aware of the farcical nature, but thought he would perform two differently-toned versions of the same farce?
If neither of those, then Scott would have been working with two different scripts, where character names would have to have been 'toned down' to fit in line with this supposed conspiracy.
I have modified the phrasing of this section, as it is believed to be fact by many (the story is regularly recounted in public forums as fact), when it is, at best, apocryphal, owing to the relationship of the source (actor Jones) to the subject (actor Scott) at the time these events occurred. 86.180.132.21 ( talk) 03:27, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
Many articles on films include the country (in this case, the countries) of origin. Both U.S. and U.K. film authorities awarded honors to "Dr. Strangelove" as a film originating in THEIR country. The confusion over this is easily resolved by including "British-American" in the opening paragraph. I don't see what the problem is, and you don't see fit to explain what it is. Rontrigger ( talk) 23:26, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
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Much is being made of the alleged "trick" pulled by Kubrick to dupe George C Scott into a "more outlandish performance than he was comfortable with".
This is from an early 2000s account written by veteran actor James Earl Jones. Jones appeared in the film as part of Major Kong's B-52 crew, and is only seen on-screen with that portion of the cast, and only on the bomber interior set.
Jones at no point appears on the same set as, or actin g alongside, Scott. Their characters never interact nor are aware of one another individually.
Scott, if 'tricked' as alleged by Jones almost forty years after the event, thus performed every single one of his character's scenes in a faultlessly comical or farcical manner, without once suspecting that the entire movie was a farcical comedy in actual fact.
Scott's character was named 'Buck Turgidson' and was senior to one named 'Jack D Ripper', acting alongside a noted comedic actor playing a character named 'Merkin D Muffley'. Scott did not realise this was a comedy? Or was simply aware of the farcical nature, but thought he would perform two differently-toned versions of the same farce?
If neither of those, then Scott would have been working with two different scripts, where character names would have to have been 'toned down' to fit in line with this supposed conspiracy.
I have modified the phrasing of this section, as it is believed to be fact by many (the story is regularly recounted in public forums as fact), when it is, at best, apocryphal, owing to the relationship of the source (actor Jones) to the subject (actor Scott) at the time these events occurred. 86.180.132.21 ( talk) 03:27, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
Many articles on films include the country (in this case, the countries) of origin. Both U.S. and U.K. film authorities awarded honors to "Dr. Strangelove" as a film originating in THEIR country. The confusion over this is easily resolved by including "British-American" in the opening paragraph. I don't see what the problem is, and you don't see fit to explain what it is. Rontrigger ( talk) 23:26, 12 April 2024 (UTC)