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Faking the Moon Landing
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The setup
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The premise
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In a dim Washington office in 1968, a pair of intelligence officials ask their top expert in misleading footage how to convince the Soviets that America has landed on the Moon (the real Mars missions being too secret to show). Her plan begins with building an enormous rocket, since everyone will want to know how the astronauts got there, and each follow-up question reveals another expense that the hoax cannot avoid, until the only remaining saving would be to fly to the Moon and film the fake landing there.
The funny people
Meet the cast. 3
Say it with us
Highly quotable.
Do this right and the Cold War could be over by 1971.
Well, other than that it's mainly catering.
Fake the footage of the fake moon landing on the moon?
Behind the scenes
The people who made it.
Ben Gosling Fuller
Director
Gareth Edwards
Producer
Script
Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.
- 00:02
Agent ?
Wouldn't it be great to make everyone think we'd landed on the moon?
- 00:05
Agent ?
That'd show the Soviets.
- 00:07
Bespectacled Agent ?
What would it show them?
- 00:08
Agent
Well, they'd think we'd landed on the moon and they'd be all afraid. Do this right and the Cold War could be over by 1971.
- 00:15
Bespectacled Agent
Why don't we just release the footage of the Mars landings?
- 00:18
Agent
No, no, it's vitally important that we keep the successful mission to Mars a secret. But I've got a hunch that if we pretend to have landed on the moon, that will be in some way intimidating.
- 00:28
Bespectacled Agent ?
Will people believe us?
- 00:29
Agent
Oh, I'm sure they will to the extent that we won't even need to bother to pay much attention to detail with regard to flags and shadows and so on You're the top spy in the Secret Service when it comes to misleading footage. What do you suggest?
- 00:42
Top Spy
Well to start with of course, we'll need to build a massive rocket.
- 00:46
Bespectacled Agent
Why we're not actually going to the moon So I thought that was the point. Have I got this wrong?
- 00:50
Top Spy
We'll need a massive rocket because the first question people will ask when we show them the footage of the moon will be how did you get there so we'll have to be able to say we went in that massive rocket you saw
- 01:02
Agent
so we're not actually going to make any kind of saving in terms of the cost of a massive rocket
- 01:06
Top Spy
no but we will be making a saving on the cost of actually going to the moon
- 01:11
Agent ?
true true and what costs are involved in actually going to the moon
- 01:15
Top Spy
well the main one to be honest is the massive rocket
- 01:19
Agent ?
any others
- 01:22
Top Spy
well other than that it's mainly catering
- 01:25
Agent ?
so so we'll make a saving on that
- 01:27
Top Spy
well no in fact it'll probably be more expensive to cater for an entire film crew for the duration of a shoot than it would be to feed three astronauts
- 01:38
Agent
so i'm i'm just wondering we'll still have to build the massive rocket capable of going to the moon
- 01:44
Top Spy
we will have to do that yes
- 01:45
Agent
so so i was just thinking if if we've built the moon rocket Might it not be cheaper to just pop to the moon and fake the footage there?
- 01:55
Top Spy
Fake the footage of the fake moon landing on the moon?
- 01:59
Top Spy ?
What if people found out?
- 02:01
Bespectacled Agent
That's a risk we're just going to have to take.
The rabbit hole continues
One more couldn’t hurt.
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