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undertow said:
In your first post you haven't mentioned the video at all just misquoted lines in general, so your point wasn't the video title all along.
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Ok, my first post on the subject didn't mention the video title, because I hadn't seen the video being posted yet. I posted a reply to moi's post which was on the previous page. But when I saw the video had been posted and moi replied to me about the misquote, my very next post was this:

Maksimov said:
It gets misquoted so often and in so many ways... I mean even the title of that youtube video above gets it wrong. :happy001:
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So, no... No goalposts being moved. From that post above and onwards I've been mainly talking about how it's silly that the video title has the misquoted version. In the context of youtube it doesn't annoy me as much as I find it funny. BUT... As the original quote is so much better than the misquoted version, it is a shame that it gets chopped down and mangled so often.

 
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Maksimov said:
"Houston we have a problem", etc.
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Isn't that what it actually says?I always assumed it was.

Unless you mean the movie changed the actual wording from the real quote of Apollo 13?

 
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MayosNoun said:
It definitely sounds like he does.
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It's a case of the movie having the line from the actual real life conversation changed. The original is "Houston we've had a problem". The scriptwriter and/or the director changed it because they felt that the original version wasn't dramatic enough. They thought that "we've had a problem" sounds like they had a problem, but now it's solved. Which was definitely not the case. I remember seeing or reading an interview about it in which they talked about it. I couldn't find that interview, but here's the a link to a recording of the original conversation:

https://youtu.be/kfPrnzMPesg?t=6m30s

The "Houston, we have a problem!" version is now so famous that it's become "the official version" to many. It's a bit like the movie Apollo 13's tagline (and maybe it's being said it in the movie, I can't remember) "Failure is not an option", which is credited to Gene Kranz, but he never actually said it.

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Ha, Gene Kranz does actually say the line in the movie!



Art rewrites history. It's not quite Battleship Potemkin, but it's become part of the "official story" now.

 
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MayosNoun said:
I thought you meant that after second reading. Cool, thanks.
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Yeah, I just noticed your post above. I think it's a fascinating phenomenon this thing how the misquoted versions become the official ones. It needs to get misquoted countless times before it becomes official. Maybe it was more common before the age of the internet. Now pretty much everything can be found online so that you can easily check it, but back then you saw or heard someone quote a line in the movie, you just assumed they got it right. Unless you remembered the movie well enough yourself.

 
OK,. another question for you, Maks.

In A Few Good men, does Jack Nicholson say

"You NEED me on that wall, you WANT me on the wall?"

or

"You WANT me on that wall, you NEED me on that wall!" ?

 
moi said:
OK,. another question for you, Maks.

In A Few Good men, does Jack Nicholson say

"You NEED me on that wall, you WANT me on the wall?"

or

"You WANT me on that wall, you NEED me on that wall!" ?
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I've only seen it once about twenty years ago, so I needed to check it for myself:

https://youtu.be/9FnO3igOkOk?t=1m21s

So... it's WANT first and then NEED.

 
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