this is the book that led to my favorite film of all time, I cannot give this atomic war novel anything butstars,
Red Alert is the original title of Peter George's work on which the film Dr, Strangelove was based. He and Stanley Kubrick and Terry Southern wrote a script for the film which was farcical, unlike the original, The farce is slightly heavy handed for today's times with character names like Jack Ripper, Buck Turgidson, and Premier Kisoff,
This edition is the novelization of the script for the film so retains the farcical quality and adheres rather closely to the script,
If you have seen the film you will appreciate the color this provides and will both recognize some favorite lines and note that others are not here,
Because Peter George was in the RAF he had technical insight into nuclear bombers and the associated strategic methodology, At the time of this novel the nuclear deterrent was based much more heavily on bombers as opposed to the landbased missiles and submarine missile launchers of the nuclear triad.
The whole concept of a recall code and suspense built over hours of flying time is much less relevant for a missile launched from a groundbased or seabased platform.
فیلم دیدم Be advised. If you wanted to read this and see the iconic and hilarious scenes from the film play out on the page almost all of those scenes have different dialog or are missing their A punchlines.
Conspicuously missing:
You can't fight here, this is the war room!
You're gonna have to answer to the coca cola cumpney,
Mandrakes 'preversions'
Mein Fuhrer! I can walk!
It's good to be fine, Now rather dated, this was a classic "moon" story someyears back, If you read it with the timeperiod in mind, you will be amazed at Heinlein's forsight in predicting a nuclearpowered rocket, This is possibly the inspiration that many of the engineers working on the current project may have used to start their careers as it was one of his early novella's and a precursor to Rocketship Gallileo.
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I found both the book the film was based on, and the novelisation of the film, quick reads, Neither of the books is very funny, With Red Alert that
is entirely intentional it is written as an Awful Warning, and even so a couple of the better lines survived to the film in improved form.
By contrast, the bookofthefilm leaves out a lot of the good lines and really brings home just how much the film owes to Kubrick's directorial genius, 'Destino la luna' es la historia de cómo tres cargos dentro de un proyecto de gobierno Americano: un director y doctor jefe, un vicealmirante y el jefe de la compañía de aviación Barnes deciden simular el largamente postergado lanzamiento de un cohete piloto a la luna, cuando en realidad lo efectuarán.
No sin toda una serie de problemas de por medio, que se irán acrecentando conforme de desarrolle su soñado propósito,
Ésta obra del maestro toca, cómo ya hizo con anterioridad pero en otra vertiente, el tema de los pioneros conquistadores, el de los locos visionarios que arriesgaron sus vidas y se lanzaron al vacío nunca mejor expresado en búsqueda de la primera imprenta del hombre y de un estado en un astro intacto aparentemente.
Sin darse la mano con Historia del futuro, Granjero de las estrellas y La luna es una cruel amante, sí confluye casi a la perfección en el universo argumental Heinleniano espacio temporal y nos remite especialmente a los avanzados en Heinlein, con guiños, entre otros, acerca de la ocupación atómica en el espacio y el emplazamiento del cohete, todo en las obras anteriormente comentadas además de en Cadete del espacio a los albores de sus deliberaciones acerca de ésta temática imprescindible para el desarrollo de la Sci fi en su globalidad.
Y ahí, al origen es dónde nos encontramos con lo que podría ser un tratado histórico del primer proyecto llevado a cabo por parte de tres sacrificados y audaces Colón sí, a él se le menciona, obvio en lo que sería una cruzada necesaria pero de no retorno, y que abriría la veda para la posterior consecución de ése y otros astros de verdad alguien cree que todo fue tan perfecto en el primer contacto del hombre en la luna en.
. si es que lo hubo, claro,
Bajo una capa de narración jovial, ágil, directa, pero fascinante en lo referente a todo el conflicto del alunizaje y los problemas de desviación de la nave en su trayectoria con un tratado de física y matemáticas llevado con la excelencia de la pedagogía liviana en pos de la particular historia, además de la exactitud del estado mental y físico de unos cuerpos ajenos dentro de un transporte en constante cambio gravitatorio atmosférico.
Heinlein introduce muchos temas y nos los pone sobre la mesa para que reflexionemos sobre todo ello,
Éste se decidió a hacer un auténtico repaso al ser humano y su desconocimiento, pero también a su arrojo, que lo puede catapultar a lo más grande o a la mayor de las miserias, según se vea.
