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A 1983 adaptation of Tom Wolfe's best-selling book, about the attempt to break the sound barrier and the subsequent [[Space Race]]. Briefly considered to be a campaign promo for John Glenn's presidential aspirations in 1984, but it actually didn't help much. It received eight Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, and won four.
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Although the movie is centered around the men and their fast, expensive, and dangerous toys, the women in the movie receive a great deal of character development, from Pancho and Nurse Murch to all of the astronaut's wives.
The movie was named to the [[National Film Registry]] in 2013.
Interesting trivia: the actor named Glenn played Shepard, and the actor named Shepard played Yeager. Glenn was played by ... the actor named Harris.
Not to be confused with the [[Anime]] online store ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20171014171017/http://www.rightstuf.com/ The Right Stuf]'', which has one "F". Or the song by [[New Kids on the Block]].
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* [[The Bartender]]: The real-life Pancho Barnes is worth a movie all by herself, and all she got was a made-for-TV piece of junk starring, of all people, Valerie Bertinelli.
* [[Battleaxe Nurse]]: Nurse Murch.
* [[Berserk Button]]: John Glenn is incredibly mild-mannered . . . unless you pick on his wife.
* [[Bigger Is Better]]:
* [[Bug Buzz]]: The sound of locusts are played in the background of scenes that involve the Permanent Press Corps.
* [[California Doubling]]:
** The road ''to'' Edwards AFB?
*** Tell me about it.
** Although the "Australia" in the film looked a ''lot'' like some of the more desolate places on the base...
* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Who's the best pilot you ever saw?"; "Hey Ridley, got any Beeman's?"; "No bucks, no Buck Rogers"; "Fucking-A Bubba"; "My name
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: The conversation the Mercury 7 have with the scientists about having a window, manual controls and explosive bolts. Later on all three become an important part of at least one flight.
* [[Chiaroscuro]]:
* [[Combat by Champion]]
* [[Cool Plane]]: Oodles.
* [[Danger Deadpan]]: The original. The real Yeager makes a cameo as well (see [[Real Person Cameo]] below).
* [[A Date with Rosie Palms]]: Only in this movie could they do this to the dueling tunes of "From the Halls of Montezuma" and "Off We Go Into The Wild Blue Yonder
* [[Did I Just Say That Out Loud?]]: "Dear Lord, please don't let me fuck up."
** This became a [[Shout-Out]] in ''[[Space Cowboys]]'' as "Shepard's Prayer
* [[Do Not Call Me "Paul"]]:
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'''Gus Grissom:''' Gus!
'''Luce:''' What was that?
'''Grissom:''' Gus. Nobody calls me by... that other name.
'''Luce:''' Gus? An astronaut named "Gus?" What's your middle name?
'''Grissom:''' [[Red Scare|Ivan]].
'''Luce:''' Ivan... ahem... well. Maybe Gus isn't so bad. Might be something there.... All right, all right. You can be Gus.
* [[Eagle Land]]: Unapologetically.
* [[Embarrassing Middle Name]]: Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom. Not only was his first name ''personally'' [[Do Not Call Me "Paul"|embarrassing]], but his middle name would have been a propaganda embarrassment. This IS the Cold War Space Race, after all.
* [[Fauxlosophic Narration]]: The beginning narration, which poetically describes the sound barrier as a "demon that lives in the air."
* [[Fee Fi Faux Pas]]: "I bet you're gonna hang our picture on your wall."
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* [[Funetik Aksent]]: "A ''pot''?" "A ''spaceman''?" "A ''jimp''?"
* [[Gosh Dang It to Heck]]: Ed Harris plays this to the hilt as John Glenn. Even when he wants to curse, he can't bring himself to do it.
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'''Gus Grissom''': ''Fuckin' A, bubba.''
'''John Glenn''': ''That's right! Exactly!''
