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Are there really THAT many sexual references in Strangelove?!

posted 14 years ago by tarantinolover12
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Well, after watching this movie and reading some of the posts, a couple of people have been saying that the opening scene is a metaphor for making love - I really don't see this metaphor, so I watched it again, and I just don't see how two planes flying in the sky and one getting re-fuelled can be sexual, other than the plane end looking like a penis :/
So I found this blog: http://siskoid.blogspot.com/2008/10/dr-strangelove-cold-war-as-sexual.html (don't know how to make it clickable, sorry), and I find this completely ridiculous: how someone can find THIS many sex references in this movie?! It makes me wonder if this guy just has an incredibly dirty mind...but a part of me is thinking that what he's saying is true/correct, in that all these sex references were intended.
Now, I am only 17, so it might just be me trying to be mature, saying that I'm immune to recognising the sex references, or it might just be me being too naive, and I'm missing all these sex references. But if anyone would like to tell me what they think, I'd be grateful: is this guy (and others) thinking way too far into the sex references, or were all of them intentionally put in the movie?

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[–] cfhfan138 8 years ago

It's not just this movie. Freud interpreted all human motivation as stemming from sexual urges. Comedian George Carlin did a good bit describing war as a bunch of men "waving their pricks." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeZ3nCXyb_Q about 4:15 into it. It's not that you're naive, you just don't interpret nonsexual things in a sexual way. Nothing wrong with that at all. However, much of the imagery in this movie, as indicated by the blog you mention, uses classic sexual metaphor. It's not just the blogger you mention either. Freud could probably find sexual imagery that the guy missed.

[–] Barbed_Wire_Strawberry 8 years ago

The link between sex and violence was something explored in many Kubrick films, as far as Strangelove, Full Metal Jacket provides some interesting associations.

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[–] Information-Police (4896) 8 years ago

Well, Dr Freud, sometimes a long fueling hose from one vessel protruding into the orafice of another vessel yearning to be filled is just a fueling hose.

[–] MovieManCin2 (26342) 8 years ago

Yes there are.