The Shining Carpet 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.

The shining carpet moon landing.

It s like three dimensional chess says filmmaker jay weidner in the movie. Let s start with the most popular theory. Rodney ascher s 2012 documentary room 237 dug into those perceived meanings. The real truth is that this movie is really about the deal that stanley kubrick made with the manager of the overlook hotel america weidner writes in his blog secrets of the shining.

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 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. 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. 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.

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. In the minds kubrick and clarke it shimmered luminous mechanical and cold. Theorist jay weidner claims that stanley kubrick littered the shining with clues to suggest that he filmed the fake moon landing for. One theory however outdoes all the others in terms of lunacy.

Film and furniture regulars will know one of the original inspirations for this very website was the hexagonal patterned carpet in the shining s overlook hotel. 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. As danny rises up with from the carpet seen as launch pad wearing his sweater apollo 11 he enters the dreaded room 237. A space odyssey at the time.