The sedative effects of PR speak
Mark My Words
FEBRUARY 10, 2021
One of my favourite scenes from Apollo 13 is when Tom Hanks recreates the infamous, ‘Houston, we have a problem’ moment, which I remember hearing on the radio as a child. In addition to giving the film an authenticity borrowed from scientific language, the stream of technical speech also adds to the chaos and confusion of the scene.
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