Comment on Stanley Kubrick is a magician

teft@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• directive0@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  youtu.be/_M50Fd3gXvM

  This skit always summed it up for me.

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• theodewere@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  the lunar commissary the film crew used during shooting is still there, you can see it with a good telescope

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• leftzero@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No, no, Kubrick hated shooting on location. All those Vietnam scenes in Full Metal Jacket…? Filmed right next to London.

  Now, he did fake the moon landing, of course, that’s why NASA gave him the lens he used to make every single frame in Barry Lyndon look like a period painting… but much like with the start of 2001 (also filmed in London), he wanted lots of location pictures for reference (he didn’t want to go there, wherever it was, but he had no qualms whatsoever about sending other people), so he demanded NASA send astronauts to the moon anyway to take those pictures, and the official moon landing was faked using those pictures taken in the real one as reference.

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• negativenull@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Classic

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• zifnab25@hexbear.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Going to the B-roll footage of Apocalypse Now to deny the existence of Vietnam

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• prole@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If Barry Lyndon was any indication, he would have def gotten the natural light spot on.

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  • leftzero@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And do you know how he managed to make every frame in that film look like a period painting…? A very particular and expensive lens NASA gave him.

    (Of course, though, while the man despised filming on location, he required massive amounts of reference pictures to build his sets, so even though the official moon landing was fake, NASA still had to get some astronauts there first to take those pictures for him.)

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• jawa21@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Image

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  • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You need an exclamation point in front, like this

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    • jawa21@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ah, thanks! Gifs kept eluding me.

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    • Th4tGuyII@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wouldn't this have worked better?

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      • teft@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Your way links it with alt text. The way below hot links the image to show it in the comment.

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        That’s how I always do gifs.

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      • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah, that bottom one is the format I used.

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• Nakoichi@hexbear.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  god dammit I didn’t read down to this comment before making the exact same joke picard

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