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Apollo 13

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Apollo 13	comment	Apollo 13 is a 1995 film directed by Ron Howard.In 1970, the Apollo 13 mission was launched, headed for the moon. But this ill-fated flight would never reach its goal. Instead, its crew — Commander Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks), Command Module Pilot Jack Swigert (Kevin Bacon), and Lunar Module Pilot Fred Haise (Bill Paxton) — would have to handle another crisis, one which endangers not only the mission, but their very lives. When an explosion rocks the service module, the crew soon realizes that the oxygen tanks aboard the Command Module Odyssey are leaking, forcing Mission Control, led by Flight Director Gene Kranz (Ed Harris) to abort the landing. The crew shut down Odyssey and power up the Lunar Module Aquarius (which normally could only support two men for a little over a day) to act as a lifeboat as they slingshot around the far side of the moon. Only ingenuity and the ability to keep their wits about them will allow them to get home safely...Based on Jim Lovell's book on his experience, Lost Moon. In an interesting example, he shot the book idea past publishers, publishers got excited and sent it to filmmakers who immediately started bidding on it, and then someone called Lovell and said Imagine Entertainment was going to make a movie based on it. He hadn't finished the book yet!Howard, producer Brian Grazer, and Hanks went on to produce the HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon.Others in the All-Star Cast include Gary Sinise (Ken Mattingly, a last-minute scratch from the mission who has to help figure out a way to get the astronauts home), Loren Dean as John Aaron (the engineer who works with Mattingly to come up with a flight plan), Clint Howard as Sy Liebergot, and Kathleen Quinlan as Jim Lovell's wife Marilyn. If you watch this on DVD, Blu-Ray, or the Signature Collection Laserdisc, make sure you listen to the commentary track by the real Jim and Marilyn Lovell.
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Apollo 13 / int_1206dd74	type	Victory Is Boring
Apollo 13 / int_1206dd74	comment	Victory Is Boring: A congressman mentions that his constituents remark that the space program is pointless now that the US has beaten the Russians to the Moon. Every single channel passes on the opportunity to broadcast the mission from the lunar module live. They only show interest when things begin to go bad.
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Apollo 13 / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
Apollo 13 / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: Joe Spano's character is listed simply as "NASA Director" but was apparently loosely based on Chris Kraft, the progenitor of the Flight Director program. For dramatic purposes the character is a bit of a doomsayer (in contrast to Gene "Failure is not an option" Kranz), so they probably left him unnamed because Kraft is simply too highly regarded for NASA to tolerate him being portrayed negatively.
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Apollo 13 / int_144ec68f	type	Negated Moment of Awesome
Apollo 13 / int_144ec68f	comment	Negated Moment of Awesome: The mission was going to be flight commander Jim Lovell's moment of awesome. He was planning on retiring from NASA after this mission, and what better way to do it than by walking on the moon, after previously flying to it on Apollo 8. Unfortunately, an explosion in mid-flight means having to abort the moon landing, thereby making Lovell the only astronaut to travel to the moon twice without actually landing.
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Apollo 13 / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Apollo 13 / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: Done not-at-all-subtly by Jack when he explains to a woman how the ship will link up with the lunar lander. This foreshadows a later scene where he actually performs the maneuver in space and it causes a completely unsexual scraping noise.
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Apollo 13 / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Apollo 13 / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: NASA's attitude towards the number 13 prior to the mission. The mission number, liftoff at 1:13 PM (1313 in 24-hour time) on April 11th, 1970 (4+1+1+7+0 = 13), entering lunar orbit on April 13th. After a reporter points the 13 Is Unlucky trope, Mattingly mocks him saying that he made a black cat pass over a broken mirror under the lunar module's stairs - and everything still looks okay!
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Apollo 13 / int_197ebf38	type	Noisy Shut-Up
Apollo 13 / int_197ebf38	comment	Noisy Shut-Up: Shortly after the explosion, everyone in Mission Control starts talking frantically at the same time. Gene Kranz has to stand up and yell "Quiet down!" a few times so that he can start giving them instructions. It works very well.
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Apollo 13 / int_19d06ef7	type	A Father to His Men
Apollo 13 / int_19d06ef7	comment	Gene Kranz at Mission Control is a model leader who commands respect. Unassuming but firm, he's cool on many levels; he's calm and collected, exactly what is required when time is at the essence, makes critical, unprecedented and right decisions on his feet and never fails to be assertive but polite. When the occasion requires it he's stingy without being smug and proudly shoots down any defeatism. His empathy solidifies him as the perfect captain.
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Apollo 13 / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
Apollo 13 / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Aside from Ron Howard's relatives, he also put in movie producer Roger Corman (as the congressman who questions continuing the Apollo program) and Todd Hallowell, the film's Executive Producer, (as the guy that yells at Jim Lovell at a traffic light). Walter Cronkite does the prologue narration, and his news broadcasts for both Apollo 11 and 13 are used as plot points. On the astronaut front, the real Jim Lovell appears near the end as a naval captain shaking the crew's hands, while Apollo 7 commander and original Mercury Seven astronaut Wally Schirra briefly appears in one of Cronkite's news reports on Apollo 13 from the time.
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Apollo 13 / int_1c1ad7a	type	On Three
Apollo 13 / int_1c1ad7a	comment	On Three: Jim invokes the trope when the crew jettisons the SM in preparation for the re-entry process.
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Apollo 13 / int_1ce428b5	type	Cold Equation
Apollo 13 / int_1ce428b5	comment	Cold Equation: The lunar module was designed to support two men for two days. Now it had to support three men for four. Thankfully, there were enough resources to pull it off.
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Apollo 13 / int_1d3c92da	type	Failsafe Failure
Apollo 13 / int_1d3c92da	comment	The infamous quadruple equipment malfunction happened exactly as was portrayed in the movie. Jack Swigert even mentioned this trope directly during an interview shortly after they got back, stating that if NASA had handed them this exact scenario during a training simulation, they would all have complained about it not being realistic.
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Apollo 13 / int_1ddf1158	type	Sweeping the Table
Apollo 13 / int_1ddf1158	comment	Sweeping the Table: After the situation with the CO2 buildup has been made clear, the NASA tech brings a bag full of stuff into a room (the stuff being everything the astronauts have in the ship), sweeps the table clear, and then dumps all the gear on the table. He then tells his crew that they have to make a filter out of that gear.
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Apollo 13 / int_20844061	type	Newer Than They Think
Apollo 13 / int_20844061	comment	Jim and Marilyn talk to one another in person the night before liftoff. The tradition of astronauts saying their goodbyes to friends and loved ones at the launchpad the night before liftoff actually started with the space shuttle era.
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Apollo 13 / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
Apollo 13 / int_222dc873	comment	After the explosion and Kranz calls a meeting in a side room, he uses a chalkboard to draw the Earth, moon, and the current position of the astronauts — for the audience, this is used to explain what is meant by "free-return trajectory" vs. "direct abort", as well as (later on) how far 45 hours would get the astronauts. (He first tried using an overhead projector, but, appropriately, it malfunctioned when he tried to use it.)
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Apollo 13 / int_226cf294	type	Midair Repair
Apollo 13 / int_226cf294	comment	Midair Repair: Mid-space repair, as the crew has to nurse their stricken spacecraft around the moon and back home.
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Apollo 13 / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Apollo 13 / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: We see the crew using duct tape for fairly mundane jobs earlier in the mission (such as taping bags of waste to the cabin wall so they don't drift around). The fact that they have a roll of the stuff on board becomes far more important later when they need it to build a make-shift adaptor for the lithium hydroxide canisters to scrub CO2 from the LM atmosphere.
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Apollo 13 / int_23a633a8	type	Parental Fashion Veto
Apollo 13 / int_23a633a8	comment	Parental Fashion Veto: Barbara Lovell wants to go to the launch dressed like a hippie, and at first her father cheerfully agrees, only to tell her she can't go out dressed that way after his wife firmly vetoes it.
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Apollo 13 / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Apollo 13 / int_260926c3	comment	Failure Is the Only Option: The Inverted Trope Namer: "Failure is not an option!"
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Apollo 13 / int_2612a967	type	It Has Been an Honor
Apollo 13 / int_2612a967	comment	It Has Been an Honor: Jim comments on this as they are preparing to re-enter Earth's atmosphere.
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Apollo 13 / int_26beee71	type	Taught by Experience
Apollo 13 / int_26beee71	comment	Taught by Experience: Several of the procedures used had never been tested or even imagined, the technicians have to think on their feet.
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Apollo 13 / int_2726d167	type	The World Is Just Awesome
Apollo 13 / int_2726d167	comment	The World Is Just Awesome: In his Imagine Spot, Jim imagines himself staring in awe at the distant Earth.
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Apollo 13 / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
Apollo 13 / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: The Tom Hanks produced HBO anthology From the Earth to the Moon covered the Apollo missions one by one, from one to seventeen. Obviously, it would have been redundant to retell the story of Apollo 13, so instead, the episode covered the media perspective of the potential disaster. Gravity (2013) could be seen as one, as it is a 'serious' space disaster film based on current technology and starring astronauts rather than a straight sci-fi. Ed Harris even resumes his role as Mission Control. The Martian could also be seen as one, with the problems cranked up to eleven.
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Apollo 13 / int_294bd58a	type	Reentry Scare
Apollo 13 / int_294bd58a	comment	Reentry Scare: It didn't help Marilyn and family to see ABC's Jules Bergman demonstrate re-entry by putting a blowtorch to a sample of the spacecraft's ablative heat shield to show how it was supposed to work.
