Is It True? The Facts Behind the Things We Have Been Told by Max Cryer
Author:Max Cryer [Cryer, Max]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History
ISBN: 978-1775591511
Publisher: Exisle Publishing
Published: 2008-12-31T16:00:00+00:00
The Silver Screen
Fasten your seat belts
Bette Davis said ‘Fasten your seat belts—it’s going to be a bumpy ride.’
She didn’t. Bette Davis was playing bossy actress Margot Channing in the 1950 movie All About Eve and the line actually was: ‘Fasten your seat belts—it’s going to be a bumpy night.’
‘Houston, we have a problem’
During the Apollo expedition, the remark ‘Houston, we have a problem’ was made.
It’s a nice neat line, but it isn’t exactly what the space crew said to Houston on 14 April 1970. Their spoken report was in the past tense. John Swigeret Jnr and then James Lovell both separately said: ‘Houston, we’ve had a problem here.’
Enter screenwriters Jeffrey Kluger and William Broyles Jnr, who adapted James A. Lovell’s original Apollo Expeditions to the Moon and gave Tom Hanks the line, but changed into the present tense: ‘Houston—we have a problem.’
The popularity of the movie and Hanks’s authoritative delivery moved the line from its real-life beginning into this shorter and more pleasing rhythm. It is now frequently applied to any mishap which might crop up, in space or otherwise.
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