I personally met General Chuck Yeager when I was in sixth grade (I'm 50 now) . I asked him and his wife, Glennis,to the Elementary School to talk about his breaking the sound barrier. Even my teacher was in absolute awe when I announced him. Yeager showed a clip of this movie to the class. The next day,my teacher asked me who else was at the Reno Nevada Air Races and I said that John Glenn,Alan Shepard,and Gordon Cooper were there,alas,they had too many things to do
I never understood why this movie ended right when it did? Cooper’s flight was what proved the themes of the movie. Man over monkey or machine. A few orbits in Cooper’s capsule began to fail. All the automation crashed. He drew a line on the window with his grease pencil to give him a horizon line. Taped his watch up next to it so he could see the second hand to time his retro firings, and manually flew his ship home. He re-entered on manual. His hand on the stick. And landed closer to the carrier than any other flight. The pilot at his best.
I don't think there was any one right moment to end the story. The story is still going on. As long as we are a technological civilization, there will be men who fly and men who dream. The story hasn't ended, not yet.
Because Gordo went on to some screw ups and was denied an Apollo moon landing for it. This is in Deke Slayton’s auto biography. Aside from the book ending where it did, it would have made the movie to long and best to end on a high note,rather than how Gordo had his astronaut career ended.
@@gogamarra In the 1970s my human factors professor at Georgia Tech was Dr. Randall Chambers, who had been one of the lead human factors researchers during the early days of the space program. He once told me that Deke Slayton had developed a heart murmur under high G loading that prevented him from flying any of the early missions. But Slayton would not give up and stayed with the program far longer than most astronauts, eventually getting his chance to go into space when NASA started using rockets that no longer generated tremendous acceleration.
Beautiful, yes, but Conti's plagiarism kinda puts a damper on it for me.. Conti took large sections of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D major and inserted it in his RS composition.. Hans Zimmer did the same with Gladiator and was sued by the Holst Foundation over claims the film's Oscar-nominated score is a copy of the late Gustav Holst's famous "Planet Suite." .. Williams, Horner and Poledouris are the only real movie composers over the last 3 decades, imo
This was America at it's finest and this score is the most stirring music ever written for a film. It makes one so grateful just to have lived during this time in history and I am not American. Wonderful music. Absolutely my favourite.
I've been a space buff since the beginning. Old enough to have watched Alan Shepard take the first manned US flight when I was in 5th grade (they wheeled TV's into our classrooms). Old enough to have seen the first men walk on the moon July 20, 1969 and remember exactly where I was. American exceptionalism, period.
I too saw this in the theater when it cam out, had read the book just before and love it as much as the book. As far as I am concerned this is one of the best movies ever put out.
No film about aviation will ever achieve the greatness of this one nor the music that was composed by Bill Conti this film is an EPIC film, and will forever remain in the Cinematic archives of aviation history!
@@rrittongar6620 I heard Conti say he copied Holst "Planets" and maybe Glazunov "The Seasons". Classical composers always were borrowing from each other.
Hardly.. Conti's plagiarism kinda puts a damper on it for me.. Conti took large sections of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D major and inserted it in his RS composition.. Hans Zimmer did the same with Gladiator and was sued by the Holst Foundation over claims the film's Oscar-nominated score is a copy of the late Gustav Holst's famous "Planet Suite." .. Williams, Horner and Poledouris are the only real movie composers over the last 3 decades, imo
The scene that is haunting to me is when Sam Shepard (playing Yeager) is in the officer's club and standing behind him is Chuck Yeager, himself. Wowie!!! Unforgettable.
This makes me proud of humanity. It just gives me this epic, adventurious goosebumps feeling!! We can achieve so much if we just want to. What a movie and what brave men they were.
One of the greatest movies of all time. It makes your heart soar when you see it. Amazing actors tending their craft and the soundtrack is the blood that pumps throughout the movie.
"There was a demon that lived in the air. They said whoever challenged him would die. Their controls would freeze up, their planes would buffet wildly, and they would disintegrate. The demon lived at Mach 1 on the meter, 750 miles an hour, where the air could no longer move out of the way. He lived behind a barrier through which they said no man could ever pass. They called it: The sound barrier. Then, they built a small plane, the X-1, to try and break the sound barrier. And men came to the High Desert in California to ride it. They were called test pilots. And no one knew their names."
@@JugSouthgateThat would make it all the more powerful. The other Voiceover Candidate for those spoken lines was Levon Helm, who played the character of Jack Ridley, Chuck Yeager’s sidekick - the “Got a stick of Beemin’s?” Guy. Either way: Great Lines, perfectly delivered.
