I Did It Mom, I Faked the Moon Landing
And the only two words that can spell... are “moon” and “room”.........
SO THAT OBVIOUSLY MEANS IT’S ABOUT STANLEY KUBRICK FAKING THE MOON LANDING OH MY GOSH....
So I actually couldn’t get through this conspiracy theory without laughing, so that’s why I decided it was my favorite one in Room 237.
This theorist believes that the Shining was not actually an adaptation of Stephen King’s novel of the same name, but actually Kubrick explaining what it was like to make a deal with the U.S. government to fake the moon landing. While I was watching this movie, I kept wondering what Kubrick would have thought of the fact that this man genuinely believed he faked the moon landing. Personally, I do not believe that “moon” and “room”, an Apollo 11 sweater, changing the room number from 217 to 237 because it’s 237,000,000 miles to the moon from Earth, or Jack yelling at Wendy about his employers constitutes overwhelming proof that Kubrick helped design the footage to fake the moon landing. What made this theory all the more hilarious and entertaining was how confident the man seemed in his assertions that Stanley Kubrick had to have faked the moon landing.
The only reasonable bit of close film analysis that the theorist did, which I found moderately intelligent, was the bit about Jack’s monologue about his employers to Wendy actually being Kubrick raging against his wife about faking the moon landing. There are definite parallels to be drawn, since both would be yelling at their wives about employers that they were unsatisfied with. However, I think most people would not interpret this to mean Kubrick faked the moon landing, but would instead use this monologue to analyze Jack’s attitude towards work and the traditional family dynamic and his obligations to his family.
Not only did this theorist choose to relate The Shining to the moon landing, he also had to drag 2001: A Space Odyssey down as well, asserting that that Stanley Kubrick film had been a test to see if Kubrick was capable of producing footage to fake the moon landing. And according to the moon theorist, Kubrick passed the test since The Shining after all, is definitely Stanley Kubrick saying “Guys I did it. I faked the moon landing.” However, one point of the theorist’s that I did support was how Kubrick having the red buggy in a car crash and have Jack drive a yellow buggy instead was a big “f you” to Stephen King. Often times, directors take artistic license with novels or stories that they adapt, and sometimes that makes the author slightly upset. Well more than slightly upset actually, since Stephen King professed to hating Kubrick’’s adaption of the Shining.
Overall, I liked the moon theory best because I thought it was the most ridiculous, and it made me laugh.