Informed of the threat to his life, Kubrick locks himself up in his home and never leaves it until his death.Īs a conclusion, General Vernon Walters agrees to reveal the secret of Kubrick's demise, but unexpectedly dies the next evening: he had agreed to break the CIA rule of silence and anonymity.
As a result, Nixon's successor decides to get rid of him as the last witness of the conspiracy.
Only Kubrick is spared.įive years after Apollo 11, Kubrick calls NASA to borrow the top-secret wide-aperture Zeiss lens he needs to make Barry Lyndon. They fail, and the CIA takes over and assassinates all but one of them, who takes shelter in a yeshiva in Brooklyn where he dies ten years later.
Nixon reacts by sending 150,000 men and a half of the 6th Fleet to find and kill the four members of the crew. The death squad goes to Vietnam where the film crew has sought refuge, but is immediately caught by the villagers: despite a perfect accent and disguise, their commanding officer was black. The next morning he tries to cancel the order, but it is too late: meanwhile Kaplan has gone mad, sent his killers and disappeared. Besides, they had found a photo showing a portrait of Kubrick lying on the false lunar soil in the studio.Īfter the success of the fake footage, Nixon gets scared that the truth might be discovered, and in a drunken state asks CIA Colonel George Kaplan to dispose of the whole film crew. The KGB soon realized that "the whole thing was a hoax", that Apollo 11 had indeed landed but it was physically impossible to make pictures in the lunar environment. Kubrick had refused, then accepted and finally directed the fake footage himself, appalled by the lack of skills of the CIA crew. The incapability of shooting images on the Moon had been anticipated by Richard Nixon and his staff who decided to fake the pictures on the Moon, using the set of 2001 that was still available in London. But the outcome of Apollo 11 is disappointing: although the landing is successful, Neil Armstrong makes a fool of himself and not a single shot of the moonwalk is usable. NASA regards Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey as the prototype of the show that the space program needs to be in order to gain this support, leading them to design the spacesuits and vessels in a "Hollywood" fashion and even to hire 700 Hollywood technicians, making all of Hollywood stop working on other projects. The first part tells of the inception of the NASA's lunar program, emphasizing the issues related to its funding and the necessary public support to the program. Kubrick bought three left over lenses from this batch for the filming of Barry Lyndon and had them extensively modified to make them usable on his 35 mm camera. In reality, the Carl Zeiss Planar 50mm f/0.7 lens was designed by Zeiss in 1966 on special request for NASA for the Apollo program, and a batch of ten were made. The mockumentary begins with the premise that NASA loaned a unique and secret lens to Kubrick for the purpose of creating a faked Moon landing in a studio. The mockumentary's basic premise is that the television footage from the Apollo 11 Moon landing was faked and recorded in a studio by the CIA with help from director Stanley Kubrick. It originally aired on the Franco-German television network Arte in 2002 with the title Opération Lune. Vincent Décis, Emmanuelle Fage, Jean-Paul Llamazaresĭark Side of the Moon is a French mockumentary by director William Karel. Philippe Faure (French) / Andrew Solomon (English) He also stated that it’s not up to NASA or anyone for that matter to keep things of this magnitude hidden from the rest of the world.Picture of Buzz Aldrin on the Moon, used for the DVD cover Due to his age, he says he no longer feels threatened by the secrecy he was sworn to at the time of the mission. William Rutledge is 78 years old and currently living in Rwanda. The astronauts recovered what technology they could and started their trip home. The male was also brought to Earth and an autopsy was performed on him. She was brought back to Earth and he suspects that she was revived and is kept somewhere secret to this day. She was attached to the pilot controls of the spaceship, with several tubes going into her body and she was covered in a wax-like substance. Rutledge described her as being in a state of suspended animation, neither dead nor alive.
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