Transcript Dr. Strangelove

Dr.
Strangelove
Supplementary Notes
Meanings of Characters’
Names
• Jack D. Ripper = psychopath
who killed prostitutes to “free”
them
• Kissoff = to start a disaster, or to
abandon something as lost
• Mandrake = plant for curing;
also an aphrodisiac/fertility drug
•King Kong = beast who
died for what he loved
•Strangelove = perverted
love
•Guano = bat excrement
•Ambassador de Sadesky =
Marquis de Sade, writer
of sadistic pornography
• Muffley = muff = pubic
hair/pubic region
• Merkin = British slang for
female genitalia
• Buck = male animal stud,
oriented primarily for
reproduction
• Turgidson = turgid = swollen
and erect
Connections Between War and
Sex
• Ripper’s gun and how he holds it
• How Major Kong sits on the
bomb
• The plane’s two bombs look
like testicles
• In the opening scene, the one
plane refueling the other
looks like copulation (sex)