Another case of iconodiagnosis: misattribution of alien hand in dr strangelove?

Helmstaedter and others [1-3] have interpreted the inability of the main character to control his right arm in Stanley Kubrick's satire Dr Strangelove (1964) as an alien hand syndrome. Dr. Strangelove's right arm has a will of its own and constantly forms a Nazi salute and, at one point, attempts to strangle him with its black-gloved right hand. But, quite frankly, Kubrick modeled this arm after the prosthesis of the evil genius scientist Dr Rotwang (Rudolf Klein-Rogge) in Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1929).

Source: Seizure: European Journal of Epilepsy - August 15, 2021 Category: Neurology Authors: Eelco.F.M. Wijdicks Source Type: research