I saw Bill Conti (the composer) interviewed about this score and he said the producers didn’t like it at first. They wanted something more low-key because they felt the movie was the intimate story of the seven astronauts. But he said “I looked at the film and saw ROCKETS!”
The soundtrack is epic and makes this movie the iconic film is always has been. The closing score as the credits roll is perfectly matched to the ending.
@@mattdon2164 Agreed! Not too many films can boast of having epic soundtracks, but The Right Stuff is definitely one of the movies that can! Truly one of the greatest scores in all of movie history! That last scene with Yeager taking his F-104 Starfighter to an altitude that had never been achieved by a jet powered plane, then the desert scene when he is found, chewing that gum, and walking away from his crashed jet is so damned perfect! The music simply fits.....perfectly.
As a little boy, never forgot it, and loved the music. I’ll never forget the long hallway scene with all magnificent seven walking towards the camera and the song that played. 🚀 ❤️
Easily in the top 5 of all movie themes. Rarely does the score and the film's content fit together so very well. Brilliant. Dramatic and simultaneously uplifting.
Thanks Philip Kaufman for this masterpiece and thanks Bill Conti for your amazing music. The Right Stuff, amazing movie based on true story. Hail Mercury Program and NASA ❤
This movie was broadcast on British tv as a 3 part mini series over 3 consecutive nights back in the 80s. Im not sure whether it’s the same in the states, but in the UK we usually have a voiceover presenter announcing what is coming up next, and I remember the presenter on this occasion sounded genuinely in awe and proud to be presenting it, like it was something really special. And she was not wrong. The list of legendary actors, the production quality, the music - it had everything. Best of all, as a young school kid, it was on past my bedtime and I got to stay up late 3 nights in a row. I have never forgotten it, and to this day I know very few people who have even heard of it, let alone seen it.
Looking back on this film, coming away from my first viewing it in the theaters when it debuted, it still retains the full character of a cinematic tribute to history and a magical masterpiece of storytelling. Bill Conti’s Soundtrack is right up there with the best to have ever been penned. I saw him conduct this work in Seattle with the Seattle Symphony, and it was a thrilling experience and indelible memory. Great Cast, great Story, from when America was at the height of its exceptional leadership in science and as a righteous adventure.
@@lindabrown8795 too many deaths, budget cuts, etc...the Challenger mission disaster in 1986 was a huge tragedy that cost the country $3.2 billion and rocket seals suspected of triggering the explosion were to be redesigned before shuttles flew again. Then the Columbia disaster back in 2003...
Well, seven heterosexual white men, and all white German heterosexual rocket scientists. Not a recipe for a movie nowadays. We have to insert some black women who knew Newton's laws better than the German career, professional physicists who were rocket scientists for decades. Truth does not matter. Equity matters.
Will never forget the first time I saw this - hadn’t heard a thing about it, just bought a ticket, walked in, and sat transfixed for 3 hours. Fantastic movie.
Another nice marriage of music and images, and cut in a very engaging way... I can tell... the music talks to you....doesn't it. You marry the images to exactly where they needed to go I LOVED IT!
This film definitely inspires patriotism. Sam Shepard's 'Chuck Yeager' look of determination when preparing for the first Mach One flight. Competition between those wanting to become astronauts and then coming together to alter the experiment being forced on them. The Bill Conti composition is inspiring!
Here’s to hoping you are wrong. And that our best days are ahead of us. However, given the current state of our national divide, I do empathize with your assessment and share your concern.
Tis a good tribute to them. Just remember, it was test pilots the likes of Yeager, Scott, Armstrong, and Crossfield that put the rubber to the road in order to get us where we are at now. The freewheeling is about done, time to kick it in the butt again to put us where we are destined to be; Out There.
Nothing will ever equal the sense of excitement and adventure that those early pioneering flights inspired. Nothing except maybe the first humans on Mars.
Most heroic movie soundtrack I know! Just epic as well as the whole movie! Seen the capsules in Huston Space Center … the guys must’ve had really really strong nerves to be seated in one of those tiny cans.
One of the greats. With one of the best 5 soundtracks of all time (along with he Magnificent Seven, How the West Was Won, Lawrence of Arabia, and Bridge on the River Kwai,
My grandfather served in the U.S. Air Force during WWII. He passed away earlier this year, and I remember we watched this movie together when I was younger many times because of his (and my) love of aviation. Listening to this soundtrack brings back good childhood memories.
Can't get enough of this suite since the score is masterful w/ all the right vibes of being emotive and heroic which inspires and allures so many thanks for this video!
