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(Apollo program colleagues Elliot See and Ed White were close friends White was a next-door neighbor).Īrmstrong presented a famously stoic persona to the American public, but the movie shows him exhibiting the full range of emotions that arise from such tragedies. Foremost, the loss of a daughter at just 2 years old due to complications from cancer, and then the loss of fellow test pilots and astronauts to accidents. And although we were super-careful with the historical record, we knew we were saying provocative things about this towering figure in American history," said Singer.Ī consistent theme in the movie is how much hardship Armstrong (played by Ryan Gosling, who also starred in Chazelle's La La Land) endured in the years leading up to the 1969 mission. "We were taking a look at an icon, Neil Armstrong, who is known to a generation of people in a very particular way.

And though they expected it to be provocative, they didn't expect the movie to provoke allegations of anti-Americanism.

He did readily concede, though, that he and First Man director Damien Chazelle - whose roots include the similarly anti-American hotbeds of Haverford and Princeton - were trying to do something radically new with First Man. He's from Upper Dublin (that hotbed of anti-Americanism), and he went to high school there before embarking on a career as a screenwriter ( The Post, Spotlight), and he still sounds very much like a Philadelphian - when I got him on the phone, the first thing he said was how excited he was that Sixer Markelle Fultz had, the night before, made his first three-point shot of the preseason. This is cited in some circles as evidence of a Hollywood left coast deficit of patriotism, but the writer - Josh Singer - doesn't come off as a Tinseltown type. "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deferred the focus from himself to the 400,000 people who made the mission possible.If your daily outrage calendar is out of date, you perhaps missed the dust-up surrounding First Man, which shows the moon landing but does not show astronaut Neil Armstrong actually planting the American flag. "I think this was widely regarded in the end as a human achievement that's how we chose to view it," Gosling told reporters at the film festival. Gosling argued that Armstrong's accomplishment was viewed by the late astronaut as a "human achievement" rather than an American one, according to The Telegraph. Corey Stoll of "House of Cards" plays astronaut Buzz Aldrin. "First Man" premiered Wednesday in Italy at the 75th annual Venice Film Festival, and critics noted the flag's absence.Ĭlaire Foy of Netflix's "The Crown" co-stars in the film as Armstrong's wife. Canadian actor Ryan Gosling, who stars in the biopic, defended Chazelle's decision to forgo the scene. The film's French-Canadian director, Damien Chazelle, opted to omit Armstrong planting the American flag on the moon, Business Insider reported. The upcoming "First Man" movie - based on American astronaut Neil Armstrong, who became the first man to walk on the moon in 1969 - is missing one of the most iconic and patriotic moments in U.S.