Tonight on TV: This post-Star Wars space thriller is worth rediscovering

Tonight on TV: This post-Star Wars space thriller is worth rediscovering

In Houston, Texas, a rocket is to be sent to the planet Mars. But the political and financial stakes are so high that the operation is canceled and the three astronauts, who were supposed to fly into space, are transferred to a secret base, where they will have to simulate a Martian in a studio and completely artificially. research.

ARTE tonight broadcasts Capricorn One, a cosmic and paranoid thriller that came out a year after Star Wars and that really deserves to be rediscovered.

Netflix subscribers, this sci-fi inspired movie was overlooked upon release and deserves to be seen

Be careful with pictures

The film questions the accuracy of the images presented to us on the screens. His thesis is far from Manichean, as Hyams confided in the release New York Times :

I don’t believe that television always lies or that the government lies to us more than it should. But the point of Capricorn One is just to say don’t believe everything you see. Do not be unbelieving, but do not believe just because it is shown to you (…)’.

Phenomenal success

James Brolin (Josh’s father)

Capricorn takes one look at the conspiracy theories about the 1969 moon landing, which many viewers at the time dismissed as rubbish. Peter Hyams also wrote his script after the NASA moon landing in 1969, but due to lack of funding, he had to keep it in his boxes for almost eight years. He will eventually find a producer and from there release the film through Warner.

That same year, the studio was supposed to release Superman with Christopher Reeve in the summer of 1978, but pushed it back to Christmas. Capricorn One retrieves the superhero movie’s release date, as well as its marketing budget and projected number of screens. In addition, the Watergate case had exploded barely 4 years earlier, and the public was suspicious of its leaders. As a result, the feature film is released at the best time and it is a huge success.

And at a time when video is everywhere in front of us, in the age of fake news, Capricorn One proves its relevance more than ever, 46 years after its publication.

Source: Allocine

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