"Hey, Ridley? You got any Beeman's?" "Yeah, I might have me a stick." "Well, loan me some, will ya? I'll pay ya back later." "Fair enough." "I think I see an airplane over here with my name on it." "Now you're talking!"
Remember how John Glenn ran for president and this movie came out at about the same time? So many of us were like "OK, LETS LIGHT THIS CANDLE." He kind of fizzled sure... but this movie and score were and are kick-ass!
I saw this movie when I was 4-5 years old. I've been obsessed with aerospace since then. With any luck I can get his aerospace Engineering major and start building these things.
When America was a jewel and this movie gave us pride in the country unlike today where your either on one side or the other and the society has degenerated into divided sections. America has lost its way and has no quality leadership on either side at this time to bring it back together b
It's always darkest before dawn. For every action there is a opposite and equal reaction. Through Hardships To The Stars. The Future is just getting started.
Thanks for posting this! I played this as I watched the Artemis I launch. Starting this music at T-4:40 synchronizes the music perfectly to have liftoff at an emotional crescendo.
I saw again this film masterpiece yesterday, after many years and it brought to my mind why I wanted to become an astronaut as a child. Forty years later I still want to become one. Thankt you Mercury 7, thank you Phillip, thanks to all the pioneers of space exploration... Godspeed to the crew of Artemis 2 in 2024!
I admire his flight skills and grit and bravery, but then I read that Yaeger helped to sabotage a skilled Black pilot’s chances to become noticed and chosen by NASA’s space program, partly due to Yaeger’s racist attitude, which was sadly, all too common back then. Nasty power plays and jealousy based on racist beliefs. 😔 This Black pilot persevered, and went on to continue his successful pilot career, but he was not chosen by NASA so he could not advance in that direction. So I’ve never felt the same about Mr. Yaeger ever since learning about that event.
At 2:42, I swear that's a Hawker Hunter! Seriously though, what a stellar cast! With added Chuck Yeager too! (Now there was a man with the Right Stuff!!!)
One of my all-time favorite soundtracks. So moving, and inspirational. Bill may have borrowed a little bit from Tchaikovsky. Go to about the 6:15 mark of his violin Concerto in D Major Op. 35.
That scene at 3:13 of the candidates spinning in a simulator while manipulating some lighted controls is very similar to a contraption my human engineering professor brought with him to Georgia Tech where I was a student. He had spent many years working at NASA as part of their Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo human factors team. The device I sat in had two foot pedals and two hand controls that allowed you to move four sets of lights up and down (one for each foot and hand). The panel would display a constantly changing set of lights, and your job was to move your lights to match them as quickly as possible. It was a great test of hand-eye coordination.
"....well if isn't hotdog...Gordo...Cooper, right?". "You're lookin' at the hotdog man himself!" "....and on that glorious day in May 1963...for a brief moment, Gordo Cooper became the greatest pilot anybody had ever seen!" Chills every time I see it.
All of the actors and all of the characters in this film are straight. It tells a story of heroics and accomplishments... of innovation, courage and tenacity... all without pandering to a specific ethnicity or "orientation." I saw this film in the cinema when it came out. So, I'm a true witness. You were permitted to make films about things and were not tarred and feathered if "inclusiveness" and "pride" weren't mentioned. You really WERE!
Not sure what this has to do with the movie. It is a true story and the astronauts were all straight. 🤷♀️ You don't know if all the actors are straight, they just present themselves that way. My friend who was an actress said, "Actors like to dabble in everything". I didn't ask for details, lol.
@@etherealtb6021 "Not sure what this has to do with the movie." Well, here it is. Unlike the cinema of today, where pleasing every small demographic forces any and every story into having some sort of gay character or throw in some sort of nod to some group, this story is plainly told. Believe me, I'm about as liberal as someone can be in America without getting arrested, but it's become (in my opinion) impossible to go to the cinema anymore without some sort of character (invented or otherwise) that represents some form of "inclusion." Seeing films and TV shows nowadays means being lectured by someone with an agenda... not simply entertained or informed (which was how I felt when I first saw this picture). Back in 1982, when this film earned the awards that it did, the presenters were still permitted to say "and the winner is" rather than "and the Oscar goes to" for lack of hurting someone's sensibilities. I'm sick of it all.
Why all of those men were nice to look at. I was in High school when all that was going one and what a great country we had. We lead the world into the modern age and was a bacon for the world. No one that didn't live it would believe it.
This is my favorite movie of all time and I was born at the time when the Apollo space program April 9th 1969 and NASA is going back to the Moon I would like to be the first civilian astronaut to go when a man on the moon 2 months after I was born at June 20th 69 I go to be 54 years old this year
I was born during the Gemini VIII launch and always watched future launches with my dad. Love this movie. I miss the Space Race! I think it was good for humanity. It diesnt hafe to be an either or.
