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The Right Stuff is a 1983 film adaptation of Tom Wolfe's best-selling book, about the attempt to break the sound barrier and the subsequent Space Race. Directed and written by Philip Kaufman, it received eight Academy Award nominations, winning four.Briefly considered to be a campaign promo for John Glenn's presidential aspirations in 1984 (though it actually didn't help much), the film provided breakout roles for a number of now-established actors: Scott Glenn (unless you count Urban Cowboy), Dennis Quaid (unless you count Breaking Away), Fred Ward (unless you count Escape from Alcatraz), and Ed Harris (unless you count Knightriders). And while Sam Shepard never worked too hard to advance his acting career, if he can be said to have had a breakout role, it was in this; his performance earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Among the others in the large ensemble cast are Lance Henriksen, Scott Paulin, Barbara Hershey, Veronica Cartwright, Pamela Reed, Scott Wilson, Jeff Goldblum, and Harry Shearer.Although the movie is centered around the men and their fast, expensive, and dangerous toys, the women in the movie receive a great deal of character development, from Pancho Barnes and Nurse Murch to all of the astronauts' wives.Interesting trivia: the actor named Glenn played Shepard, and the actor named Shepard played Yeager. Glenn was played by ... the actor named Harris.Not to be confused with the Anime online store The Right Stuf, which has one "F". Or the song by New Kids on the Block.Another adaptation of the novel, an 8-part miniseries produced by National Geographic, premiered in 2020 on Disney+. | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: The head German engineer of NASA and the "Soviet Chief Designer" are meant to be portrayals of Wernher Von Braun and Sergei Korolev respectively. Although in Korolev's case, not knowing or revealing his name would've been Truth in Television, since his identity was a state secret until his death, while Von Braun was literally a celebrity in America thanks to Walt Disney. | |
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Negated Moment of Awesome: In both real life and discussed in the film, Chuck Yeager was passed over for the space program. Despite being someone who is now considered to be one of the greatest pilots in the history of aviation, NASA was looking for college graduates (specifically, they needed degrees in Engineering or related fields), the reason being that they were expected to (and in fact did) give input during the design phase of the equipment. Grissom was extremely pivotal in the design of the Gemini spacecraft, for example. Yeager never attended college, nor West Point or Annapolis, but instead was an enlisted man recruited as a pilot, and therefore field-commissioned... after being turned down three times by promotion board because of a court-martial on his enlisted record. Could anybody imagine how utterly awesome it would've been had Chuck Yeager become an astronaut?note Hopefully he wouldn't have been one of the ones in the Apollo 1 fire, though. | |
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Genre Savvy: The reporter "knows" that the clean-cut group spokesman Glenn is going to be the first in space. Turns out that he's only half right. | |
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Title Drop: One of the agents mentions the phrase when referring to the test pilot camp in the Californian desert. Averted at the last second towards the end... The glance from Gordo's wife, Trudy, belies the irony in this situation. The movie pays little attention to the fact that Trudy was a capable pilot herself, and could have had a more promising career than Gordo had she not been born with the "wrong" set of chromosomes. | |
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Scary Shiny Glasses: After sending Gordo Cooper to get a sperm sample, and him making a rather inappropriate joke about assisting him, the nurse looms over him as she sends him off, her face in shadow and Gordo's reflection in her glasses obscuring her eyes. | |
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Famous for Being First: The first part of the movie deals with the attempts to break the sound barrier, culminating in Chuck Yeager's Mach 1 flight in the Bell X-1. Through the rest of the film, he continues to be held in high regard for being the first to beat the "demon in the air". | |
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Chekhov's Gun: The conversation the Mercury Seven have with the scientists about having a window, manual controls and explosive bolts. Later on, all three become an important part of at least one flight. | |
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Semper Fi | |
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Semper Fi: John Glenn, "Mr. Clean the Marine." | |
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Anachronism Stew: Although most of the film is good with the history, the first reconnaissance film shown to the White House briefing room after Sputnik suffers a bit from this. It includes footage of a Soyuz rocket, which was first launched four years after the date range of this film. It also mentions the first two cosmonauts, Yuri Gagarin and Gherman Titov. Russia wouldn't even select their first batch of cosmonauts until 1960, almost a full year after the Mercury Seven were chosen. Another is that Pancho Barnes' Happy Bottom Riding Club burned down in 1953, years before that portrayal in the movie timeline. | |
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Reentry Scare | |
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Reentry Scare: Justified, in that this actually happened on John Glenn's flight. | |
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Potty Emergency | |
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Potty Emergency: "Gordo, I have to urinate," followed by a montage of fire hoses, coffee pouring, water coolers, etc., after which Shepard declares, through painfully clenched teeth, "Request permission to relieve bladder." That wasn't even his first, either. Earlier, during the testing montage, he leaves a test with a balloon in his bladder, and needing to urinate. Three problems: If he lets go of a stopper, the balloon deflates, and he unloads his bladder where he stands. The nearest bathroom is two flights up, and the elevator is a good distance walk from the exam room, with the bathroom also a good distance walk from the elevator on its floor. And he has to be taken there by Orderly Gonzales, whom he had offended earlier with his "Jose Jiménez" impersonation as noted higher up. It was actually a barium enema for examining their GI tracts. However, that doesn't make it any less an emergency. | |
