“The Right Stuff” (1983) raises a toast to the tough test pilots who led America in smashing speed and space barriers. This multi-Oscar-winning film valorizes the heroic masculine tendency to risk everything when the stakes are, literally, sky high.
The narrator, surveying 1940s flight derring-do, likens the air to a mythical demon who lives behind an allegedly impenetrable barrier; he’ll kill whoever challenges him.
