<story><title>Neil Armstrong Remembered</title><url>https://ceas.uc.edu/about/neil-armstrong-remembered.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ambicapter</author><text>I was a bit disappointed recently watching First Man. I get that Neil was a private person, but it was a little too over-dramatic (towards his personal life, not the space program) in my opinion. It seemed like an extrovert&amp;#x27;s wild speculation as to what&amp;#x27;s going on in an introvert&amp;#x27;s head. I think he was just a stoic, analytical type, which doesn&amp;#x27;t mean you need to be completely incapable of communicating emotionally with your kids or SO.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>isomorph</author><text>I absolutely loved the film and thought it was an incredible piece of art and a piercingly realistic depiction of a certain VERY REAL type of masculinity. You&amp;#x27;re lucky that you find it unbelievable &amp;#x2F; overdramatic.&lt;p&gt;Anyway, when I was a kid I used to love seeing those burnt capsules in the Science Museum in London. So crazy to see the story rendered to beautifully, along with the politics, the oxygen fires, the bouncing off the atmosphere... I couldn&amp;#x27;t have asked for anything more.&lt;p&gt;I thought his portrayal was a realistic vision of the pitfalls of masculinity, and not melodramatic at all. My dad&amp;#x27;s like that, except he smiles instead of having the blank Gosling face. My dad didn&amp;#x27;t cry even at his own mother&amp;#x27;s funeral.&lt;p&gt;Seeing Gosling&amp;#x2F;Armstrong closing up the notebooks where he&amp;#x27;d been trying to figure out how to cure his daughter&amp;#x27;s brain cancer, seeing him cover his face to cry silently, seeing him snap at his friend &amp;quot;Do you think I left there because I wanted to talk?&amp;quot;, his fear of his emotions... It was just so true to life. I cried multiple times in that film. Of course films are always a bit romanticised - I have to say at no point was the illusion broken for me.&lt;p&gt;I think that film gets into my top 3 films along with Gattaca and The Matrix.&lt;p&gt;I love Drive but it was really Blade Runner 2049 that made me realise that his &amp;quot;silent&amp;quot; roles are actually a deceptively simple comment of the state of masculinity, kind of like American Psycho (film &amp;gt; book IMO - interestingly the screenwriter of the film was a woman and the directory of the film was a woman, and the film &amp;amp; book are a critique of that version of masculinity).&lt;p&gt;Also Ryan&amp;#x27;s performance in The Big Short made me realise that he is CHOOSING to do his &amp;quot;silent&amp;quot; stuff when he does. He&amp;#x27;s a very talented actor.</text></comment>
<story><title>Neil Armstrong Remembered</title><url>https://ceas.uc.edu/about/neil-armstrong-remembered.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ambicapter</author><text>I was a bit disappointed recently watching First Man. I get that Neil was a private person, but it was a little too over-dramatic (towards his personal life, not the space program) in my opinion. It seemed like an extrovert&amp;#x27;s wild speculation as to what&amp;#x27;s going on in an introvert&amp;#x27;s head. I think he was just a stoic, analytical type, which doesn&amp;#x27;t mean you need to be completely incapable of communicating emotionally with your kids or SO.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>benbreen</author><text>I see where you&amp;#x27;re coming from, but personally I really appreciated the depiction of an introverted main character. Also both of his sons were consultants on the film and apparently supplied part of the dialogue and tone for the scene where he talks to them before leaving for Apollo 11 [1], so that part of his relationship to his family, at least, seems pretty accurate to me.&lt;p&gt;One thing I remain curious about is how serving in the Korean War shaped the psychology of that first crop of astronauts. And I would LOVE to watch a movie with the budget and talent of &lt;i&gt;First Man&lt;/i&gt;, but about Yuri Gagarin or Valentina Tereshkova.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;...&amp;#x2F;first-man-ryan-gosling-claire-foy-damien-chazelle.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;...&amp;#x2F;first-man-ryan-gosling-clai...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>