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.)
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.
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.
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 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.
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