>The Neil Armstrong biopic First Man premiered at the Venice Film Festival on Thursday, but it’s the film’s omission of Armstrong’s historic planting of the American flag on the moon has many outraged.
>While most people associate Armstrong with the iconic moment when he placed the American flag on the moon, director Damien Chazzell chose to cut out the moment for the biopic based on James Hansen’s biography of Armstrong’s life. Ryan Gosling, who plays the first man to walk on the moon, gave an explanation for the decision that has caused some outraged. Gosling told reporters at the Venice Film Festival that the astronaut’s accomplishments “transcend countries and borders” and that he believes Armstrong did not view himself as an American hero.
>“I think this was widely regarded in the end as a human achievement and that’s how we chose to view it,” Gosling said, according to The Telegraph. “Also I 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.”
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They could've just left the flag out without saying anything and we wouldn't have noticed. Instead, they chose to flip off the entire country without a hint of subtly.
>the astronaut’s accomplishments “transcend countries and borders”
Bullshit. The entire United States devoted time and resources to put a man on the moon. If they didn't mean to make a statement, they wouldn't have brought the flag to the moon.
>the astronaut’s accomplishments “transcend countries and borders”
Bullshit. The entire United States devoted time and resources to put a man on the moon. If they didn't mean to make a statement, they wouldn't have brought the flag to the moon.
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A flag like this is more acceptable.
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>"Armstrong did not view himself as an American hero"
>implying those 400,000 people he "deferred the focus to" weren't, gee I don't know, AMERICAN
If this isn't revisionist history, I don't know what is. As is usually the case with this kind of story, it would take paragraphs to point out every single reason why this is complete bullshit.
>implying those 400,000 people he "deferred the focus to" weren't, gee I don't know, AMERICAN
If this isn't revisionist history, I don't know what is. As is usually the case with this kind of story, it would take paragraphs to point out every single reason why this is complete bullshit.
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To be fair most of the brains that went to actually fixing the dogshit rockets that kept failing were old nazi rocket scientists :^)
If you look at the failed test flights of the early american rockets and nazi V2's they're pretty much the same issues, so they had to paperclip Von Braun and his fellows to fix them.
To be fair most of the brains that went to actually fixing the dogshit rockets that kept failing were old nazi rocket scientists :^)
If you look at the failed test flights of the early american rockets and nazi V2's they're pretty much the same issues, so they had to paperclip Von Braun and his fellows to fix them.
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