UniversalĪt a press conference before the Apollo 11 mission, Neil, Buzz Aldrin (Corey Stoll), and Michael Collins (Lukas Haas) all take questions from reporters. Right before the events of the tragic Apollo 1 accident, the astronauts are all wearing American flags on their uniforms. While Armstrong is being told this news, there’s an American flag in the room. Universal Universal Universal Universal UniversalĪt a debriefing, Armstrong is told that an investigation has concluded there was no pilot error involved. (It’s insane that anyone thinks this movie is “unpatriotic,” yet this shot exists in the movie.) Universal UniversalĪfter the successful Gemini 8 docking procedure, a malfunction causes the spacecraft to go into a spin, putting the lives of the pilots in jeopardy. Universal Universal Universal Universal Universal Universal Universal Universal UniversalĪs the mission is happening, Neil Armstrong’s son raises an American flag at the Armstrong’s house. The next American flags are on the uniforms of Armstrong and David Scott (Christopher Abbott) as they pilot Gemini 8, the first successful docking of one ship with another in space.
We see our first American flag at the funeral of Neil Armstrong’s (Ryan Gosling) friend and fellow NASA pilot, Elliot See (Patrick Fugit): Universal Over five minutes just looking at an American flag! Try doing that! That’s a long time!Īnyway, for the last time, let’s go through all the American flags in First Man.
In fact, I kept a running count of how long the American flag actually appears on screen in one way or another in First Man and, by my calculations, if you watch First Man, it’s the equivalent of just staring at an American flag for five minutes and one second. But here’s the thing: there are so many American flags in First Man this post wound up taking a lot longer than I ever expected and I quickly regretted it. I’ll be honest, at first I thought it might be funny to go through First Man and screenshot all the American flags in the film.
#First man on the moon movie flag download#
It’s gone so far as there are actually people who think there are no American flags at all in the movie.įirst Man is available on digital download as of Tuesday. And talking to people close to the production, there is a sense that this false report did have an effect on First Man‘s box office in the United States.īut what’s crazy now is people still believe there’s no American flag on the moon in First Man. But by then it was too late, as the false report really set in to people’s minds, aided and inflamed by right-wing media. The problem here is since the movie was only playing at a film festival in Italy, there was no real way to rebuke this report until it played on this side of the world and Americans could see it.
This all started out of the Venice Film Festival where this was (somehow) erroneously reported. I mention this because, with all this, came out the people who are STILL convinced that there’s no American flag on the moon in the movie. I rewatched FIRST MAN and in five years everyone will realize it’s a masterpiece and say stuff like, “why didn’t this get more awards attention?”
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