Así que en ésta engañosa baraja de desarrollo por su aparente simplicidad, el decano trata acerca de la burocracia, del gusto por la dominación de los Estados Unidos de América con otra critica hacía la bomba atómica, el sabotaje, los medios de comunicación especialmente visionaria la escena en la cual uno de los tripulantes decide dar en exclusiva una entrevista a un rotativo a cambio de gananciales, la tercera guerra mundial y los fantasmas humanos que la rodean, sobre la paz y la posibilidad de unificación espacial por el bien global, la seguridad de una nación y el sacrificio de unos llamados para el avance del universo siempre que sea llevado a cabo por el lado correcto:
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. . Eso es lo importante, no nosotros, El hombre muere, la sociedad perpetúa, . . ”
Grande Heinlein una vez más, qué decir que no haya dicho anteriormente, salvo que su obra lo engrandece, y especialmente, engrandece a éste maravilloso pero tantas veces, pedante género que se va por las ramas y olvida lo importante: al hombre y l todo ser vivo y las consecuencias de sus actos dentro de un aún maravilloso y misterioso universo que nos rodea y nunca muere, por mal uso que hagamos de él y sus fuentes de sabiduría.
Nota : Si le pongo un tres, es por que al haber leído y releído tanto de Heinlein, yo siempre hago media escalativa al otorgar entre todas sus obras, pero igualmente está realmente bien escrito cómo siempre, por otra parte.
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The STOP SMILING sitelink Rebels Outlaws Issue features an interview with Stanley Kubrick by Terry Southern, I suppose it's pretty bad to read this having not seen the film, but I love anything about nuclear war, it fascinates me, so this really was a mustread,
The story is meant to be a comedy, and although there were moments that did make me smile, there weren't any laugh out loud moments, I read that this book was written based off the script, so perhaps some of the elements that made the film so enjoyable are lost in the text The idea is that the Cold War is basically ended by a sequence of military mishaps, resulting in the death of millions.
It certainly doesn't sound funny, but I assure you, it's not as doom and gloom as it sounds,
All the characters are welldeveloped and unforgettable, and the atmosphere is as tense and as chaotic as it should be, considering the plot, The only thing that put me off a little whilst reading is the short chapter lengths, and although this is meant to coinside with the cuts in the film, it probably could do with a bit more narration.
This ended too soon for me, but I enjoyed reading it, and now I desperately want to watch the film, This is the third book in a row I've read from the war genre, including The Hunger Games, and War by Sebastian Junger, George's war is in the nuclear era and is written in a dark, comedic style which lent itself to Stanley Kubrick's classic movie version of Dr Strangelove, While George's characters are based on real people, he paints the Leaders as bumbling idiots who fumble there way to nuclear war, Having observed the wars in Iraq, and Afghanistan I don't believe this to be true, If what Peter George had written was true, The Doomsday Machine would have gone off long ago, The truth in George's novel comes when he says that the enlisted men and women are professionals doing their jobs to the best of their abilities, While Dr Strangelove ends in hope for the human race, it is the wrong hope, For anyone to even imagine that we could live under ground for one hundred years and survive as a species, is bizarre, Now the same kind of fear mongering by the politicians and media is telling us to be afraid of Iran setting off a dirty bomb, The Cold War is over, We are entering the era of The Lukewarm War, Interesting book. Would have been a whole lot scarier reading it in, when I wasyears old and living just across the river from Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha, We knew that was a target for Russian missiles, Glad I didn't know about this book then or I wouldn't have slept for weeks, This is unique a novelization of the screenplay to Kubrick's great film probably the most brilliant, darkly comic antiwar film ever made, written by one of its screenwriters, So obviously the story is great, but unfortunately the book doesn't add much that the film didn't already cover, and also misses the unforgettable performances of Peter Sellers, George C.
Scott and Sterling Hayden. And for some reason the book omitted my two favorite lines from the film: "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!" and "You're gonna have to answer to the CocaCola Company.
