一直以来能让我热血沸腾的只有两种人:骑士和飞行员。两次世界大战中的飞行员恰似天空中的骑士,在残酷肮脏的地面战场上空交戈,毫无意义的战争本身因为他们的存在,似乎也多了些绅士决斗的味道。 二战结束之后,导弹和喷气式战机的出现,让本来可以崇高悲壮的战争更堕落成了数死人的政客游戏。唯有飞行员还保持着天空主宰的潇洒本色,敢于挑战高空和极速的人,本来就不是畏生畏死的普通人可以想象的。 他们不在乎政客的勾心斗角,美苏争霸这种事在他们心里估计也只是个模糊的概念。争强好胜得像一群孩子,只是想比他们的对手飞的更高更快。才知道在太空时代的开始,愚蠢的智脑们还建议过马戏团演员,特技演员,冲浪运动员这些今天看来与飞船风马牛不相及的人来做宇航员。好在艾森奥威尔元帅英明,力排众议用试飞飞行员做候选人,所谓候选人必须易于管理,服从命令的要求是多么愚蠢。送了一只猩猩先上天的美帝于是输给了苏修。 看这部电影的时候,神九正在我们头顶环绕,中国的第一位女航天员没准在天宫实验室里玩魔方。回顾了九年前神五发射的那个时刻,还是浑身激动得一颤。 与美帝牛仔一般的宇航员不同,我们的航天员全部都是忠诚的军人,发射像是作战,要有出征仪式,还要肩负全国人民的重托。而那些把死亡率四分之一的试飞工作当高尔夫一样谈论的牛仔们,更在乎的是自己在媒体面前是不是有型。小姬在微博说,我们的航天员为什么看起来如此冰冷如此富于朝鲜气息?我相信大部分人有同感,但我敬重那些航天员,宁愿把这些疑问压在心底,已经做出了莫大牺牲航天员有什么是不能原谅的呢。 美帝的宇航员也是军人,却一个个个性鲜明,狂放不羁,不畏强权。那些用金钱把他们送上太空的政客在他们面前看起来都像是衣冠禽兽,他们大可以以宇航员为棋子与苏联博弈,却控制不了棋子走每一步时要用什么样的方式。 艾伦谢泼德发射之前尿在了宇航服里,十年后他在月球表面打了两杆高尔夫。约翰葛伦对负责人大吼,支持自己口吃的爱妻,让自大的副总统吃了又吃闭门羹,三十年后七十七岁的他又一次重返太空。这些行为让我看起来都如此可爱可敬又遥不可及。 挑战者号爆炸之后,里根在悼念演讲说道,现在他们面对的太空就像三百年前大航海时代的先驱们面对的大洋一般。每一条在探索航程上牺牲的生命都将被永远铭记。 韩松写过《宇宙墓碑》。那些在陌生星球上林立的宇航员墓碑如今还是能让我头皮发麻。人类在宇宙面前也许低进尘埃,却敢竖起中指逃逸出嘲笑一般的引力。 这些伟大又放荡的先驱者们,必将铭刻于首次飞越群星的飞船上。他们开启的是一个伟大的时代,我们都是伟大浪潮里微不足道的水花。 我多么希望中国的航天员有天能够像美国宇航员对休斯顿开玩笑一样对酒泉地面插科打诨。 “酒泉,这里是神舟九号,我现在要去天宫,额…貌似比传说中的小了些。” “收到,神舟九号,抱歉我们尽力了。” 伟大的先驱者们这样看起来才对味。我相信他们其实一样有血有肉,只是国情所限,中国军人的身份让他们分寸紧缩。 我能想象,第一个活着飞过星星的人发回地球的第一份信息肯定是,向开启宇航时代的先驱者致敬,他们是…… 借Jedicat的《道标人》的篇尾作结:向所有死了的,活着的,还有注定活着飞过星星的宇航员致敬!
The Right Stuff
Basic information:
1983 (release date: February 17, 1984)
Production Company: The Ladd Company (financed by Warner Bros)
Director: Philip Kaufman
Writers: Philip Kaufman (written for the screen by), Tom Wolfe (based on the book by)
Genres: History, Biography, Drama
Certification: PG
Top Cast: Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris
Taglines: By flying higher and faster than any other man had ever dared before, Chuck Yeager set the pace for a new breed of hero. Those that had just one thing in common…THE RIGHT STUFF.
Box Office:
Budget: $27,000,000 (estimated)
Gross US & Canada: $21,192,102
Gross Worldwide: $21,192,315
Academy Awards, USA, 1984:
Winner: Best Sound; Best Film Editing; Best Effects, Sound Effects Editing; Best Music, Original Score.
