Nearly 50 years have passed since the Apollo program. Although the moon has been conquered by humans, as time goes by, the moon has become more and more mysterious.
The release of "The First Man on the Moon" this year is of great significance to the United States. For this reason, Da Cong wrote an in-depth analysis and extension of the film, hoping that everyone can find some fun in it.
Guided reading
Chapter 1: After watching
Chapter 2: The Moon Landing Conspiracy Theory
Chapter 3: Secrets of the Moon
Chapter 4: Deep Deconstruction
Chapter 5: True and False Armstrong
Chapter 1: After watching (no spoilers)
First of all, don't think of "First Man on the Moon" as an entertainment action movie, otherwise you will feel that the special effects action is not enough.
The director of "The First Man on the Moon" is Damien Chazelle , a director of a community with contradictory romance and reality. His films "Burst Drummer" and "La La Land" are full of such movies. tune.
This year's "First Man on the Moon", Damien Chazelle once again joined hands with Commander High, as well as the main creative team of "La La Land", including Justin Hurwitz, the composer of "La La Land", to create a A biopic of Armstrong, the first man on the moon.
"First Man on the Moon" is different from other traditional commercial entertainment routines, with a strong director style. During the demonstration flight of the film, except for the third act of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission, almost all the fragments of the flight at other times were shot in the cockpit in the first person.
This kind of first-person video scheduling makes people feel like they are sitting in the cockpit when watching a movie, and sometimes I unconsciously feel whether I have fastened my seat belt.
The realistic and depressing lens language of the film, coupled with the strong sound effects of the rocket eruption, leaves many details of the rocket launch outside the painting, giving the audience enough space for imagination and allowing the audience to truly integrate with the protagonist.
When the film reaches the third act of the Apollo 11 mission, there are a few macro perspectives that show the God's perspective of the Apollo 11 mission. These clips are very epic. Coupled with the romantic moonlight theme created by composer Justin Hurwitz, the film has been sublimated several levels.
The quality of "First Man on the Moon" is very close to Oscar, with rich character building lines, as well as the skillful performance of Commander High, heavy plot values, and unique special effects scenes.
After reading it, the words that came to my mind were "romantic", "delicate" and "unique" to describe "The First Man on the Moon", and I also sighed in my heart, what a strong heart and a strong family and family Love is the first great step in human history.
Chapter 2: The Moon Landing Conspiracy Theory
Talking about the moon landing, how can we not talk about the moon landing conspiracy theory, this is a major topic in the follow-up to the moon landing.
The moon landing plan was launched in 1969. During the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, the United States and the Soviet Union wanted to overwhelm each other in various strengths in order to compete for the position of the world's largest brother. Therefore, the two countries launched an arms race while launching a confrontation in space.
Before the U.S. lunar landing program, the Soviet Union had been in manned spaceflight technology, always one step ahead of the United States, but the United States suddenly succeeded in manned landing on the moon, and this technology developed more than 10 times faster than the Soviet Union.
Then the question arises, why the aerospace technology in the United States has developed so rapidly in a few years, which has led to the conspiracy theory of landing on the moon.
According to the survey, in 1999, only 6% of the people did not believe that man had landed on the moon, but in 2013, the number of people who did not believe climbed to 37%. With the passage of time and the development of science and technology, it has caused people's doubts about the past 50 years. Pre-human moon landing technology is increasingly skeptical.
Because in the past 50 years, human beings have never landed on the moon again. It stands to reason that with the development of economy and technology, the CPU of an iPhone XS MAX can be equipped with a computer of the NASA command center at that time. According to With the speed of technological development, the moon should now be a tourist attraction, and the National Day stalls are crowded with Chinese people. But so far, only China has carried out the Chang'e moon landing experiment, and other countries have not made any news.
What's worse, NASA said in an official announcement that the United States used to land on the moon and spaceflight technology, and now it's gone, because it's been too long, and with the iteration of technology, these secret technologies related to lunar landing and spaceflight can no longer be used. So it was destroyed. If the United States wants to manned the moon now, it is equivalent to starting from 0.
