Who wants some pie?
Only Stanley Kubrick could loosely adapt a thriller novel about nuclear war, turn it into a black comedy, have it be equally hilarious, profound, and prophetic, and ultimately amount to being a classic. Amid the rampant Cold War that was dominant in the political climate in 1964, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb imagines an absurdist, yet wholly plausible, comedy of errors that would plunge the world into nuclear destruction.
In a Kubrickian twist, this was not the intended ending upon filming. Instead of nuclear weapons, the director initially opted for pastries. Dr. Strangelove originally called for a climactic pie fight to erupt in the war room after the Russian diplomat, Alexi de Sadesky , throws a custard pie at Turgidson, but inadvertently strikes the President.
Kubrick's graciousness with the broad comedy of Dr. Strangelove is manifested in his direction of George C. Scott's performance as the blundering head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The actor was self-conscious about lowering himself to play a character of inherent buffoonery. Because this countered his vision, Kubrick asked that Scott give an animated and eccentric take as "practice" before playing it sincerely for a respective scene.
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