I forget where I saw it but I watched a video that showed how in 69 it would be so difficult to fake the shots that it was easier to just go to the moon.
Stanley Kubrick is a magician
Submitted 9 months ago by negativenull@startrek.website to risa@startrek.website
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Neato@kbin.social 9 months ago
JustMy2c@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Going to the moon is easy. Coming back alive is another thing.
But catering for a movie cast (and paying them to keep it on the down low) may be more difficult & costly…
Hasherm0n@lemmy.world 9 months ago
This one? youtu.be/_loUDS4c3Cs?si=oaF9L2yCBFuy35KB
It’s a great watch on the subject.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 months ago
There’s a really fun mockumentary called Dark Side of the Moon which plays it (almost) totally straight about Stanley Kubrick faking the moon landing until the end credits when it shows all the “experts” cracking up. Really worth a watch if you can find it. It’s French but was filmed in English.
There’s a very low-quality version on YouTube. Not sure where else you can find it.
negativenull@startrek.website 9 months ago
I just spent an hour watching this (instead of working, thank you FlyingSquid). This is amazing! That’s some exquisite editing!
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 months ago
No problem. I’m sorry I couldn’t link to a higher quality version. I don’t remember how I got a copy but I don’t have it anymore.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 9 months ago
To fake the moon landing, the government hired Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick, being a perfectionist, made it look real by filming on location.
jayandp@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Location shooting is proving to actually be more cost effective in many circumstances as well. Kubrick knew his stuff.
porthos@startrek.website 9 months ago
Pretty much the lamest conspiracy theory. There are better ones like Rhode Island is actually the third largest state in the US but the other states are trying to keep it down.
Nakoichi@hexbear.net 9 months ago
Stanley Kubrick was asked to fake the moon landing and he agreed, but being Stanley Kubrick he insisted they film on location.
porthos@startrek.website 9 months ago
Well I haven’t gotten that particular conspiracy theory off the ground yet, still trying to get people in on that one.
I think it is everything you could want from a conspiracy theory though, you just steal all the same talking points from flat earthers but apply the conspiracy in so much more of a petty and meaningless direction that I think it has real potential.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 9 months ago
I’m still waiting for the Birds Aren’t Real people to reach through the generations to become a liberal conspiracy.
porthos@startrek.website 9 months ago
Dont tell me you are one of those people who who are so naive they ACTUALLY believe humans came up with that Birds Aren’t Real conspiracy? Lol some people can’t see the truth when it is right there screaming in their face. It is clearly a crow psy-op campaign to distract humanity from uncovering their preparations for crowmeggedon. We are running out of time to raise people’s awareness, we have to speak up before the only ones left to speak have beaks….
TrismegistusMx@slrpnk.net 9 months ago
The SFX artists of the Corridor Crew said it would be more expensive and more difficult to fake the moon landing than to actually land on the moon.
theodewere@kbin.social 9 months ago
and exponentially more difficult to hide it
The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 9 months ago
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
Your forgetting about the 5G. They only want you to believe it was in 69. It was really more like 2169
ScrewdriverFactoryFactoryProvider@hexbear.net 9 months ago
To have such a strong, undiffused, and distant light that it could realistically mimic the shadows on the moon, you would need very modern CGI to replace the shadows of every actor on every frame. Supposedly the recording we have of the moon landing is of a camera pointed at a tv screen because simultaneously broadcasting and recording at the same time was still newer tech that NASA didn’t have set up. And even then, you can see the quick falloff of the shadows and how they run parallel to each other. The sophistication to pull off a fake was just not there.
sirico@feddit.uk 9 months ago
It was AI
teft@startrek.website 9 months ago
They did fake the moon landing. Problem is Kubrick is such a stickler for detail that he insisted they shoot on location.
directive0@lemmy.world 9 months ago
youtu.be/_M50Fd3gXvM
This skit always summed it up for me.
theodewere@kbin.social 9 months ago
the lunar commissary the film crew used during shooting is still there, you can see it with a good telescope
leftzero@lemmy.world 9 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.
negativenull@startrek.website 9 months ago
Classic
zifnab25@hexbear.net 9 months ago
Going to the B-roll footage of Apocalypse Now to deny the existence of Vietnam
prole@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
If Barry Lyndon was any indication, he would have def gotten the natural light spot on.
leftzero@lemmy.world 9 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.)
jawa21@startrek.website 9 months ago
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JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
You need an exclamation point in front, like this
Nakoichi@hexbear.net 9 months ago
god dammit I didn’t read down to this comment before making the exact same joke picard