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Hidden Depths | |
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Hidden Depths: Gordo Cooper spends the bulk of the film slinging his catchphrase "Who's the best pilot you ever saw? You're looking at him!" When a reporter asks him that very question, however, he actually takes a moment to wax introspective about his fellow astronauts, those pilots who've lost their lives in aerospace research, and those who continue to push the envelope with minimal fame or recognition... but when he notices the reporters aren't really getting what he's trying to convey, he gives them what they want: a cocky response. | |
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Stuff Blowing Up | |
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Stuff Blowing Up: Towards the middle of the film there's a reel of rockets exploding. Justified as it showed the US hadn't exactly perfected the science of rocketry just yet. When Glenn agreed to make the first US manned orbital flight, he accepted the risk of sitting atop an Atlas rocket. The failure rate of the vehicle at the time was forty percent. | |
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Out of the Inferno | |
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Out of the Inferno: Yeager, after crashing the F-104. Yeager's face looking like someone had taken a blowtorch to it actually happened in the Real Life event. He spent a long time afterward undergoing burn treatments. | |
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Cryptic Background Reference: During the X-1 flight, Yeager has a line that seems like a throwaway: "Hey, Ridley. Make a little note here, would ya? Elevator effectiveness regained." Nothing else is mentioned about it. However, in earlier Real Life prep flights of the X-1, Yeager had noticed that when approaching Mach 1, the plane's elevator controls would go all wonky. He and Jack Ridley worked for weeks on modifying the plane's elevator system to overcome the issue. Yeager's note that the elevator was working was a signal to Ridley that he was ready to take his shot at pushing past Mach 1. | |
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There Are Two Kinds of People in the World | |
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There Are Two Kinds of People in the World: Pancho Barnes' response to Gordo's Fee Fi Faux Pas moment: | |
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Foregone Conclusion | |
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Foregone Conclusion: Anyone familiar with the history of space aviation will know that the Happy Bottom Riding Club will be destroyed, Chuck Yeager will survive his NF-104A, and the Mercury program will end with Cooper's flight into space. | |
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First-Person Peripheral Narrator | |
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First-Person Peripheral Narrator: Jack Ridley narrates the film. | |
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On Second Thought: "Gus" may not be such a bad name after all, considering the alternative "Ivan". | |
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Magical Native American | |
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Magical Native American: Well, Native Australian. You may well ask what they're doing in the movie. | |
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Funetik Aksent | |
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Funetik Aksent: "A pot?" "A spaceman?" "A jimp?" | |
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Everybody Knew Already | |
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Everybody Knew Already: Twice a character runs down the hall to inform the meeting of a Soviet advance. Both times they knew already. | |
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Old Media Are Evil | |
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Old Media Are Evil: The press corps is not portrayed in a very flattering light. | |
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Rated M for Manly | |
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Rated M for Manly: Badass pilots become Badass astronauts. And the ballsiest coolest pilot that couldn't make the space program - Yeager - still shows us how a man walks away from a burning wreck. | |
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Do Not Call Me "Paul" | |
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Do Not Call Me "Paul": | |
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Drowning My Sorrows | |
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Drowning My Sorrows: Gus Grissom, after the sinking of Liberty Bell. | |
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Jumped at the Call | |
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Jumped at the Call: John Glenn is informed that the Soviets have put Gherman Titov into orbit for an entire day. | |
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Artistic License – History | |
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Artistic License – History: LBJ's quote as The Space Race part began. "The Romans ruled the world because they could build roads" is arguable, leaning towards false. But "the British ruled the world because they had ships" and "we won the war because we had planes" is downright absurd. However, that line was lifted nearly verbatim from LBJ's own words. No test pilot ever historically crashed with the original X-1. The Happy Bottom Riding Club, Pancho Barnes' dude ranch, burned down in 1953. Three years before Gus Grissom and Gordo Cooper arrived at Edwards AFB. Jack Ridley died in a plane crash in Japan in 1957. He would not have been around for later scenes, especially not Yeager's F-104 crash in the penultimate scene. John Glenn is shown serving as CAPCOM at mission control for Mercury-Atlas 9. He was actually aboard the Coastal Sentry Quebec tracking ship off the coast of Japan. Gus Grissom was CAPCOM at launch. Chuck Yeager did not, in fact, casually take an NF-104A for a record-breaking joyride. The crash occurred during planned testing sessions. As commandant of ARPS, he was doing a series of preliminary test flights before letting the students have at it. (And also, along the way, set a new altitude record.) | |
