selden wrote:It has nothing to do with any conspiracy and a lot to do with the cost of production.
Hi Selden, I don't know if this doc have be translated -and diffused- in English, but there was an extraordinary docu(mentary) Fiction by William Karel, called "Op?©ration Lune" in French (2002), that explains the Apollo mystification, How Kubrick realized the lunar mission pictures, with comments by Nixon, Rumsfeld, Kissinger, Helms, Aldrin and others about the conspiracy. A great television document.
Be Careful, Spoiler:
(Don't read if you prefer)
The real question is, if you have a chance to see it for the first time: when do you understand it is a jape (1), because it begins with absolute real infos and comments, and turns into joke little step by little step... Astonishing and very good realization, good copy of the real documentary format we can see on the canal that have aired this for the first time, "arte" a cultural French-German canal.
(1) I'm a little innocent... so the first time i saw it, I just tilted when they quoted citations from "David Bowman", a NASA astonaut...
(No, HAL 9000 is NOT interviewed
The big deal : there are a lot of guys who have understood this film at first degree (don't know the English words for 'premier degr?©' in French) and year after year, it is repercuted as proof in the
Conspiracy fans area
Incredible...