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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.
https://youtu.be/_M50Fd3gXvM
This skit always summed it up for me.
the lunar commissary that the film crew used during shooting is still there, you can see it with a good telescope
Classic
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.
Going to the B-roll footage of Apocalypse Now to deny the existence of Vietnam
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.)
god dammit I didn't read down to this comment before making the exact same joke
You need an exclamation point in front, like this
Ah, thanks! Gifs kept eluding me.
Wouldn't this have worked better?
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Your way links it with alt text. The way below hot links the image to show it in the comment.
That's how I always do gifs.
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.
Correct. This is what we see on lemmy:
Yeah, that bottom one is the format I used.