Amazing the entire movie was filmed in San Francisco, except for the desert scenes where you see cactus is the real Mojave Desert. The stand-in for Edwards AFB, when needed, is Hamilton AFB across the Golden Gate. NASA Ames Research Center on the Bayshore is the stand for NASA Kennedy Space Center. The scene where they do the Mercury 7 walk is actually the warehouse where the Movie production was based while filming in SF. The ticker tape parade is Downtown SF. Great cinematography and location management.
"The Mercury program was over. Four years later, astronaut Gus Grissom was killed, along with astronauts White and Chaffee, when fire swept through their Apollo capsule. But on that glorious day in May 1963, Gordo Cooper went higher, farther, and faster than any other American - 22 complete orbits around the world; he was the last American ever to go into space alone. And for a brief moment, Gordo Cooper became the greatest pilot anyone had ever seen."
I personally met General Chuck Yeager when I was in sixth grade (I'm 50 now) . I asked him and his wife, Glennis,to the Elementary School to talk about his breaking the sound barrier. Even my teacher was in absolute awe when I announced him.
Yeager showed a clip of this movie to the class.
The next day,my teacher asked me who else was at the Reno Nevada Air Races and I said that John Glenn,Alan Shepard,and Gordon Cooper were there,alas,they had too many things to do
I never understood why this movie ended right when it did? Cooper’s flight was what proved the themes of the movie. Man over monkey or machine. A few orbits in Cooper’s capsule began to fail. All the automation crashed. He drew a line on the window with his grease pencil to give him a horizon line. Taped his watch up next to it so he could see the second hand to time his retro firings, and manually flew his ship home. He re-entered on manual. His hand on the stick. And landed closer to the carrier than any other flight. The pilot at his best.
The movie ends where it does because that's where the book ends. Have you read the book? It's great, and goes into more detail.
I don't think there was any one right moment to end the story. The story is still going on. As long as we are a technological civilization, there will be men who fly and men who dream. The story hasn't ended, not yet.
@@kathleenhensley5951 the story goes on but the movie ended where the book ended.
Because Gordo went on to some screw ups and was denied an Apollo moon landing for it. This is in Deke Slayton’s auto biography. Aside from the book ending where it did, it would have made the movie to long and best to end on a high note,rather than how Gordo had his astronaut career ended.
@@gogamarra In the 1970s my human factors professor at Georgia Tech was Dr. Randall Chambers, who had been one of the lead human factors researchers during the early days of the space program. He once told me that Deke Slayton had developed a heart murmur under high G loading that prevented him from flying any of the early missions. But Slayton would not give up and stayed with the program far longer than most astronauts, eventually getting his chance to go into space when NASA started using rockets that no longer generated tremendous acceleration.
Still for my money one of the finest soundtracks of the past 50 years. The film should have won the best picture Oscar.
It's a shame that the complete masters for this soundtrack 'disappeared'.
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Lost to Terms of Endearment" only because it was a tear jerker.
@@jeffreywoltz5547 It is now on Spotify finally
Beautiful, yes, but Conti's plagiarism kinda puts a damper on it for me.. Conti took large sections of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D major and inserted it in his RS composition.. Hans Zimmer did the same with Gladiator and was sued by the Holst Foundation over claims the film's Oscar-nominated score is a copy of the late Gustav Holst's famous "Planet Suite." .. Williams, Horner and Poledouris are the only real movie composers over the last 3 decades, imo
This was America at it's finest and this score is the most stirring music ever written for a film. It makes one so grateful just to have lived during this time in history and I am not American. Wonderful music. Absolutely my favourite.
I've been a space buff since the beginning. Old enough to have watched Alan Shepard take the first manned US flight when I was in 5th grade (they wheeled TV's into our classrooms). Old enough to have seen the first men walk on the moon July 20, 1969 and remember exactly where I was. American exceptionalism, period.
There are some movies that just makes you proud to be an American. This is one.
And how, brother =')
Yes!
Damn straight brother
Vocês americanos precisam voltar a fazer filmes assim , resgatando o orgulho de ser americano e jogar esses filmes wokes no lixo!
Saw this movie when it first came out back in 1983 and loved it. Here we are 40 years later and I still love it. Maybe more. Definitely more.
I am hoping it gets re-released before the end of the year, somewhere. I would love to see it again in the theater.
I too saw this in the theater when it cam out, had read the book just before and love it as much as the book. As far as I am concerned this is one of the best movies ever put out.
