Brandon Fibbs · @bfibbs
20th Nov 2012 from Twitlonger
"The Right Stuff" is one of the greatest American films ever made. It is more than simply superb filmmaking, it is an impeccable alchemy of history, melodrama, satire and comedy. The film could have been constructed as a straightforward drama, full of derring-do and patriotic bombast. That's probably how I would have written it. But this entertaining epic tangos with a sense of humor and a nod toward off kilter irony that make it utterly unlike any historic epic made, before or since.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak1n6qQS3_A