The Right Stuff

No.

Had some other big movies that he wrote and directed, The Right Stuff, Rising Sun, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, all pretty acclaimed films.

Kaufman really wanted to do this film because he loved the 56 film, from what I read, and it was his idea to move the location to San Francisco, which is where they shot it.

He thought it would be interesting to see...

Because the early seasons of The Simpsons have so many... 70s 80s 90s film references i was wondering if anything like that kind of came to mind i immediately thought of itchy and scratchy in jfk when lee harvey oswald is shot but in the simpsons it's scratchy being shot by itchy it's so ridiculous but has this happened to you where the simpsons supplants the real thing

maybe only comes to mind because we referenced it and talked about it when we did the xxl episode about uh the right stuff oh yeah yeah the fact that they have that extended sort of astronaut bit it tends to be films that they've spoofed that i didn't know they were spoofing a film when i was like 12 watching the simpsons and then you watch a film later on and go oh shit it's that i don't know if there's anything where i'd say the simpsons did it better

yeah

the right stuff is a great

choice

though i probably saw what's the what isn't there what's the simpsons

thing which is quite like pulp fictiony i think that's an itchy and scratchy where it's directed by quentin tarantino and so it's scratchy doing stuck in the middle with you and then itchy cuts his head off um that's yeah maybe what comes to mind then they do the pulp fiction dance after they behead tarantino i think that's that's the one you're thinking of yeah well that's that's probably better than reservoir dogs and pulp fiction That's ridiculous.

And the thing is, The Right Stuff is a great example because that is something that is probably better known from The Simpsons than that film, which is a little bit lost to time, I think.

true.

The Right Stuff.

Did you ever see that one?

Oh, yeah.

Grant Awkwafina Tom Waits Charlie Day and Angela Bassett are just some of the actors who wanted to be a part of this The things I'll remember from this, I think, are the lighting and the designs and the scale of the battles on display here and just how fantastic everything looks.

And I think partially thanks to the fact that this was shot by Caleb Deschanel, who is the legendary cinematographer behind movies like The Black Stallion, The Right Stuff, The Natural, Fly Away Home, and many, many more.

As for the interview, there's a moment when Travis Knight starts talking about technology and I desperately wanted to ask him about where Leica stands on AI.

But because I had such a limited amount of time with him, I knew other people would ask him about that.

The illustrations are fantastic.

But yeah, this has cinematography by Caleb Deschanel, who legendary cinematographer worked on The Right Stuff, National Treasure, Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, three classics that are beloved in equal amount by everyone.

And they're all

the same level of quality.

He had been in stuff prior to this, obviously.

He was in The Right Stuff.

He was in Creepshow.

But this was the movie that I was of an age to recognize him.

Let's spin the wheel and see what you get.

The 1983 film The Right Stuff.

Is it higher or lower than 7.9? Higher.

It is lower.

You know it's good when they break out the Deschanel.

He did films like The Passion of the Christ, which is one of his six Oscar nominations, The Natural, The Right Stuff.

More recently, he did The John Favreau Lion King, so this is not his first sort of animation-related outing, as it were.

He did Jack Reacher, for God's sake, Chris.