Would love to see it again on the big screen, the only way to really appreciate it.
Agreed
Great movies never stop being great!
No film about aviation will ever achieve the greatness of this one nor the music that was composed by Bill Conti this film is an EPIC film, and will forever remain in the Cinematic archives of aviation history!
Bill Conti is a genius. Absolute!!!!!
I Hope you know the inspiration - violin concerto in D major by Tchaikovsky
@@rrittongar6620 I heard Conti say he copied Holst "Planets" and maybe Glazunov "The Seasons". Classical composers always were borrowing from each other.
@@rrittongar6620 Absolutelly!!! And... what an inspiration!!!!
Hardly.. Conti's plagiarism kinda puts a damper on it for me.. Conti took large sections of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D major and inserted it in his RS composition.. Hans Zimmer did the same with Gladiator and was sued by the Holst Foundation over claims the film's Oscar-nominated score is a copy of the late Gustav Holst's famous "Planet Suite." .. Williams, Horner and Poledouris are the only real movie composers over the last 3 decades, imo
Superb music.
Fantastic film.
Here's to Pioneers.... Everywhere!
🍻 🇺🇸 🇬🇧
This video is medicine for melancholy
The scene that is haunting to me is when Sam Shepard (playing Yeager) is in the officer's club and standing behind him is Chuck Yeager, himself. Wowie!!! Unforgettable.
"You want a whiskey?"
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見直して確認します。
This makes me proud of humanity. It just gives me this epic, adventurious goosebumps feeling!! We can achieve so much if we just want to. What a movie and what brave men they were.
One of the greatest movies of all time. It makes your heart soar when you see it. Amazing actors tending their craft and the soundtrack is the blood that pumps throughout the movie.
"There was a demon that lived in the air. They said whoever challenged him would die. Their controls would freeze up, their planes would buffet wildly, and they would disintegrate. The demon lived at Mach 1 on the meter, 750 miles an hour, where the air could no longer move out of the way. He lived behind a barrier through which they said no man could ever pass. They called it: The sound barrier. Then, they built a small plane, the X-1, to try and break the sound barrier. And men came to the High Desert in California to ride it. They were called test pilots. And no one knew their names."
Great writing! What a treat of exposition. Thanks for capturing and sharing it. That narrative still gives me goosebumps every time I hear or read it.
It is my understanding that the narrator who says those words is Chuck Yeager himself.
@@JugSouthgateThat would make it all the more powerful. The other Voiceover Candidate for those spoken lines was Levon Helm, who played the character of Jack Ridley, Chuck Yeager’s sidekick - the “Got a stick of Beemin’s?” Guy. Either way: Great Lines, perfectly delivered.
I saw Bill Conti (the composer) interviewed about this score and he said the producers didn’t like it at first. They wanted something more low-key because they felt the movie was the intimate story of the seven astronauts. But he said “I looked at the film and saw ROCKETS!”
YEAP....and POWERFUL ROCKETS!!!
I'm glad Conti created what he did for this movie! One of the greatest scores in all of movie-dom! Masterpiece!
WTH?!?! This score is so iconic!
The soundtrack is epic and makes this movie the iconic film is always has been. The closing score as the credits roll is perfectly matched to the ending.
@@mattdon2164 Agreed! Not too many films can boast of having epic soundtracks, but The Right Stuff is definitely one of the movies that can! Truly one of the greatest scores in all of movie history! That last scene with Yeager taking his F-104 Starfighter to an altitude that had never been achieved by a jet powered plane, then the desert scene when he is found, chewing that gum, and walking away from his crashed jet is so damned perfect! The music simply fits.....perfectly.
Such a great movie and the book was excellent too. Perfect casting.
As a little boy, never forgot it, and loved the music. I’ll never forget the long hallway scene with all magnificent seven walking towards the camera and the song that played. 🚀 ❤️
Easily in the top 5 of all movie themes. Rarely does the score and the film's content fit together so very well. Brilliant. Dramatic and simultaneously uplifting.
Thanks Philip Kaufman for this masterpiece and thanks Bill Conti for your amazing music. The Right Stuff, amazing movie based on true story. Hail Mercury Program and NASA ❤
Kaufmann, Coppola, and Lucas. The Bay Area Trinity of Master Directors.
I love the astronaut walk scene, and the scene at the end when Levon Helm says, "Yea, you damn right it is".
