Posted on 09/03/2018 4:48:07 AM PDT by vannrox
Buzz Aldrin appeared to criticize Neil Armstrong biopic First Man for leaving out the planting of the American flag on the Moon.
The 88-year-old, who was the second man to set foot on the Moon, on Sunday tweeted a picture of the flag planted after their landing in 1969.
He captioned the photo: 'Proud to be an American.' Aldrin also re-tweeted a photo of him saluting next to the same picture. It is an apparent dig at Oscar-winning director Damian Chazelle's decision not to include the planting of the flag on the Moon at the end of his critically acclaimed movie.
The film is not kind in its portrayal of Aldrin, with Corey Stoll's performance painting him as an 'obnoxious loudmouth' and 'so blunt about his ambition that no one can stand him.'
First Man, tipped to win big at the Oscars, opened the Venice Film Festival on Wednesday to criticism that it deliberately downplayed American patriotism.
Starring Ryan Gosling as Armstrong, the film begins in 1961 as the US trails the Soviet Union in the space race and takes viewers up to the Moon landing in 1969.
But it came under fire for not including the moment the astronauts planted the American flag, with Gosling defending the decision by saying the achievement 'transcended countries and borders.'
Marco Rubio was among the politicians to weigh in, tweeting: 'This is total lunacy. The American people paid for that mission,on rockets built by Americans,with American technology & carrying American astronauts.
It wasn’t a UN mission.'
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But… but — it’s “critically acclaimed”
(IOW, if it criticizes the US, it’s great! ;-)
Amazing - willing to give up 2/3’s of his audience by simply NOT having the flag. If he had the flag in the movie, no one would have cared, since that is the history of it. In fact, if the US flag really bothered him, he could have read (or noted) the disclaimer on that particular flag, stating, to the effect, that we’re not making a claim on the moon, just planting our flag.
But I guess even that was too much for him.
Settled history
Fluck you Ryan Quisling, fluck you and your revisionist history Hollywood.
God, I detested that movie with a white hot burning passion.
It was a true story, I had read the book and thought “Wow! Most Americans know absolutely nothing about this...this would make a great movie!”
And then they made that bloody cartoon. Stupid light hearted flute music and that dimwit George Clooney with his aviator sunglasses. Damn. They could have done something good with it.
I did like that part of the story you mentioned, though!
Wonder if it’s made of lead?.
All made with stolen technology.
The publicity good or bad puts the Apollo 11 mission in the news, so the movie serves a useful purpose.
“First Man”. The title says it all.
Hollyweird writers, producers, and actors are unwitting tools in the Divine narrative toolkit. I almost feel sorry for them. Okay not really. It’s irony overload. Those are the guys who think they are in control of their own scripts and historical ‘revisions’.
I am not sure what Armstrong’s personality was, but he had to be tough and somewhat of a prima dona, the best of the best.
As General Chuck Yeager said of those in the astronaut program back in the early 1960’s, “these guys signed up basically for a suicide mission so cut them some slack.”
Enough said!!!!
It was American citizens who paid for it, not citizens of the world.
There would have been no space race without the aspect of nationalism.
No funding, no motivation, equals no moon shot.
Buzz has been an American hero his entire life, even during his hard days. At 88 he remains an American hero. The contrast with traitor McCain, whom the elites and Hollywood love, could not be more striking,
Many US soldiers were carried to the beach by US Higgins boats (LCVPs) skippered by US sailors. This is the type of boat portrayed in the film, using 10 surviving examples.
However, the Rangers (including the real Charlie Company, Captain Ralph E. Goranson commanding) were bought ashore by British sailors in British LCAs.
It may be that this story was conceived and carried out as a story about US soldiers, and interactions with or portrayals of British and other allied troops were considered superfluous.
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