{"id":16279,"date":"2024-04-01T21:00:45","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T01:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=16279"},"modified":"2024-04-01T12:21:51","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T16:21:51","slug":"the-right-stuff-1983-philip-kaufman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/16279","title":{"rendered":"The Right Stuff (1983, Philip Kaufman)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watched because I thought this might illuminate <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/16280\">Ferrari<\/a><\/em>, but it would&#8217;ve paired better with <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/15886\">Oppenheimer<\/a><\/em> &#8211; long entertaining stories about historical situations where Americans lived in makeshift communities in the desert trying to achieve great feats.  It&#8217;s a bunch of tough guys and their suffering wives until Harry Shearer and Jeff Goldblum show up as a comic team &#8211; the addition of humor and absurdity helps immensely.  Good work by Jordan Belson on the space visuals.<\/p>\n<p><em>I wonder if this winning best picture led directly to Top Gun:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/rightstuff1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Oppenheimer needed them:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/rightstuff2.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watched because I thought this might illuminate Ferrari, but it would&#8217;ve paired better with Oppenheimer &#8211; long entertaining stories about historical situations where Americans lived in makeshift communities in the desert trying to achieve great feats. It&#8217;s a bunch of tough guys and their suffering wives until Harry Shearer and Jeff Goldblum show up as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[357,2161,650,1866,2160,3223,350],"class_list":["post-16279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1980s","tag-jeff-goldblum","tag-jordan-belson","tag-lance-henriksen","tag-philip-kaufman","tag-sam-shepard","tag-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16279"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16329,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16279\/revisions\/16329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}