What is it about some movies that makes themurban legendmagnets ? According to conspiracy theorists , dozens of apparently free Disney animated films incorporate subliminal adults - only messages . " The Wizard of Oz " has spawned countless myth , range from suicidal Munchkins to alternate Pink Floyd soundtracks . " The polishing " is another bighearted one – the 2013 documentary " Room 237 " feature at least nineconspiracy theoriesconnected with Stanley Kubrick ’s classic 1980 repulsion film . Was it in reality about the Holocaust ? A bailiwick of American imperialism ? Or – as the most luxuriant theory goes – an apology for Kubrick ’s character in helping NASA fake the first lunar month landing ?
The"fake moon landing"theory is so far-flung there ’s even a mockumentary ( 2002 ’s " Dark Side of the Moon " ) prod fun at it . The story goes like this : NASA , desperate to best the Soviet Union in the " blank race , " secretly hired Kubrick to film two fake synodic month landings in 1968 . Kubrick spent almost a year and a one-half creating an detailed series of phoney film in a studio in Huntsville , Alabama , during which time he also filmed " 2001 : A Space Odyssey . " On July 16 , 1969 , the Saturn 5 arugula carryingApollo 11with Neil Armstrong , Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins onboard launch from the Kennedy Space Center but really went into a lowly orbit instead of speeding to the moon . NASA then released Kubrick ’s footage to the media , completing a hoax so massively successful that mass believe it to this day . Kubrick was tormented by his role in the stunt but present dire consequences for permit the cat out of the bag . To ease his conscience for deceiving the reality , he adjudicate to lend secret messages in to " The polishing . "
The theory is Kubrick could n’t be explicit in this apology , so he had to keep thing subliminal ( a handmade Apollo 11 sweater is the only overt reference in the motion picture to Kubrick ’s disgrace ) . Kubrick picture the two main character ( Jack and his new son Danny ) as two sides of himself – Jack as the practical one and Danny as the dreamer . The Overlook Hotel represents America , the harsh winter symbolizes the Cold War and the Overlook ’s haunted room is a materialisation of the hidden NASA soundstage . But after these broad strokes , Kubrick really get down to the nitty - spunky with all kinds of out of sight message .
In Stephen King ’s novel , the Overlook ’s haunted elbow room was telephone number 217 . Kubrick apparently changed it to 237 , because the space to the lunation is 237,000 miles ( it ’s actually 238,857 ) [ beginning : Lamb ] . The hexangular pattern on the G. Stanley Hall carpet is a reference to the Apollo 11 launch pad design . The twin wraith in the moving-picture show ( as opposed to the novel ’s solo specter ) are a shoutout to NASA ’s Gemini platform . Numerous appearances by gormandize bears be the Soviet Union . All of these bit , according to the hypothesis , are Kubrick ’s do-or-die attempts to express his rue .
It ’s definitely a far - fetched scenario . Stanley Kubrick died in 1999 , so he ca n’t weigh in on its the true ( and even if he could , would he dare ? ) . One of his assistants on " The Shining " has operate on the record to refute the possibility , but it has certainly ply an entertaining rabbit pickle for thousands of movie buffs and conspiracy theorists .