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Apollo 13 / int_2b3bd260	type	Readings Are Off the Scale
Apollo 13 / int_2b3bd260	comment	The whole accident sequence was set in motion months earlier when a thermostat in the oxygen tank failed during ground operations, resulting in the tank's interior being overheated to the point where the insulation on the wiring melted off. The failed thermostat was supposed to act as a fail-safe against that exact event, but when it tripped it was running under a voltage it wasn't designed for and welded itself shut. The temperature probe, which might have alerted the ground crew to the problem only went up to 80 degrees F, which was the temperature they were expecting during the operation they were performing, so that system offered no warning of the problem that had been set in motion either.
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Apollo 13 / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
Apollo 13 / int_336c1a31	comment	Kinda Busy Here: Jack's called about replacing Mattingly during shower sex.
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Apollo 13 / int_3618ebb9	type	TheSixties
Apollo 13 / int_3618ebb9	comment	The '60s: The film is set in the transition between The '60s and The '70s. As exemplified by Barbara Lovell's hippie attire and her brooding over "The stupid Beatles breaking up" (Paul McCartney resigned from the band on April 9, 1970, two days before Apollo 13's launch).
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Apollo 13 / int_39798793	type	Ludicrous Precision
Apollo 13 / int_39798793	comment	Ludicrous Precision: When devising new protocols to accommodate what little power they had every little bit mattered, and they would yell at each other over the difference between 3 and 4 amps.
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Apollo 13 / int_3b38cdbc	type	Keep the Home Fires Burning
Apollo 13 / int_3b38cdbc	comment	Keep the Home Fires Burning: Marilyn Lovell's subplot starts with her shielding her family from media attention (and advising Mary Haise in the same). Once the mission goes wrong, she tries to hold her family together emotionally, despite the lack of updates from NASA, while still keeping press agents eager for a tragedy out of their home.
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Apollo 13 / int_3c598f56	type	Conflict Ball
Apollo 13 / int_3c598f56	comment	Conflict Ball: One arises by way of Jack Swigert trying to bring to the crew's attention to a prediction he made of the module not having a steep enough return trajectory, before hitting his head and cursing out of frustration. The ensuing argument tips them off that they were all thinking slightly less rationally than usual, by Houston alerting them to their high carbon dioxide levels, and Haise's math error in calculating CO2 ratios around two people's breathing, not three.
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Apollo 13 / int_3c7022ce	type	Mundane Solution
Apollo 13 / int_3c7022ce	comment	Mundane Solution: The instruments are unavailable for re-entry, and Ground Control wonder how they're going to find their way back. Jim has the simple solution: use the terminator of the Earth.
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Apollo 13 / int_3c9267d2	type	Flatline
Apollo 13 / int_3c9267d2	comment	Flatline: Charles Berry, the flight surgeon at the control room, freaks out when the astronauts' monitors flatline, but they hear their voices through the radios fine, and the director assures him that the astronauts simply took their medical leads off. They did so because they were tired of hearing the operators fuss about their medical condition. Given that they were freezing, exhausted (unable to properly sleep), Haise was legitimately sick, and they were all under incredible stress, Berry had actual cause to be concerned for their health, but the astronauts were having none of it. (This was Artistic License in part. Jack Swigert couldn't use the biomed system because the LM only had connections for Fred and Jim.)
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Apollo 13 / int_3eee0728	type	Captain Obvious
Apollo 13 / int_3eee0728	comment	Captain Obvious: When Marilyn asks Jim why his mission has to be called Apollo 13, he replies, "It comes after 12." CAPCOM, which was just doing its job, but the astronauts were understandably tense. In another example of the attention to detail in the movie, Truth in Television. It was over 30 minutes before the astronauts realized they had their microphone set to VOX, and Jim Lovell really did say "frappin'" over the radio.
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Apollo 13 / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Apollo 13 / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Apollo 13 was called a "successful failure", in that they returned home safely, but did not land on the moon as originally intended, making Jim Lovell the only Apollo astronaut who flew to the moon twice without landingnote John Young and Eugene Cernan were both on Apollo 10, a dress-rehearsal that flew to 50,000 feet above the moon, but both got to land on flights 16 and 17, respectively.. The mention in the end narration of Jack Swigert's untimely death from cancer in 1980 also makes the ending more bittersweet.
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Apollo 13 / int_4276401c	type	Shoot the Messenger
Apollo 13 / int_4276401c	comment	Shoot the Messenger: Unsurprisingly, given the tense circumstances, those most aware of problems have to bear the brunt of others' frustration and impatience over things they have no control over. The astronauts get angry at Charles Berry, who was simply doing what he needed to do as a flight surgeon to keep them safe (you really can't risk your command module pilot coming down with the measles during lunar orbit rendezvous). Of course, nobody wants to hear John Aaron tell them they don't have enough power whenever they want to do something.
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Apollo 13 / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
Apollo 13 / int_43b785f9	comment	Nothing but Hits: Any time anyone is listening to the radio, and "Spirit in the Sky" on tape during the mission. (The last one gets a lampshade hung by Lovell, who mentions the soundtrack was switched. In real life, the music was Also sprach Zarathustra by Strauss, as Lovell in-film said it should have been.)
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Apollo 13 / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Apollo 13 / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: From getting crap for bumping Mattingly from the mission to a later "medical mutiny", Charles Berry can't catch a breaknote In real life, all the astronauts were far more accepting of the situation than they are portrayed here; all of them knew exactly how dangerous one of their number being sick in the middle of a mission could be.
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Apollo 13 / int_4c8e67e4	type	Emergency Cargo Dump
Apollo 13 / int_4c8e67e4	comment	Emergency Cargo Dump: Inverted example when it comes time to being power-up of Odyssey just before re-entry. The crew is told to haul as much ballast as they can from Aquarius before they cut it loose, which here basically means whatever random junk they can take with them. The issue is that the trajectory burn calculations had assumed that the craft would have been carrying a couple hundred pounds of moon rocks, but since they never landed on the moon the craft is missing that mass and as a result they are at risk of coming in too shallow relative to the Earth and bouncing off its atmosphere.
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Apollo 13 / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Apollo 13 / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: "Houston, we have a problem" is the most notable, but also "Houston, we are venting something into space," and "a whole panel is blown out, right up... right up to our heat shield," which really makes everyone worry that all their efforts may have been for nothing.
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Apollo 13 / int_4fb78f0c	type	Scotty Time
Apollo 13 / int_4fb78f0c	comment	Scotty Time: Played deadly serious here: In fact, they had just 15 minutes to power up the lunar module before the command module lost too much battery power to survive for reentry. They only succeeded because they were ahead of schedule and LM was already partially powered up for a systems checkout.
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Apollo 13 / int_50f66629	type	Crazy-Prepared
Apollo 13 / int_50f66629	comment	Crazy-Prepared: Averted in the movie for dramatic purposes; in reality, even the off-the-wall stuff was largely dusting off prepared contingencies and stringing them together.note The CO2 scrubbers, for example, were a contingency developed during the preparation for Apollo 8; the terminator burn was likewise an existing contingency, one Lovell himself had actually used on the real Apollo 8 mission after accidentally deleting a navigational data entry. Lovell had also been part of an "LM as lifeboat" drill aboard Apollo 8. A test of firing the LM descent engine while still attached to the CSM was done on Apollo 9. As an aversion, Lovell himself has said, "If we planned for every single possible contingency, I'd still be training for this mission." Keep in mind that he said this in an interview thirty years later.
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Apollo 13 / int_52488c54	type	Drowning My Sorrows
Apollo 13 / int_52488c54	comment	Drowning My Sorrows: After he gets scrubbed from the mission so soon before liftoff, Ken Mattingly drinks heavily, switching off his TV in disgust at hearing talk show host Dick Cavett talking about his replacement Jack Swigert. He gets over that after learning about the accident. The real Mattingly was at Mission Control when the accident happened.
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Apollo 13 / int_53d302c	type	Vertigo Effect
Apollo 13 / int_53d302c	comment	Vertigo Effect: A dolly zoom on Gene Kranz's face when Lovell reports that they're venting something out into space.
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Apollo 13 / int_54163958	type	Shower of Love
Apollo 13 / int_54163958	comment	Shower of Love: Where Jack Swigert is when he gets the call that he's become the new pilot.
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Apollo 13 / int_54bb502b	type	Nobody Poops
Apollo 13 / int_54bb502b	comment	Nobody Poops: Jim laments that they can't show how the bathrooms aboard the module work during their live broadcast. We then get a beautiful shot of his pee spraying out into space. They also have to resort to bagging their waste once the emergency occurs, as dumping it would only throw off their trajectory.
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Apollo 13 / int_557838d1	type	Adaptational Attractiveness
Apollo 13 / int_557838d1	comment	Adaptational Attractiveness: Gary Sinise is a lot more handsome than Ken Mattingly◊ was.
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Apollo 13 / int_5deb34da	type	Ace Pilot
Apollo 13 / int_5deb34da	comment	Ace Pilot: You have to be an ace pilot to be an astronaut, but Jim Lovell is talked about as one of the best even by other astronauts (who are more likely to praise their own skills than others'), having flown numerous successful missions for the Navy, Gemini, and Apollo 8. At the time of the mission, Lovell was the astronaut with the most flight time. Ken Mattingly is also considered to be up at the top — when informed that he's working on the power-up procedures, Lovell is somewhat reassured.
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Apollo 13 / int_5e2e55e4	type	The Casanova
Apollo 13 / int_5e2e55e4	comment	The Casanova: Jack is depicted in the film as a ladies man who is introduced using sexual-spatial metaphors with a girl. He's also remarked as the first bachelor in space — initially, NASA policy only allowed married men to be astronauts for PR purposes, and Jack was one of the first bachelors in the corps. This is referenced by Fred Haise after he starts coming down with a nasty UTI during the mission. He speculates that "Swigert gave [him] the clap" by urinating in his relief tube.
