Space Cowboys
- warm
- brisk
- intense
Warm, kinetic, measured adventure / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Frank Corvin, ‘Hawk’ Hawkins, Jerry O'Neill and ‘Tank’ Sullivan were hotdog members of Project Daedalus, the US Air Force's test program for space travel, but their hopes were dashed in 1958 with the formation of NASA and the use of trained chimps. They blackmail their way into orbit when Russia's mysterious ‘Ikon’ communications satellite's orbit begins to degrade and threatens to crash to Earth.
Our read · Space Cowboys (2000) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded adventure · drama · space entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Space Cowboys
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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