Quick test before you read another word. Picture Tom Cruise in Risky Business. The scene. Parents out of town, socks on hardwood, Old Time Rock and Roll. What is he wearing? You said a white button-down shirt and sunglasses. Almost everyone does. The shirt in that scene is pink, and there are no sunglasses in it at all. Go look. We will wait, and we will still be here when you come back needing to sit down.

Say this line out loud: "Luke, I am your father." You probably just heard Darth Vader's voice. You probably feel completely confident about where that line comes from and exactly how it was delivered. And you are wrong. Darth Vader never said those words. He said "No. I am your father." The word Luke is not in the line. You can pull up the film right now and confirm it. And yet your memory insists otherwise. Specifically. Vividly. With the same certainty you would use to reca