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The Dish

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The Dish	comment	The Dish is an Australian comedy from Working Dog Productions, directed by Rob Sitch.It is set in the rural town of Parkes in 1969. In the middle of a sheep farm sits its main claim to fame: A large radio telescope, over which Australia and the United States are joining forces so that the Moon landing can be relayed to eager viewers across the world.The Dish explores 1960s culture, specifically the cultural differences between Americans and Australians, whilst casting a comical eye over the people of the rural town. Sam Neill stars as Cliff, director of the Parks radio telescope facility.Not to be confused with the spin-off of The Soup that ran on the Style channel, or former The New Republic editor Andrew Sullivan's news aggregator/blog.
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The Dish / int_17c7c925	type	Frothy Mugs of Water
The Dish / int_17c7c925	comment	Frothy Mugs of Water: Played in-story. "More tea, Prime Minister?"
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The Dish / int_19d06ef7	type	A Father to His Men
The Dish / int_19d06ef7	comment	A Father to His Men: Cliff.
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The Dish / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
The Dish / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: Cliff's advice comes back to bite him twice. Also of note: Cliff relates some very pertinent advice to Glenn - discussing his wife's advice in the face of his own fear of accepting the responsibility of being part of the Apollo programme, but clearly trying to get Glenn to realise that it has a wider application: "Failure is never quite so frightening as regret." Glenn muses this for a moment and responds "That's good advice... I wish someone would tell me that." (Cliff replies with a wry smile: "God bless you, Glenn!") Also: "It's on its way to the Moon."
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The Dish / int_2b68b7fa	type	Sickeningly Sweethearts
The Dish / int_2b68b7fa	comment	Sickeningly Sweethearts: The mayor. "What do I care if some big-wig Yank sees that I love my wife?"
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The Dish / int_3618ebb9	type	TheSixties
The Dish / int_3618ebb9	comment	The '60s: It is indirectly about Apollo 11
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The Dish / int_3c5ae1a1	type	Schizo Tech
The Dish / int_3c5ae1a1	comment	Schizo Tech: Despite being based on a true story, the juxtaposition of one of the most powerful telescopes in the world with rural Australian life qualifies. It is both Lampshaded ("What's it doing in the middle of a sheep paddock?") and Justified (Parkes' weather and radio noise, or lack thereof).
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The Dish / int_3c7022ce	type	Mundane Solution
The Dish / int_3c7022ce	comment	Mundane Solution: The team is panicking over just how the hell they're going to find Apollo 11—until Glen suggests pointing the dish at the Moon, which is where the spacecraft is going. This is after they've spent hours trying to calculate its position, covering an entire blackboard with equations.
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The Dish / int_44989f6f	type	"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot
The Dish / int_44989f6f	comment	"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: Al, the NASA observer, points out that the Australian crew should have just told NASA that something had gone wrong, as things go wrong there all the time.
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The Dish / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
The Dish / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: After bringing up the station's systems after a power failure...
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The Dish / int_52d4cd25	type	Anonymous Ringer
The Dish / int_52d4cd25	comment	Anonymous Ringer: The Prime Minister's name and party affiliation are unrevealed; he is just called "Prime Minister", and his party is just referred to as "the Party". The actual PM at the time was John Gorton of the Liberal Party, but the PM in the movie is, like the rest of the movie, somewhat fictionalised.
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The Dish / int_534bc834	type	Escalating War
The Dish / int_534bc834	comment	Escalating War: Played subtly.
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The Dish / int_58626d87	type	Genius Ditz
The Dish / int_58626d87	comment	Genius Ditz: Glenn.
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The Dish / int_653c5c73	type	Cannot Spit It Out
The Dish / int_653c5c73	comment	Cannot Spit It Out: It's obvious to everyone that Glenn and Janine like each other, but he has trouble admitting it. Towards the end of the film, he finally summons up the courage to ask her out.
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The Dish / int_65b13ac5	type	You Can't Miss It
The Dish / int_65b13ac5	comment	You Can't Miss It: Later, they realise that this is actually a useful answer: since the spaceship is on its way to the Moon, with only a few thousand miles to go, it has to be within a few degrees of the Moon in the sky. Start the search there and spiral out.
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The Dish / int_7a17d1ca	type	Eagleland
The Dish / int_7a17d1ca	comment	Eagle Land: Interesting subversion. The main American character is a fairly quiet, unassuming, rather nerdy but obviously quite decent person. Mitch takes exception to him, however, purely because he's American and assumes he'll live up to the stereotypes he has of them, even though he doesn't in any way whatsoever. The moody teenage daughter of the Mayor, Marie, calls America "cultural imperialists", keeps going on about Vietnam, calls the moon landing chauvinistic, and sneeringly asks if all the people in India will be watching it. She also thinks the mission is... well, her words: Al plays this so charmingly that when he says goodbye at the end of the meal, it's quite clear Marie has been won over.
