DownGoesFrazier Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 I just saw THE MORE THE MERRIER, and that's the quote that Coburn reads from the Farragut statue. Yet several times during the film, he, and others, say, "Damn the torpedoes, full STEAM ahead". Other times, it's said using the word SPEED, like it's supposed to be. What's going on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 Wiki says nobody is sure what he actually said: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damn_the_torpedoes,_full_speed_ahead#Damn_the_torpedoes "Most popular accounts of the battle relate that when Brooklyn slowed when Tecumseh crossed her path, Farragut asked why she was not moving ahead. When the reply came back that torpedoes were in her path, he is said to have said, "Damn the torpedoes." The story did not appear in print until several years later, and some historians ask whether it happened at all.[51] Some forms of the story are highly unlikely; the most widespread is that he shouted to Brooklyn, "Damn the torpedoes! Go ahead!" Men present at the battle doubted that any such verbal communication could be heard above the din of the guns. More likely, if it happened, is that he said to the captain of Hartford, "Damn the torpedoes. Four bells,[52] Captain Drayton." Then he shouted to the commander of Metacomet, lashed to Hartford's side, "Go ahead, Jouett, full speed." The words have been altered in time to the more familiar, "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!"[53]" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sprocket_Man Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 > ...several times during the film, he, and others, say, "Damn the torpedoes, full STEAM ahead". Other times, it's said using the word SPEED, like it's supposed to be. What's going on? Well, the movie's called THE MORE (VERSIONS OF THE STORY), THE MERRIER, isn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted February 23, 2012 Author Share Posted February 23, 2012 Seriously, I think it's got to be a mistake (actually mistakes---Coburn said "steam" at least 3 or 4 times) that Stevens never caught. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicalnovelty Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 > {quote:title=finance wrote: > }{quote}Seriously, I think it's got to be a mistake (actually mistakes---Coburn said "steam" at least 3 or 4 times) that Stevens never caught. Maybe it was deliberate so that while everyone was focusing on "steam" or "speed" nobody would notice that they were slipping the word "damn" into the dialogue so many times! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 I say it ought to be "steam", in keeping with the steamy thoughts Connie and Joe are starting to have about each other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted February 24, 2012 Author Share Posted February 24, 2012 I didn't even remember that her name was Connie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarolAirey Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 Connie trying to resist Joe on the steps outside her apartment is the best scene ever!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slaytonf Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 It's one of the sexiest scenes in cinema. Jean Arthur resists the approaches of Joel McCrea, but very reluctantly. The only scene I can think of that is sexier is the scene Barbara Stanwyck seduces Henry Fonda in The Lady Eve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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