Nominee: Best Picture, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, etc.
Comments:
(From IMDb top reviews) The Right Stuff is terrific: exciting, complex, funny, crammed with memorable scenes, unforgettable lines, and wonderful actors…
If you believe the Age of Heroes is past, watch 'The Right Stuff', and you might change your mind! This is a film to treasure!
Characters:
The Right Stuff tells a story that once truly happened in the American history, the Project Mercury, the first manned space program in the USA. It’s a story of seven brave astronauts as well as uncountable fearless pilots, a story about how they punch through the barrier and how they break the edge of human beings. With a running time of 3 hours 13 minutes, this movie stresses the spirits of those pilots and astronauts again and again.
There are many people with different character and positions in this film. It’s a necessary to understand this movie from some typical roles.
Yeager: The protagonist of the movie, fearless, strong-willed, emulative.
When he saw the Bell Aircraft for the first time after attending a funeral of the pilot who sacrificed in the test flying, Yeager knew that he must have a try to break the sound barrier (a phenomenon that aircraft can’t work when its speed is close to the velocity of sound). Even though he realized that is extremely dangerous. He is fearless and determined. Finally, he made it, becoming the fastest man on earth.
But when the government asked him to become one of the Mercury’s astronaut, Yeager refused. At that time, He didn’t believe in the space mission’s reliability. However, in my opinion it’s the former great success he made in the test flying that makes him be afraid of failing, trying new challenge. He lived in his former glory.
Then after his pilot teammates, Gordon, Gus and Slayton succeeded in the space mission, he realized that he couldn’t dwell on past successes with his wife’s words (the old Beer bar’s being burned in the fire symbolizes Yeager’s former glory was gone and he had to go forward). “I guess I liked the kind of man who could push the outside of the envelope. But I never could stand a man who was one of those, ‘remember-whens’.” So, Yeager flied again. He was going to find where the limit of human beings lay.
Gordon: supporting role, the Mercury astronaut, hubris, confident.
When the press asked Gordon who was the best pilot in the world at the beginning of the movie, he said, “You are looking at him”. He is hubris that time. But then after he saw his teammates finish those dangerous missions and saw clearly what is hidden behind the government officers’ public masks—no respect for the lives of astronauts and pilots, he changed his words. He said, “It’s those who put their hides out on the line, hang the aircraft out over the edge, push back the outside of that envelope and haul it back here.” The best pilots are those can be fearless and determined.
The astronaut’s wife: fearless as well.
Their husband is engaged in one of the most dangerous job, risking life every time on mission. Gus’s wife, for example, she was looking forward to meeting president’s wife after Gus returned from space mission. But things went contrary to her wises, and she collapsed. Astronauts’ wives suffered great pressure. Fearless pilot needs fearless wife. At the same time, without their wives’ support, those astronauts won’t be such brave and determined.
In conclusion the movie is not going to figure out just one hero character. It stresses that the spirit of bravery in human beings. In addition, the director wants to tell us that the advance of human civilization is achieved not only through scientists’ hard work but also those who explore with their life, fearlessly.
Theme:
Main theme:
Americanism
This movie talks about a story, a group of American people about individualistic heroism. In another word, it’s a film of American “Main Melody”. And individualistic heroism in the movie is expressed as bravery, challenging the limit, and sacrifice.
By setting some big challenges like breaking the sound barrier, flying to the space and landing safely for the characters in the movie, and describing their feelings as well as behaviors when facing those challenges, the director makes the people such as Yeager become fearless and eager to challenge the limit.
Other themes:
The history of Cold War
Anyway, this is a history movie. The movie’s story is mainly in the 1982-1965, when the cold war between USSR and USA was on. The Project Mercury as well as the Star War Program, was outcome of that time.
And in this movie, director uses a method of editing that mixing the movie picture with some real historic videos in order to make the film look more real. For example, a piece that vice president Kennedy standing with the astronauts. Also, there are some pieces trying to satirize the soviet union’s space project. Of course, the story itself is based a real history in 1980s.
The relationship between human beings and universe
This is not an apparent theme. Human and universe are connected in some ways. And as human beings explore the outer-space with great bravery, the universe is waiting for humankind to find out its beauty and mystery.
It’s a small detail. In the latter part of the movie, when the astronaut John Glenn flying in the low-earth orbit, there appeared a lot of sparks like glowworm outside of his spacecraft. And at the same time on earth, some aborigines who specialized in observing the stars were performing mysterious rituals around the campfire. And the campfire was reeking of many sparks just like that in the space outside of John Glenn. It is trying to express some connection, I think.
