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Was The Moon Landing Faked By Stanley Kubrick?

Was The Moon Landing Faked By Stanley Kubrick?

The truth is out there.

Claire Reid

Claire Reid

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It's been 47 years today since Apollo 11 set off for the moon, or did it?

There's loads of conspiracy theories floating around about the moon landing and I have to admit that I do have a few questions about it myself. Why was the flag waving with no atmosphere? Why can't you see any stars? Now, I know that scientists have come up with answers to both those questions, but I still don't know if I'm a 100% believer.

My favourite of all the fake-moon-landing-theories out there is that the landing was actually staged by none other than the late director Stanley Kubrick. And then, I don't know, wracked with guilt he decides to hide clues to what he did in the 1980 classic horror movie The Shining.

The brilliant documentary Room 237 (and if you haven't seen it, you should) put forward a few different theories about things that have been hidden in the film by Kubrick - with different experts talking through why theirs is the correct theory. One guy thinks it's all about the mass killing of Native Americans, for example.

In case you didn't know, Kubrick is very detail oriented and he does love sneaking stuff into his films. Like this Playboy magazine. LAD.

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That's why this particular theory is so good. Also, Kubrick is dead so he's not able to say it's bollocks, although his daughter recently did.

The moon-landing-is-fake theorist in the film is a guy called Jay Weidner and he claims that there's tons of clues in the film that all point to the moon landing being a big fucking cover up.

Oh, yeah, Jay also believes that Kubrick used 2001: A Space Odyssey as a chance for him to have a practice ahead of the big event. He thinks that the moon landing footage clearly shows that a technique called front-projection was used. So he thinks that 11 years later Kubrick decided to confirm this by putting little clues into The Shining. Now, if you haven't seen The Shining, this bit won't make any sense, so if that's you, go away and watch it and come back.

I'll start off with what I think are the stronger clues and then work down to the ones that are a real fucking stretch, OK?

Clue one: Quite an obvious one, this. Little Danny is wearing a fucking Apollo 11 jumper. Firstly, though, have you seen the state of that jumper? It looks like Kubrick might have just knitted it on the way in. I mean, if that ugly jumper that literally has Apollo 11 on it doesn't convince you, then I don't know what will. But don't worry because there is more.

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Clue two: In the book, the room that Danny's told to stay away from is Room 217, but in the film it has been changed to Room 237. No big deal, right? Wrong! Because the earth and the moon are 237,000 miles apart, Jay tells us. Although, I checked and NASA say it's actually an average distance of 285,855. But stop letting facts ruin a good story.

Clue three: The scene with the typewriter (probably one of the best) and the page with 'All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy'. Well, it's not 'All' it's 'A11', you know, Apollo 11. Never mind that now that sentence makes absolutely no sense, it doesn't matter. Because 'A11 work', is Kubrick's way of saying 'it's too much work, planning a fake moon landing' or something. What is strange about this is that none of this actually appeared in the Stephen King book, Kubrick added it in. Are you starting to believe yet?

Clue four: During the argument between Jack and Wendy, Jack says: "Does it matter to you at all that the owners have placed their complete confidence and trust in me, and that I have signed a letter of agreement, a contract, in which I have accepted that responsibility? Do you have the slightest idea what a moral and ethical principal is? Do you? Has it ever occurred to you what would happen to my future, if I were to fail to live up to my responsibilities? Has it ever occurred to you? Has it?" Our pal Jay the theorist thinks this scene mirrors an argument Kubrick had with his own wife when she found out that he was involved in faking the moon landing and she wanted him to quit.


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Clue five: That random hexagonal pattern on the carpet? It's based on the Apollo 11 launch pads.

Clue six: The nickname for the Apollo 11 craft was the 'eagle'. The hotel manager in the film has an eagle on his windowsill. Do you honestly think coincidences like that happen in real life? Do you?

There are a couple more but they get even more ridiculous.

So there we have it, lads, all the evidence is right there. Kubrick faked the moon landing. Time to wake up, people.

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