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What we’ve been talking about The Edinburgh Science Festival is hurtling its way to us soon and it’s also the 50th anniversary of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and that other guy making a giant leap into lunar history. So, we wondered out loud what the most memorable moon-shaped cultural happenings of all time might be . . .
I feel like you’re taken on a real emotional journey when Gru attempts to steal the moon in Despicable Me. I was really rooting for him.
REM’s Man in the Moon is a corking tune and
inextricably linked to the lunar-tuned Andy Kaufman
(and by extension, Jim
Carrey who played Andy in the film of the same name).
Suppose we can’t mention the Moonwalk now?
Julian Barratt playing jazz loser Howard Moon in The Mighty Boosh. Or maybe it was Noel Fielding playing the actual moon in The
Mighty Boosh?
Got to be the absolutely
bonkers Le Voyage
dans la Lune by Georges Méliès. I still remember watching this as a young kid and being absolutely fascinated by it. The scene where the capsule hits the man in the moon right in the face is an image
that will always be with me.
A 1998 TV
miniseries From the Earth to the Moon, which
Tom Hanks put together after making Apollo 13 and wanting to get his Apollo
programme fanboy
enthusiasm out of his system. One high point is Bryan Cranston as Buzz Aldrin,
grinding his teeth with resentment because he
wants to be first to step out.
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The man in the moon turns out to be the villainous Flex Mentallo in the classic Grant Morrison / Frank
Quitely storytelling
twist.
The Museum of the Moon
is pretty incredible. This touring
artwork by Luke Jerram is
stunning and fascinating,
and you could stare
at it for hours.
‘What is it you want, Mary? What do you
want? You want the moon? Just say the word and I’ll throw a lasso
around it and pull it down. Hey. That’s a pretty good idea. I’ll give you the moon, Mary!’ Definitely my
favourite moon-
related quote, from George Bailey in
the incredible It’s a
Wonderful Life.
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I have a moon tattoo on my back dedicated to West Side Story which is my favourite film / musical ever! ‘Oh moon
grow bright, and make this endless day endless night.’
Wallace and Gromit: A Grand Day Out for
making the moon seem
like an achievable weekend destination
and a great place to ski.
The Chris O’Dowd Sky thing, Moone Boy, in which a teenage girl is
shambolically ‘educated’ about periods by her feckin’
feckless parents before announcing: ‘what do you mean the moon’s going to make me bleed? I’ll make
the moon bleed!’
The song Moon River is iconic and never fails to make me emotional whenever I hear it, whether it’s Audrey Hepburn
strumming her ukulele or Frank Ocean’s more recent cover. It’s the perfect ode to longing, which has been associated with the moon for centuries, but also has this great sense of whimsy about it that
appeals to the romantic in us all.