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The Dish / int_84249fbc	type	Nerd Glasses
The Dish / int_84249fbc	comment	Nerd Glasses: Glen has a pair of hornrimmed ones. Al sports the chunky black-framed type.
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The Dish / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
The Dish / int_875615dd	comment	The fact that it's in a sheep paddock is Truth in Television. The rural location is far from potential sources of interference.
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The Dish / int_910f8179	type	Cultural Cringe
The Dish / int_910f8179	comment	Cultural Cringe: Tensions between the natives and the visiting Americans.
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The Dish / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
The Dish / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: Mitch tries to shift the blame when he forgets to prime the UPS pumps, leading to a total power loss when the power goes out and the dish losing track of Apollo 11.
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The Dish / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
The Dish / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: Mitch seems quite jealous of NASA and all the resources it had at its disposal until Cliff points this out.
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The Dish / int_a8abe9d1	type	Separated by a Common Language
The Dish / int_a8abe9d1	comment	Separated by a Common Language: Al's lack of understanding of Australian slang is played for laughs in places.
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The Dish / int_ac5c8d70	type	Wrong Song Gag
The Dish / int_ac5c8d70	comment	Wrong Song Gag: Bob announces the US National Anthem, but the band, who don't have the sheet music for that, play the theme from Hawaii Five-O. Only for one of the dignitaries visiting from the 'States to quip that they sometimes wish that was America's national anthem.
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The Dish / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Dish / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Mitch under pressure.
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The Dish / int_b39abd04	type	The Whole World Is Watching
The Dish / int_b39abd04	comment	The Whole World Is Watching: There's an extended montage of people watching the moon landing, ranging from schoolchildren and residents of Parkes, Australia (where the satellite dish receiving the Apollo 11 signal is located) to people in several cities around the world to a group of American soldiers in Vietnam.
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The Dish / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
The Dish / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: Mitch protesting "We're a professional unit!" while in the middle of a cricket match played in the bowl of the Dish. The Prime Minister wondering why the eponymous Dish is in the middle of a sheep paddock whilst standing in (Old) Parliament House. Old Parliament House was built in the middle of a sheep paddock.
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The Dish / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
The Dish / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: Delivered by the Prime Minister.
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The Dish / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
The Dish / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: The mayor and his wife. The Directors' Commentary includes the comment that many films show marriages on the rocks, and they thought it would be nice to show a marriage that was working for a change.
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The Dish / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
The Dish / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: Arguably, the aforementioned cricket match and bullshitting of NASA.
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The Dish / int_e0aed924	type	No Antagonist
The Dish / int_e0aed924	comment	No Antagonist: The closest thing to an antagonist is the wind, which is blowing so hard that moving the dish to receive the signal would be dangerous.
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The Dish / int_e4318055	type	CloudCuckooLand
The Dish / int_e4318055	comment	Cloud Cuckoo Land: The residents of Parkes are all endearingly eccentric in one way or another and their radio telescope is in the middle of a sheep paddock. The fact that it's in a sheep paddock is Truth in Television. The rural location is far from potential sources of interference.
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The Dish / int_e4b69188	type	Very Loosely Based on a True Story
The Dish / int_e4b69188	comment	Very Loosely Based on a True Story: There is a radio telescope at Parkes, and it did transmit the broadcast of Armstrong walking on the moon, and high winds did pose a concern. Much of the rest of the movie, including the power failure, is made up for Rule of Drama and Rule of Funny. As noted in the closing text, Parkes continues to be part of NASA missions to this day... and it's still in the middle of a sheep paddock. The moment when Armstrong set foot on the moon, and his "one giant leap for mankind" quote, were broadcast by the Honeysuckle Creek dish. The Parkes dish did take over before the end of Armstrong's walk, however. In fact, while its use for Apollo 11 was supplementing the smaller Honeysuckle Creek radio-dish, Parkes' larger antenna proved its worth during the rescue of Apollo 13 just 9 months later, as the explosion in the service-module took out the high-gain antenna, and Parkes was the only dish-antenna sensitive enough to pull in the signal from the LM's low-gain antenna amid the interference from the still-transmitting telemetry systems of the S-IVb upper-stage.
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The Dish / int_e563bf09	type	Insistent Terminology
The Dish / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: A Running Gag with the mayor's wife.
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The Dish / int_f96f188c	type	Drives Like Crazy
The Dish / int_f96f188c	comment	Drives Like Crazy: Janine.
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The Dish / int_fd7f0823	type	Distinguished Gentleman's Pipe
The Dish / int_fd7f0823	comment	Distinguished Gentleman's Pipe: Cliff.
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