Prompt: "The song that plays over the end credits of the 2024 remake of Dr. Strangelove"
Selected by Allison
"Backstreet Freestyle"
Kendrick Lamar
good kid, m.A.A.d city, 2012
I've seen Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb exactly one time, and it was at least fifteen years ago, and I don't really know if I got it. George C. Scott's character, General Buck Turgidson, stuck with me, though. Now that I work with a lot of ex-military guys, I think it was a pretty accurate portrayal. My job used to hold a regular meeting called the WAR Room (because everything is that serious), and when I was first invited into that meeting, I tried to make a "He'll see the big board" joke, but it didn't really land. Does this song make sense for the ending of a hypothetical remake? I don't care.
1 comment:
I would normally embed the audio-only version of this instead of the music video, but the interruption in the middle of this feels like a mid-credits scene, something that a 2024 remake of an older movie would absolutely have (in an attempt to build the Strangelove Cinematic Universe, probably).
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