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Hero of Another Story | |
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Hero of Another Story: Wally Schirra (played by Lance Henriksen), who helped clear Grissom's name by blowing his capsule's hatch on purpose. note To blow the hatch, the astronaut had to smack a very heavy switch that kicked back when the explosive bolts fired, which left a nasty bruise on Schirra's hand. Grissom's hand didn't have a bruise. In the film, he's probably the most forgettable of the seven astronauts, and one of two whose flight isn't even shown (the other being Scott Carpenter). Deke Slayton has more screen time than Schirra as part of a trio with Grissom and Cooper, but his grounding due to heart murmurs, career managing the astronaut office and selecting crews, and eventual flight on the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project are not mentioned. | |
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Failure Montage | |
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Failure Montage: A rather spectacular one of rocket after rocket exploding in the run-up to actually launching anything into space. | |
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Ace Pilot | |
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Ace Pilot: Figuratively everyone, but literally Chuck Yeager, who had 10 aerial victories in WWII. | |
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Bug Buzz | |
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Bug Buzz: The sound of locusts is played in the background of scenes that involve the Permanent Press Corps. | |
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Pragmatic Adaptation | |
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Pragmatic Adaptation: A less-than-500-page book turns into a 3+ hour movie, but it's still actually an Adaptation Distillation. Two of the six Mercury flights (Carpenter's and Schirra's) aren't shown at all, and we only see the end of Grissom's and the beginning of Cooper's. There's no mention of what happened with Deke Slayton, despite the fact that he became one of the pivotal figures in space exploration. Plus, the book goes into great detail about the dangers of Navy flight ops, and that only gets 30 seconds in the film. Etc. etc... | |
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The Reveal | |
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The Reveal: The long shot of the astronaut walking out to the first Mercury spacecraft, doesn't show that it's Alan Shepard until he's in the capsule. Of course, this is the Captain Obvious Reveal if you knew that already. | |
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The Grim Reaper | |
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The Grim Reaper: Listed in the credits as "Minister." | |
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Arc Words | |
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Arc Words: Gordo's ego about his flying ability led to a frequent line, which was paraphrased as the last line of the film. And Chuck Yeager and Jack Ridley had an Arc Conversation, kind of a de facto pre-flight ritual between them that would play out several times in the film where Yeager would bum a stick of Beeman's chewing gum from Ridley. | |
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Herr Doktor | |
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Herr Doktor: Wernher von Braun. | |
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Centrifugal Farce | |
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Centrifugal Farce: In a rare example of being used for its intended purpose, the centrifuge appears as part of astronaut training. | |
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Your Little Dismissive Diminutive | |
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Your Little Dismissive Diminutive: Shepard after "wetting his diaper".note He likely really was "cooler" than they were. The undergarment of the Mercury pressure suit was air-cooled, so it was evaporating the urine. | |
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Large Ham | |
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Large Ham: Donald Moffat gives what may be the most over-the-top screen portrayal of LBJ. "You know what the Russians want?" | |
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Cactus Cushion: The night before his sound barrier-breaking flight, Yeager rides a horse smack into a Joshua tree, breaking his ribs in the fall. note In the Real Life event, it was a gate at the horse paddock. He was riding around drunk and didn't notice someone had closed it, and he fell off the horse trying to avoid hitting the gate. | |
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What Happened to the Mouse? | |
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What Happened to the Mouse?: After Grissom's flight and the immediate aftermath, whether he was at-fault for the hatch blowing and losing the spacecraft is never addressed. note In Real Life it was unlikely that Grissom was at-fault. Kickback from the manual activation switch caused a tell-tale bruise to form on the hand activating it, and Grissom never developed the bruise. Schirra, at the end of his flight, deliberately activated his own hatch to demonstrate how the bruise formed and exonerate his comrade. The most likely explanation for Grissom's hatch blowing is that the external release lanyard came loose as it was only held in place with a single screw — a design that was changed to be more secure for subsequent flights. NASA apparently believed in Grissom's innocence as well, as he remained in a prime rotation spot for subsequent Gemini and Apollo missions. Deke Slayton also wrote in his autobiography that, had Grissom not been killed in the Apollo 1 fire, he would have selected Grissom to be the first man to walk on the moon. | |
