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They did fake the moon landing. Problem is Kubrick is such a stickler for detail that he insisted they shoot on location.
This skit always summed it up for me.
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.
Classic
If Barry Lyndon was any indication, he would have def gotten the natural light spot on.
Kind of a boring movie, but goddamn is it gorgeous.
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.)
You need an exclamation point in front, like this
Ah, thanks! Gifs kept eluding me.
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.
Wasn’t expecting to see Henry Kissinger in there. Rest in piss.
Kissinger, but very craftily edited to say what they wanted him to say instead of what he actually said. The filmmakers went very far to make it believable.
I just spent an hour watching this (instead of working, thank you FlyingSquid). This is amazing! That’s some exquisite editing!
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.
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.
