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Mathematics Goes to the Movies

by Burkard Polster and Marty Ross

 

Flash Gordon (1980)

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Doctor Hans Zarkov (Topol), Prince Barin (Timothy Dalton) and Princess Aura (Ornella Muti) are fleeing, attempting to open a locked door.
AURA: They’ve changed the code!
BARIN: I’ve changed too, Aura.
AURA: And I’ve changed, too.
ZARKOV: Oh it’s o.k. I think I can work it out. As Barin and Aura talk, Zarkov succeeds in opening the door. Ah, I thought it was one of the prime numbers of the Zeeman series. I haven’t changed!