'I don’t know about you, but it appears to me as though somebody in power wanted the best-looking shot for their little “production,” regardless of the actual facts.'
For nearly half a century, Americans have been spoon-fed a thrilling but implausible picture of bravery and brilliance. We are evidently to believe that in 1969, a heroic crew of astronauts led by Neil Armstrong voyaged to Earth’s moon, descended to its surface, played a rip-roaring jazz-blues number featuring Armstrong on saxophone, and then returned safely toConsider first the fact that the original NASA film is conveniently “lost,” and all we have are the grainy kinescopes.
Another big problem: Immediately after Neil utters his iconic words, “That’s one small beat for man, one skeedle-dee-bop for mankind,” where does the snazzy drum cue suddenly come from? At the time, Colonel Aldrin was busy assisting with Armstrong’s EVA and preparing for his own.
I don’t know about you, but it appears to me as though somebody in power wanted the best-looking shot for their little “production,” regardless of the actual facts.And don’t even get me started on logic flaws in the first big sax solo. As soon as Armstrong closes his eyes and begins thrusting the sax up and down to the beat, pay close attention to his right hand. In the closing notes, chromatic flourishes fly by far more quickly than he fingers them.
But even if everything I’ve mentioned so far did truly happen and I’m unfairly blowing things out of proportion, doesn’t it seem just a little bit odd how quick Aldrin was to join in on upright bass? I mean, could he really have completed his egress from the lander, tuned his doghouse, and sidled up back-to-back to groove with Armstrong in what I time as one minute and 47 seconds? Furthermore, why is he wearing a pair of Ray-Ban shades—attached with red, white, and blue croakies—instead of...
Bear in mind that we are supposedly in one-sixth of the Earth’s gravity; even with the weight of the spacesuit, he should weigh no more than 60 pounds. He should be sliding across the lunar surface like a stone skipping on a pond, and the dust he is kicking up should fly several feet high. Instead, every upward hop is followed by rapid descent, and dust is barely visible—precisely as on Earth.
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