American Classics.

Where We Teach You American English Heard at the Movies.

1983 Movie The Right Stuff is about America's first astronauts and manned spaceflight program Project Mercury.

The program brought much fame to the pilots and their families.

Some of them felt pressured by the attention.

In this scene.

One astronaut defends his wife's refusal to be interviewed on television by the country's vice president.

Listen for the words out of line E can't do that, John, the vice president, the head of the program.

You're gonna think of the broader interest of this program.

You're way out of line here.

I'm out of line.

Yes, sir.

I'm running this show here.

We'll see about that.

Yeah, and I'm thinking of changing the order of flight assignments.

What do you think out of line means?

Is it a behavior that is considered unacceptable or the movement in the opposite direction of a crowd?

Listen again.

You can't do that, John.

The vice president, the head of the program.

You're gonna think of the broader interest of this program.

You're way out of line here.

I'm out of line.

Yes, sir.

The answer is a behavior that is considered unacceptable.

A person who is out of line has acted in an unreasonable and unacceptable way.

And that's English at the movies.

I'm Dorothy Gundy.