? ? ? (Black question mark face), do you believe it, I don't believe it anyway. According to NASA, human spaceflight science and technology are basically at a standstill today.
Of course, this is also justified. As the saying goes, there is competition, and there is motivation. The fierce competition between countries will stimulate the outbreak of scientific and technological power.
For example, there were tanks in World War I, atomic bombs in World War II, and the outbreak of the two world wars, which promoted the rapid advance of human science and technology.
The Cold War brought about a space arms race, and the United States and the Soviet Union at the time wanted to develop space technology at all costs. Therefore, the aerospace technology at that time can even be said to be the pinnacle of human beings.
But with the advent of the era of peace, humans have only made some manned space stations, such as the Mir space station, which was decommissioned in 2001. There is also the International Space Station, which is expected to be decommissioned in 2024. my country has the Tiangong space station, but it is still in its infancy.
To sum up, the slow progress of human exploration of the universe in the past 50 years has led to doubts about the authenticity of the moon landing at that time.
As early as 1974, American writer Bill Kane wrote the book "We have never been to the moon" , which was a sensation. This is also the beginning of people questioning whether humans have waited for the moon.
Later, in 1977, there was a movie called "Capricorn One" , which told how scientists faked and told everyone the story of the successful landing of human beings on Mars. This is a satire on the lunar landing plan.
In 2016, a Canadian film team directly made a film "Avalanche" , which is about the fake moon landing in the United States, but the idea of the film was good, but the shooting was substandard.
Even Snowden of the U.S. Intelligence Agency once implied in an interview that the U.S. moon landing plan was fraudulent, but he did not elaborate on which part of it was faked.
During the Apollo program, the United States successfully landed on the moon six times, and each time the American flag was planted. Based on the current observations, people can only find five American flags. The missing one is Apollo 11 (the first time) Because the moon belongs to a vacuum, there is no air, no oxidation, and no wind. It is incredible that the national flag disappears out of thin air.
So many people suspected that Apollo 11 was under pressure and faked the moon landing.
When Armstrong landed on the moon, he used a live broadcast to the world, which was also the highest-rated live broadcast in human history. After that, people were eager to study the videos and photos at that time, and they also found a lot of doubts. Although these doubts were made by NASA Explanation, but conspiracy theorists still hold on.
Doubt 1: The fluttering flag
The most discussed is the flag that fluttered when landing on the moon. It stands to reason that there will be no wind on the moon, but watching the video we can clearly see the "fluttering" national flag.
NASA's explanation is that because the moon's gravity is small, the flag will not droop too fast after it is unfolded, and the astronauts shake when the flag is placed, causing the flag to vibrate, because the moon has no air resistance, so the flag will vibrate with the flag. flutter".
Doubt 2: No dust
According to the astronauts, the surface of the moon is covered with dust, but when the lunar bin landed, it did not bring the corresponding dust effect, and there was no trace of the landing (NASA did not respond).
Doubt 3: Multiple light sources
In the photo, the astronaut's helmet reflects multiple directional light sources, just like in the studio, but at that time there should be only one light source from the sun on the moon.
NASA's explanation is that because there are moon landing equipment next to it when taking pictures, it will cause reflections, so it is normal for the helmet to reflect a lot of light sources.
Doubt 4: No stars
It stands to reason that the moon has no atmosphere, so it can directly see the dark universe, and it should be able to see many stars, but their photos have no stars.
This NASA explanation is because the sun reflects too much light, just like we can't see stars during the day on Earth.
If you disdain this explanation, you can take a look at the photos sent back by Chang'e-3 on the moon, and there are no stars.
Doubt 5: Prop stones
Others speculate that this was inspired by Stanley Kubrick's "2001 A Space Odyssey", and hired Stanley Kubrick to be the director of the moon landing program. The film was released in 1968. Apollo 11 landed on the moon in 1969.
In one photo, eagle-eyed people saw a stone with the letter C written on it, which was most likely a movie prop mark.
