{"id":415833,"date":"2022-03-14T07:30:52","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T04:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-apollo-10-1-2-review-richard-linklaters-sweet-animated-flashback\/"},"modified":"2022-03-14T07:30:52","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T04:30:52","slug":"watch-apollo-10-1-2-review-richard-linklaters-sweet-animated-flashback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-apollo-10-1-2-review-richard-linklaters-sweet-animated-flashback\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;Apollo 10 1\/2&#8217; Review: Richard Linklater&#8217;s Sweet Animated Flashback"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a36c3ec8268a\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a36c3ec8268a\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-apollo-10-1-2-review-richard-linklaters-sweet-animated-flashback\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Apollo_10_12_Review_Richard_Linklaters_Sweet_Animated_Flashback%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Apollo 10 1\/2&#8217; Review: Richard Linklater&#8217;s Sweet Animated Flashback&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-apollo-10-1-2-review-richard-linklaters-sweet-animated-flashback\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Apollo_10_12_Review_Richard_Linklaters_Sweet_Animated_Flashback%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Apollo 10 1\/2&#8217; Review: Richard Linklater&#8217;s Sweet Animated Flashback&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-apollo-10-1-2-review-richard-linklaters-sweet-animated-flashback\/#optional_screen_reader\" >optional screen reader<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-apollo-10-1-2-review-richard-linklaters-sweet-animated-flashback\/#Read_More_About\" >Read More About:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Apollo_10_12_Review_Richard_Linklaters_Sweet_Animated_Flashback%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Apollo 10 1\/2&#8217; Review: Richard Linklater&#8217;s Sweet Animated Flashback&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Apollo_10_12_Review_Richard_Linklaters_Sweet_Animated_Flashback%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Apollo 10 1\/2&#8217; Review: Richard Linklater&#8217;s Sweet Animated Flashback&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        Everybody knows the name of the first man to step foot on the moon, but how many have heard the story of the kid who walked there before him? Richard Linklater\u2019s \u201cApollo 10 1\/2: A Space Age Childhood\u201d reflects one of the director\u2019s childhood fantasies, informed by growing up in South Texas, a stone\u2019s throw from Johnson Space Center, at the time NASA was trying to do the impossible. \u201cHouston, we have a problem,\u201d he playfully imagines the organization\u2019s top scientists saying, \u201cWe accidentally built a lunar module a little too small.\u201d Ergo, they need a 10 1\/2-year-old to go up in Neil Armstrong\u2019s place.<\/p>\n<p>As someone slightly younger than Linklater who also spent his formative years in Texas, it\u2019s impossible to overstate how much I adore that premise and the collection of associations it brings up for the \u201cBoyhood\u201d director. Significantly advancing the rotoscope animation style he used in \u201cWaking Life\u201d and \u201cA Scanner Darkly\u201d two decades earlier, Linklater spends most of this winsome film\u2019s running time reminiscing about what life was like in 1969, back when the U.S. was neck-and-neck with the Soviet Union in the space race, and kids rehearsed \u201cduck and cover\u201d drills at school, just in case the Russians dropped an atomic bomb down the street.<\/p>\n<p>I wasn\u2019t born yet, but distinctly remember gathering around the TV in class \u2014 just as Linklater recalls doing for those early NASA launches \u2014 some 17 years later to watch an American teacher sent up to space. (Whereas Apollo 11 made Linklater\u2019s generation feel like anything was possible, the Challenger explosion crushed my first-grade dreams of wanting to be an astronaut.) For me, the world has always been a place where humans were capable of reaching the moon, which makes \u201cApollo 10 1\/2\u201d a uniquely fascinating account of living through the moment when those who came before witnessed that \u201cgiant leap for mankind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In these divisive times, the words \u201cMake America Great Again\u201d have been hijacked to paint all Trump supporters as white supremacists, but for many \u2014 like my own right-leaning Texas friends and relatives \u2014 they\u2019re more of a reminder of the way it felt in 1969, when the country was breaking barriers in <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a> and industry. In one scene, using animation <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a> to draw over archival television footage, Linklater samples the speech President John F. Kennedy gave at Houston\u2019s Rice University, in which he said, \u201cWe choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApollo 10 1\/2\u201d is above all a nostalgia <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a> for Americans who sat glued to their televisions as the country made one of its greatest scientific achievements. (Depending on just how autobiographical it is, the film suggests that Linklater spent the afternoon at the nearby AstroWorld amusement park, only to fall asleep in front of the TV while Armstrong made his moon walk.) But it\u2019s also a teleportation device for those who weren\u2019t there, loaded with everyday details about what life was like \u2014 the kind of observations that made the director\u2019s \u201cBoyhood\u201d resonate so strongly with millennial audiences.