Daily Dialogue — February 7, 2019

Principal Turner: Mr. Hickam, report to my office as soon as we get back to school. You do intend to enter the county science fair, do you not?
Home Hickam: Yes, sir, we do.
Principal Turner: If you intend to represent Big Creek, you’re going to have to be enrolled as a student in Big Creek.

— October Sky (1999), screenplay by Lewis Colic, book by Homer H. Hickam

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Science.

Trivia: The author wished the movie to be called “Rocket Boys,” like the book it’s based on, but the studio believed that title would not sell well. The compromise title “October Sky” works on two levels: it’s the month when the hero is first inspired by Sputnik flying overhead, and it is an anagram of “Rocket Boys”.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Homer uses math to save his rocket project in this scene from a wonderful movie about science and a young man finding his voice.