Space sequences pre- and post-

I'm wondering how much impact the film footage shot by astronauts had on
how Hollywood did space sequences.

I'm thinking especially the spacewalking and the Apollo rendezvous shots.

Star Wars, probably not much effect, but are there films from the '70s and
later that differ noticably from the films of the '60s? (Films of the '50s
probably are too Buck Rogers-ish still, but the shift may have started in
1958, eh?)

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I'm wondering how much impact the film footage shot by astronauts had on
how Hollywood did space sequences.


Hard to say. I mean 2001 still has some of the best Hollywood space
sequences and that was pretty early in the space program.


I'm thinking especially the spacewalking and the Apollo rendezvous shots.

Star Wars, probably not much effect, but are there films from the '70s and
later that differ noticably from the films of the '60s? (Films of the '50s
probably are too Buck Rogers-ish still, but the shift may have started in
1958, eh?)


I don't know if the space program per se had an effect, but I think the more
sci-fi we've had has changed peoples' expectations.

I noticed this the most in an episode of the reimaged Battlestar Galactica
when they're making a raid on the Resurrection Ship and basically fly the
Vipers sideways while strafing it.

Even earlier in the series it was apparent they had gotten away from the
"swooping" motions of the original series. There's a scene where Starbuck
is explaining using the thrusters to change the orientation of the Viper
while outside the atmosphere.



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Even earlier in the series it was apparent they had gotten away from
the "swooping" motions of the original series. There's a scene where
Starbuck is explaining using the thrusters to change the orientation
of the Viper while outside the atmosphere.

Thanks, Greg.

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I'm wondering how much impact the film footage shot by astronauts had on
how Hollywood did space sequences.

I'm having trouble coming up with recent sci fi movies to make the
comparison. The 50s brought us classics like Conquest of Space and many
others that tried to project what it would be like to work in space. In the
50s they believed spacewalks would be a cake walk and all you had to do to
move from ship to ship was have a k-bottle of compressed gas and good aim.
we learned better.

But I think the real difference is 50s sci fi tried to be realiztic about
future events - present sci fi is all about noise, action, bloodshed and
trying to gross out the audience more than last year's flick. What's
important is exciting the audience not being realistic - the average hero
would have been dead tens times over halfway through the new flicks.


Val Kraut

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the average hero would have been dead tens times over halfway through
the new flicks.

:-)

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