Friday Afternoon Videos (a day early): THE RIGHT STUFF
July 2nd, 2009 at 03:27pm Will Pfeifer
Thanks to the impending July 4 holiday, I won’t be here tomorrow to post my usual installment of Friday videos. So, in honor of that same holiday, I’m sharing one of my favorite movie scenes of all time — and one that makes my heart beat proudly for the red, white and blue. Ladies and gentlemen, devote 8 minutes of so of your weekend to watching Chuck Yeager (as played by Sam Shepard) break the sound barrier…
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1. Mack | July 2nd, 2009 at 4:03 pm
i love this movie and how low-tech it all feels. they would CG the living crap out of it now and it would lose all of visceral energy. great pick, will!
2. Will Pfeifer | July 2nd, 2009 at 5:48 pm
I’m with you — those special effects work perfectly. CGI would make everything much too slick.
This movie is so full of great scenes I had a tough time choosing just one. I almost picked the scene of Shepard (Scott Glenn) on the launch pad and saying — in one of my favorite movie lines of all time — “Why don’t you fix your little problems and light this candle?!?”
Boy, do I love that movie!
3. Jerry | July 3rd, 2009 at 3:37 am
Great one.
“Put the spurs to her, Chuck.”
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