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Welcome to English at the Movies.
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American Classics.
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Where We Teach You American English Heard at the Movies.
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1983 Movie The Right Stuff is about America's first astronauts and manned spaceflight program Project Mercury.
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The program brought much fame to the pilots and their families.
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Some of them felt pressured by the attention.
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In this scene.
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One astronaut defends his wife's refusal to be interviewed on television by the country's vice president.
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Listen for the words out of line E can't do that, John, the vice president, the head of the program.
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You're gonna think of the broader interest of this program.
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You're way out of line here.
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I'm out of line.
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Yes, sir.
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I'm running this show here.
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We'll see about that.
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Yeah, and I'm thinking of changing the order of flight assignments.
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What do you think out of line means?
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Is it a behavior that is considered unacceptable or the movement in the opposite direction of a crowd?
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Listen again.
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You can't do that, John.
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The vice president, the head of the program.
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You're gonna think of the broader interest of this program.
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You're way out of line here.
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I'm out of line.
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Yes, sir.
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The answer is a behavior that is considered unacceptable.
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A person who is out of line has acted in an unreasonable and unacceptable way.
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And that's English at the movies.
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I'm Dorothy Gundy.