Wayne rose to glory in the 1930sAnd during the 1940s and 1950s, he built his reputation as Hollywood the ultimate bastion of masculinity. Wayne did not have much range as an actor, usually playing "Johnon Wayne", but his type of character proved to be feasible in certain types of ultra-popular genres of films. He was a western starvet and a military film star, and his stupidity, Rah-Rah-America, eagerly ate the audience. However, Wayne wrapped up the 1960s, much of his image began to decline. This was the most because the times changed, and the types of Western and military films that once titled Gauche with a new generation. The anti-war feeling was more popular than pro-war propaganda that was announced on the eve of World War II.

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It can be seen that Wayne is fighting in his infamous stench of "Green Berets", a film that tried to apply old -fashioned feelings of World War II in the Vietnam war. It was insensitive, and critics slammed him. Wayon Wayne was no longer needed as a national symbol.

Indeed, as early as 1964, when Wayne made films like "The Sons of Katie Elder" and "To the Damage", some directors were already looking to use Wayne's image for satirical purposes. Wayne's ultra-fat was no longer modern, and some of the 1960s directors were looking forward to lamen. Case in point: Stanley Kubrick once offered Wayne role in his political satire "Dr. Strigelove, or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb." The story says Kubrick wanted his starvet, Peter Sellers, to play four different roles in the film, but forced him to keep him in three. Kubrick asked if Wayne would take over the fourth role, B-52 bombers by the name of Major Kong.

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Wayne never answered, so instead of Kubrick he threw Slim Pickens instead.

For those unknown, "Dr. Strigelove" is a dark fraud for nuclear breeding. A crazy US Army general named Jackec D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) has become obsessed with the evil of communism and bent over in coward theories about how the committees are plot to drink and disrupt our precious body fluids (!). As such, it bypasses the usual security protocols and begins a nuclear strike against Russia. The film takes place in the span between Ripper gives the order and the time when the bombs are set to be released.

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There are three locations over. At Ripper's office, the General tells his paranoid plots by a British officer in a visit named Lionel Mandrike. In the US military room, the president (sellers) discusses the possibilities of dozens of confused suits, including Blustery Buck Turgidson (George C. Scott). Former Nazi doctor, Dr. Strigelate (sellers) is also there with a president, and he has a very strange contingent of doomsday on his own.

The third location is on the ship B-52 bomber that has got the order to drop the nuclear load to Russia. Slim Pickens was playing the pilot of the bomber, Major Kong, the role the sellers were supposed to play. As evidenced by co-writer Terry South, in Interview for 2008 with mediumKubrick actually wrote the role of Major Kong to look like Johnon Wayne and wanted sellers to do something from Johnon Wayne's staff. When the sellers turned out, Kubrick felt that he only had to deal with the fences and try to hire the right deal. South said he was approaching Wayne, but that he "fired him immediately". An article in a mental threadHowever, he said that Wayne just never answered.

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Obviously, the Bonaza Starweet Dan Bloker was also asked to play Major Kong, but he lowered the script for what is "too much Pinko", a pianorative slang for the left curve. Fortunately, Slim Pickens was a game, and he played the part well. Known, Pickens did not know "Dr. Strigelove" was supposed to be satire, so he played his role completely upright.