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Topic: The Right Stuff (Wolfe's book, Kaufman's film)
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GoesTo11
Member Posts: 1309
From: Denver, CO
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 08-25-2013 08:32 PM
   
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Originally posted by dogcrew5369:
If you don't like the movie, you're a puddknocker.
You got any Beeman's? |
dogcrew5369
Member Posts: 750
From: Statesville, NC
Registered: Mar 2009
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posted 08-29-2013 11:02 PM
quote:
Originally posted by GoesTo11:
You got any Beeman's?
I'll loan you a stick. |
capoetc
Member Posts: 2169
From: McKinney TX (USA)
Registered: Aug 2005
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posted 08-30-2013 04:38 PM
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Originally posted by dogcrew5369:
I'll loan you a stick.
I might have me a stick. There, fixed it for you.  |
dogcrew5369
Member Posts: 750
From: Statesville, NC
Registered: Mar 2009
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posted 09-02-2013 10:08 PM
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Originally posted by capoetc:
There, fixed it for you.
Fair enough |
Peter downunder
Member Posts: 57
From: Lancefield, Victoria, Australia
Registered: Apr 2012
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posted 09-07-2013 07:01 AM
I love the movie, but if you're calling me a pudknocker, I'll have a scotch. |
Paul78zephyr
Member Posts: 675
From: Hudson, MA
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 07-03-2014 09:26 AM
In the scene where Alan Shepard (Scott Glenn) exits from the recovery helicopter after his splashdown from the MR-3 flight a man in a naval flight jacket shakes his hand and walks with him as he is cheered (Navy band playing anchors away) on the carrier deck. Who is that man? I've always thought he looks almost like the real Alan Shepard (i.e. cameo), but then again he doesn't. Clearly the makers of the film made the scene like that for a reason. |
sev8n
Member Posts: 233
From: Dallas TX USA
Registered: Jul 2012
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posted 07-03-2014 11:21 AM
From imdb.com: While several of the lead actors chose to meet their real-life counterparts, Scott Glenn elected not to meet with Alan Shepard. Scott said he wanted to get down Shepard's character and nuances by observation and by hearing others' points of view. After filming, the real Alan Shepard wrote the director and commented on Scott Glenn's "spot-on" performance - except for "not being nearly as good-looking as he was." Speaking of cameos, from the same page: Cameo
Chuck Yeager: the bartender |
p51
Member Posts: 1642
From: Olympia, WA
Registered: Sep 2011
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posted 07-03-2014 12:04 PM
I loved the movie when it came out, saw it first run in the theaters. The following year I entered high school and was in Air Force Junior ROTC, and lines from the movie were often quoted by us airplane geek types.I continued to love the movie UNTIL I read the book a couple of years ago. Now, I consider it as dark conedy and unrelated to the book. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42981
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 11-20-2014 05:12 AM
Wired has published an oral history of The Right Stuff, exploring the making of the 1983 feature film with Philip Kaufman, George Lucas, Chuck Yeager, Ed Harris and others from the movie's cast and crew. Making it was an epic in itself. Its locations were hard-earned; its special-effects plan was largely reconceived during production; one man lost part of an ear on the set, another lost his life. But more than three decades later, The Right Stuff still resonates, a testament to the incredible feats of bravery, sacrifice, and intelligence of which humans are capable — and to the inherent absurdity of climbing into tin cans mounted on ballistic missiles and blasting into space. |
alanh_7
Member Posts: 1252
From: Ajax, Ontario, Canada
Registered: Apr 2008
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posted 11-20-2014 08:38 AM
I always hated the way that film made Gus Grissom look. NASA must have thought highly of him otherwise they would not have given him the first manned Gemini AND Apollo had they not had confidence in him. In the film they made it look like Gus was almost trying to hide something. |
p51
Member Posts: 1642
From: Olympia, WA
Registered: Sep 2011
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posted 11-20-2014 11:10 AM
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Originally posted by alanh_7:
I always hated the way that film made Gus Grissom look.
Yeah, I was actually surprised to later read that NASA agreed officially that the hatch did, in fact, 'Just blow,' but the movie clearly made it look like Gus had done that bad thing with the pooch and NASA had then kicked him to the curb. |
alanh_7
Member Posts: 1252
From: Ajax, Ontario, Canada
Registered: Apr 2008
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posted 11-20-2014 12:33 PM
Particularly since other theories came out after Liberty Bell was recovered that could have explained why the hatch blew. Including a theory by Guenter Wendt if I recall. And none of those theories included Gus making a mistake. I am not saying he did or he did not blow the hatch. Just that I found the way that they treated him in both the book and the movie was more than a little unfair. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42981
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 12-12-2016 06:15 PM
From AMC Theaters on Twitter: In remembrance of John Glenn, we are bringing back "The Right Stuff" to select theatres, now through Dec. 15. |
Tom Rednour
Member Posts: 49
From: Beacon, NY 12508
Registered: Dec 2014
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posted 12-23-2016 03:11 PM
I'm sure that all of you have read Tom Wolfe's book The Right Stuff, but I'll bet not all of you have read the four-part Rolling Stone magazine article that inspired that tome, Post-Orbital Remorse.Wolfe was hired by the magazine to cover the last Apollo mission, Apollo 17. Writing as "an astronaut overseer," he delves into the space program from the early days to the last launch. This four-part series has (to my knowledge) never been reprinted. I've scanned the pages and pulled them all together into one large 24-page PDF file (16Mb). It's for your personal enjoyment only. |
Paul78zephyr
Member Posts: 675
From: Hudson, MA
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 01-07-2017 06:33 PM
The Time magazine commemorative edition on John Glenn has a two page excerpt from the original Tom Wolfe book. The excerpt is from the chapter "In Single Combat." Also the excerpt shows a picture of the book cover which is very similar to the book cover of my 1980 paperback copy which I asked about in my post at this thread in 2006. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42981
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 02-19-2018 11:05 AM
Dennis Quaid, who portrayed Gordon Cooper in the film, has narrated a new audio version of the book, as reported by the Associated Press. Asked how it felt to narrate the audiobook of "The Right Stuff," Dennis Quaid slipped right into character."Who's the best narrator you ever saw? You're looking at him," the actor said with a laugh during a recent telephone interview, invoking a signature line as the grinning astronaut Gordon Cooper in the 1983 film production. Released this week by Audible.com, the new edition of Tom Wolfe's 1979 prize winner about the early years of the space program is Quaid's first time as an audio reader. He called the experience "daunting," explaining that the book's 400-plus pages were more than he had remembered, and a pleasure on many levels. He loved the spark of Wolfe's prose style, the chance to relive the making of the film and the chance to play, at least in one medium, all of the characters. |
GACspaceguy
Member Posts: 2474
From: Guyton, GA
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 02-19-2018 02:38 PM
Started listening to it yesterday, he does a good job. |
Gilbert
Member Posts: 1328
From: Carrollton, GA USA
Registered: Jan 2003
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posted 02-19-2018 03:20 PM
I may have to get this and listen to it. It's been many years since I read the book. |
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