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Apollo 13 / int_6004e99c	type	Activation Sequence
Apollo 13 / int_6004e99c	comment	Activation Sequence: Near the end, as they approach Earth, Ken Mattingly in Houston is in the simulator going through power-up procedures, trying to get enough systems up to run the module through re-entry, while not burning through their remaining power. The one we actually see him go through, obviously, is the one that works as the systems each come back up and monitors come back to life. Later he walks Jack Swigert through the procedure on the Odyssey, which had been shut down following the explosion days before.
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Apollo 13 / int_603f1a80	type	Pragmatic Adaptation
Apollo 13 / int_603f1a80	comment	Pragmatic Adaptation: Several details are glossed over or left out, sometimes for time or story-flow reasons, other times because Ron Howard thought that detailing every problem that cropped up on the mission would lead to disbelief from audiences. An example of the former: Passive Thermal Controlnote PTC, a.k.a. the Barbecuer Roll: A procedure whereby the spacecraft is oriented to be side-on to the sun and made to roll slowly so that its surface remains heated evenly by the sun's heat. This was mainly done to protect the heat shield from potential damage by prolonged exposure to the cold of space, but also made heat management on the space craft as a whole less tricky is mentioned once but never explained, and the need to maintain PTC as part of the post-explosion survival strategy is left out altogether. With all the other problems they had to worry about it seemed like an unnecessary additional detail. An example of the latter: In real life one of the LM's batteries suffered a partial venting of its electrolyte, reducing its capacity and causing some anxiety on the ground that they'd lost precious power reserved. This was left out entirely as it was felt it would come off as too melodramatic to throw that into the mix as well.
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Apollo 13 / int_627264e0	type	Death Glare
Apollo 13 / int_627264e0	comment	Death Glare: Mattingly shoots one at the flight surgeon who was responsible for pulling him off the flight when he tells Jim that unlike the surgeon's prediction, he doesn't have the measles.
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Apollo 13 / int_6363937b	type	Cyanide Pill
Apollo 13 / int_6363937b	comment	Cyanide Pill: Lovell makes reference to the popular story around NASA regarding these in the memoir the film was based on. (They weren't real, though.)
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Apollo 13 / int_64e975cf	type	Manly Tears
Apollo 13 / int_64e975cf	comment	Manly Tears: Gene Kranz sheds some when they regain communication with the Odyssey after the ship has safely survived reentry. However, Kranz isn't the only one: it's subtle, but if you look closely during this scene, you can see several other engineers wiping their eyes.
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Apollo 13 / int_6627695f	type	Author Appeal
Apollo 13 / int_6627695f	comment	Author Appeal: Tom Hanks always had a deep fascination with the US Space Program. He would produce From the Earth to the Moon while the bandmates in The Wonders would have astronaut last names in That Thing You Do!.
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Apollo 13 / int_678bbca9	type	Grasp the Sun
Apollo 13 / int_678bbca9	comment	Grasp the Sun: On Earth, Lovell closes one eye to "cover" the moon with his thumb. Later, from his spacecraft, he does the same to the Earth.
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Apollo 13 / int_6a1a1f8a	type	Glasses Pull
Apollo 13 / int_6a1a1f8a	comment	Glasses Pull: Walter Cronkite is seen doing this when announcing Neil Armstrong setting foot on the moon and rubbing his hands together in glee.
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Apollo 13 / int_6a669b5b	type	Lost Wedding Ring
Apollo 13 / int_6a669b5b	comment	Lost Wedding Ring: This sequence was only slightly exaggerated for drama, though the initial Los Angeles Times review criticized this "invention". Marilyn Lovell did drop her wedding ring in the shower, but she was able to retrieve it. Still, the experience was less than reassuring.
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Apollo 13 / int_6b723294	type	Techno Babble
Apollo 13 / int_6b723294	comment	Techno Babble: An example of Real Life technobabble, as much of the dialogue was taken from the actual recordings of the conversations between the astronauts and mission control, and is used in a more-or-less correct way. Also counts as a Bilingual Bonus if you're an engineer.
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Apollo 13 / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Apollo 13 / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: The Command Module is called Odyssey, in reference to 2001: A Space Odyssey, but it also refers to Homer's The Odyssey, a quintessential tale about an epic long voyage home.
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Apollo 13 / int_6bf93fc7	type	FanService
Apollo 13 / int_6bf93fc7	comment	Fanservice: It's clear Kevin Bacon's character is wearing his space jumpsuit with no shirt underneath judging by the white t-shirt and tank top necklines that are visible with the others. Kevin Bacon always showed off his chest on and off camera so this was a given.
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Apollo 13 / int_6c3252ec	type	Fight to Survive
Apollo 13 / int_6c3252ec	comment	Fight to Survive: An epic struggle both in space and back in Mission Control to get the three astronauts back home alive.
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Apollo 13 / int_6cce8078	type	Recognition Failure
Apollo 13 / int_6cce8078	comment	Recognition Failure: Lovell's senile mother doesn't recognize Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin when they arrive to give support. This also counts as a Historical Person Punchline; while Armstrong is mentioned a lot early in the film (and the 1969 moon landing shown), he and Buzz only first appear as characters in that scene, and are named by Marilyn only after telling them what to do.
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Apollo 13 / int_6d5fb1e0	type	Waistcoat of Style
Apollo 13 / int_6d5fb1e0	comment	Waistcoat of Style: In both the movie and Real Life, Flight Director Gene Kranz's wife sews him a vest before each flight.
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Apollo 13 / int_6dd4006e	type	The Great Repair
Apollo 13 / int_6dd4006e	comment	The Great Repair: The second and third act involve keeping the spacecraft going on limited supplies while not having access to all the workings of the ship.
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Apollo 13 / int_6e27397	type	Missed Him by That Much
Apollo 13 / int_6e27397	comment	Missed Him by That Much: Marilyn Lovell did come to Mission Control to see the astronauts broadcast. The explosion happened between her leaving mission control and getting home. Good thing they waited until after the broadcast to stir the tanks. Ken turns off his television just as the news breaks that Apollo 13's in trouble. If he'd waited a few more seconds he would have known what was going on a lot sooner.
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Apollo 13 / int_6ef6417b	type	Disney Death
Apollo 13 / int_6ef6417b	comment	Disney Death: There is a communications blackout during re-entry, and all the audience can see is Mission Control and Lovell's family awaiting for contact to be re-established. After three minutes (the longest a blackout had been sustained before a prior crew arrived safely), still no contact. After four minutes, still no contact. Eventually, there's contact, but the movie makes sure to make every character and every audience member sweat it out. In real life, the actual blackout lasted six minutes, nearly a minute and a half longer than expected. This was due to the trajectory of the command module being slightly shallower than originally calculated, due to a steam sublimator on the LM pushing them slightly off course on the long trip back from the moon.
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Apollo 13 / int_71105dfc	type	Everybody Smokes
Apollo 13 / int_71105dfc	comment	Everybody Smokes: Mission Control is stuffed to the vents with smokers and ashtrays are as prominent as flashing lights. Each station has an ashtray built in, as did the seats in the viewing gallery behind the Mission Control room. Punctuated during the Go/No-Go sequence where Charles Berry blows out a huge cloud of cigarette smoke. Gene Kranz stated in a documentary that the "smell" of Mission Control was the mix of "cigarette smoke and boiled-over coffee pots" and given what they are going through the odds are that many of those engineers were lighting up more frequently than normal. In the last few scenes, several flight controllers are smoking cigars to celebrate Apollo 13's homecoming. This was a real-life NASA tradition at the time.
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Apollo 13 / int_730d3664	type	Adaptational Angst Upgrade
Apollo 13 / int_730d3664	comment	Adaptational Angst Upgrade: No one, not in space or the ground, ever showed any emotion, let alone snapping or arguing at each other, regardless of the severity of the danger. All of the emotions in the film were Rule of Drama.
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Apollo 13 / int_737a65f4	type	The Watson
Apollo 13 / int_737a65f4	comment	The Watson: Various characters serve as this to Jim Lovell in regards to space flight, particularly Jim's youngest son Jeffrey.
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Apollo 13 / int_751bd286	type	Is This Thing Still On?
Apollo 13 / int_751bd286	comment	Is This Thing Still On?: Sometimes they turn the connection to CAPCOM on and off. Sometimes they forget.
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Apollo 13 / int_7582930a	type	Hollywood Science
Apollo 13 / int_7582930a	comment	Hollywood Science: Mostly averted. One great example: After the explosion, pieces of debris surround and follow the spacecraft (as much of the drifting debris must share the same velocity as the spacecraft since there is no air to create drag). The debris logically disappears after the (off-screen) PC+2 burn to get the crew home as fast as possible.
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Apollo 13 / int_77a495f1	type	Historical Badass Upgrade
Apollo 13 / int_77a495f1	comment	Historical Badass Upgrade: Inverted. The level of stress, fear, and emotion that the astronauts express is exaggerated for Rule of Drama and what the audience would expect from someone in such a terrifying situation. In real life, they were totally calm and collected at all times.
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Apollo 13 / int_79e07b47	type	Lecture as Exposition
Apollo 13 / int_79e07b47	comment	Lecture as Exposition: Jim Lovell explains to his young son, and to the audience, how the LM is used to land on the moon, specifically noting that it only carries two people.
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Apollo 13 / int_7a2d9301	type	Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure
Apollo 13 / int_7a2d9301	comment	Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: Marilyn brings in Jim's elderly mother Blanche and introduces her to Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, who have arrived to stay with the family during this time. They are easily the most recognizable names of the space program, but Blanche asks if they work at NASA too.
