The really interesting thing about The Right Stuff is the sequence where Chuck Yeager takes his Starfighter (very telling) to the edge of the space.
Compare this sequence to 2001's Dave Bowman taking his spacecraft to the edge of . . . whatever. The filming styles in the two sequences, the tumbling, spinning sensation and freakish views, are remarkably similar and I think the TRS production is making that exact point.
Yeager, unlike Bowman, never makes it into space--witness space and stars just within his grasp, then slipping away--but in the end, he's portrayed as an indomitable and winning man. The Starfighter sequence in The Right Stuff mimics 2001's Stargate to describe what REAL flight is all about: human struggle.
Compare this sequence to 2001's Dave Bowman taking his spacecraft to the edge of . . . whatever. The filming styles in the two sequences, the tumbling, spinning sensation and freakish views, are remarkably similar and I think the TRS production is making that exact point.
Yeager, unlike Bowman, never makes it into space--witness space and stars just within his grasp, then slipping away--but in the end, he's portrayed as an indomitable and winning man. The Starfighter sequence in The Right Stuff mimics 2001's Stargate to describe what REAL flight is all about: human struggle.