Da Cong's point of view
I still believe that humans have landed on the moon, but I doubt that the entire moon landing program of the United States has not given the world all the real information. The videos were all reported directly to the Pentagon and became highly secretive in the United States.
As for why the United States has not landed on the moon in the past 50 years, I think the United States has already proved its ability to land on the moon, so there is no need to prove its own strength, but to spend more financial resources on American people's livelihood.
Moreover, "The First Man on the Moon" has already described that there were many people who opposed the moon landing at that time, so on the issue of the moon landing, the United States never moved forward, because the dream of landing on the moon is good, but the dream is not necessarily To keep paying.
Until now, American values are also changing, and even the dream of colonizing Mars is now proposed by private entrepreneur Sloan Musk. Perhaps it has become more and more difficult in today's United States to complete the dream of the latter country with all the strength of the country.
But Da Cong is also depressed. Since he wants to colonize Mars, why not build a base on the moon first, and then do colonization experiments on the moon. The moon should be the best training ground for humans to colonize outer space.
However, some people have analyzed that Mars has a climate, gravity and the moon are closer to the earth, and most importantly, there is evidence of water on Mars.
But there are also a large number of people who point out that the reason why people no longer explore the moon is because the moon itself has secrets.
Chapter 3: Secrets of the Moon
If you like stargazing, you all know that the moon has the same period of rotation and revolution, so the moon will always have only the bright and smooth side facing the earth, and the back side of the moon will become our mystery.
The Soviet Union photographed the back of the moon through unmanned satellites in 1959, but since the resolution is equivalent to the first generation of mobile phones with cameras, there is no way to analyze it, only that there are many craters on the back of the moon.
When the Apollo lunar landing program was launched, astronauts once bypassed the back of the moon and photographed the back of the moon with the naked eye and cameras, but these data were sent directly to the United States Security Agency and were classified as state secrets until the end of 2009. The Reconnaissance Orbiter photographed the far side of the moon before it was made public.
The back of the moon looks like this, is there any intensive phobia?
So in the past few decades, everyone has different opinions. Some people even think that the photos on the back of the moon have been refined. Conspiracy theorists believe that there are mysterious abandoned alien civilizations on the back of the moon, or that there are alien bases. There is a lot of so-called evidence.
Evidence 1: Testimony of Astronauts
Apollo 11 astronaut Aldrin accidentally revealed in an interview that UFOs were tracking the spacecraft in flight.
During the live broadcast of Armstrong's moon landing, the signal was mysteriously cut off for 2 minutes. In 1969, not everyone could afford a TV, but radios were very popular, so there were many DIY radio enthusiasts.
These enthusiasts intercepted the audio of the mysterious few minutes of the signal being cut off in the waveband transmitted by the moon back to the earth at that time. Armstrong said at the time:
"Look what is that? It's incredible, there are other spaceships, near the crater rim, they're looking at us"
This statement was confirmed by a retired astronaut who was a former Apollo program.
Moreover, the location where Apollo 11 landed did not land at the location originally designated by the command center, but shifted slightly. This is also why the "First Man on the Moon" screen shows why the fuel is exhausted. According to folks, it was Eminem. They went after the UFO for 2 minutes when the screen was interrupted.
Obviously, these materials have been read by everyone for a long time, and they have become a topic of conversation in conspiracy theories.
Evidence 2: Apollo 20
Some people are convinced that the sudden interruption of the Apollo program by the United States was not an officially announced "funding problem", but had to be interrupted.
Some people believe that the lunar landing program did not end in Apollo 17, but after that, the Apollo 18, 19, and 20 lunar landing missions were secretly carried out, including tracking UFOs and studying the far side of the moon. the secret.
NASA officially announced that there were plans to go to Apollo 20, but the entire flight program was suspended on Apollo 17.
In April 2007, a person named "retiredafb" suddenly appeared on the Internet, and posted multiple videos of Apollo 20 on the Internet, and the video showed that Apollo 20 was a secret mission jointly carried out by the United States and the Soviet Union.
