![]() The evil company behind the phony landing? The same one up to no good in Hyams’ 1981 Outland, set late in the 21st century. From Woodstein to Elliot Gould’s hangdog horndog in about 24 months. They say the cultural metabolism moves fast now, but that’s a pretty speedy arc for conspiracy tales and the image of journalists. #SAM WATERSTON JOKE FROM CAPRICORN ONE MOVIE#It’s strange to watch this movie and think that only two years earlier Holbrook had a key role in All The President’s Men. But when your heavy says over and over, as Hal Holbrook does here, “I hate like hell to do this to you,” and then does it anyway – his actions have that much more impact. He reaches the top and the punchline at the same time – then makes an unwelcome discovery. He tells himself one as a distraction while climbing a sheer rock wall. Take Sam Waterston’s astronaut, given to cracking ancient jokes. Writer/director Peter Hyams does this throughout. Give your supporting characters a signature detail. Yeah, I wish it were Shakespeare or Kubrick or Faulkner, too, but we are who we are.Īmong the lessons learned that still hold up, based on watching the recent special edition DVD: Capricorn One marked the start of my awareness of the craft of storytelling. I never did anything by half-measures, even as a kid. I even scared up a copy of the novelization by Ron Goulart and dissected that. I watched it repeatedly on TV and took the entire narrative apart, sketching out the plot in detail in the back of my social studies notebook. It’s the first story of any kind that I ever analyzed. It’s more than a favorite movie of my childhood. it ain’t necessarily so.Ĭapricorn One is a crackpot conspiracy thriller about a faked Mars landing. Much as I’d love to be able to say that I’m the product of the best influences, that I was forged in the kiln of the works of our greatest writers, thinkers and artists. ![]()
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