>>4581997Cant make a threat toward your own post. Only others can threat you.
Kubric was in the process of shooting ‘2001 A Space Odyssey’ at the time. Nationally, the space race with the Russians was treated like a rock and roll show with lots of flair and this really brought the country together. Kennedy, didn’t want to lose to the russians and didn’t want to by any means necessary. In comes Kubric, NASA, Kennedy and the CIA. During the space race, NASA with the collaboration of Carl Ziess developed a one of a kind camera lens with an extremely low f/stop to be used on the moon in very low light conditions. Kubric begged NASA to let him ise this lens for his movie.
Knowing that the russians were going to very likely be the first to the moon, the CIA was used to broker a trade with Kubric- let us use your sets to stage a moon landing essentially beating the russians and bolstering nationalism and we will have NASA let you use their one of a kind lens.
Kubric agreed, but had no part in the actual staging of the photos- just the use of his sets. In doing so, the US was the first to the moon (eventually getting their for real some time later), Kubric got his lens and everyone was happy.
However, all of the CIA agents involved in the doctored photos all wound up dead to two self inflicted gun shots to the back of the head and other ridiculous deaths. Kubric went on to drop hints to the fake landing by use of his other films even though he was not allowed to come out and reveal the hoax. His death also, has a mystery about it too and doesn’t quite add up.
