{"id":375585,"date":"2018-08-31T13:09:42","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T12:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/achievement-transcended-countries-and-borders\/"},"modified":"2018-08-31T13:09:42","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T12:09:42","slug":"achievement-transcended-countries-and-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/achievement-transcended-countries-and-borders\/","title":{"rendered":"Achievement \u2018transcended countries and borders\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanmirror.com\/canadian-first-man-actor-defends-omitting-american-flag-planting-on-moon-achievement-transcended-countries-and-borders\/\"><strong>American Mirror<\/strong><\/a><br \/>August 31, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>The late Neil Armstrong\u2019s 1969 trip to the moon may have been \u201cone small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,\u201d but it was also a massive achievement for the United States.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of Armstrong\u2019s first orders of business was to proudly plant the American flag, after all.<\/p>\n<p>But Ryan Gosling, the Canadian actor who plays Armstrong in \u201cFirst Man,\u201d Hollywood\u2019s rendition of the moon landing, told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/films\/2018\/08\/29\/first-man-neil-armstrong-film-fails-fly-flag-us-patriotism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Telegraph<\/a> the magic moment was intentionally omitted from the big screen because Armstrong\u2019s achievement \u201ctranscended countries and borders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JfOR1Xewo-4\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst Man\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think this was widely regarded in the end as a human achievement (and) that\u2019s how we chose to view it,\u201d he said. \u201cI 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was reminding everyone that he was just the tip of the iceberg \u2013 and that\u2019s not just to be humble, that\u2019s also true,\u201d Gosling said.<!-- [donotprint] --><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ppani\">\n<li>A d v e r t i s e m e n t<\/li>\n<li\/><\/ul>\n<p><!-- [\/donotprint] --><\/p>\n<p>The actor admitted \u201cI\u2019m Canadian, so might have cognitive bias,\u201d but he believes Armstrong didn\u2019t think much of patriotism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I don\u2019t think that Neil viewed himself as an American hero,\u201d Gosling told the Telegraph. \u201cFrom my interviews with his family and people that knew him, it was quite the opposite. And we wanted the film to reflect Neil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Folks who want to reflect on what actually happened on July 20, 1969 can watch the footage on YouTube \u2013 Armstrong and fellow astronaut Buzz Aldrin unfurling Old Glory and planting the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/canadian-first-man-actor-defends-omitting-american-flag-planting-on-moon-achievement-transcended-countries-and-borders.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American MirrorAugust 31, 2018 The late Neil Armstrong\u2019s 1969 trip to the moon may have been \u201cone small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,\u201d but it was also a massive achievement for the United States. One of Armstrong\u2019s first orders of business was to proudly plant the American flag, after all. 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