<\/p>\n<p>Linklater takes the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ealing concept of putting a kid in the lunar module, teased right there at the outset, and sets it aside for more than 52 minutes. \u201cLet me tell you a little bit about life back then,\u201d narrator Jack Black offers cheerily, and off we go on an entirely different ride down memory lane. He describes growing up in a city \u201cwith no sense of history,\u201d where fast-food chains and newly built suburbs suggested that a future of flying cars couldn\u2019t be far off. He recalls old sci-fi <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a>, such as \u201cDestination Moon\u201d and \u201c2001: A Space Odyssey,\u201d and contrasts pop bands like the Beatles and the Monkees with trippier tunes, \u00e0 la Zager and Evans\u2019 \u201cIn the Year 2525.\u201d Even advertisers got in on space race fever, as America\u2019s lunar goals became a bona fide cultural phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>As a narrative, \u201cApollo 10 1\/2\u201d meanders amicably down seemingly endless tangents, and when Linklater finally loops back around to where he left off \u2014 with junior astronaut Stan (performed by Milo Coy) barfing in a NASA simulator \u2014 it\u2019s not at all clear how the kid\u2019s top-secret moon mission fits into the larger narrative. At least, not at first. Turns out, this movie isn\u2019t so much about space as it is about time travel, or more specifically, taking Linklater and his followers back more than half a century.<\/p>\n<p>Linklater, bless his soul, will never direct a Marvel movie, but his storytelling superpower has always been a laser-sharp recall for the most specific souvenirs of previous eras. It\u2019s half of what makes films such as \u201cDazed and Confused\u201d and \u201cEverybody Wants Some!\u201d so rich \u2014 they\u2019re period movies that don\u2019t feel phony, the way most flashback Hollywood projects do, because Linklater has an uncanny knack for remembering the clothes people wore, the songs they listened to, the way the world was in any given year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApollo 10 1\/2\u201d takes that gift one giant leap farther by employing animation to tell the story, the tone of which recalls Mike Judge\u2019s \u201cKing of the Hill\u201d series \u2014 especially the bits involving Stan\u2019s stoic, beer-drinking father (played by Bill Wise) and hippie sister (Natalie L\u2019Amoreaux). Much brighter and smoother than Linklater\u2019s early-2000s rotoscope experiments, the project blends a number of different techniques and melds them in virtual space: Linklater shot performances with real actors, which were used as references for the CG characters, whom the team (overseen by longtime collaborator Tommy Pallotta) situated in 3D environments. It looks relatively lo-fi but was plenty complicated to pull off, allowing Linklater to seamlessly re-create the era without audiences getting hung up on whether costumes and locations look convincing.<\/p>\n<p>As in \u201cWaking Life,\u201d the technique gives things a dream-like feel, which turns out to be important. Like so many of Linklater\u2019s movies, \u201cApollo 10 1\/2\u201d is ultimately about memory and the funny way it works. \u201cEven if he was asleep,\u201d muses Stan\u2019s mom (Lee Eddy), \u201che\u2019ll one day think he saw it all,\u201d which explains the parallel lunar mission Stan dreams of making, even if the way it\u2019s intercut with the rest can be confusing at times.<\/p>\n<p>Linklater may be reliving it all from the position of a middle-class white kid in the South Houston suburb of El Lago (frankly, it\u2019s surprising that Stan\u2019s dad didn\u2019t drive them to the launch site to watch with their own eyes), but he checks his privilege in one key scene, as Black describes how activists opposed the money spent on space instead of domestic problems. Just a minute like that, included within this relatively carefree film, makes a world of difference. It shows that Linklater\u2019s no solipsist, even as he packs this time capsule with so many endearing personal details.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-tags \/\/ a-children-icon-bullet lrv-u-font-family-primary u-letter-spacing-012 lrv-u-line-height-large lrv-u-color-brand-primary\">\n<h2 id=\"optional-screen-reader\" class=\"lrv-a-screen-reader-only\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"optional_screen_reader\"><\/span>\n        optional screen reader  <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<nav class=\"o-nav  o-nav lrv-u-border-b-1 u-border-color-brand-secondary-40 lrv-u-border-t-1 lrv-u-text-align-center lrv-u-padding-b-025 u-padding-t-050@desktop u-padding-t-050@tablet u-padding-t-050@mobile-max lrv-u-margin-t-2 lrv-u-margin-b-2\" data-dropdown=\"\">\n<h4 id=\"\" class=\"o-nav__title lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-font-family-secondary o-nav__title a-content-ignore u-line-height-140 u-letter-spacing-0002\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Read_More_About\"><\/span>Read More About:<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/nav>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n  !function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    if (f.fbq) return;\n    n = f.fbq = function() {\n      n.callMethod ?\n          n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);\n    };\n    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n    n.push = n;\n    n.loaded = !0;\n    n.version = '2.0';\n    n.queue = [];\n    t = b.createElement(e);\n    t.async = !0;\n    t.src = v;\n    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n  }(window, document, 'script',\n      'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '586935388485447');\n  fbq('init', '315552255725686');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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