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Apollo 13 / int_7d7a7d0f	type	Opening Narration
Apollo 13 / int_7d7a7d0f	comment	Opening Narration: Walter Cronkite describes how John F. Kennedy's plan to launch a man on the moon was "the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure on which man has ever embarked", as well as how the Apollo 1 fire in 1967 nearly doomed NASA's Apollo program.
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Apollo 13 / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Apollo 13 / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Gene Kranz's is the Saturn V engine failure during launch, showing that he's skilled at being cool under pressure when dealing with unexpected problems.
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Apollo 13 / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
Apollo 13 / int_8042e814	comment	Actually Pretty Funny: On day 6, a fit of cabin fever leads to the crew ripping off their bio-med sensors. While Charles Berry was exasperated to say the least, Gene Kranz was rather amused. Kranz also can't help but mildly chuckle at the Literal Metaphor of the crew needing to put a square air filter into a round air filter.
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Apollo 13 / int_80a1d98f	type	Missed the Call
Apollo 13 / int_80a1d98f	comment	Missed the Call: If Ken Mattingly had had the measles like everyone else, he would have been clear to go. He's pulled and replaced by Jack Swigert two days before the launch. Mattingly eventually did fly Apollo 16, which successfully landed on the moon.
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Apollo 13 / int_82d9561a	type	Remote Vitals Monitoring
Apollo 13 / int_82d9561a	comment	Remote Vitals Monitoring: Done both straight and for laughs. In a fit of cabin fever, Jim Lovell removes his biomed sensors stating "I'm sick and tired of the entire Western World knowing how my kidneys are functioning!" After the Flight Surgeon has a scare that Jim's heart has stopped, but he's clearly still talking on the radio, Haise and Schweikart also pull off their biomed sensors. During the initial disaster, while the astronauts are calling out all the warnings and alarms that are going off and Houston is trying to make sense of the readings they're getting, the flight surgeon notes the crew's heart rates are skyrocketing.
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Apollo 13 / int_83a903f6	type	Stepford Smiler
Apollo 13 / int_83a903f6	comment	Stepford Smiler: The wives of the astronauts are very aware they should conceal their fears and put on a happy and cheery face for the media. Marilyn Lovell even schools Mary Haise about this.
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Apollo 13 / int_85557b38	type	Reality Is Unrealistic
Apollo 13 / int_85557b38	comment	Reality Is Unrealistic: A preview audience member criticized the "typical Hollywood ending", and even those familiar with the basic story have assumed that certain historically accurate parts of the film (most notably the scene where Marilyn Lovell loses her wedding ring) were invented for dramatic reasons. The wedding ring shower scene was exaggerated somewhat. In real life, the ring did slip off her finger, but it was too big to fall through the drain cover and Marilyn was able to retrieve it. Similarly, Marilyn Lovell's nightmare about Jim's team suffering an explosive decompression accident was not invented for dramatic effect, but based on a real dream she had before the launch. On the other end of the spectrum, the astronauts were depicted more emotional than they actually behaved in order for the audience to connect with them easier. In reality, the astronauts kept a cool head at all times (all three had been test pilots, it comes with the territory) and no-one could afford to spend time worrying. This change was made likely because audiences would have a hard time believing that anyone (even trained astronauts) could be so badass under so much pressure and also because it would have been boring if they kept a cool head at all times. note Jim Lovell did say frappin' in frustration at one point, however. The infamous quadruple equipment malfunction happened exactly as was portrayed in the movie. Jack Swigert even mentioned this trope directly during an interview shortly after they got back, stating that if NASA had handed them this exact scenario during a training simulation, they would all have complained about it not being realistic. At first stage ignition, the Saturn V launch shows great balls of fire blooming out from around the engines, and then shrinking right back down again. Jim Lovell commented on this, saying that many people believed that the film was merely being run backwards. However, actual footage of the launches shows the fireball retreating in this way, as the initial cloud of flames is sucked back through the base of the launch platform by the ever-increasing velocity of the exhaust plume. The unrealistic part of the film's launch (aside from the Saturn V's paint job for 13) were the holding arms, which all swing back simultaneously, not one by one. As portrayed in the film, the longest time Mission Control had ever lost contact with an astronaut crew was three minutes of radio silence. The movie depicts at as four, in real life it was six. Much of the astronauts' dialogue and their reactions are greatly exaggerated for drama. In particular, many comments by the cinematic Lovell were actually said by Fred Haise, according to the transcript. Also exaggerated for the sake of drama were the relative inexperience, compared to Lovell, of Swigert (the real Swigert was a solid pilot that also trained in many Command Module disaster scenarios) and Haise (who pointed out many problems in the real mission long before they came to pass). There were several other problems that didn't make it into the film (the biggest was one of the LM's batteries suffering a loss of capacity, causing mission control to fear that they'd lost some of their reserve power) because it would have simply come across as too melodramatic to believe. The real Gene Kranz switched roles with flight director Glynn Lunney as shown in the film but never manned the Flight console again until perhaps near the mission's conclusion, leading his White Team as a roving troubleshooting team while other directors were in charge. The way that mission control comes up with the plan to fit the Command Module's air filters to the mismatched slots of the Lunar Module was far more improbable in real life than in the film. In the movie, it's depicted as the efforts of a team of engineers working frantically to come up with a solution, in real life, the solution was thought up by one guy in his car on the way to work.
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Apollo 13 / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Apollo 13 / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Marilyn's lost wedding ring in the shower at the beginning of the movie is never brought up again nor resolved. In reality, she did get it back.
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Apollo 13 / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
Apollo 13 / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: Jim's mother, Blanche, is confident that he will get them home safely. Gene Kranz: The character's famous line is a bit of Artistic License as the real Kranz did not say this, but let's all pretend that he did, m'kay?note The real Kranz eventually used the line as the title of his autobiography, so he certainly agrees with the sentiment.
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Apollo 13 / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Apollo 13 / int_87504252	comment	The Big Board: Two different boards are used for this purpose: There's the more traditional (trope-wise) big board at the front of mission control showing, at various times in the movie, plot-relevant status updates of the mission (i.e., status of the main engines, the current position of the astronauts, etc.) After the explosion and Kranz calls a meeting in a side room, he uses a chalkboard to draw the Earth, moon, and the current position of the astronauts — for the audience, this is used to explain what is meant by "free-return trajectory" vs. "direct abort", as well as (later on) how far 45 hours would get the astronauts. (He first tried using an overhead projector, but, appropriately, it malfunctioned when he tried to use it.)
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Apollo 13 / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
Apollo 13 / int_875615dd	comment	CAPCOM, which was just doing its job, but the astronauts were understandably tense. In another example of the attention to detail in the movie, Truth in Television. It was over 30 minutes before the astronauts realized they had their microphone set to VOX, and Jim Lovell really did say "frappin'" over the radio.
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Apollo 13 / int_89012c43	type	Excessive Steam Syndrome
Apollo 13 / int_89012c43	comment	Excessive Steam Syndrome: Although the material being vented was oxygen rather than steam. As one of the flight controllers theorizes in the film, steam venting from a cooling system on the LM was responsible for the "shallowing" that threatened the re-entry. As water boils off into steam it takes heat with it, making it a pretty useful way of getting rid of excess heat in an environment where conduction and convection are out of the question. The LM was not meant to be powered up for the trans-lunar or trans-earth phases of the mission (it wasn't meant to be even attached any more for the trans-earth coast) so the effects of the steam vent had never been observed before. Furthermore, the reason they ran out of electric power was because they ran out of oxygen to feed the fuel cells, a technology first used on Gemini spacecraft and readied for Apollo. In the cell, hydrogen and oxygen are combined at high temperatures, producing electricity... and steam, which was condensed into water for drinking and cooling.
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Apollo 13 / int_8a295a46	type	Cool Car
Apollo 13 / int_8a295a46	comment	Cool Car: Jim and Ken drive striking sport cars. Truth in Television, as auto makers at the time loved to give discounted (or even free) models to the astronauts so they could market their latest cars as "the choice of the astronauts!" Corvettes like Jim's were particularly popular with the astronaut corps.
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Apollo 13 / int_8cf6aa	type	Literal Metaphor
Apollo 13 / int_8cf6aa	comment	Literal Metaphor: The carbon dioxide levels on the Lunar Module are rising faster than the LM's air filters can handle. The Command Module's filters can handle it, but they're square, whereas the LM's filters are round. So NASA's engineers have to actually literally put a square peg into a round hole, promptly lampshaded by Kranz.
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Apollo 13 / int_93350bf1	type	Continuous Decompression
Apollo 13 / int_93350bf1	comment	Similarly, Marilyn Lovell's nightmare about Jim's team suffering an explosive decompression accident was not invented for dramatic effect, but based on a real dream she had before the launch.
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Apollo 13 / int_947bf915	type	Last Day of Normalcy
Apollo 13 / int_947bf915	comment	Last Day of Normalcy: The third day of the mission begins with a segment showing the astronauts doing routine things, like going to the bathroom, and doing their broadcast. This also serves to illustrate how much the public has seemingly lost interest in the moon missions since after a grand total of two successful landings, they are apparently now "routine" to the point that none of the networks are even carrying the broadcast. Right after it ends, the crew performs a routine oxygen tank stir, and the rest as they say is history.
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Apollo 13 / int_94e4b975	type	Vomit Indiscretion Shot
Apollo 13 / int_94e4b975	comment	Vomit Indiscretion Shot: After launching, Fred Haise pukes out some small chunks of food, and some of it spatters on the camera lens. Yum.
