The Shining Carpet Moon Landing

As danny rises up with from the carpet seen as launch pad wearing his sweater apollo 11 he enters the dreaded room 237.

The shining carpet moon landing.

It s like three dimensional chess says filmmaker jay weidner in the movie. He believed that there are telltale signs of the use of front projection in nasa s footage and that kubrick was contracted to produce hoaxed footage of a fake moon landing. He also refers to the fact that a carpet pattern resembles the apollo launching pad as evidence that the film is an elaborate apology of sorts for kubrick s involvement. One theory however outdoes all the others in terms of lunacy.

The carpet in the hotel s corridor features prominently in several key scenes of kubrick s 1980 film including young danny s first unnerving encounter with room 237 as he investigates on his tricycle. Rodney ascher s 2012 documentary room 237 dug into those perceived meanings. In the book the room number was 217 but it is widely believed that kubrick changed it to 237 as the distance between the earth and the moon is roughly 237 000 miles. He points to the knitted apollo 11 sweater that danny wears and claims that 237 refers to the mean distance of the earth to the moon.

In the minds kubrick and clarke it shimmered luminous mechanical and cold. A space odyssey at the time. It s about the apollo 11 moon landing. Most striking was the scene set on the moon in which a group of astronauts posthuman in their suits descend into an excavation where once again the human race comes into contact with the monolith.

Let s start with the most popular theory. The interpretation asserts that the shining was in part kubrick trying to confess his role in the moon landing from the carpets up to jack nicholson s crazed rants acting as kubrick s vented. He goes on to explain why he is convinced the shining is a coded apology for having helped the american government fake the apollo moon landing. Theorist jay weidner claims that stanley kubrick littered the shining with clues to suggest that he filmed the fake moon landing for.