1)Yeager:
"I'll tell you what else. Anybody who goes up in that damned thing is going
to be Spam in a can." Wav
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2)Ridley:
"They were called test pilots and no one knew their names." Wav
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3)Cooper:
"Look at old Yeager. On top of the pyramid for five God-damned years. Every
time somebody goes faster, he just goes up again." Wav
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4)Cooper: "The sun is coming through the window now. Oh, Lord, what a heavenly
light." Wav
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5)Yeager:
"Yah, well, sometimes you get a pooch that can't be screwed, you know."
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6)Shepard:
"Alright, I'm cooler than you are. Why don't you fix your little
problems and light this candle?" Wav
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Memorable
quotes:
Ridley:
[narrating]
There was a demon that lived in the air. They said whoever challenged him would
die. Their controls would freeze up, their planes would buffet wildly, and they
would disintegrate. The demon lived at Mach 1 on the meter, seven hundred and
fifty miles an hour, where the air could no longer move out of the way. He lived
behind a barrier through which they said no man could ever pass. They called it
the sound barrier.
Review:I
found this film fascinating as a child and recently as an adult. Unlike films
such as a Apollo 13, which seem like two hour NASA commercials, Philip
Kaufman's (Quills) film focuses more on the pilots
as people and the extraordinary courage they displayed during those exciting and
ground breaking years in which man traveled into the unknown for the first time.
Review by Aaron Caldwell
