Posted on 08/31/2018 11:21:05 AM PDT by Starman417
I was working at a gas station in 1969 when Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon. In order to watch it, I brought along a TV complete with rabbit ears and watch it I did. I also watched Neil and Buzz Aldrin unfurl the American flag. It was kind a big moment and filled a lot of people with pride.
As a kid I was mesmerized by the space program. I even have a letter from Alan Shepard. There was a time I could rattle off the crews of all Mercury and Gemini and Apollo flights. We watched the Enterprise make its first unpowered flight after separation from the 747. When we're in Orlando we'll usually make a trip to the Kennedy Space Center and spend the day.The fascination and wonder has never left me.
So when I heard about a new movie about Neil Armstrong, I was very pleased and looked forward to it. And then, bam.
There is nothing liberals cannot f**k up.
In the new movie "First Man" they decided to leave out the First Flag.
The late Neil Armstrong’s 1969 trip to the moon may have been “one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,” but it was also a massive achievement for the United States.and then moron twists the knifeOne of Armstrong’s first orders of business was to proudly plant the American flag, after all.
But Ryan Gosling, the Canadian actor who plays Armstrong in “First Man,” Hollywood’s rendition of the moon landing, told the Telegraph the magic moment was intentionally omitted from the big screen because Armstrong’s achievement “transcended countries and borders.”
“First Man” is getting rave reviews at the Venice Film Festival, but critics noted the unpatriotically sanitized flick is missing something important, and Gosling explained he worked with French-Canadian director Damien Chazelle and the Armstrong family to decide on its key moments.
“I think this was widely regarded in the end as a human achievement (and) that’s how we chose to view it,” he said. “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.”
“He was reminding everyone that he was just the tip of the iceberg – and that’s not just to be humble, that’s also true,” Gosling said.
The actor admitted “I’m Canadian, so might have cognitive bias,” but he believes Armstrong didn’t think much of patriotism.Gosling is an a**hole. Armstrong was a quiet and humble man but he absolutely was patriotic.He served his country in the Korean war, flying 78 missions as a Naval aviator and then as a test pilot for NACA. He was selected as an astronaut candidate in 1962 and went on to be the commander of Gemini 8, along with Apollo 11. Gosling doesn't know squat about Armstrong and is projecting his Canadian ass into places it does not belong. Armstrong did not believe himself to be a hero, but he sure as hell was a patriot.“So I don’t think that Neil viewed himself as an American hero,” Gosling told the Telegraph. “From my interviews with his family and people that knew him, it was quite the opposite. And we wanted the film to reflect Neil.”
He didn't fly jets for Canada in the war. See what's on Armstrong's shoulder?
This movie "reflects" Armstrong by omitting the planting of the American flag?
Insert expletive here and follow it with "Gosling."
What this movie does is hand a participation trophy to the rest of the world by essentially changing history. They've ruined it for me and probably many others. Today Ben Shapiro offered a view of the future portrayal of the momentous event at Iwo Jima if left to the Ryan Goslings of the world:
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202 million Americans made that possible, and the millions before then who built the country to make it a possibility. Damn right there should have been an American flag in it.
This is nothing surprising really. Liberals, and especially liberals from commie countries, don’t understand what makes America great.
That’s why they can’t understand Trump and wanting to make America great.
The moon landing was the epitome of American Greatness.
Of course they would see nothing wrong with leaving the flag out.
Another actor to delete from my play list. Very sadly, because he was one of my favorites.
Ditto that!
Great story.....
Similar to my own - the fates conspiring part, anyway.
Oh, the billions of things that had to proceed perfectly to put two people in the right place at the right time.
Congratulations.
Me either, I won’t see it.
Neither will I see the movie about Israel’s capture of Adolph Eichmann, as I’ve read that the people involved in it are tying Eichmann to Trump’s immigration stance, and it’s become a political statement against Trump.
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Many of us remember that day. We remember how we felt when we saw that flag.
At least let 100 years go by before you revise History, idjit.
And the next time Hollywood does the moon landing, it’ll be a rainbow flag.
*** Armstrong’s achievement “transcended countries and borders.” ***
I remember that day, and some who screamed that he should have planted the UN flag. But the UN had nothing to do with the landing on the moon.
Right there with you!
There is only ONE country's flag on the moon....and that's the USA's!!!!
It's one of the reasons we went to the moon....to beat the Ruskies in the Space Race.
I was determined to see it before I heard there would be no acknowledgement of this as an American Mission.
I didn't like the trailer for the movie. To me it seemed very negative.
Now that I read about the flag incident I WILL NOT be seeing the flick.
I very much enjoyed Apollo 13 as it emphasized the can-do spirit of the Space program of the 60s/early 70s. Ron Howard did a pretty good job of capturing that patriotism...for a Lefty that is.
I’ve always felt that he knew something of great significance about that mission that he was under orders to never EVER reveal to anyone, perhaps not even to his wife.
Whatever the ‘Forbidden Knowledge’ was, he apparently took it to his grave.
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All Apollo astronauts underwent a debriefing after they returned. All of them afterward could tell you arr the details of their particular mission. None of them could tell you how it felt ...
Some because violently ill when asked, others just walked away in silence.
Another interesting tidbit is that those gold visors the Apollo guys wore were specifically designed to permit the blue part of the spectrum to be highly visible ...
It sounds as though they were or still are under a chronic state of light hypnosis. Maybe that was necessary to maintain their sanity.
The immensity, the shapeless, boundless depths of Space would be frightening, even paralyzing to most human beings, even when trained. There is nothing on earth to compare it to.
Recall a few weeks back, when the eight school boys were stranded in that underground cave. They had to swim in deep, dark waters for over a mile before resurfacing. The only way they could do this safely with untrained children was to administer a light sedative prior to their trip out. The lucky one’s have virtually no memory of their underground, underwater travel.
Maybe I’ll see it, and maybe I won’t.
I will watch The Right Stuff again instead of this new pile of leftist America hating trash.
It sounds as though they were or still are under a chronic state of light hypnosis. Maybe that was necessary to maintain their sanity.
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Some have said they were indeed hypnotized deeply so that their feelings were totally suppressed. Maybe necessary for other reasons than simply saving their ‘sanity’ from traveling to the moon.
I highly doubt there is any relationship to what happened with the Apollo guys during their stay on the moon and on their return to kids in a cave.
In fact, there may be no relationship to anything we know publicly, so making any sort of comparison is likely fruitless. There maybe a lot more to the 45 year hiatus than (”its just rocks” “too expensive” “a bored public”) we can imagine. I sometimes have doubts that anyone from any country will ever go back to the moon let alone Mars (for which we had the potential tech in the 60s to travel to in about 3 days, not years).
Yea, but that was true. Women were “computers” back in the day. The electronic kind weren’t quite trusted yet so they needed humans to double check the math.
You want to denigrate Admiral Grace Hopper while you’re at it?
Rock on!
what? No UN flag!!!
Interesting comments. How did you come about this impression? The significance relates to the timing of this movie, and its message that Armstrong’s achievement “transcended countries and borders.”
A man speaking for the first time from a heavenly body. That's one way to get the attention of the entire planet. Explains whose script that really was. It should make more sense that way.
For starters, the mission dates corresponded to The Nine Days.
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