In the movie APOLLO 13, there's a scene toward the beginning in which Jim and Marilyn Lowell are riding in a car. Marilyn says, I can't believe they're still having you do appearances.
So we see that she's in a stressed mood or a stressed frame of mind.
Jim says, well, it's NASA. There's a pause, a beat, and then Marilyn says, you know I was looking at the kids' schedules and it's going to be an awfully busy week. So, I was thinking of not going to the launch.
And so they argue, a medium amount, Jim says we've had these kids for quite a while now and they haven't prevented you from going to the previous launches. Marilyn says, with your Mom just having had her stroke. Jim says, Mom's fine. She says, the other wives, they haven't been to one before, it's not like I haven't been to one before, I'm just not sure I can go through all that again . . . [and she kind of tails off]
And Jim lets her tail off. Jim just kind of lets it be. He accepts the pause and he lets the pause just kind of be there.
And then Jim says, well, you're going to miss a hell of a show. [and he says it in an accepting tone of voice, yes, he's hurt, but if that's where she's at, that fine. They don't need to believe the same.]
01 Apr 2010, 1:48 pm