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Apollo 13 / int_95b875b1	type	Not Me This Time
Apollo 13 / int_95b875b1	comment	Not Me This Time: Fred Haise has been using the cabin repress valve, which causes a sharp banging sound, to mess with the other astronauts. When the oxygen tank explodes and the entire ship starts shaking, he rushes in saying, "That's no repress valve!"
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Apollo 13 / int_960a9ef8	type	Caps Lock, Num Lock, Missiles Lock
Apollo 13 / int_960a9ef8	comment	Caps Lock, Num Lock, Missiles Lock: Defied. Swigert makes sure to place a bit of paper with "NO" written on it on the LM jettison switch so that he wouldn't accidentally jettison the thing with them on it.
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Apollo 13 / int_963086ce	type	Damn You, Muscle Memory!
Apollo 13 / int_963086ce	comment	Damn You, Muscle Memory!: When preparing for reentry, Lovell automatically takes the pilot's seat before Swigert gets to it. Swigert looks hurt, assuming that Lovell doesn't trust his skills, but says nothing. When Lovell notices he apologizes — taking the pilot's seat is a force of habit, and he moves aside to let Swigert fly them home.
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Apollo 13 / int_970ccfec	type	Big "YES!"
Apollo 13 / int_970ccfec	comment	Big "YES!": The entire world's reaction, in general, when, after more than 4 minutes of radio silence... The Grumman rep, after warning the LM was not built for making course-corrections, whoops it up, yelling "How 'about that LM, eh?!"
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Apollo 13 / int_97fa0a10	type	Mass "Oh, Crap!"
Apollo 13 / int_97fa0a10	comment	Mass "Oh, Crap!": Lovell's report that the spacecraft is venting results in this, from his fellow astronauts and all of Mission Control.
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Apollo 13 / int_9843be73	type	As You Know
Apollo 13 / int_9843be73	comment	As You Know: There's a fair amount of this to get NASA techno-speak across to a viewing audience. The emergency meeting where the Mission Control guys explain the meaning of terms they already know like "direct abort" and "free return trajectory" stands out.
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Apollo 13 / int_984e892a	type	Air Voyance
Apollo 13 / int_984e892a	comment	Air Voyance: When Lovell takes off for Florida, his wife watches from the yard as his plane flies over the house. Justified by the plane being a white T-38 Talon, and also by the likelihood that Lovell would have set up his flight plan specifically to allow the pass. (NASA has maintained a fleet of T-38s, as chase planes and astronaut trainer/taxis, for a very long time, and the agency's fleet livery is white with sky blue pinstriping. NASA pilots often let their families know they were home by overflying their house, Air Traffic Control permitting. The more senior the pilot, the hotter the aircraft which might be available for personal taxi service, e.g at least one pilot at Dryden (Edwards AFB) often used an F-104 Starfighter for trips.) In a later scene, Lovell looks down at the Earth through a window in the lunar module, and his wife stares back up at him from her living room.
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Apollo 13 / int_9a692ae9	type	13 Is Unlucky
Apollo 13 / int_9a692ae9	comment	13 Is Unlucky: Lots of joking about this being Apollo mission #13.
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Apollo 13 / int_9c73b5b2	type	Let Them Die Happy
Apollo 13 / int_9c73b5b2	comment	Let Them Die Happy: A variation as the titular spacecraft is finally about to re-enter the atmosphere after so much has gone wrong, and mission control sees they are drifting off course.
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Apollo 13 / int_9d5a2cdf	type	Intimidating Revenue Service
Apollo 13 / int_9d5a2cdf	comment	During the in-flight broadcast, Jack Swigert mentions that he forgot to file his taxes. (To which Sy Liebergot comments, "That's no joke, they'll jump on him!".) Later, he's informed that the president granted him an extension on his taxes, since he is "most decidedly out of the country."
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Apollo 13 / int_9e0c3153	type	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
Apollo 13 / int_9e0c3153	comment	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: Gene Kranz's most famous line of the movie is delivered like this to provide extra gravitas.
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Apollo 13 / int_a01c2d36	type	Practical Voice-Over
Apollo 13 / int_a01c2d36	comment	Practical Voice-Over: Used extensively here, as the crew's plight was a major news item. Some of the original news broadcasts, including Jules Bergman's interruption of The Dick Cavett Show, were used for the film.
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Apollo 13 / int_a0797fb3	type	Stunned Silence
Apollo 13 / int_a0797fb3	comment	Stunned Silence: Mission Control after Lovell tells them "we are venting something into space". Justified, as this is definitive confirmation that this is not going to be a minor problem, and the astronaut's lives are in serious danger.
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Apollo 13 / int_a0edf122	type	Good with Numbers
Apollo 13 / int_a0edf122	comment	Good with Numbers: Lovell, while under the pressure of the accident and threat of imminent death, performs the required calculations to activate Aquarius, in his head, while trying to keep himself and the rest of his crew alive. He asks Mission Control to double check his numbers, which they do with freaking slide rules and pronounce his calculations accurate. In real life, the reason Lovell asked for his figures to be checked from the ground was because he'd actually failed tests of his math skills in less stressful situations, so he sure as heck didn't trust them in the midst of a disaster, at least without another set of eyes to check his work.
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Apollo 13 / int_a1b0c1c2	type	Revealing Cover-Up
Apollo 13 / int_a1b0c1c2	comment	Revealing Cover-Up: The Apollo 13 astronauts are constantly asking for the power-up procedure for the Command Module, not wanting to leave it last minute. When, instead of CAPCOM, its their boss, Deke Slayton, that tells them to be patient and they'll get it soon, they realise that they don't have a power-up procedure.
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Apollo 13 / int_a1b76006	type	Nerves of Steel
Apollo 13 / int_a1b76006	comment	On the other end of the spectrum, the astronauts were depicted more emotional than they actually behaved in order for the audience to connect with them easier. In reality, the astronauts kept a cool head at all times (all three had been test pilots, it comes with the territory) and no-one could afford to spend time worrying. This change was made likely because audiences would have a hard time believing that anyone (even trained astronauts) could be so badass under so much pressure and also because it would have been boring if they kept a cool head at all times. note Jim Lovell did say frappin' in frustration at one point, however.
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Apollo 13 / int_a38088cf	type	Space Is Cold
Apollo 13 / int_a38088cf	comment	Space Is Cold: Justified as the real Apollo 13 did ice up. The spacecraft really did lose heat throughout the mission to the point where ice crystals were starting to form. The spacecraft designers knew that the electronics and fuel cells would generate a lot of heat, so they built the LEM and CM with plenty of radiator surfaces to dump the heat out into space. But with the fuel cells out of commission, and not enough power to run the electronics or cabin heaters...
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Apollo 13 / int_a3d85e14	type	Genius Thriller
Apollo 13 / int_a3d85e14	comment	Genius Thriller: The movie is all about astronauts trying to outsmart a problem.
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Apollo 13 / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Apollo 13 / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: Smash Cut from Jack Swigert's Big "YES!" reaction to being told he's going to the moon to Ken Mattingly's reaction to being told he's not going to the moon... Happens twice during the "Where Are They Now?" monologue Jim Lovell gives for his crewmen. Firstly, it's implied that Fred Haise finally got to walk on the moon after all, until Lovell reveals that his Apollo 18 mission was scrapped due to budget cuts and the unsuccessful Apollo 13 mission marked the end of his space career. Likewise, Jack Swigert's future is initially painted quite brightly when Jim tells the audience he was elected to congress... before revealing that he never even got to take office due to his sudden death by cancer.
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Apollo 13 / int_a6a6de9a	type	Humble Hero
Apollo 13 / int_a6a6de9a	comment	Humble Hero: Lovell. When Swigert introduces him to Tracy, he starts telling her about Lovell's impressive NASA record, and Lovell acts mildly embarrassed. He also tells a tour group that "the astronaut is only the most visible member of a very large team" and that everyone involved with the Apollo program is honored to be part of it.
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Apollo 13 / int_a7382a73	type	Imagine Spot
Apollo 13 / int_a7382a73	comment	Imagine Spot: When Lovell notices their landing site a short day dream sequence scene ensues, with Aquarius landed on the surface and Jim taking his first steps in the lunar landscape, as Annie Lennox sings..
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Apollo 13 / int_a87b8c8c	type	Typeset in the Future
Apollo 13 / int_a87b8c8c	comment	Typeset in the Future: The Eurostile Bold Extended font made popular by 2001: A Space Odyssey is used for the credits and on-screen messages like MANNED SPACECRAFT CENTER HOUSTON, TEXAS, THREE MONTHS PRIOR TO LAUNCH.
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Apollo 13 / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
Apollo 13 / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: During the shift change in Mission Control after the launch, the camera focuses on the controllers emptying overfull ashtrays. Disconcerting even to 1995 audiences, never mind those in the 21st century.
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Apollo 13 / int_aaece264	type	Rousing Speech
Apollo 13 / int_aaece264	comment	Rousing Speech: Gene Kranz makes the team's mission statement very clear.
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Apollo 13 / int_ab1064b3	type	Modesty Towel
Apollo 13 / int_ab1064b3	comment	Modesty Towel: Jack Swigert wraps a towel around his waist as he's getting out of the shower to answer the phone. A few moments later, his girlfriend walks into the room wrapped in another towel.