* [[The Grim Reaper]]: Listed in the credits as "Minister
* [[Homage Shot]]
* [[Improbable Piloting Skills]]: Averted.
* [[Insistent Terminology]]: That... is a ''spacecraft''. We do not refer to it as a "capsule." It's a ''spacecraft''. Similarly, the astronauts are not "occupants" of the spacecraft, but ''pilots''.
* [[Lethally Expensive]]: While the two White House staffers are showing the film of the Soviet space program.
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'''White House Staffer #2:''' ''Very'' great.
'''White House Staffer #1:''' We're fortunate this material didn't perish... with a couple of men.
* [[Lie Back and Think of England]]: When John Glenn has to masturbate for a sperm sample, he hums the Marine Corps Anthem -- for, uh -- ''inspiration''.
** Then Cooper starts humming the Air Force anthem. [[Interservice Rivalry]] at its finest.
* [[Lyndon B. Johnson]]: Donald Moffat gives what may be the most over-the-top screen portrayal of LBJ. "You know what the Russians want?"
* [[MacGyvering]]: The sawed-off broom handle. According to Yeager's autobiography, 100% true.
* [[Magical Native American]]: Well, Native Australian. You may well ask what they're doing in the movie.
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* [[Mission Control]]: Literally.
* [[Nakama]]: Just watch the astronauts, and their wives, rally around each other against NASA administrator and [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|a vice president who's trying to score political points]].
* [[The Nameless]]: The above-mentioned "Minister"; the "Recruiters" ([[Jeff Goldblum]] and [[This Is Spinal Tap|Harry Shearer]], kind of a two-person [[Crowning Moment of Funny]]); "Liaison Man" (David Clennon from ''Thirtysomething''); the mysterious Head of the Space Program (and his even more mysterious Soviet counterpart); the "Permanent Press Corps"; etc
* [[NASA]]: Also literally.
* [[Old Media Are Evil]]: The press corps are not portrayed in a very flattering light.
* [[Other Stock Phrases]]: The book actually popularized the term "screw the pooch" in pop culture.
* [[Out of the Inferno]]: Yeager, after crashing the F-104.
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"You're damn right it is..."
* [[Potty Emergency]]: "Gordo, I have to urinate."
** Followed by a montage of fire hoses, coffee pouring, water coolers, etc., after which Shepard declares, through painfully clenched teeth, "Request permission to relieve bladder."
* [[Power Walk]]: The [[Trope Codifier]].
* [[Pragmatic Adaptation]]: A less-than-500-page book turns into a 3+ hour movie, but it's still actually an [[Adaptation Distillation]]. Two of the six Mercury flights (Carpenter's and Schirra's) aren't shown at all, and we only see the end of Grissom's and the beginning of Cooper's. Plus, the book goes into great detail about the dangers of Navy flight ops, and that only gets 30 seconds in the film. Etc
* [[Real Person Cameo]]: "You fellas want some whiskey?"
* [[Red Scare]]: "Pretty soon they'll be dropping bombs on us like rocks from a highway overpass!"
* [[Reentry Scare]]: Justified, in that this actually happened on John Glenn's flight.
* [[Semper Fi]]: John Glenn, "Mr. Clean the Marine
* [[Shown Their Work]]: Wolfe was meticulous about getting the details right in his book, so the movie makers had an easy job of it. There's bits of [[Artistic License]] here and there, but that's all.
* [[Shrouded in Myth]]: The sound barrier, literally shrouded in clouds, which turns out to be not so big a deal.
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* [[Stanley Steamer Spaceship]]: Glenn's, during orbit.
* [[Survival Mantra]]: John Glenn is shown humming "Battle Hymn of the Republic" during his (potentially fatal) re-entry, something the real Glenn did not do.
* [[You Fail History Forever]]: "The Romans ruled the world because they could build roads" is arguable, leaning towards false. But "the British ruled the world because they had ships" and "we won the war because we had planes" is downright absurd
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