In May 2007, a man named William Lodridge claimed to be the captain of Apollo 20, and then released a large number of top-secret photos of Apollo 20 and was interviewed by reporters .
Among the top-secret data of Apollo 20, there are images of the mysterious lost city found on the far side of the moon.
And they actually caught a three-eyed female alien and performed an autopsy on her.
And they also took a photo of a spacecraft that looks very similar to a cigar. According to the analysis of the picture, they believe that the spacecraft is taller than the Eiffel Tower.
All these materials caused a sensation at the time. Of course, they were subsequently blocked by relevant mainstream websites and their accounts were blocked. The official came out to refute the rumors, and the materials circulating on the Internet were also analyzed and debunked by netizens one by one.
Among them, the most obvious evidence of the lost city on the back of the moon is that some netizens found that there is a building in it, which is from a collection of illustrations published by science fiction illustrator Bruce Pennington in 1978.
There is also the fact that when these astronauts dissect the three-eyed female alien, they don't wear gloves and touch the alien creature with their bare hands, which is unreasonable.
However, because the full version of Apollo 20 lasted for more than 2 hours, and was accompanied by a very thoughtful commentary, and some careful netizens studied every detail in the video, they found that if it was shot in a studio, what should be done? It's hard to get to such realistic detail.
So over time, these materials became Rashomon, which made some people who eat melons very much believe that there was an alien civilization left on the moon.
Evidence 3: The mystery of the moon itself
There are still different opinions about the formation of the moon. Although most scientists now support that the moon is a part of the earth and is separated from the earth, there is still no evidence of lunar craters on the earth.
And in the Apollo program, 99% of the lunar meteorites brought back by the astronauts are older than 90% of the rocks on the earth. In other words, the age of the moon is older than the earth.
At present, we know that because the moon has no atmosphere, there will be meteorites falling directly to form lunar craters. These craters are of different sizes, but the depth is currently only 8 kilometers deep, and many large craters are only a few kilometers deep, or even only a few hundred meters deep.
The largest Gaglin crater on the moon has a diameter of 1,200 kilometers. If the earth has a crater of 1,200 kilometers, a crater with a depth of several hundred kilometers can be smashed, but the depth of the lunar crater is only 6.4 kilometers.
Generally, when a meteorite hits the earth, it almost has to pass the moon first. Because the moon without an atmosphere will attract meteorites to collide first to protect the earth, so there are so many craters on the back of the moon.
The moon once suffered a crater with a diameter of 1200 kilometers caused by a giant meteorite impact. It stands to reason that the moon may have been cracked, but the crater depth of the moon is very shallow, which makes many scientists exaggeratedly believe that the existence of the moon is a deliberate help Earth blocks meteorites.
And the depth of the crater is so shallow, which also shows that the surface of the moon is very hard. Later, scientists found by studying the moon rocks that the moon rocks are rich in titanium metal, ten times higher than that of the earth. Titanium metal is very rare in nature, and titanium metal is in the In the manufacture of nuclear submarines, a wide range of materials are used for spacecraft.
And not only found titanium, scientists also found brass, uranium 236, which is impossible in nature . The uranium-236 is especially weird, it's nuclear waste, used and reworked shafts.
All these make people constantly think, what happened on the moon? !
During the apollo 12 mission, the astronauts once had a famous "moonquake experiment" , which was to throw an abandoned space capsule to the moon to detect the vibration waves brought by the moonquake, and then analyze the vibration waves. Detected structures inside the Moon.
When the space capsule hit the moon, the moon made a humming sound similar to a hollow sphere. The vibration lasted for 3 hours, which may indicate that the moon is a hollow sphere wrapped with a hard metal substance.
Just imagine, if we hit a solid ball, the vibration stops very quickly, but when we hit a hollow ball, there will be a buzzing sound, and the vibration will be very long.
This is reminiscent of the fact that the moon is so hard on the outside, but hollow on the inside, so what is inside the hollow moon? !