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Apollo 13 / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Apollo 13 / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: The moment when everyone, crew and ground control alike, realizes that whatever has happened, it's a major problem. Which is absolutely true. According to Lovell in his book, the one thing no Commander on ANY space mission wants to see is his craft "bleeding." Moments later, the worst-case scenario is confirmed. The moment that it really hits how screwed they are: This is followed moments later with: A bit later, they get a brutal lesson in exactly why the LEM power-up checklist is three hours long: And again, when they get their first look at the damage after separating the service module. A small one happens when Jim irately demands that Mission Control give them the command module power-up procedure only to have Deke Slayton cut in on the radio to tell him to be patient. The Apollo 13 astronauts knew full well that only the CAPCOM officer at Mission Control was supposed to communicate with the flight crew directly; so when their boss Deke broke protocol and personally got on the radio to talk to them, all three astronauts immediately realized the status of the power-up procedure: Upon discovering their air in the LEM is building up CO2 faster than anticipated, Haise realizes he forgot to adjust his calculations to include a third person. Lovell confirms on his commentary that this really did happen. When Lovell's young son is told there's something wrong with Apollo 13, he asks wide-eyed with fear, "Was it the door?"note Lovell just told the story of how Grissom and others were killed because of a fire they couldn't escape because of the door - It's worth noting that the "door" in question was a prototype, and by the time of Apollo 13 it had been completely redesigned to be impossible to fail in the same manner..
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Apollo 13 / int_af7d483f	type	Dreaming of Things to Come
Apollo 13 / int_af7d483f	comment	Dreaming of Things to Come: Marilyn Lovell has a nightmare where Jim and the crew suffer Continuous Decompression shortly after takeoff. This was not an invention of the movie for dramatic effect, she actually had that exact dream in real life.
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Apollo 13 / int_b33dd99e	type	Epic Launch Sequence
Apollo 13 / int_b33dd99e	comment	Epic Launch Sequence: The launch of the Saturn V rocket carrying the craft. Reportedly so realistic that Buzz Aldrin asked director Ron Howard during an advance screening how he had obtained the footage from NASA only for Howard to tell him they'd done it themselves.
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Apollo 13 / int_b39abd04	type	The Whole World Is Watching
Apollo 13 / int_b39abd04	comment	The Whole World Is Watching: The film deals with this trope before and after the oxygen tank explosion as a contrast about the world's reaction to what is now the third mission to the Moon: Only a couple hours before the accident, the astronauts are scheduled to do a live broadcast from the Odyssey to be relayed back to Earth. A brief scene at the Lovell's home shows Marilyn arguing with Barbara about going to Mission Control for it, with Marilyn insisting that the whole world is going to be watching Jim do the broadcast. This gets rather cruelly Subverted once they do arrive at Mission Control's public gallery and they find out from NASA's PR officer Henry Hurt that none of the television networks are broadcasting it live, Henry mentioning that by now the program's become so routine they've made going to the moon as exciting as a trip to Pittsburgh. Other aides in the room keep changing the television's channel to no avail — apparently watching a gorilla in a zoo throwing around baggage was more interesting. Afterwards it's played straight as the spacecraft circles around and approaches the Earth. News reports are shown of reactions from the nations of the world. Many offer help, but there's really nothing anyone outside of NASA can do except pray. Archive footage is shown of Pope Paul VI leading fifty thousand people in prayer at St. Peter's and prayers offered at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem. Marilyn herself is rather bitter about the media's about-face of attitude when the networks wanted to set up broadcasting equipment on her lawn.
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Apollo 13 / int_b3d1b7e3	type	Genius Bonus
Apollo 13 / int_b3d1b7e3	comment	Genius Bonus: When Lovell is boasting that his landing will be "better than Neil Armstrong... and way better than Pete Conrad!" he wasn't just bragging. As Apollo 11 approached the landing site, the crew could see it was covered in boulders, requiring them to continue hovering until they could find a clear patch to set down, with only about thirty seconds worth of fuel remaining. Apollo 12 was actually a very precise landing, within a short walk to the Surveyor 3 probe, a major objective of the mission. But again, the original site was too rough, and Bean and Conrad ended up landing on the side of a hill, which caused the engine to cut off a little too early and left the LM sitting on an angle.
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Apollo 13 / int_b3d5d61	type	Real-Person Cameo
Apollo 13 / int_b3d5d61	comment	Real-Person Cameo: The real Jim Lovell has a role as the captain of the aircraft carrier that recovers the crew after splashdown. This role is doubly appropriate, as Lovell is a retired Navy captain. He was originally going to appear as an admiral, but he told the producers something along the lines of "I retired as a captain so I'll be a captain." The real Marilyn Lovell also has a cameo as one of the spectators at the launch.
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Apollo 13 / int_b55e8979	type	Science Hero
Apollo 13 / int_b55e8979	comment	Science Hero: The three astronauts and most of the personnel at mission control. Their ingenuity turns a doomed scenario into one of NASA's finest hours.
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Apollo 13 / int_b5914444	type	Noodle Implements
Apollo 13 / int_b5914444	comment	Noodle Implements: The materials Mission Control tells the astronauts to gather (to MacGyver another air filter for the LEM) include suit hoses, a flight plan cover, 2 lithium hydroxide canisters, duct tape, and one sock.
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Apollo 13 / int_b77808f2	type	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
Apollo 13 / int_b77808f2	comment	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: Narration by Hanks (in character as Lovell) describing the fates of the main characters.
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Apollo 13 / int_b7d773ab	type	Smash Cut
Apollo 13 / int_b7d773ab	comment	Smash Cut from Jack Swigert's Big "YES!" reaction to being told he's going to the moon to Ken Mattingly's reaction to being told he's not going to the moon...
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Apollo 13 / int_b9af5ef3	type	The Film of the Book
Apollo 13 / int_b9af5ef3	comment	The Film of the Book: Started even before the book, Lost Moon, was finished.
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Apollo 13 / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Apollo 13 / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: By Jim Lovell, upon being told that Ken Mattingly has to be replaced less than three days before liftoff: And later when there's problems in devising an ad-hoc power-up procedure before re-entry: Ken Mattingly can't figure out the Odyssey's re-entry sequence and it's starting to get on his nerves:
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Apollo 13 / int_bebf0356	type	Mission Control
Apollo 13 / int_bebf0356	comment	Mission Control: Actual NASA Mission Control in Houston.
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Apollo 13 / int_bf609406	type	New Meat
Apollo 13 / int_bf609406	comment	New Meat: The Saturn V launch scenes make it very obvious that Lovell is the only crew member who has flown in space before (specifically, Apollo 13 was his fourth flight overall and his second flight launched on a Saturn V). He knows what all the pre-launch background noises are, and he knows when to warn the crew about "a little jolt."
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Apollo 13 / int_bfafc1b	type	MacGyvering
Apollo 13 / int_bfafc1b	comment	Another one happens a little later on, when Mission Control MacGyvers a solution, which includes using their spare urine bag. Which leads to this exchange:
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Apollo 13 / int_c3478f1d	type	Badass Bookworm
Apollo 13 / int_c3478f1d	comment	Badass Bookworm: It's NASA. This skill needs to be on the resume of each team member. The guy who comes up with the design of the jury-rigged CO2 filter earns the title of "Steely-eyed missile man". John Aaron, the original "steely-eyed missile man" from Apollo 12. His role in the movie is an expanded pastiche of himself and quite a few other people, but he really was there and played a critical role in coming up with the reduced-power boot-up sequence for the CM.
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Apollo 13 / int_c3648b87	type	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork
Apollo 13 / int_c3648b87	comment	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Mild examples here and there during moments of tension. Gene Kranz quickly puts an end to any bickering and there are some doubts about Jack, as he was a member of the backup team. At one point Fred antagonizes and confronts Jack, but Jim makes it clear that bouncing off the walls yelling at each other doesn't change their situation. There was no actual animosity between the crew, and even in the film it's clear that they're just reacting out of stress and fear. By the end, they're Fire-Forged Friends.
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Apollo 13 / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Apollo 13 / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: Inverted during the reentry scene. Previously, no manned mission had gone through more than three minutes of radio silence during reentry, the state of the Service Module indicated that the heat shield may have been damaged, and the angle of reentry was much shallower than any previous mission, meaning there was a distinct possibility that the Command Module would burn up during reentry. When four full minutes of radio silence passed without contact being reestablished, it seems that there is no chance the crew survived. Cue Lovell's response of "Hello, Houston. This is Odyssey. It's good to see you again." And Mission Control Rejoiced.
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Apollo 13 / int_c4b8e2ae	type	One-Woman Wail
Apollo 13 / int_c4b8e2ae	comment	One-Woman Wail: During the loss of communications as they pass behind the moon (courtesy of Annie Lennox)
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Apollo 13 / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Apollo 13 / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The scene where Jim's Corvette stalls at a green light is a reference to a similar scene in American Graffiti, which Ron Howard starred in.
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Apollo 13 / int_c8a8c595	type	Retirony
Apollo 13 / int_c8a8c595	comment	Retirony: Narrowly averted; Jim Lovell announces that Apollo 13 is going to be his last mission.
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Apollo 13 / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Apollo 13 / int_caf8c66c	comment	The Chains of Commanding: Lovell has to choose between replacing Ken Mattingly or skipping the mission. Ken is not happy about the call, but recognizes it's a tough one and doesn't hold any grudge against Lovell.
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Apollo 13 / int_cb957409	type	Good Is Boring
Apollo 13 / int_cb957409	comment	Good Is Boring: All the networks dropped the Apollo 13 live broadcast — but took up coverage the moment things went bad. Viewer and network coverage complacency about the launch was made worse because Apollo 12's flight was virtually videoless due to the accidental destruction of their only video camera while on the moon (the camera was accidentally pointed into the sun). Almost two years passed before viewers could care about seeing a man walk on the moon again. Later, Marilyn is understandably angry when she gets a request from the news networks to put a tower for live broadcast on her lawn:
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Apollo 13 / int_ccbaffb6	type	We Interrupt This Program
Apollo 13 / int_ccbaffb6	comment	We Interrupt This Program: Quite often, to bring mission updates. Dramatically well-done by using actual footage from one of the era's most knowledgeable journalist experts, ABC's Science Editor Jules Bergman, with dramatic footage of Walter Cronkite during the drama. A fictitious series of network coverage filled in any other needed dramatic commentary.
