I've spoken many times before
about the Apollo moon landings; see the background links at the bottom. Despite
the doubts I've raised, along with many others, about the official record of
man's supposed first adventure to another world, none of us have ever unearthed
a complete alternative narrative. This does not mean that the moon landings
were real, just that the truth still remains hidden. One suggestion that has
become very popular in recent years is that the fake moon footage was directed
by Stanley Kubrick. The idea comes from several documentaries that were made
over the last few years including this spoof, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lud_6SBjhR8.
I have my reservations about this theory, but I'm studying Carl James' material
on the matter, see: http://thetruthseekersguide.blogspot.co.uk/.
Then a few weeks ago a supposed interview with Stanley Kubrick appeared that
was an alleged deathbed confession; in fact it was nothing of the sort, see: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/kubrick-moon-hoax-confession.html.
In that article I suggested that it might be a piece of viral marketing for a
new feature film that had premiered at the South by Southwest film festival in Texas last year and was due for released in mid-January. It's
called Moonwalkers. The movie is
about the faking of the moon landings and the involvement of Stanley Kubrick so
I was very keen to watch it. I looked out for it in the cinema to no avail. I
then found out that it had been released, but not to the big screen anywhere. A
company called Alchemy had bought the distribution rights and it was only
available on their pay-per-view online platform, see: http://www.ouralchemy.com/. I tried to
watch it but was told it was not available in my country. My only option therefore
was to go to a pirate video site where it was shared. I don't feel comfortable
doing that and I won't be posting a link to the page; but I had been willing to
pay $US6.99 rental at first and I'll buy the DVD when it's released. If the
distributors want to block UK viewers' access to it, then what do they expect?
Moonwalkers is a
slapstick black comedy by a new director called Antoine Bardou-Jacquet; With a name
like that I'm guessing he, or she, is French. It has a fairly simple plot about
an attempt by the American government to fake the moon landing footage on the
eve of the Apollo 11 mission. The film makes it clear that the Apollo 11 rocket
is being sent to the moon, but that the NASA officials are concerned that the
astronauts won't be able to land there and will only be able to orbit the moon;
or they might be killed in an accident. The fake footage is a back-up if the
real thing can't be pulled off. They employ a CIA agent called Mr Kidman to
approach Stanley Kubrick and ask him to do the job. Mr Kidman is played
brilliantly by Ron Perlman. He's a large hard-bitten undercover specialist who
is haunted by nightmares about his service in Vietnam . He's prone to violent outbursts and knocks out almost all
the other characters at one point or another. He contacts Kubrick though his
agent in London . However, because of a mishap he end up approaching Jonny,
the agent's cousin, who is the hard-up manager of a rock band, played by Rupert
Grint of Harry Potter fame. Jonny decides
on impulse to play along with Kidman's error and persuades his flatmate Leon to disguise himself as Kubrick when they meet with Kidman
to make the arrangements. Eventually Kidman discovers that they were impostors
and hunts them down, but by then it's too late to go back and so he has no
option but to let Jonny and Leon make the lunar visual record. They employ their friend
Renatus, who is a rural bon viveur
and bohemian film maker. The rest of the film follows the characters' abortive
and inept attempts to film the fake Apollo moon landings. The movie is
essentially a parody of 1960's culture. Most of the characters are caricatures
of the young generation of that era. They are all hippies and take drugs; a few
are addicts, including Leon who has to pass as Stanley Kubrick. They wear
bright clothes... when they're not walking around naked, and surround
themselves with psychedelic art. The score is mostly contemporary pop songs. Moonwalkers has been hit with some
rock bottom reviews, but regular readers will know what I think of "duh
cwittix", see: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2008/06/critics.html.
The film is quite amusing in places, but some of the flower power jokes did become
rather tiresome and predictable. It's also a very violent film with a couple of
gruesome shootouts and punch ups. Along with the scenes of constant drug abuse,
it will get an 18 certificate for sure when it released over here. In the end
their plan to fake the moon landings fails abysmally; it had to with such incompetent
perpetrators. However it doesn't matter because the real moon landings are
achieved anyway, making the insurance unnecessary. So this is a film which not
only lampoons the idea of moon landing conspiracy theories, but has a serious moral
in its finale that supports NASA's official story of human exploration of the
moon. Moonwalkers is a reasonable movie,
if you're in the mood for a chuckle at the expense of the swinging sixties, but
it's disappointing if you're expecting a whistle-blowing satire. This is no new Capricorn One. It's not in any
way informing or thought-provoking about alternative views of the Apollo moon
landings. In fact its ridicule may well repel viewers from further investigation...
Maybe that's the idea.
See here for background:
http://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/programme-134-podcast-marcus-allen.html.
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