![]() "We really do get e-mails and texts and letters and people saying, 'I saw this with my child and he turned to me or she turned to me and said, 'That looks like me on screen' or 'they're speaking Spanish at home' or 'I could be him.' "Įven before the film's success, Ramsey was part of a growing community of minority filmmakers reshaping "What it seems to mean is greater than I think any of us really anticipated," he says. Into the Spider-Verse- particularly from minority communities and minority children - was more than he could have hoped for. ![]() If you can't be part of a myth like that, then what do you have in a culture?" People of color, in particular, he says, "want to be part of the story, want to be part of the myth. "This genre allows people to sort of project themselves onto these heroic figures who struggle with their own difficulties and own insecurities," the director says. "It means a lot for young black and Latino kids to see themselves up on screen in these iconic, heroic, mythic stories," he says. Superhero movies are a perfect vehicle for that conversation, says Ramsey, because superhero characters are avatars for accessing larger cultural ideas that audiences can relate to. Instead, he's turned to the genre as a way to speak to minority communities. "I don't think anybody goes into a Spider-Man movie thinking you're going to win an Oscar," he says. But the director says he didn't get into the superhero genre to sweep awards season. Into the Spider-Verse has been "surreal," Ramsey says. "We wanted to put our best foot forward and create something that people would be able to relate to and love," the director says in an interview with NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro. So when it came to introducing a new version of the character, the first non-white Spider-Man, Ramsey says it was crucial for the film's creators to get it right. Marvel Comics fans grew up following the original Spider-Man character, Peter Parker. Like Morales, the film's co-director, Peter Ramsey, is making history as the first African-American to be nominated for an Academy Award in the animated feature category. It's not nothing will ever beat the Right Stuff.The first Afro-Latino Spider-Man, Miles Morales, made his big screen debut last year in the animated hit Apollo 13 wanted so very much to be the Right Stuff. It's an expert adaptation, an expert recreation of the early US Space Program, and an expert entertainment. ![]() The Right Stuff is really an amazing filmic experience. They all refuse to let the heroism cover the unsavory aspects of a person's life and, simultaneously, they do not let those aspects darken their contribution to mankind. The filmmaker and actors understand that the Space Race was not a simple process they understand that heroes have a dark side. That, in my mind, is a positive rather than a negative. It is very rare that a film this indebted to America and American history can be so ambivalent. Its critical patriotism shows that films can show their love of country without wandering into nationalistic or jingoistic propaganda. It's rare that a movie creates such an inviting and intriguing world that, after three hours, we still do not want to leave. We are sad when the story ends we want more. The audience comes to know the characters through terrific performances by Ed Harris, Dennis Quaid, Sam Shepard, and Fred Willard and Kaufman's deft pen (which, no doubt, Wolfe's novel helped guide). At just three hours long, it occasionally feels too short. Why? The Right Stuff is a perfect blend of intelligence and wit and action. and Quills, but The Right Stuff is very much out of their league). An incredibly under-rated director, Philip Kaufman adapted Tom Wolfe's best-selling tale of the Mercury astronauts in 1983 and, since that time, he has been unable to top himself (he came very very close with Unbearable.
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