Conclusion:
It’s a movie about bravery, exploration and heroism. With excellent editing, music and score as well as amazing frame, it tells story based on the real history. It’s a “Main Melody” movie. But what makes it special is that while telling a integrated story about American heroism it also raises some question about humankind, universe, and love.
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8.4/10。①美国的太空计划和第一批宇航员的诞生的详细故事。意在讽刺政客的好大喜功和彰显宇航员的美式个人英雄主义(英勇无畏地探险)的主旋律。②摄影美术表演配乐等各种影像技法整体都很精准娴熟;插入一些历史影像资料增强写实感;战斗机空中颠簸那段和最后飞机坠落那段处理(剪辑音响调度等)地很好很刺激。③作为传统故事片有两个问题:一个是叙事节奏较拖,另一个是气质有些断层(一会儿正剧一会儿喜剧)。扣1分。
諾蘭可能偷學了太空艙墜海那場戲,至於只有星星知道我的心這麼高的姿態諾蘭是不會懂噠,脫衣舞女和烤牛排也比種玉米高到不知道哪裡去了
3.5/5 Americanism at its best. Respect for those who pushed the envelope. OST includes a variation of Tchaikovsky violin concerto and The Planets. (Christopher Nolan has explained in several interviews that the film was influenced by Stanley Kubrick and Steven Spielberg's family films. He also says he had his cast watch the film "The Right Stuff" by Philip Kaufman, and describes it as a "perfect film.")
1.5 导演没才华 就别乱拍 别用尴尬和自以为是的“幽默”填补调度水平的不足 后半段的情节 已经累赘啰嗦到不行了 最后火中涅槃重生 美国版战狼?/如今再回头看美国当年的奥斯卡提名片 尴尬程度不亚于现在:无政治正确 男人都被塑造成一副玩世不恭浪荡子的形象(是被当年詹姆斯•迪恩影响了吗)除了片中涉及非常多的大男子主义黄色笑话外 “航天事业”也基本没女人什么事 感叹一下 好莱坞这十几年的时间真的天翻地覆 以及 鼓吹英雄主义和个人主义的意识形态在83年就如此明显地显露出来了 加上处处cue俄罗斯 民族主义太明显#SIFF2019
本片获第56届奥斯卡最佳剪辑、音效、音效剪辑和配乐奖,并获最佳影片、男配角、摄影和艺术指导提名。也许在航空航天设施的研发人员眼里,这些只有匹夫之勇的先锋不过是能够说话的猴子。然而就是这些随时准备牺牲生命的死士,前赴后继地实现了人类征服太空的梦想。
3.5。三小时的电影的确极难乏味,考夫曼将所有人物铺陈开来、同时融合并平衡西部、浪漫爱情、喜剧、讽刺、伪记录、特效等各类表现形式提升了不少花样和娱乐感,然而电影其实一直反复地描绘并歌颂一个母题——美国个人英雄主义。很优雅的鸡血片。勇气、突破人类极限的精神和有时只是巨大的自尊心被无限放大,同时身边还会有一个妻子全身心支持,有时甚至还会要挟他说如果一旦他放弃了就马上分手。这场“科技竞赛”过度赞扬个人使得当中国家、政治甚至科学都是丑角。很难说这样的人物是否真实,但至少编剧认为这都是值得用两条并行叙事线大书特书的故事,用以建立一种人物、职业(pilot)和精神复合的不朽和浪漫主义。机舱飞到外太空看到七彩云烟和火光太神棍了,仿佛看到2001的影子,我想就是眼花了吧,也看得出好莱坞对外太空未知一向的心驰神往。
1.刚健昂扬,兼顾浪漫气质和理想主义,前半段颇有老西部片遗风,整部片子的精神气质相当cocky,但的确又不乏迷人之处。2.影片身处里根年代,尚不能预见冷战的终结,对太空竞赛的政治色彩倒也毫不避讳;艾克一闪而过,JFK也戏份寥寥,林登·约翰逊倒是占据了不少篇幅,而且影片把他往那样一个方向去塑造,相当有意思了。3.《太空先锋》对后世太空题材的影响被大大忽视了,从《星际穿越》到《登月第一人》,《太空先锋》方方面面的印记随处可见。4.实拍+纪实影像+模型土法特效的保值性实在远超想象,对比观看90乃至00年代前后的诸多特效大作,不难体会到实拍的价值与CG的局限。真想在大银幕再看一遍这样的片子啊!