@@jameshirsch-r4b 🤜🤛👩🚀
This movie was broadcast on British tv as a 3 part mini series over 3 consecutive nights back in the 80s. Im not sure whether it’s the same in the states, but in the UK we usually have a voiceover presenter announcing what is coming up next, and I remember the presenter on this occasion sounded genuinely in awe and proud to be presenting it, like it was something really special. And she was not wrong. The list of legendary actors, the production quality, the music - it had everything. Best of all, as a young school kid, it was on past my bedtime and I got to stay up late 3 nights in a row. I have never forgotten it, and to this day I know very few people who have even heard of it, let alone seen it.
Their all gone. My first heroes are all gone. Haul the mail gentlemen and God speed. To true heroes.
Fantastic movie and music.
Yes.
A great film, and pays tribute to all who reached for the unknown, and farewell " There was on pilot who truly had the right ........ " Chuck Yeager
Looking back on this film, coming away from my first viewing it in the theaters when it debuted, it still retains the full character of a cinematic tribute to history and a magical masterpiece of storytelling.
Bill Conti’s Soundtrack is right up there with the best to have ever been penned. I saw him conduct this work in Seattle with the Seattle Symphony, and it was a thrilling experience and indelible memory. Great Cast, great Story, from when America was at the height of its exceptional leadership in science and as a righteous adventure.
The only movie in which Harris plays Glenn, Glenn plays Sheppard, and Sheppard plays Yeager.
Having been born in 1955, I'm here to tell you that these men were gods to us kids. And to all America. Conti catches the wonderment of it all
There were times in which the Hollywood produced true masterpieces like this one...not any more, however.
Stays in your memory for a lifetime. Space program united the country in hopes and dreams. What happened?
@@lindabrown8795 too many deaths, budget cuts, etc...the Challenger mission disaster in 1986 was a huge tragedy that
cost the country $3.2 billion and rocket seals suspected of triggering the explosion were to be redesigned before shuttles flew again. Then the Columbia disaster back in 2003...
Yep
Well, seven heterosexual white men, and all white German heterosexual rocket scientists. Not a recipe for a movie nowadays. We have to insert some black women who knew Newton's laws better than the German career, professional physicists who were rocket scientists for decades. Truth does not matter. Equity matters.
Will never forget the first time I saw this - hadn’t heard a thing about it, just bought a ticket, walked in, and sat transfixed for 3 hours. Fantastic movie.
Another nice marriage of music and images, and cut in a very engaging way... I can tell... the music talks to you....doesn't it.
You marry the images to exactly where they needed to go I LOVED IT!
This film definitely inspires patriotism.
Sam Shepard's 'Chuck Yeager' look of determination when preparing for the first Mach One flight.
Competition between those wanting to become astronauts and then coming together to alter the experiment being forced on them.
The Bill Conti composition is inspiring!
I lived thru this space age. I get the chills whenever I watch this movie.
I fear, and I am saddened that this country will never be like this again.
😢
Tell that to Elon and SpaceX.
Here’s to hoping you are wrong. And that our best days are ahead of us.
However, given the current state of our national divide, I do empathize with your assessment and share your concern.
The images and music tell us the spirit and gist of the early American space story in just over 6 minutes 🇺🇸
This suite and sound track has me convinced that I can jump through concrete walls.
You got that right old man. Great comment.
Outstanding film and score lost count the amount of times l have seen it and never gets old
この映画好きですロマン溢れる映画ですね！マーキュリー計画に従事した偉大な7人の男たちの物語
what a great movie and score.
Tis a good tribute to them. Just remember, it was test pilots the likes of Yeager, Scott, Armstrong, and Crossfield that put the rubber to the road in order to get us where we are at now. The freewheeling is about done, time to kick it in the butt again to put us where we are destined to be; Out There.
Nothing will ever equal the sense of excitement and adventure that those early pioneering flights inspired. Nothing except maybe the first humans on Mars.
This Soundtrack belongs by my side since i have seen the film in the early 80s as a child...
"No Buck's. No Buck Rogers!"
"Fuckin Eh. Bubba
One of the greater literary and film lines of all time. Adventures and pioneering on this scale takes A LOT OF MONEY! No greater truth!
reverse might be also true (at times)
Thank you to Bill Conti, the Composer!
I love this movie. It is one of my all time favorites.
Most heroic movie soundtrack I know! Just epic as well as the whole movie! Seen the capsules in Huston Space Center … the guys must’ve had really really strong nerves to be seated in one of those tiny cans.
Fantastic music and amazing movie !
🌎👍❤
One of the greats. With one of the best 5 soundtracks of all time (along with he Magnificent Seven, How the West Was Won, Lawrence of Arabia, and Bridge on the River Kwai,
The Great Escape
Patton
...and A Bridge Too Far
My grandfather served in the U.S. Air Force during WWII. He passed away earlier this year, and I remember we watched this movie together when I was younger many times because of his (and my) love of aviation. Listening to this soundtrack brings back good childhood memories.
