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his parents' headspace.

You know, like,

room 237 is his, like...

that's his father's

fantasy chamber

where, like, he gets it on

with the witches.

And the twins are like

his mother's fantasy...

fantasy headspace where, like,

they're these double blue women

who want to play with Danny

forever and ever.

- We're all gonna have

a real good time.

- My interpretation

of The Shining

is that there's many levels

to this film.

This is like

three-dimensional chess.

And he's trying

to tell us several stories

that appear to be separate

but actually are not.

And he's doing this both through

the overt script that he wrote.

He's telling it through tricks

of the trade,

the subliminal imagery

and these constant retakes,

giving him odd angles

and things.

And he's also telling you

through the changes that he made

to the Stephen King novel.

So if you watch

those three things,

you begin to understand

this deeper story.

And this deeper story

has its birth, I guess,

in the idea

that Stanley Kubrick

was involved with faking

the Apollo moon landings.

In fact, I contend that

2001:
A Space Odyssey,

in part, was a research

and development project

for the Apollo footage

that was shot.

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 realized 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

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