teft,
@teft@startrek.website avatar

They did fake the moon landing. Problem is Kubrick is such a stickler for detail that he insisted they shoot on location.

negativenull,
@negativenull@startrek.website avatar

Classic

theodewere,
theodewere avatar

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

zifnab25,

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

directive0,
@directive0@lemmy.world avatar

youtu.be/_M50Fd3gXvM

This skit always summed it up for me.

jawa21,
JohnDClay,
jawa21,

Ah, thanks! Gifs kept eluding me.

Th4tGuyII,
Th4tGuyII avatar
JohnDClay,

Yeah, that bottom one is the format I used.

teft,
@teft@startrek.website avatar

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


<span style="color:#323232;">![](gif url here)
</span>

That’s how I always do gifs.

Th4tGuyII,
Th4tGuyII avatar

Ah, I see this is one of those little differences between KBin and Lemmy.

This is what I see...

So you guys see that first one as just the GIF and not that massive URL that we see.

teft,
@teft@startrek.website avatar
prole,

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.

leftzero,

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.

Nakoichi,
@Nakoichi@hexbear.net avatar

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

FlyingSquid,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

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.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJoNK4uICTY

Tak,
@Tak@lemmy.ml avatar

Wasn’t expecting to see Henry Kissinger in there. Rest in piss.

FlyingSquid,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

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.

negativenull,
@negativenull@startrek.website avatar

I just spent an hour watching this (instead of working, thank you FlyingSquid). This is amazing! That’s some exquisite editing!

FlyingSquid,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

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.

ScrewdriverFactoryFactoryProvider,

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.

porthos,

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,
@Nakoichi@hexbear.net avatar

Stanley Kubrick was asked to fake the moon landing and he agreed, but being Stanley Kubrick he insisted they film on location.

Rhode Island is actually the third largest state in the US but the other states are trying to keep it down.

also this sounds fucking hilarious where can I read more?

porthos,

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,

I’m still waiting for the Birds Aren’t Real people to reach through the generations to become a liberal conspiracy.

porthos,

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….

Kolanaki,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

To fake the moon landing, the government hired Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick, being a perfectionist, made it look real by filming on location.

jayandp,

Location shooting is proving to actually be more cost effective in many circumstances as well. Kubrick knew his stuff.

possiblylinux127,

Your forgetting about the 5G. They only want you to believe it was in 69. It was really more like 2169

Neato,
Neato avatar

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.

JustMy2c,

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,

This one? youtu.be/_loUDS4c3Cs?si=oaF9L2yCBFuy35KB

It’s a great watch on the subject.

sirico,
@sirico@feddit.uk avatar

It was AI Area 51 is just a giant CRAY

TrismegistusMx,

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.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ML2ZYYFOnI

theodewere,
theodewere avatar

and exponentially more difficult to hide it

The_Picard_Maneuver,
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