A magnificent score, to a magnificent movie.
Can't get enough of this suite since the score is masterful w/ all the right vibes of being emotive and heroic which inspires and allures so many thanks for this video!
My favorite soundtrack, period.
"Hey, Ridley? You got any Beeman's?"
"Yeah, I might have me a stick."
"Well, loan me some, will ya? I'll pay ya back later."
"Fair enough."
"I think I see an airplane over here with my name on it."
"Now you're talking!"
Remember how John Glenn ran for president and this movie came out at about the same time? So many of us were like "OK, LETS LIGHT THIS CANDLE." He kind of fizzled sure... but this movie and score were and are kick-ass!
Brings back memories of sitting in school watching a rocket sitting on the launch pad all day. Amazing times.
I saw this movie when I was 4-5 years old. I've been obsessed with aerospace since then. With any luck I can get his aerospace Engineering major and start building these things.
the more you screw with birds, the more youll realize that luck has not much to do with it... but,For the sake of my grand children- Good luck👍
When America was a jewel and this movie gave us pride in the country unlike today where your either on one side or the other and the society has degenerated into divided sections. America has lost its way and has no quality leadership on either side at this time to bring it back together b
May take another world war to unite America again.
Actually, the movie didn't do well at all. Most of us fell in love with it on cable.
You do realize their time was in the middle of the McCarthy era don’t you?
It's always darkest before dawn. For every action there is a opposite and equal reaction. Through Hardships To The Stars. The Future is just getting started.
Dont worry sir. Im gonna make sure i have the right stuff
Wonderful movie.
Thanks for posting this! I played this as I watched the Artemis I launch. Starting this music at T-4:40 synchronizes the music perfectly to have liftoff at an emotional crescendo.
Also a great instrumental backdrop to the Falcon Heavy first launch as well.
Cette partie est inspiré du concerto pour violon de Tchaikosky.
Wonderful again.
Wonderful again and again.
Yeager and the F-104 sequence is among my favorite scenes of all time
This was a great video! Thanks for posting.
I saw again this film masterpiece yesterday, after many years and it brought to my mind why I wanted to become an astronaut as a child. Forty years later I still want to become one. Thankt you Mercury 7, thank you Phillip, thanks to all the pioneers of space exploration... Godspeed to the crew of Artemis 2 in 2024!
It is ironic that Chuck Yeager outlived the actor Sam Shepard who played him in this movie.
GREAT CLIP, GREAT MOVIE!! I loved it then, love it now!
Hotrod F-104 is still beautiful to look at(ホットロッドのマルヨンは今見ても美しい)
The F-104 looks like a spaceship, doesn't it ?😊
Chuck Yeager flew on my flight to Palm Beach. To share the same jet as him was an honor.
I admire his flight skills and grit and bravery, but then I read that Yaeger helped to sabotage a skilled Black pilot’s chances to become noticed and chosen by NASA’s space program, partly due to Yaeger’s racist attitude, which was sadly, all too common back then. Nasty power plays and jealousy based on racist beliefs. 😔 This Black pilot persevered, and went on to continue his successful pilot career, but he was not chosen by NASA so he could not advance in that direction. So I’ve never felt the same about Mr. Yaeger ever since learning about that event.
I remember this as a mini-series in the 80's. Such fun!
At 2:42, I swear that's a Hawker Hunter!
Seriously though, what a stellar cast! With added Chuck Yeager too! (Now there was a man with the Right Stuff!!!)
"Yeager's Triumph" is my favorite cut on Bill Conte's masterpiece.
Look, over there is that a man?
" You damm right it is "
One of my all-time favorite soundtracks. So moving, and inspirational. Bill may have borrowed a little bit from Tchaikovsky. Go to about the 6:15 mark of his violin Concerto in D Major Op. 35.
Best soundtrack ever. Conti is a genius.
The editing in this vid makes better use of the music than the actual movie editing did.
That scene at 3:13 of the candidates spinning in a simulator while manipulating some lighted controls is very similar to a contraption my human engineering professor brought with him to Georgia Tech where I was a student. He had spent many years working at NASA as part of their Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo human factors team. The device I sat in had two foot pedals and two hand controls that allowed you to move four sets of lights up and down (one for each foot and hand). The panel would display a constantly changing set of lights, and your job was to move your lights to match them as quickly as possible. It was a great test of hand-eye coordination.
Tomorrow morning, when I've prepared my breakfast, I'll pop the DVD into the player and enjoy the movie. 😊
An Excellent Film. Very good.
