Stanley Kubrick, The Shining, and the Moon Landing Conspiracy Theory

Stanley Kubrick helped NASA fake the moon landings, was told not to tell anyone,

tried to tell us anyway, then tried to expose the elite, um,

mild classic king

rings around the world, but ended up six feet under before he did.

He was one of the most famous directors in history, known as the most

detail-oriented and hidden message visionary in all of filmmaking.

He only made a handful of movies during his time, and they're still all being

meticulously studied by movie buffs to this day, still finding hidden

meanings in them all the time. Every single tiny object, angle,

lighting, positioning, words, effects, zooms, backgrounds,

everything in his movies

is extremely intentional, and all has a very specific purpose.

Now in the '60s, Kubrick set out to create his first mega

hit project,

2001: A Space Odyssey, which is widely regarded as the greatest sci-fi

movie ever made, and it kind of didn't make sense with how

advanced it was

for its time. This movie came out in 1968.

Like, this is how sci-fi movies looked like back

then.

Then out of nowhere, this movie comes out and looks like that.

Like, some scenes from this movie are so crisp and realistic, they literally

look like they were filmed in 8K yesterday, but this movie came out

almost 60 years ago. Now, theories went around

that Kubrick actually received

shadow funding from the US government and NASA to shoot this movie as a sort of

test run to see how accurately they can depict outer space on TV screens.

And, well, Stanley Kubrick nailed it, to say the least, receiving access to

special cameras and equipment that no one else had to show us space like

we've

never seen before. This movie even had an entire,

albeit short-lived, scene of

humans on the moon. And do you know what happened just one

year after Space

Odyssey came out in 1968? We went to the moon in

1969. The theory claiming that in return for the funding

and technology he

received for the movie, Kubrick had to help NASA stage the moon

landings,

telling him he's not allowed to tell anyone he did or else.

But the guilt got to him, and Kubrick needed to somehow get the

truth out there, so

instead, he took it to his movies to leave clues

and hidden messages about what he

really did. 12 years later, he releases another breakout hit,

The Shining, and this

is the one that people say is so littered with clues

that tell us Stanley Kubrick

helped NASA fake the moon landings, that it all but confirms it.

And it all starts with the famous room 237, the haunted guest room in the

hotel of the movie. In the original book, The Shining, which is what the movie's

based on, the room was 217, with Kubrick changing it to 237 for the

movie for no apparent reason. Well, it just so happens that the moon

is 237,000 miles away from us, or at least

that's what we thought back then. We now have more accurate measures

and know it's

a little over 238,000. There's even a close shot of the key to

the room, whose

letters can be used to spell moon room, implying he was trying to use this room as

a metaphor for the moon. All throughout the movie,

characters talk about things

happening in room 237 that we're not supposed to know about.

When they're in the pantry, we see this product Tang all over the

shelves in the

back, which is a drink mix similar to Kool-Aid

back then, a drink that had an

official partnership with NASA at the time, being astronauts' powdered

beverage of choice when up in space.

Tang even featured astronauts in ad campaigns, like in their 1969

"For Spacemen and Earth Families" slogan.

Boxes all throughout the background also have the number 39 written all over them.

Launchpad 39A is where Apollo 11, the first manned mission to the

moon, took off from, which looks like this,

oddly similar to the

carpet pattern that Danny, the kid in the movie, is knelt down on.

And if it wasn't obvious enough, when Danny slowly gets up from this

launchpad

position on the carpet, we see him wearing a Apollo 11 sweater,

which has no connection to the movie whatsoever. He's just wearing it.

And again, Stanley Kubrick was a maniac.

He would not have a main character in the movie wearing something like this for no

reason. The line, "All work and no play" in Jack's manuscript,

the word all is

written as A11, as in Apollo 11. The typewriter

he works with is a German Adler, which translates in English to eagle, the

name of the Apollo 11 lunar lander.

Tranquility Base here.

The eagle has landed.

And the famous ghost twins in the movie allegedly represent the two failed Gemini

missions that preceded Apollo. Then there's just the name of the movie

itself,

2001, a year where a lot of stuff went down.

But hey, I get it. To the average moviegoer, myself included,

these hints

and hidden messages just seem like absolutely insane reaches.

But the mind of a visionary director is just different.

Their attention to detail is everything, and they do want viewers meticulously

reading into their art. That's part of film.

Which leads us to this picture of Stanley Kubrick walking around the set of 2001: A

Space Odyssey, and in the background, we see Jolly West, a psychiatric

consultant for the CIA back in the '50s and '60s, most

notably involved with MKUltra, where he led government-funded experiments

on

brainwashing, hypnosis, coercive persuasion,

and dosing unsuspecting victims with

LSD. Hold up. Why is a CIA-funded psychiatrist whose

work focused

on brainwashing victims on the set of 2001?

Well, three years after the release of Space

Odyssey, Kubrick comes out with

Clockwork Orange, which was pretty much a full-blown expose into

the CIA's

mind control techniques used in MKUltra, which was classified

back then. Stanley Kubrick was flying pretty close to the sun,

and we all know what

happens to people like that. But then came the final blow,

Kubrick's ultimate

reveal to the world that got cut out of his final movie ever,

Eyes Wide

Shut. And I mean, if you wanna sleep tonight,

probably shouldn't watch the rest of

this. In the '90s, Kubrick was working on a movie about secret elite

societies

featuring mass gatherings of ultra rich and powerful performing occult rituals,

a movie set in New York City, yet he specifically chose to film it in

England, as he knew exactly what he was exposing.

After the movie was done filming, during the editing and approval process,

apparently the producers cut out up to half of the movie's scenes.

Kubrick fought back, insisting to keep these scenes as they

were integral to the

plot, but the studio execs stood their ground,

rumors being the scenes too

closely reflected what actually happens behind closed doors in these

elitist circles who owned the movie's distribution networks.

And literal days before the movie's release in 1999, Kubrick passed

away from a sudden heart attack in his sleep.

Right. Because that's not even the disturbing

part, as the scenes that the studio

execs insisted on removing from the movie involved children.

I think you can put two and two together and know what I mean.

In the film's most famous scene, where the masked elite rituals are finally

revealed, the original cut allegedly had rows of

children

standing in the background, which were edited in post to be just more robed

figures wearing masks, which is what we see today.

And what's crazy is that if you watch this movie with this original

narrative in

mind, the plot and the final reveal almost makes

more sense than it

does without it, just like how the final scene of the movie

is in a

children's toy store, which they kept in the final cut.

Stanley Kubrick truly was a mastermind of a director,

and I don't think

anything he did was an accident.