10 Not So Obvious Messages With Deeper Meanings In Stanley Kubrick's Films
6. Fake Moon Landing?
Along with his own ingenuity, while making 2001 A Space Odyssey, Kubrick asked for technical advice from over 50 organisations to help him create a sci-fi film that is incredibly realistic in terms of gravity, movement, spaceflight, vacuum and sound. It’s also worth noting how accurately he portrayed future products like flat screen TVs.
After making 2001, there is a theory that may well be true: that Kubrick was taken to MGM studios in Britain and told to secretly shoot the fake moon landing, which would trick us into believing man had walked on the moon. After all, if anyone could pull off such a stunt it would make sense to use the genius who had just spent years mastering a realistic film set in space.
It would be foolish to say for certain that the moon landing was faked and that Kubrick undoubtedly shot it, but scenes in The Shining allude to the Moon Landing when there would be no reason to include them. Danny famously wears an Apollo 11 Jumper and in one scene arranges his toys in a launchpad fashion. Some have gone so far as to speculate that room 237 was chosen because the moon is 237,000 miles away from earth, and Danny coming out of room 237 with his Apollo 11 sweater ripped and unable to talk is symbolic of Kubrick being silenced on the matter. Over and out… far out!