恩,了解一下。作为史料它是不够严谨的,作为励志篇,勉强吧。它说,很多时候做鸡头也会成为凤头,所以在做凤尾的时候要时刻准备接受新的机遇。
一部朴素且冗长的爱国主义教育片,某种意义上,那个属于太空奥德赛的年代也是真正科幻的年代。
考夫曼在冷战后期拍的美苏疯狂太空竞赛历史的神作,配乐激昂音效爆棚但并非主旋律而是刻画了一个个饱满鲜活的人物,从牛仔似的试飞员破音速到NASA先驱混乱的多次失败到成功,视角冷眼反思甚至对媒体国家行为充满讽刺和冷幽默,获奖的多线剪辑把假拍与真实新闻片段和每次上天表现得都很惊险,资料馆百子湾胶片版。
6/10。[星际穿越]开头也是从极速坠落的梦中惊醒,怪熟悉的。配角和细节的巧妙安排是导演用心之处,如政府把太空舱的资料看得比宇航员生命重要,因为这次事故一名奖章就把人家打发了。卡本特对妻子拒绝副总统来访的支持,以及转述星空萤火虫的奇景和指挥室的危机警觉;遗憾过于完整的故事显得多余冗长。
#SIFF# 《登月第一人》的另一种风格,放大了讽刺的喜剧部分,对时任政府进行全方面调侃,但也因此流失了人物的情感逻辑,七个航天员都比较扁平。但在190分钟超长篇幅下,电影的野心不止于“展望”,同时也不忘“回顾”,通过牛仔-飞行员-航天员的演变看到时代变迁,英雄也随之更迭。而结尾直通登月计划,意味着这场变迁还将继续。
大框架是美式主旋律,呈现了个人对国家的荣誉感,国家对个人的英雄主义歌颂,政府对个人的剥削压制,个人对压迫的反应。无论是宇航员还是飞行员,想要飞得高一点再快一点的想法和行为都是挑战极限的体现,没有这些人的果敢和牺牲,也不会有科技的不断进步。特别是在战后冷战时期的特殊条件下,紧张的压迫感随时贯穿于这批首次进入太空的美国宇航员身上。先救人还是先救返回舱?家国和个人之间孰重孰轻的博弈也再次被架于悬崖边上。艾德·哈里斯下了火箭和妻子电话沟通时说的那番话,也是直接跑出观点:没有人,甚至是政府、国家都不能打扰和侵犯我的家庭。别忘了这也应该是公民愿意奉献的前提啊。
如果电影节没错过这部的话,应该就是“本届最佳”了。全程观感就是“反面例子《登月第一人》的正面教材”,含混西部片/通俗喜剧元素,美式风味纯正,极度深入地完成人物群像叙事。甚至于,真正的男一号并不是宇航员七子中的任何一个,而是一位飞行员,从而演绎出时代变迁。所传递出的时代风貌、糙而有趣的讽喻、激情澎湃的热血感,达成了一种主旋律又反主旋律的表达。
好久没有这么浪漫,云淡风轻,灿烂阳光,笑、怒、和你相伴。无需形容,每样事物都是该有的样子。多么好的年代啊,天那么蓝,人那么意气风发,都平凡,又气度非凡;目光所及尽翱翔。澳洲土著之火、那个飞行员,多好的剧本啊。今日神来之笔当时只是寻常。已经没有这样的电影了。天在那儿,我已经准备好了
1.航天版七武士。2.讽刺美苏太空竞赛的目的、政客显摆及虚伪、对航天系统设计和航天员的非人性化处理等等,而航天员则比较客观现实化刻画,突出勇敢、进取、追求突破、团结互助精神。结局的艳舞与耶格冲击喷气飞机记录表现的其实是太空人只是一群佣兵牛仔(猩猩)。
好看,有很多大牌年轻的时候,都很帅气啊。并且可以看出考夫曼后来片子的影子,声音剪辑加跟历史资料的混剪都牛逼!
无比洗脑的民族主义,各种方式宣扬大美帝国前线英雄。配乐,背景,场面调度无不充斥英雄主义的自豪感。拍这个片子时,苏联还没解散,还故意给苏联科学家的面孔扭曲。德国佬也是一群木木的,丑陋的面孔。
美国式主旋律。但做的好看啊。
三个小时跌宕起伏。若一定说影片歌颂了什么,是一种勇气、超越极限的精神,他们像一群孩子一样争强好胜,却也像男人一样勇敢的站出来。不只是简单的记录第一次登上太空,有很多关于这种精神来自于何处的铺垫