Apollo 13
"Apollo 13" is a movie documenting the extraordinary event of the Apollo 13 moon mission during the spring of 1970. The director of this movie took so major liberties when creating this movie. Going to space is not that exciting, and neither is sitting in a small room for a few days waiting to return home. The director had to make this movie exciting, so it was necessary to take some liberties.
In the movie, the astronauts begin to but heads. This never happened during the actual event. In reality, the astronauts remained positive throughout the entire ordeal. In the film, pilot Jack Swaggart and "Fredo" begin to argue. Astronaut Jim Lovell has to be the peacemaker throughout their extraordinary journey through space. This conflict, combined with many exhilarating experiences such as creating a makeshift CO2 filter (which actually happened) ended up making the movie extremely exciting and a huge success. Not only that, but a few famous quotes or phrases were coined because of this movie. After the explosion on board, astronaut Jim Lovell played by Tom Hanks says, "Houston, we have a problem". Ed Harris who plays Gene Kranz the flight control also has a famous quote. He says to one of his employees during the ordeal that "Failure is not an option." These two quotes are phrases we've used ever since.
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