Cast capricorn one5/16/2023 Moore has previous experience with remakes thanks to FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX and the rather needless redo of THE OMEN, which was apparently designed solely to take advantage of the 6/6/06 release date. The 21st century “reimagining” will come from BEHIND ENEMY LINES director John Moore, and writer Peter Buchman, who penned Steven Soderbergh’s lengthy Che Guevara biopic. The movie, directed by Peter Hyams (OUTLAND, TIMECOP), featured a strong cast that included James Brolin, Sam Waterston, Elliot Gould, Hal Holbrook, Telly Savalas and a pre-murder OJ Simpson. The 1978 conspiracy flick involved a team of astronauts complicit in a fake Mars landing, and their subsequent attempts to evade government forces before the truth can be exposed. I guess it just required a bit of real-world relevance. But as a whole it’s a brisk and exciting film.While rewatching the 70s thriller CAPRICORN ONE a while back, I marveled that it hadn’t been turned into a remake yet. The rest of the movie rolls out in a series of impressive action set-pieces and a big slo-mo finale, though to get there you have to overlook the occasional bit of hamminess and silliness for instance, Telly Savalas shows up as a rather unlikely rural crop-duster pilot. Meanwhile, ‘back’ on Earth, a questioning mission control technician puts a flea in the ear of rumpled reporter Elliott Gould. Simpson, no stranger to dubious explanations of real-life crimes) join the dots and realise how their story will have to pan out if the hoax is to hold. What’s more, Capricorn One also knows where to go next with the money shot out of the way we see the disgruntled putative astronauts (James Brolin, Sam Waterston and that ’70s movie bit-player O.J. This high concept is brilliantly and convincingly staged by both the movie and the movie-within-a-movie. The makers of Capricorn One, a slightly daft but stellarly cast and highly enjoyable conspiracy thriller from 1978, have as their suspicious event a first human mission to Mars, but aside from that it taps right into the Moon-hoax theories of their time and ours. Having said all that, we all like a good twisty conspiracy in books and films, and the idea of something as huge and public as the Moon landing being faked is an attractive concept. Finally, if you watched Superman II and found the most outlandish thing in it to be the Earth astronauts on the Moon, you have other problems. Secondly, people played golf on the Moon and golfers make a big thing of always telling the truth with their shots and scorecards. By contrast, I’m expected to believe that thousands of miles away, conveniently out of my sight, is a place called “Australia”. For one thing, I’m looking out the window as I write this and the Moon is right there, a short hop away. Ergo, the whole thing was staged in the deserts of Nevada, directed by Stanley Kubrick. In 1969, so the argument goes, you still had to get up to change the channels on your TV, so how could we have the technology to put folk on the Moon? Also, how could a flag planted on the Moon make that shadow at that angle at that time of the lunar cycle, and so forth. The great white whale of ’60s-inspired ’70s conspiracy theories, of course, is that The Moon Landings Were A Hoax. Pakula’s triptych of Klute, The Parallax View and All The President’s Men. Hollywood, where cultural trends go to meet the marketplace, went big on conspiracy thrillers in the 1970s, most notably with Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation and Alan J. Watergate vindicated the 1960s counter-cultural and anti-establishment feeling: a sort of justification that those who doubted the official ‘lone nutter’ explanation of the King and two Kennedy assassinations were indeed onto something. However, you could argue that in pop culture terms the Year Zero of conspiracy theories was sometime in the 1970s. It’s become something of a truism that the Internet age has enabled conspiracy theories to spread and propagate like a deadly airborne virus. On which point, it’s weird how anti-vaxxers distrust frontline healthcare workers and actual scientists but take as gospel some tweet by an anonymous guy living in his mom and dad’s basement in Arsebucket, Idaho, USA. On top of that, I also steered you towards Jack the Ripper’s real identity.Īside from that, though, I have no time for the more dangerous tinfoil-hatted eejitry such as your “Immigration is replacement!” and your “Jews control the world!”, but of course that could just be my double vaccine doses talking. Conspiracy theorists among you will remember how I revealed who was behind Donald Trump’s 2016 US presidential election victory.
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