Page 167 - Lunacy and the Age of Deception

Sanitized violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the
showing of the consequences of violence...

Kubrick wanted to portray the world as it truly is, even if the image presented is one of darkness,
betrayal, selfishness, and senseless violence. It is little wonder that his movies did not prove to be
blockbusters, for most people prefer happy endings and pleasant fictions to the darkness,
exploitation, and tragedy which permeates human existence. Kubrick had to be careful in choosing
how to portray some of the realities of this world system we live in lest he should incur the wrath
of those who wish to remain hidden behind their masks. It surely did not escape Kubrick’s notice
that men who had been considered a risk, liable to expose the deception of the Apollo Program, often
met some tragic end through mysterious and hard to explain accidents.

Jay Weidner has done an excellent job of dissecting Kubrick’s film The Shining, demonstrating in
convincing fashion that the director was using the movie as a covert vehicle to announce the
deception of the Apollo Program and his part in it. Anyone who wants to perform a serious
investigation of the truth of the Apollo Space Program should view Kubrick’s Odyssey - Part One
by Jay Weidner.

Stanley Kubrick did not write his own movies from scratch. Rather, he chose the writings of others
and adapted them to film. What is often very telling is observing where Stanley Kubrick departed
from the story of the original author, altering it in some manner, using the creative license he had as
the movie’s director. The Shining was a novel written by horror fiction author Stephen King. Stanley
Kubrick purchased the rights to create a film version of the novel. He deviated from Stephen King’s
work in such significant ways that Stephen King has remained a firm critic of his movie. In fact,
Stephen King hated Kubrick’s adaptation of his book so much that he wrote his own screenplay for
The Shining and later had it made into a 6 hour television mini-series.

Stanley Kubrick symbolically indicates in his movie adaptation that he has “wrecked” Stephen
King’s vision for The Shining. In Stephen King’s novel the main character, along with his wife and
son, drive a red Volkswagen Beetle to a remote hotel in Colorado. Stanley Kubrick changes this to
a yellow Volkswagen Beetle, but along the drive they witness the scene of an accident where a large
truck has crushed a red Volkswagen. This symbolically illustrates Kubrick wrecking Stephen King’s
story.

In The Shining the main character’s name is Jack Torrance, played by Jack Nicholson. Jack has a son