“Cinema is a Machine for
Building Empathy.”
— Roger Ebert.
“I'm Not Saying
‘We Didn't Go to The Moon’.
I'm just Saying that
‘What We Saw was Faked.’
and that
‘It was Faked
by Stanley Kubrick.’
And I've had Hollywood special effects people from the '60s and '70s
who were front-screen projection experts tell me that I absolutely have nailed the Apollo footage as being the result of front-screen projection.
Just go to any Apollo site
and Look, and You'll See that
They have to hide
The Bottom of The Screen.
And you can always see the set/screen separation line
in every Apollo footage, every Apollo image,
and the video footage that has a background.
And Richard Hoagland, the researcher,
has looked into the Apollo imagery.
And he has found all sorts of problems with it because in the sky around the astronauts, he's found reflecting lights and refracting things and... kind of a junk and geometry of things that are in the sky.
And he concluded, wrongly,
that there are gigantic alien cities
made out of glass.
What he's really seeing
is the reflections of light of the tiny beads on the scotch light screen which is being used in the front-screen projection process.
And so, once I nailed the front-screen projection process inside the Apollo footage,
then I became interested in seeing if Kubrick left any clues in the rest of his career to his possible involvement in faking the Apollo moon footage.
And I was overjoyed about two years ago when I received my Blu-Ray copy of The Shining.
And I put it in my Blu-Ray machine
and sat down one night to watch it.
And I realised that all of the things that one could imagine that Stanley Kubrick would have had to go through to fake the Apollo moon footage...
and there in the movie,
every time that Stanley deviated from the Stephen King novel,
he deviated into those exact questions.
You know, what was it like to
Make a Deal with The U.S. Government?
What was it like to
accidentally tell someone
what you were doing
and to watch them
possibly have to suffer the consequences
of your lack of integrity?
What was it like to
Lie to Your Wife
and tell her that you were
Doing One Thing
when you were
Doing Another?
What was it like when
Your Wife found out
What You were really Doing?
These are the questions that I had long before I had seen The Shining again after a maybe an eight... or nine-year absence.
And I didn't... wasn't sure I was right for the first hour.
I wasn't sure that I had actually...
you know, I wasn't sure if I was
blurring the line between
What I wanted to see
and what I was seeing.
And then at about 58 minutes in the film
is the famous scene where Danny's playing with his trucks, and he stands up and he's wearing the Apollo 11 sweater with the rocket taking off.
Then I knew I'd nabbed it.
And then I started watching the film with an intensity that I don't think I'd ever watched a movie before,
and every line began ringing true. You know,
"Wendy, that is just so typical of you.
"Don't you... Don't you know
I have obligations to My Employers?"
"Do you have any idea what a contract is?"
Do you know what an agreement is?"
Jack Nicholson's whole tirade
against His Wife... that's Stanley.
That's Stanley telling His Wife that
after she discovered what he was doing,
which was the Apollo footage.
No, that's actually Not True.
If you call the Mount Hood Resort
and you ask for room 217 you will find
there is no such room.
So that's just Not True.
That statement's Not True.
And so what...
Stanley was Lying.
Its not The Reason that he changed
the room number from 217 to 237.
The Reason that he changed it from 217 to 237 was because the room, room 237 in the film is...
represents the Moon Landing Stage where he worked.
And The Moon, the standard science textbook said...
and they still say... but now with lasers,
we've gotten a little better reading. But...
Is that the mean distance of The Moon from The Earth
is exactly 237,000 miles.
So he changed that so that
you would understand
that this was The Moon Room.
So Danny stands up. He's got the Apollo 11 sweater on.
He begins walking down the hallway towards Room 237.
And there's A Key in The Lock.
And on The Key are...
is the words "ROOM" and then the word "N-o,"
which is an old acronym for "Number."
So "Room Number 237," except that
the only capital letters on The Key
are R-O-O-M and then the "N" from the acronym n-o.
And if there's only two words that
you can come up with that have
those letters in 'em.
And that's "MOON" and "ROOM."
And so on The Key, The Tag, it says "MOON ROOM."
And that is the moon room.
This is where Everything Happens, and NONE of it's Real. And it ALL has to be lied about.
And he can't let anyone know what's really going on in room 237. And there's many, many other deviations from the book to the movie.
It isn't real.
The deviations drove Stephen King out of his mind. He just ranted and ranted for years how much he hated The Shining. And he hated it because he'd given Kubrick all this great source material and Kubrick threw it out. And the whole idea of this is best exemplified by the scene where Dick Hallorann is driving up the highway, trying to get to the Overlook during a winter storm and he passes a wreck.
And in the wreck, a semi has crashed
and crushed a red Volkswagen.
And this is a direct message
from Kubrick to King, because in the novel,
Jack Torrance's car is a red Volkswagen.
But in the movie, it's a yellow Volkswagen.
And what Kubrick is saying in that scene
is a big "F you" to Stephen King.
He's saying,
"This is My Vehicle."
"I have wrecked Your Vehicle.
And everybody in The World can see it.'
And this drove King crazy.
And it should have.
But what was really going on
and what is just much more deliciously fascinating
about all of this is that, in fact,
Kubrick was faking the making
of the Stephen King novel
in order to reveal the idea of
what he went through
to do The Apollo Moon Footage. "
My Argument, as far as Kubrick goes, is that
He was a preternaturally observant child.
He read omnivorously.
He went to Movies all the time.
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