Therefore, the mysterious material of the moon has caused people to constantly ask questions. These questions have not been answered by scientists so far, which has caused many people to have infinite reverie about the moon.
Da Cong's point of view
I believe in aliens. After all, in the mysterious and boundless universe, how lonely it would be if there were only human beings.
But I don't believe in the Apollo 20 mission. Those so-called top-secret information are too far-fetched, and they are simply conspiracy theories. Moreover, Google Maps already has a lunar version, which can clearly see the entire moon. Partners can jump the link google.com/maps/space/moon
As for the mystery of the moon's structure, perhaps just like the mysterious nature of the earth's oceans, humans still retain curiosity and mystery in unexplored areas, so it is natural for everyone to have different opinions and suspicions.
Chapter 4: Deep Deconstruction (with spoilers)
"First Man on the Moon" begins with Armstrong as a test pilot, who worked at a U.S. Air Force base as a test pilot for various military aircraft.
But because Armstrong lost his 2-year-old daughter and NASA recruited astronauts for the Gemini program at that time, Armin moved his family to Houston and wanted to start a new life again.
After that, Eminem stood out in the Gemini program and became a candidate for the Apollo moon landing program. By accident, three astronauts on Apollo 1 were accidentally killed, making Eminem the first person to land on the moon.
The film is divided into two lines to shape Eminem, one is the family and the other is the moon landing. The two lines are intertwined with each other, making people feel the ordinary sparkle of Eminem's reality.
"The First Man on the Moon" does not blindly show the various special effects scenes of the moon landing plan, but returns the focus to Eminem's state, from Eminem's inner loneliness to the loneliness of the first man on the moon , such a montage docking is very advanced.
At the beginning of the film, Eminem lost his 2-year-old daughter. Eminem put her daughter's bracelet into the drawer, which represented Eminem's closure and escape.
So Eminem had just held his daughter's funeral and went to work the next day. He used his work to escape the pain of missing his daughter, closed himself up and didn't talk about his daughter to anyone.
Even Eminem and his wife never talk to each other about their daughter, both of them want to face a new beginning.
Eminem believes that he can say goodbye to the past and strive to face a new life, but every time Eminem faces the death of a colleague around him, it is difficult to learn to say goodbye, which also means that deep down, he still cannot forget his beloved daughter.
For example, at the funeral of a colleague, Eminem imagined that he saw his daughter at the funeral.
With the passage of time, Eminem finally took a walk with a colleague one night. When he saw a children's swing, he and his colleague took the initiative to chat about his daughter for the first time. This was the beginning of Eminem trying to talk to others. For the first time, he wanted to let go of the past.
But the colleague who listened was one of the three people who had an accident on Apollo 1. This blow made it difficult for Eminem to face death again, which also caused Eminem to lose his desire to achieve in the face of the moon landing plan. It is because the moon landing plan has paid too much price. Now there is no way back, and we must do our best to complete it, even at the cost of our lives.
So when Eminem knew that he was the first person to land on the moon, his face was expressionless. When Eminem actually stepped on the moon, he faced the empty and silent moon. At this time, the moon represented Eminem's state of mind. , full of loneliness and strangeness, caught off guard in the face of the new environment.
When Eminem stood on the moon and looked at the distant earth, the picture was connected to the memories of Eminem playing with his family on the earth. At this time, although Eminem was standing on the moon, his heart was so close to his daughter and family. Eminem was at this moment. Finally let go, and decided to make a formal farewell to the past.
Therefore, Eminem left his daughter's bracelet on the moon, and Eminem's move represented two meanings.
The first is to compare the movie. Eminem put the chain in the cabinet at the beginning, and now Eminem left the chain on the moon, which means that Eminem chose to let go of the past and truly face the people who need love in life.
The second is that Eminem left the chain on the moon, which represented the continuation of his thoughts for his daughter. From then on, the moon represented his daughter in Eminem's heart. Whenever Eminem saw the moon on the earth, he was thinking of his daughter.