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Truth in Television | |
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Truth in Television: A pilot in the Navy guides ships into harbors. | |
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Meaningful Funeral: At the beginning, to underscore the dangerous nature of the test pilots' work. | |
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Sinister Minister: The priest seen in the opening scene reappears again and again. Actually subverted, as he prays for the safety of the aviators and astronauts. | |
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Foreshadowing: Cooper sinking the model capsule in his drink foreshadows what happens to Grissom during his rescue. Also for events not included in the movie; Shepard tells his wife "Louise, I'm going to the moon, I swear to God. I'm on my way." He would walk on the moon in 1971 as Commander of Apollo 14. | |
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Paparazzi: You'll notice a locust/rattlesnake noise whenever reporters appear - this is intentional because the reporters are acting like this. | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
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Mood Whiplash: A montage of NASA rockets exploding ends with a rocket blowing its top off...with an incredibly dissonant cork-popping sound effect. | |
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Dude, Where's My Reward? | |
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Dude, Where's My Reward?: Betty Grissom. She spends much of the movie dreaming about the big payoff she'll eventually get from the military for all those years of her sacrifices and Gus's heroics. When the grand payoff for Gus's space flight (that almost got him drowned) turns out to be a cheap motel room with some beer in the fridge, she has a conniption. | |
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Tickertape Parade | |
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Tickertape Parade: After completing his mission, John Glenn gets one of those in Manhattan. | |
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Red Scare: "Pretty soon they'll be dropping bombs on us like rocks from a highway overpass!" | |
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Catchphrase: "Who's the best pilot you ever saw?"; "Hey Ridley, got any Beeman's?"; "No bucks, no Buck Rogers"; "Fucking-A Bubba"; "My name Jose Jimenez"; "One hundred percent;" etc. | |
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Real-Person Cameo | |
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Real-Person Cameo: "You fellas want some whiskey?"note In case you didn't get it, that was a cameo by Brig. Gen. Charles Elwood Yeager | |
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Fauxlosophic Narration | |
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Fauxlosophic Narration: The beginning narration, which poetically describes the sound barrier as a "demon that lives in the air." | |
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The Ace | |
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The Ace: Pretty much half the cast given what the movie is about, but Chuck Yeager manages to stand out as the "Ace of Aces." | |
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The Bartender | |
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The Bartender: The real-life Pancho Barnes is worth a movie all by herself, and all she got was a made-for-TV piece of junk starring, of all people, Valerie Bertinelli. | |
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Shrouded in Myth | |
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Shrouded in Myth: The sound barrier, literally shrouded in clouds, which turns out to be not so big a deal. | |
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Mission Control | |
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Mission Control: Literally. And they are rejoicing twice. | |
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Germanic Efficiency | |
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Germanic Efficiency: Wernher von Braun insists to LBJ: Our Germans vill be better than zeir Germans | |
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Lie Back and Think of England | |
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Lie Back and Think of England: When John Glenn has to masturbate for a sperm sample, he hums the Marine Corps Anthem — for, uh — inspiration. Cooper then starts humming the Air Force anthem. Interservice Rivalry at its finest. | |
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True Companions | |
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True Companions: Just watch the astronauts, and their wives, rally around each other against a NASA administrator and a vice president who's trying to score political points. | |
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Lethally Expensive | |
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Lethally Expensive: While the two White House staffers are showing the film of the Soviet space program. | |
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No Name Given: The above-mentioned "Minister"; the "Recruiters" (Jeff Goldblum and Harry Shearer); "Liaison Man" (David Clennon from thirtysomething); the mysterious Head of the Space Program (and his even more mysterious Soviet counterpartnote Serious Truth in Television on that one; Sergei Korolev was a very deep secret in the Soviet Union); the "Permanent Press Corps"; etc. etc. | |
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Other Stock Phrases | |
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Other Stock Phrases: The book actually popularized the terms "screw the pooch" and "pushing the envelope" in pop culture. | |
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Gosh Dang It to Heck!: Ed Harris plays this to the hilt as John Glenn. Even when he wants to curse, he can't bring himself to do it. | |
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Inter-Service Rivalry | |
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Interservice Rivalry: While scouting for astronaut candidates, the Recruiters mention that Navy Aviators consider themselves better than mere "pilots." Similarly, Cooper, Grissom, and Slayton boast that none of the Navy "swabbos" can measure up to their Air Force piloting skills. | |
