#The first man on the moon movie movie#

The care of the director, Damien Chazelle, and his team to respect the integrity of historical events is obvious to anyone with a solid knowledge of the Gemini and Apollo programs.

It is almost certainly is the most accurate fictional depiction of human spaceflight in the 1960s ever made.

#The first man on the moon movie movie#

I recently had the privilege of seeing an advance screening of the new movie about Neil Armstrong, First Man. “It’s about placating the Chinese box office and not adherence to historical accuracy.Warning: This blog post is a review and analysis of the movie First Man and contains spoilers for the film. Their culture war on 50 percent of US audience is strictly because they think you’ve been replaced at the box office,” said Stephen Miller, a Fox News commentary writer. “Marvel/Disney had Chinese delegates on the set of Iron Man script supervising what could or could not be included in the story. Their culture war on 50% of US audience is strictly because they think you’ve been replaced at the box office.Īnd there was also talk that the omission of the American flag was an effort to ensure the film would play in China, which has become a coveted venue for directors and producers. Guys, Marvel/Disney had Chinese delegates on the set of Iron Man script supervising what could or could not be included in the story. “That’s not the Neil Armstrong I knew,” he said, in response to a fan who noted that some people were claiming Armstrong would have supported the omission of the flag. Others, though, said the decision would not have been supported by Armstrong, who died in 2012 at the age of 82.Ĭhuck Yeager, a friend of Armstrong’s who fought in World War II, was among those reacting negatively to the omission. On former astronaut Andrew Allen weighed in on the controversy surrounding the upcoming movie 'First Man' omitting the historic moment when Neil Armstrong planted an American flag on the moon. “I also think Neil was extremely humble, as were many of these astronauts, and time and time again he deferred the focus from himself to the 400,000 people who made the mission possible.”Īrmstrong’s sons also defended the choice, although the pair noted that Armstrong “was an American hero,” in a statement published by Deadline. “I think this was widely regarded in the end as a human achievement that’s how we chose to view it,” he said. Gosling told the Telegraph that the decision was deliberate. My goal with this movie was to share with audiences the unseen, unknown aspects of America’s mission to the moon-particularly Neil Armstrong’s personal saga and what he may have been thinking and feeling during those famous few hours.” “To address the question of whether this was a political statement, the answer is no. “I show the American flag standing on the lunar surface, but the flag being physically planted into the surface is one of several moments of the Apollo 11 lunar EVA that I chose not to focus upon,” Chazelle said in a statement, reported Deadline. When Armstrong landed, he uttered a phrase that defenders of the omission are citing: “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” This image released by Universal Pictures shows Ryan Gosling in a scene from “First Man.” (Daniel McFadden/Universal Pictures via AP) Defending the Choiceīoth Chazelle, a French-American who was born in Rhode Island, and Gosling, a Canadian, have defended the choice of omitting the iconic flag-planting moment. The moon landing was the result of a space race between the United States and the Soviet Union and cost America about $110 billion in today’s dollars. The movie focuses on Neil Armstrong, perhaps the most famous astronaut in the history of the Earth for being the first human to set foot on the moon in 1969 and plant the American flag. Starring Ryan Gosling and directed by Damien Chazelle, “First Man” premiered this week in film festivals and will hit theaters in October. A new movie about the moon landing has omitted the American flag-planting, stirring controversy over a key part of the monumental achievement.