Word: glenns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Almost as interesting as the story told on the screen is the one revealed by the audience's reactions. "Star City, Russia" is superimposed on the screen and the audience hisses: Glenn successfully reenters the earth's atmosphere--humming. "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." no less-and the audience cheers. Other movies certainly involve a viewer and invite similar responses, but few films seem as realistic or deal with such recent events as does The Right Stuff. Watching this movie is to be reminded, how American heroes are formed, and how quickly men transcend their ordinary qualities and become...
...film's most indelible images remains that of Glenn in orbit, his helmet's shield reflecting the moons light and covering what little hair Ed Harris's Glenn possesses. As he literally looks around the world, he reminds one of the infant at the end of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: a child on the verge of discovery. The Right Stuff takes us along for this ride and Ed Harris almost makes us believe that charm is all the Right Stuff you need...
HERO JOHN GLENN could be the next President of the United States, but relative unknown Chuck Yeager should be. That is the true message of The Right Stuff--a message missed by those who think that the film will do more for the former astronaut's Oval Office ambitions than the rather uninspiring candidate himself...
...Glenn is certainly getting a lot of mileage out of the movie, whose release was timed perfectly to reach the voters before the seven-way battle for the Democratic title begins. Although the producers protest coincidence, their work has given the Ohio Senator what none of his competitors has gotten-cover spots on Newsweek and Time, and, in general, beyond that nation's news pages...
...more important than the fact that Glenn is getting publicity is that he appears to be getting good publicity. The millions of Americans who sit through the 200-minute thriller will either regain their excitement for Glenn the great American, or discover it for the first time. With most of author Tom Wolfe's bitter ironies squeezed out of the screenplay, viewers get an image coated with almost as much sugar as the Life original account of Glenn's 1962 earth orbit...