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Apollo 13 / int_cd2b8aa3	type	Space Is Noisy
Apollo 13 / int_cd2b8aa3	comment	Space Is Noisy: Lots of booming and hissing noises from the spacecraft, as shot from outside.
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Apollo 13 / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
Apollo 13 / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: Three minutes of radio silence was the longest any previous mission had gone during a successful reentry. Apollo 13 was out of contact for four. With everything that had gone on up till then, this was the most nerve-wracking four minutes in NASA history. In real life the radio blackout was six minutes, nearly a minute and a half longer than expected due to the reentry angle being significantly shallower than any previous mission. More time in the low density upper atmosphere meant it took them much longer to slow down to the point that the air ahead of them was no longer being heated by compression into a plasma which radio signals can't penetrate.
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Apollo 13 / int_ce1c73e2	type	Just Plane Wrong
Apollo 13 / int_ce1c73e2	comment	Just Plane Wrong: Minor example. When Jim Lovell flies by his house in a T-38 there's a visible contrail, despite his low altitude. Ron Howard knew that, but had it put in anyway in a rare moment of Rule of Cool.
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Apollo 13 / int_d0b60f23	type	GoshDangItToHeck
Apollo 13 / int_d0b60f23	comment	Gosh Dang It to Heck!: "I don't need to hear the obvious, I've got the frapping eight ball right in front of me!" Truth in Television on this one. The crew of a previous mission (Apollo 10) had been admonished for using somewhat harsher language on the radio, so all the astronauts were told to avoid using profanities in transmission, and in the audio commentary track for the Laserdisc/DVD, Jim Lovell protests the inaccuracy of this line, claiming he didn't use any profanity. (Most likely, he was protesting the use of "god-damned" a few lines earlier in the scene, since "frapping" was also in the official NASA transcript.)
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Apollo 13 / int_d129e13e	type	"Eureka!" Moment
Apollo 13 / int_d129e13e	comment	The way that mission control comes up with the plan to fit the Command Module's air filters to the mismatched slots of the Lunar Module was far more improbable in real life than in the film. In the movie, it's depicted as the efforts of a team of engineers working frantically to come up with a solution, in real life, the solution was thought up by one guy in his car on the way to work.
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Apollo 13 / int_d137b509	type	Competence Porn
Apollo 13 / int_d137b509	comment	Competence Porn: You already know how it ends. And you probably already know the gist of how three astronauts and their thousands of support staff on the ground cooperated to get a crippled spacecraft back to Earth. What the movie gives you is the chance to watch how they do it. At one point Jim mentions that they have half the PhDs in the country working on a solution, and they should take comfort in that.
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Apollo 13 / int_d1b4f0ef	type	Everybody Lives
Apollo 13 / int_d1b4f0ef	comment	Everybody Lives: As in the real-life disaster, the film ends with Apollo 13 making it back to Earth with all hands intact.
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Apollo 13 / int_d7b34c31	type	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
Apollo 13 / int_d7b34c31	comment	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": A lot of the characters in Mission Control are known only by their positions (CAPCOM, RETRO, FAO, etc.) even in the film's credits.
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Apollo 13 / int_d99d9918	type	The Captain
Apollo 13 / int_d99d9918	comment	The Captain: Gene Kranz at Mission Control is a model leader who commands respect. Unassuming but firm, he's cool on many levels; he's calm and collected, exactly what is required when time is at the essence, makes critical, unprecedented and right decisions on his feet and never fails to be assertive but polite. When the occasion requires it he's stingy without being smug and proudly shoots down any defeatism. His empathy solidifies him as the perfect captain. Jim Lovell obviously, the savvy, competent and balanced commander of the Apollo 13. Fittingly, he was officially Captain James Lovell, United States Navy. Also fittingly, the real Jim Lovell wore his old Navy captain's uniform for his cameo appearance in the film.
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Apollo 13 / int_dd6ce5db	type	Artistic License
Apollo 13 / int_dd6ce5db	comment	Gene Kranz: The character's famous line is a bit of Artistic License as the real Kranz did not say this, but let's all pretend that he did, m'kay?note The real Kranz eventually used the line as the title of his autobiography, so he certainly agrees with the sentiment.
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Apollo 13 / int_dfe57573	type	Historical In-Joke
Apollo 13 / int_dfe57573	comment	Historical In-Joke: During the live broadcast, the CAPCOM notes, "When I go up on 19, I'm gonna bring my entire collection of Johnny Cash along." Sadly, Apollo 17 was the last mission to go to the moon. (This was also a reference to the fact that all of the CAPCOMs at the time were fellow astronauts, either members of past Apollo missions or in-training for future missions.)note Brett Cullen's CAPCOM was a composite character based on Jack Lousma and Bill Pogue. Lousma was the CAPCOM at the time of the real accident, who would have likely been on that cancelled flight. Lousma and Pogue were both CAPCOM during Apollo 13, as was Vance Brand, whose character is played by Ned Vaughn. Lousma and Pogue both flew on Skylab, and Brand first flew the Apollo-Soyuz mission before flying the Space Shuttle. Another CAPCOM, Joe Kerwin, was not portrayed in the film. During the viewing of the Apollo 11 lunar landing broadcast, Pete Conrad jokes that it's a dress rehearsal of his Apollo 12 landing. Sadly, Apollo 12's camera was accidentally pointed into the sun during the broadcast, frying the camera and leaving them unable to broadcast the excursions. During the LM inspection TV broadcast, Fred sets a tape recorder going, playing Spirit In The Sky. Jim comments that it was meant to be the theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey in honour of Odyssey, their command module. The intended music was played on the real Apollo 13 broadcast.
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Apollo 13 / int_e0aed924	type	No Antagonist
Apollo 13 / int_e0aed924	comment	No Antagonist: The damage was accidental and not sabotage, the astronauts argue but cooperate, and NASA is honest and labors to get their men back. Characters such as the flight surgeon, the jackalesque media and the political liaisons come off unsympathetic or callous, but that's all. Everyone in the cast is doing whatever they can to get the crew home safely.
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Apollo 13 / int_e0bc3cc3	type	The Perfectionist
Apollo 13 / int_e0bc3cc3	comment	The Perfectionist: Ken Mattingly. He's the only one in the crew who wants to run the simulation over and over to get it just exactly right.
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Apollo 13 / int_e3847ee8	type	Cigarette of Anxiety
Apollo 13 / int_e3847ee8	comment	Mission Control is stuffed to the vents with smokers and ashtrays are as prominent as flashing lights. Each station has an ashtray built in, as did the seats in the viewing gallery behind the Mission Control room. Punctuated during the Go/No-Go sequence where Charles Berry blows out a huge cloud of cigarette smoke. Gene Kranz stated in a documentary that the "smell" of Mission Control was the mix of "cigarette smoke and boiled-over coffee pots" and given what they are going through the odds are that many of those engineers were lighting up more frequently than normal.
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Apollo 13 / int_e4965307	type	Composite Character
Apollo 13 / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: Loren Dean is credited as "EECOM Arthur", but is given the role of several Houston flight controllers and engineers, most notably John Aaron, Mission Control's premier "steely-eyed missile man" who saved Apollo 12 months before when their Saturn V rocket was struck (several times) by lightning. The character is referred to as "John" a few times in dialogue, too, reinforcing that this character is indeed meant to represent him. Ken Mattingly in the film was a composite of all the people who helped in the simulators to get the crew back.
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Apollo 13 / int_e4ba33fc	type	Disaster Dominoes
Apollo 13 / int_e4ba33fc	comment	Disaster Dominoes: As explained in the book, the actual mission included two other course correction burns and at least one additional serious problemnote One of the six Lunar Module batteries suffered a buildup of hydrogen gas resulting in a partial venting of the battery's electrolyte, this resulted in a loss of some of the battery's power and caused some power concerns, not shown in the movie. Ron Howard said he left these out of fear that the real story would be too melodramatic.
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Apollo 13 / int_e528c7b4	type	And Mission Control Rejoiced
Apollo 13 / int_e528c7b4	comment	And Mission Control Rejoiced: They go absolutely nuts after Lovell's answer of the hail from CAPCOM confirms that the astronauts survived reentry.
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Apollo 13 / int_e57b45c4	type	Quieter Than Silence
Apollo 13 / int_e57b45c4	comment	Quieter Than Silence: The ambiance outside the capsule, as represented by wind.
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Apollo 13 / int_e6558beb	type	Artistic License â€“ Space
Apollo 13 / int_e6558beb	comment	In a bit of Artistic License â€“ Space, after the party has broken up and the guests have left, Jim is outside looking up at the moon and covering it with his thumb. The moon is depicted as being nearly full. In reality, on July 20, 1969 the moon was not quite half-full and only about 40% of it was visible from earth.
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Apollo 13 / int_e80cdd72	type	Almost Out of Oxygen
Apollo 13 / int_e80cdd72	comment	Almost Out of Oxygen: Initially played deathly straight, as the Odyssey depends on the rapidly venting liquid oxygen for power as well as simple breathing. Inverted once Aquarius is online; due to multiple planned moonwalks (which would have required venting the entire LEM for each moonwalk, and repressurizing after each one as well), they have plenty of breathing oxygen, but they also have too much CO2 in their air. They need to MacGyver a carbon dioxide filter in order to avoid Hypercapnia.