"Gus? An astronaut named Gus?? ... What's your middle name?"
"Ivan."
...
"Gus isn't so bad, is it?"
"No sir."
"...Alright, alright. You can be Gus."
Beautiful!!!
Goosebumps @1:50 , one of the all-time greatest pieces of music.
"We can't have an astronaut named Gus. What's your first name?"
"Virgil".
"What's your middle name?"
"Ivan".
"Gus it is".
"....well if isn't hotdog...Gordo...Cooper, right?".
"You're lookin' at the hotdog man himself!"
"....and on that glorious day in May 1963...for a brief moment, Gordo Cooper became the greatest pilot anybody had ever seen!"
Chills every time I see it.
"Is that a man?"
"You're damn right it is!"
All of the actors and all of the characters in this film are straight. It tells a story of heroics and accomplishments... of innovation, courage and tenacity... all without pandering to a specific ethnicity or "orientation." I saw this film in the cinema when it came out. So, I'm a true witness. You were permitted to make films about things and were not tarred and feathered if "inclusiveness" and "pride" weren't mentioned. You really WERE!
Not sure what this has to do with the movie. It is a true story and the astronauts were all straight. 🤷♀️ You don't know if all the actors are straight, they just present themselves that way. My friend who was an actress said, "Actors like to dabble in everything". I didn't ask for details, lol.
@@etherealtb6021 "Not sure what this has to do with the movie." Well, here it is. Unlike the cinema of today, where pleasing every small demographic forces any and every story into having some sort of gay character or throw in some sort of nod to some group, this story is plainly told. Believe me, I'm about as liberal as someone can be in America without getting arrested, but it's become (in my opinion) impossible to go to the cinema anymore without some sort of character (invented or otherwise) that represents some form of "inclusion." Seeing films and TV shows nowadays means being lectured by someone with an agenda... not simply entertained or informed (which was how I felt when I first saw this picture). Back in 1982, when this film earned the awards that it did, the presenters were still permitted to say "and the winner is" rather than "and the Oscar goes to" for lack of hurting someone's sensibilities. I'm sick of it all.
@@arkady714 Those are badly told stories. Well told stories with diverse characters that are well done don't need to preach.
One of the best movie themes
The greatness of A Nation as America 🇺🇲 is Unique!!!!
Thank you to astronauts of the manned space program; Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo. American heros all.
Why all of those men were nice to look at. I was in High school when all that was going one and what a great country we had. We lead the world into the modern age and was a bacon for the world. No one that didn't live it would believe it.
This is my favorite movie of all time and I was born at the time when the Apollo space program April 9th 1969 and NASA is going back to the Moon I would like to be the first civilian astronaut to go when a man on the moon 2 months after I was born at June 20th 69 I go to be 54 years old this year
Back when America strode the earth as a colossus..... 🥲
Who's the best pilot you ever saw?
"Gordo... Cooper, right?"
Maybe my fav movie ever.
Nice perfect song 😍😉💘17亿
Yes.
There's a demon that lives in that air this demon lives behind an invisible barrier for which they said no man will be able to cross
I was born during the Gemini VIII launch and always watched future launches with my dad. Love this movie. I miss the Space Race! I think it was good for humanity. It diesnt hafe to be an either or.
Amazing the entire movie was filmed in San Francisco, except for the desert scenes where you see cactus is the real Mojave Desert. The stand-in for Edwards AFB, when needed, is Hamilton AFB across the Golden Gate. NASA Ames Research Center on the Bayshore is the stand for NASA Kennedy Space Center. The scene where they do the Mercury 7 walk is actually the warehouse where the Movie production was based while filming in SF. The ticker tape parade is Downtown SF. Great cinematography and location management.
Ah, the Halcyon days of the early 60's !
America strode the Earth as a colossus in those days.
All gone now 😢
"ridley, si no tienes nada mejor que hacer, anota...." formidable e impresioante .... yeager rompiendo la barrera de sonido
Great movie.
This theme should be the anthem of the U.S. Space Force.
32 comments would of had 3000 comments 20 years ago, when this was a you know what country.
I have lived through all this from Yeager breaking the Sound Barrier, to Apollo XI, and beyond.
"The Mercury program was over. Four years later, astronaut Gus Grissom was killed, along with astronauts White and Chaffee, when fire swept through their Apollo capsule. But on that glorious day in May 1963, Gordo Cooper went higher, farther, and faster than any other American - 22 complete orbits around the world; he was the last American ever to go into space alone. And for a brief moment, Gordo Cooper became the greatest pilot anyone had ever seen."