Natgeo remaking The Right Stuff for TV
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The story of the USAs race to space https://www.flickeringmyth.com/2019/07/space-race-...
Is it needed? I know they might make use of better effects and such.
Is it needed? I know they might make use of better effects and such.
Eric Mc said:
Why not.
The book goes into a lot more detail than the 1983 movie. And, in many ways, the movie goes a bit too much for laughs. I love the original movie but I think a "box set" treatment might still deliver a lot more of the book content.
+1The book goes into a lot more detail than the 1983 movie. And, in many ways, the movie goes a bit too much for laughs. I love the original movie but I think a "box set" treatment might still deliver a lot more of the book content.
One of my favourite films but as you say tries to shoehorn a bit of comedy in. On the other hand it does show the Mercury program respectfully while still managing to take the piss a little bit, a tricky combination to pull off.
One of the first DVDs I ever bought. I still watch it now and then. It did more to create a mythology around astronauts than almost anything else in American culture.
In some ways, it can be quite misleading - like creating the myth that the US space programme was entirely dependent on Germans. That is simply not true.
In some ways, it can be quite misleading - like creating the myth that the US space programme was entirely dependent on Germans. That is simply not true.
FourWheelDrift said:
What's a Jimp?
Yes it's funny.As is the mis-pronunciation of "specimen".
But completely inaccurate - as the Mercury capsule was pretty much an all - American affair - as was the Atlas that put it into orbit.
The German contribution to Project Mercury was limited to the Redstone rocket which was used for the sub-orbital flights and Gunther Wendt, who was the Launch Director.
Incidentally, none of that jokey type of dialogue based on misunderstanding German accents exists in the book.
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