Conspiracy theorists point to several symbols in the film as "evidence" that Stanley Kubrick was involved in "faking" the footage of the moon landing; there are several symbols of "11" throughout the film, the pattern of the hotel carpet in which Danny is playing (in his Apollo 11 sweater) is the exact shape of the lunar launch pad, the pages of Jack's novel reads "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." The "All" could be interpreted as "A11" or Apollo 11. The large Native American wall tapestry (against which Jack is throwing the ball) resemble rockets. The Apollo 11 vehicle that landed on the moon was called the Eagle; Jack's typewriter is an Adler which is the German word for eagle, there are several wooden eagles in the hotel manager's office, the manager has a US flag on his desk and is wearing red, white and blue colors (some interpret this to mean that he represents the government with whom Jack has entered into a contract). However, the conspiracy theory comes from the later French mockumentary Les mercredis de l'histoire: Opération lune (2002), where diverse celebs (actors mixed with real-life politicians, NASA former staff and even own Kubrick's widow Christiane Kubrick for giving to it a sort of credibility) reveal how Kubrick faked the Apolo 11 moon landing in order to win the space race against USSR (because USSR was ahead of USA from the beginning of it). In the ending credits it is revealed the joke when the all the cast bomb the plot. The people that watched the mockumentary but not watched the ending credits took it as for real.

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