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Apollo 13 / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
Apollo 13 / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Throughout the movie Gene Krantz is the cool, calm leader of the Mission Control team. The one moment the facade cracks is when he is informed that there's still a delay in getting the power-up procedure for the Command Module, letting the audience know the situation is getting critical.
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Apollo 13 / int_ec9d3eb7	type	Explosive Stupidity
Apollo 13 / int_ec9d3eb7	comment	Explosive Stupidity: Of the all too literal variety. The oxygen tanks used on Apollo 13 had originally been installed in Apollo 10 and were designed to run at 28 volts, the nominal voltage provided by the fuel cells. At some point it was realized that certain operations on the ground could be sped up considerably if the electrical systems were uprated for dual-voltage operation (28 volts on a mission, 65 volts on the ground) so a redesign was done and the electrical systems uprated. As part of this process, the Apollo 10 tank was removed from its service module and a new uprated tank installed in its place, whilst the removed tank was returned to the manufacturer to be refurbished for dual-voltage operation. The parts were all replaced to run at the new voltage — except for one thermostat. This switch was designed to protect the tank from overheating by breaking the circuit in the event the temperature rose above 80 degrees. 80 degrees is an utterly ridiculous temperature for an oxygen tank to run at, but, as luck would have it, Oxygen Tank 2 got knocked against the ground during installation into Apollo 13's service module and an oxygen drainage pipe was knocked partway loose, meaning that emptying the tank of O2 by standard procedures was no longer an option. The solution, when they discovered this issue, was to run the tank hot and boil all the liquid oxygen off instead. This seemed like a reasonable solution because the tank heater was protected by the aforementioned thermostat. However, when the boiloff procedure was executed and the switch tripped as it was supposed to, the tank was running on 65 volts. The switch arced and the resulting spark was powerful enough to weld it shut permanently, allowing the tank to get much hotter than 80 degrees. And because the tank's temperature sensor wasn't designed to go higher than 80, no-one knew that temperatures in excess of 1000 degrees had melted the insulation off the wires... until it was too late.
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Apollo 13 / int_ed194d4e	type	Midair Bobbing
Apollo 13 / int_ed194d4e	comment	Midair Bobbing: An artifact of the filming process. The actors in the spacecraft really are in freefall, but the set is attached to the KC-135. As the plane is buffeted by the atmosphere, the set actually bobs around the actors, making it look like they're shifting about even when they're not touching any walls. A large portion of the spacecraft shots were done on a sound stage in normal gravity, with the actors required to fake weightlessness; however, because the actors had already filmed in freefall, they were able to adjust their behavior accordingly, and the intercutting of KC-135 and stage shots made the effects less noticeable.
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Apollo 13 / int_ed3e90f3	type	Duct Tape for Everything
Apollo 13 / int_ed3e90f3	comment	Duct Tape for Everything: Part of the solution for how they got home. It allowed the air filter for the command module to fit the (incompatible) filter opening for the lunar module, so that the astronauts would not choke on their own exhaled carbon dioxide. The duct tape was aboard the spacecraft in the first place simply as a means of stopping crap from floating around the cabin, a usage seen earlier in the movie. Reportedly, when the real life engineer who eventually came up with that contraption learned that there was indeed duct tape aboard Apollo 13, he knew it could be fixed.
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Apollo 13 / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
Apollo 13 / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Averted. There are two Johns, John Young and John Aaron. Sometimes they're in the same scene and both respond when people don't specify which John they're asking for.
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Apollo 13 / int_ef85d7e5	type	Repeat to Confirm
Apollo 13 / int_ef85d7e5	comment	Repeat to Confirm: Standard operating procedure for NASA. Lovell does this three times when Houston tells him to shut down the fuel cells, which is an irreversible procedure that would scrub their moon landing, in a desperate measure to contain the oxygen leak.
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Apollo 13 / int_f0508c08	type	Decomposite Character
Apollo 13 / int_f0508c08	comment	Decomposite Character: The team of engineers who figured how to make the Command Module's air filters fit the (incompatible) slots of the Lunar Module were a decomposition of a single engineer who devised the solution while driving to work.
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Apollo 13 / int_f3a8ec93	type	Billions of Buttons
Apollo 13 / int_f3a8ec93	comment	Billions of Buttons: So many, in fact, that NASA sent Dave Scott, the commander of Apollo 15, as a button wrangler to make sure they did it right.
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Apollo 13 / int_f612d2d	type	Ignored Vital News Reports
Apollo 13 / int_f612d2d	comment	Ignored Vital News Reports: The grounded astronaut Ken Mattingly turns off his TV just before the ABC News special report comes on.
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Apollo 13 / int_f6b1ac42	type	Tim Taylor Technology
Apollo 13 / int_f6b1ac42	comment	Tim Taylor Technology: Inverted. The crew had to consume as little power as possible during the trip back to Earth as the LM's batteries and water were normally only for 2 men for 3 days, not three men for five days. Furthermore, they had to ensure that their improvised CM power-up sequence didn't draw more than 20 amps (instead of the usual 65) from the CM's batteries, or they wouldn't have enough power to last through the whole reentry.
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Apollo 13 / int_f91d1d4f	type	Darkest Hour
Apollo 13 / int_f91d1d4f	comment	Darkest Hour: The American space program is on the brink of one its major disasters, but it's successfully inverted.
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Apollo 13 / int_f9375414	type	FacePalm
Apollo 13 / int_f9375414	comment	Face Palm: Several. The level of frustration in the film runs extremely high, from malfunctioning equipment to accidents to outright stupidity, and the characters show it. At one point, Flight Director Gene Kranz reacts with a subtle one and some exasperated snarking on learning that the only available spare carbon-dioxide scrubbers on the stricken spacecraft (from the dead Command Module) are square, and the receptacle for the only working scrubber system (in the Lunar Module) is round. Another one happens a little later on, when Mission Control MacGyvers a solution, which includes using their spare urine bag. Which leads to this exchange: Gene does this at the end just after Odyssey has reestablished contact with Mission Control after reentry. However, this one is not out of frustration, just relief that the ordeal for everyone is over.
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Apollo 13 / int_fcd9b657	type	Gallows Humor
Apollo 13 / int_fcd9b657	comment	Gallows Humor: When the Command Module got safely back to Earth and the astronauts were saved, the representative of Grumman (who designed the Lunar Module) gave the representative of North American Aviation (who designed the command service module) a bill. For towing expenses (with an added fee for "additional guest in room" since the Lunar Module was only meant for two, not three). North American responded in turn by stating that the CSM had already ferried three LMs (Apollos 10, 11 and 12) to the Moon with no such fees charged at the time.
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Apollo 13 / int_fd5603b	type	MacGyvering
Apollo 13 / int_fd5603b	comment	MacGyvering: The engineers and the astronauts had to do this to adapt the lander's completely differently designed air filters with the command module's before the crew suffocated. They eventually put together a solution that involves duct tape, a plastic baggie, a sock, and the cover of their flight manual. (Unfortunately, the great scene where the engineers run in carrying all the gear that the craft would have and saying they have to make a filter adapter out of that pile didn't happen in real life; an engineer figured it out on the drive to his workplace when called up for the emergency.)
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Apollo 13 / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: During the in-flight broadcast, Jack Swigert mentions that he forgot to file his taxes. (To which Sy Liebergot comments, "That's no joke, they'll jump on him!".) Later, he's informed that the president granted him an extension on his taxes, since he is "most decidedly out of the country." Ken Mattingly gets bumped from the flight of Apollo 13 because of exposure to the measles. Later, as they're preparing to reenter the Earth's atmosphere, Mattingly takes CAPCOM. Lovell asks him, "Are the flowers blooming in Houston?" Mattingly replies, "Uh, that's a negative, Jim, I don't have the measles," as he glares at Berry. The final narration states that Mattingly never got measles. The crew "mutiny" by ripping off their medical monitors. Guess what Haise can be seen throwing around later when the crew needs to adjust the weight on the ship? The confusion over VOX (basically, a toggled-on mic). Early on, right after the initial catastrophe, the crew gets frustrated about obvious things that Mission Control is telling them, and Mission Control breaks in to inform them that they're hearing every shout and swear. Later on, during another tense moment caused by stir-craziness (and possibly low-level CO2 poisoning), Mission Control chimes in again, and the first thing Lovell yells is "Are we on VOX?!" remembering the last time. They weren't, and he immediately collects himself. The film answers the question that Lovell declines to respond to the lady reporter: how does one go potty in space? (That joke was done specifically because that is one of the most often asked questions of astronauts.) There's a second, glossed-over reason for including that scene: note that it's Fred Haise that's using the pee tube; though not actually mentioned in the film, in real life, it was a urinary tract infection that made Haise ill during the voyage. (Not the measles, and not "the clap" as Fred jokingly suggested later in the film.) There's actually a third reason as well. After they've abandoned Odyssey and are in the process of powering down Aquarius for the coast back to Earth, Houston informs the crew that they can't dump waste overboard any more, as the venting could potentially push them off course and force them to expend very limited consumables to correct for it. Naturally the astronauts are less than thrilled by the prospect of bags full of their own waste products floating around the cabin for the next 3 days.
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Apollo 13 / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: There are some inaccuracies, but they were minor and primarily in service of the Rule of Drama. The greatest changes were in the mission dialogue. The real astronauts rarely quibbled, much less argued, per the mission transcript. Tom Hanks' character also "stole" lines that were often said by his crewmates. The spacecraft sets and mission control sets were so period accurate that they can be mistaken for the real thing. The space suits worn by the actors were practically exact replicas of the space suits Apollo astronauts wore. One person that visited the Mission Control set (a full re-creation), after leaving the set, was looking for the elevator afterward (the original Mission Control was on the third floor of its building; the set was built on the ground level) — the set was that accurate.
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