Only the ideal is not enough, it has to work hard to achieve it

Jeffrey 2022-03-22 09:01:51

In the coal forest of the United States, the whole town relies on digging coal mines for a living, and the children of the town are destined to grow up to be miners. In October 1957, the world's first artificial satellite was launched in the Soviet Union. When a human made a satellite across the sky of the United States, it attracted a large number of people to watch, and the protagonist of this movie, Hou Mo, was also one of them. member. When he saw the artificial satellite streaking across the sky, an idea popped out of his mind: he wants to build a rocket, and I get a scholarship to go to college, so that I can change my destiny. He did what he said, and invited three of his friends to make it together. They first made a "monkey" and added a lot of gunpowder to it. They thought they could fly for several miles, but they ended up putting his mother in Xin'an. There was a big hole in the fence. But they were not discouraged. Dad didn't let them develop rockets on the company's land, so they walked to an open space five miles away to make them; their father drove the workers who helped them solder the iron to mine, and Hou Mo studied by himself. Welding; without money to buy good steel, they secretly dug out rails from abandoned railways and sold them for money; on the way to build rockets, they encountered all kinds of setbacks, such as being laughed at by classmates and even relatives, and being mistaken by the police for It was their lost rocket that caused the forest fire. But they were not afraid of difficulties and insisted on fighting for their ideals, and finally won the gold medal at the National Science and Technology Exhibition and went to university.

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October Sky quotes

  • HomerRoy LeeO'Dell: [after lighting their first rocket] Ten, nine, eight...

    Roy Lee: Should we get behind something?

    [it blows up and they fly back]

  • Homer: [Reading the newspaper aloud] "The silvery cylinder burst forth in a fiery column of smoke and flame, racing the very wind as it soared into the sky, a messenger of these Rocket Boys of Big Creek.

    [Chuckling]

    Homer: These boys use their brains, not brawn, who play not football, but with Apollo's fire."

    O'Dell: [Chuckles]

    Dorothy Platt: [Walks up to Homer, elated] Hi Homer.

    Homer: [Quietly] Hi Dorothy.

    Dorothy Platt: Would you please sign my newspaper?

    Homer: Sure.

    Dorothy Platt: I just know you're going to be really famous someday.

    Homer: [Stares at Dorothy, mesmerized]

    Roy Lee: H - O - M - E - R