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Film director Stanley Kubrick died . Obituaries recalled his movies' eight Academy Awards, focusing on Dr. Strangelove , A Clockwork Orange , and 2001: A Space Odyssey , also mentioning Lolita and The Shining . Commentators debated the significance of the bleak fantasies in which he portrayed human recklessness, madness, brutality, murder, and nuclear holocaust.
The other, John Von Neumann, may not have been clinically insane, but he did serve as the real-life model for the title character in Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove .
The director of A Clockwork Orange , 2001: A Space Odyssey , and Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb was universally hailed for a famously uncompromising vision.
That tone would have been a snap for Kubrick in the days of The Killing (1956), Lolita (1962), and Dr. Strangelove (1964), and a stretch after 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), when his storytelling acquired an all-purpose lugubriousness.
Lyndon Johnson's camp portrayed the Republican senator as a trigger-happy Strangelove likely to blow up the world.
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