Piper 4 Feb 3 2010, 06:03 AM wrote:
terence.drew 4 Feb 3 2010, 01:24 AM wrote:
This is a mockumentary and a good old yarn but it just shows you once the name Kubrick starts getting linked with moon fakery the fudge merchants are out in force with their....fudge..to lens a hand
It's often referred to as a mockumentary but I've often wondered, how the hell did someone making a joke documentary on the Moon landings manage to get people like Rumsfeld, Henry Kissinger, Alexander Haig, Buzz Aldrin and Stanley Kubrick's widow to appear in it and go along with the joke?
Piper,
Read about director William Karel here...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Karel
Karel belongs squarely with the 'Naudet Hall of Fame'. His "Dark Side of the Moon" is IMHO, the most diabolically sly double-think movie ever produced to ridicule the moonlanding skeptics.
"DARK SIDE OF THE MOON"
For those who haven't seen it, it briefly goes like this :
- Stanley Kubrick's wife reveals that her husband was, in fact, behind the moonhoax.
- 'Stunning cameo appearances' of Nixon, Rumsfeld, Haig and Aldrin confirm that the moonlandings were, in fact, a hoax.( This is done with overdubbed archive material of these folks - in other words, with
fake audiotracks). Other, less 'famous' individuals are also interviewed confirming the same.
- At the very end of the film, we are led 'backstage' of the film set... All the less 'famous' individuals reveal, one by one, that they've been acting all along - and that the film was basically a practical joke (played on the gullible film spectators, hahaha.)
The end result of Karel's - excuse me -
cointelpro film was that, now, EVERYONE AND HIS DOG would spread the word that 'Kubrick was behind the Moonhoax'. However, anyone contending/insisting that this was TRUE, would forever be the laughing stock of all ...uh... "smarter folks" :rolleyes: who had "not been fooled" by Karel's film.
Quite frankly, the very fact that Nixon, Rumsfeld, Haig and co willingly lent their faces to this movie tells me all I need to know ! ;)
Btw, why are 'conspiracy theorists' commonly described as dwelling on
'the dark side', hmm?...