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Training from Hell | |
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Training from Hell: Simply applying for the program put the subjects through all kinds of nastiness. Since it was still unclear at the time as to what kinds of stresses astronauts would face on a mission, NASA figured the best option was to stress the applicants in every way they could think of and see who kept coming back for more. | |
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Friendship Moment | |
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Friendship Moment: Almost simultaneously, the astronauts when Glenn's mission is threatened, and the wives when Vice-President Johnson wants to interview Annie Glenn. | |
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Did I Just Say That Out Loud? | |
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Did I Just Say That Out Loud?: "Dear Lord, please don't let me fuck up." | |
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Death Notification: The widow of a test pilot cowers in fear from the black-clad priest sent to inform her of her husband's death. | |
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Missing Man Formation: At the funeral, above. | |
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Vision Quest | |
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Vision Quest: The old aborigine has apparently had a few. Gordo rolls with it. | |
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Danger Deadpan | |
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Danger Deadpan: The original. The real Yeager makes a cameo as well (see Real-Person Cameo below). | |
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Insistent Terminology | |
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Insistent Terminology: That... is a spacecraft. We do not refer to it as a "capsule." It's a spacecraft. Similarly, the astronauts are not "occupants" of the spacecraft, but pilots. As a form of Interservice Rivalry: the Air Force has pilots, the Navy has aviators. As one of the recruiters was supposedly told, "they're better than pilots". Truth in Television: A pilot in the Navy guides ships into harbors. | |
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Freudian Trio | |
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Freudian Trio: The Air Force pilots: Cooper (Id), Grissom (Ego), and Slayton (Superego). Naval Aviators: Marines: Glenn (Superego). Navy: Shepard (Id), and Schirra (Ego). Carpenter is also a Superego, but it is Glenn and Shepard who clash the most. | |
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Speech-Impeded Love Interest | |
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Speech-Impeded Love Interest: Annie Glenn, John Glenn's wife, has a really bad stutter which turns out to be central to the plot, mainly through her adamantly refusing to be interviewed by the press due to a fear of public speaking. She very successfully completed therapy for it in 1973.note During the 1976 campaign, Annie's stuttering issues were speculated as contributing to Glenn being passed over as Jimmy Carter's running mate in favor of Walter Mondale | |
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Fee Fi Faux Pas | |
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Fee Fi Faux Pas: Gordo gave a line that led to Pancho laying in on him with the line at There Are Two Kinds of People in the World: | |
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Combat by Champion | |
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Combat by Champion: Discussed. The Mercury Seven are essentially America's champions against the Soviets on the battlefield of the Space Race. | |
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Survival Mantra | |
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Survival Mantra: John Glenn is shown humming "Battle Hymn of the Republic" during his (potentially fatal) re-entry, something the real Glenn did not do. Shepard's repeated "I'm OK" during his re-entry. | |
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Fanservice Extra | |
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Fanservice Extra: The climax is intercut with a fan dancer. | |
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Comically Missing the Point: Hubert Humphrey insisting The first American in space will NOT be a chimpanzee! | |
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Friendly Rivalry | |
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Friendly Rivalry: Chuck Yeager and Scott Crossfield. When they're not trying to break each other's records, they're usually drinking together at Pancho's. | |
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MacGyvering | |
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In addition to the events in MacGyvering and Out of the Inferno, Chuck Yeager also attests to what was depicted for his first Mach 2 flight. | |
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Innocently Insensitive | |
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And he has to be taken there by Orderly Gonzales, whom he had offended earlier with his "Jose Jiménez" impersonation as noted higher up. | |
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Shown Their Work | |
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Shown Their Work: Wolfe was meticulous about getting the details right in his book, so the movie makers had an easy job of it. There are bits of Artistic License here and there, but that's all. In the scene where the Mercury Seven are first introduced, and they're asked who will be the first of them in space, John Glenn really did raise both his hands. So did Wally Schirra. In addition to the events in MacGyvering and Out of the Inferno, Chuck Yeager also attests to what was depicted for his first Mach 2 flight. Virtually all footage seen during the montage of failed test launches - including the famous "popping cork"# During this test, the Redstone's rocket engine stopped firing at the moment of liftoff. Consequently, the Mercury capsule, sensing its... extremely low altitude, triggered the escape system parachute. - is actual footage of unmanned launches from the Mercury program. | |
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