<P> Kubrick tricked Scott into playing the role of Gen. Turgidson far more ridiculously than Scott was comfortable doing . Kubrick talked Scott into doing over the top "practice" takes, which Kubrick told Scott would never be used, as a way to warm up for the "real" takes . Kubrick used these takes in the final film, causing Scott to swear never to work with Kubrick again . </P> <P> During the filming, Kubrick and Scott had different opinions regarding certain scenes, but Kubrick got Scott to conform largely by repeatedly beating him at chess, which they played frequently on the set . Scott, a skilled player himself, later said that while he and Kubrick may not have always seen eye to eye, he respected Kubrick immensely for his skill at chess . </P> <P> Stanley Kubrick started with nothing but a vague idea to make a thriller about a nuclear accident that built on the widespread Cold War fear for survival . While doing research, Kubrick gradually became aware of the subtle and paradoxical "balance of terror" between nuclear powers . At Kubrick's request, Alastair Buchan (the head of the Institute for Strategic Studies) recommended the thriller novel Red Alert by Peter George . Kubrick was impressed with the book, which had also been praised by game theorist and future Nobel Prize in Economics winner Thomas Schelling in an article written for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and reprinted in The Observer, and immediately bought the film rights . In 2006, Schelling wrote that conversations between Kubrick, Schelling, and George in late 1960 about a treatment of Red Alert updated with intercontinental missiles eventually led to the making of the film . </P> <P> In collaboration with George, Kubrick started writing a screenplay based on the book . While writing the screenplay, they benefited from some brief consultations with Schelling and, later, Herman Kahn . In following the tone of the book, Kubrick originally intended to film the story as a serious drama . However, as he later explained during interviews, he began to see comedy inherent in the idea of mutual assured destruction as he wrote the first draft . Kubrick said: </P>

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