The main character of The Right Stuff is something called The Right Stuff.
— Philip Kaufman (Vulture)
Forty years on, how's that sense of American exceptionalism workin' out for you?
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For the scene where Yeager breaks the sound barrier, Jordan asked me what I wanted, and I said, “A memory of birth. Like the sky is opening up as man is first born. You can sort of see that there’s a kind of labia opening up in the sky, and man is going beyond where the demon is, to birth.” And that’s what Jordan gave us.
Synopsis: At the dawn of the Space Race, seven test pilots set out to become the first American astronauts to enter space. However, the road to making history brings momentous challenges.