The portrayal of these details allows the audience to see the softest part of Eminem's heart, which is more resonant than seeing Eminem landing on the moon as the first man in history.
In the moon landing part, the film does not sing as the main theme, but examines it from a neutral modern point of view of thinking.
There was an accident during the simulation of the moon landing in the Eminem experiment, and he almost lost his life, but he had no hesitation to let the moon landing plan go ahead, because if it did not continue, the lives and costs paid before would become meaningless. It also made the audience think about how much they paid for the moon landing.
There is also a moon landing song "whitey on the moon" (white people on the moon), which satirizes the United States at that time, in order to fight the Soviet Union during the Cold War, and devoted all its efforts to the seemingly meaningless moon landing plan. .
The description of the moon landing plan on these sides has given the moon landing plan more perspectives, which is also the invaluable difference between "First Man on the Moon" and the main theme routine of the United States.
But in any case, "The First Man on the Moon" is first to fight back against those who think that the moon landing is fake, because people are more and more skeptical about the human landing on the moon, which indirectly implies that Americans have less and less confidence in the status of the world. , also shaken his own strength.
The United States, which used to be able to stand on its own a few decades ago, has become a little worried about gains and losses today, and the United States is not as strong as it used to be.
As mentioned earlier, in 2013, the United States conducted a lunar landing spot check, and 37% of people did not believe that humans had landed on the moon. And in 2014, the second year, the "First Man on the Moon" project officially hired director Damien Chazelle and started filming and production. You said it was a coincidence.
Therefore, the United States will launch the "First Man on the Moon" this year to re-tell the world that the United States has carried out a great mission to the moon 50 years ago, so that Americans can regain their confidence.
Chapter 5: True and False Armstrong
Of course, the high commander in the film is so deep and handsome that he has no friends. In reality, Armstrong's mouth is quite similar to the high commander.
In reality, Armstrong is indeed an introverted and quiet person, and his 2-year-old daughter did die of brain cancer. In that year, Armstrong became a NASA astronaut.
Of course, when Eminem was on the moon, he didn't bring his daughter's bracelet to the moon. This is just a means of emotional sublimation for a film.
But in reality, after Eminem returned to the moon bin from the moon, his eyes were full of tears. At this time, Eminem thought of what, it is estimated that only he knew.
In the film, Eminem escaped death several times, including being nearly thrown out of the earth's gravity during the first test flight; the spacecraft kept spinning when the twins docked, which almost caused disaster; and the crash nearly lost his life when training the cockpit to land on the moon Wait.
These all happened, but when the training cockpit crashed, Eminem did not injure his face when parachuting, but bit his tongue.
During the moon landing, in order to create tension, the film deliberately sets up a large pit at the landing site, and shows that the fuel is quickly exhausted.
In reality, the lunar landing module did show that the fuel was too low at the time, but the official announcement later said that the display reported an error (do you believe it).
There is a specific description in the film that when he landed on the moon, Eminem stepped on the first footprint on the moon as a human, and the film also gave a close-up, which is very similar to the well-known "moon footprint" photo, but the photo in reality is not. Armstrong's footprints, but the footprints of fellow Aldrin.
At that time, Aldrin followed Armstrong and got off the spacecraft. Because of this, everyone only remembered the first person and forgot the second person. At that time, Aldrin took a camera and took a photo of his footprints on the moon, as The photo of the trip to the moon, because of Eminem's influence, over time everyone mistakenly thought that this was Eminem's footprint.
However, the person holding the camera on the moon is mainly Armstrong, so we see the single photo of the first astronaut on the moon, which is actually Aldrin himself rather than Armstrong.
One of the clearest and best pictures of Eminem on the moon is just a long shot.
When the film was about to end, the scene where Eminem and his wife met. They were very loving at this time, but the marriage did not come to an end. The marriage between Eminem and his first wife lasted for 38 years. In 1994 divorce.
Back in 1992, Eminem met widow Knight at the Orff Championship and became friends. Eminem married Knight two months after Eminem's divorce.
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