" An entertaining read, but minus the film's striking visuals and sharp acting performances, it's mostly for Strangelove fanatics only, From BBC radioExtra:
Thermonuclear war erupts in Kerry Shale's awardwinning dramatisation of the apocalyptic black comedy, playing multiple roles,
'Dr. Strangelove' came to prominence in thefilm directed by Stanley Kubrick, Based on the novel 'Red Alert' by Peter George, it famously starred Peter Sellers in multiple roles,
As well as the dramatisation, Kerry Shale also takes several roles: Dr Strangelove, Lieutenant Kivel, Lieutenant Barney Goldberg, Lieutenant Lothar Zogg, Group Captain Lionel Mandrake, General Jack D Ripper and President Merkin Muffley.
With William Hootkins as the King, Sean Barratt as General Buck Turgidson, Stuart Milligan as Gwarne, Nigel Anthony as the Soviet Ambassador, Peter Whitman as Staines, William Roberts as Gap and John Baddeley as Ball.
Alexei de Sadesk and Teresa Gallagher as the Narrators
Director: Gordon House,
First broadcast on the BBC World Service in,
sitelink bbc. co. uk/programmes/bbl Short, unsatisfying and not much of an ending either, The bomb explodes, and life on Earth's surface will be extinct in ten months due to the Doomsday Machine, Dr. Strangelove recommends to the President that a group of about,people be relocated deep in a mine shaft, where the nuclear fallout cannot reach them, so that the USA can be repopulated afterwards.
Because of space limitations, Strangelove suggests a gender ratio of "ten females to each male, "with the women selected for their sexual characteristics, and the men selected on the basis of their physical strength, intellectual capabilities and their importance in business and.
. . doesnt it sound perfect
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HATTIP TO TA Published as Red Alert in 'The novelization of the movie, Cowritten by Peter Bryan George, the author of Red Alert which was the novel that served as the source material for Stanley Kubrick's famous movie, Let me see if Ive got this straight, Peter George wrote a novel called Red Alert, Stanley Kubrick made a movie loosely based on it, calling in both George and Terry Southern to help with the screenplay, Then George wrote another novel called Dr, Strangelove, based on that screenplay, This is that book. Whats remarkable about this is how bad this is, Dr. Strangelove just might be my favorite film, so I must assume Peter George had little to do with its excellent screenplay, And, even curioser, is this: the screenplays best line, “Gentlemen, you cant fight in here, This is the War Room, is printed on the dust jacket of this novel, Yet, George excised it from his novelization, along with the recall code from the film, OPE,
As a fan of the movie, I enjoyed this book, although someday I think I'd like to read the original novel, "Red Alert," from which this book was based.
I didn't know this was Peter George's novelization of the witty and satiric screenplay by Terry Southern, et al, Not my typical fare, but this is a fast and fun read closely tracking the famous flick, The switching between bomber Leper Colony, Burpleson AFB and The War Room keep the energy up for quick and funny read, Hold true to the purity and essence of your bodily fluids! : Although I read this assuming it was the book the movie was based on, I didn't realize until starting the book that it is basically a novelization or a "book of the film.
" As such its basically just the movie in book form, and it doesn't really offer anything that the film doesn't,
Interestingly, the same author wrote a different book Red Alert, which was the inspiration for Kubrick's film, though follows a different plot, The book was adapted into the film, which was then rewritten as this book, . . Kirja pandud oleks nagu jutustusena, kuid kui lugema hakata, siis valgub kogu loole näidendi lummus, Jant kolmes vaatuses. Väga selgelt ja kergeltnäitlejaga lavale pandav kosmosejant, Esimene vaatus maal, teine laevas ja kolmas kuul, . . Ehk mis juhtub, kui Pentagon mootori katsetamiseks luba ei anna ning kosmoselaeva peamised insenerid oma laeva kaaperdada otsustavad, First published by Short Story magazine, September,
First collected into Three x Infinity paperback, ed, Leo Marguiles,. After seeing this darkly funny movie at Park Ridge's Pickwick Theatre, I went off to the bookstore near the Post Office to purchase the novelization, not knowing that the film had been based on a previous novel by the same primary author, George, entitled Red Alert.
The book did not disappoint as it followed the screenplay very closely,
Both Seven Days in May and Failsafe, two other movies about the threat of global war, were released at about the same time, not long after the Kennedy assassination.
I also saw them and also bought the books associated with them, Such were the times. Such were some of the influences working on the minds of thirteenyear olds, .