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First Man

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First Man	label	First Man
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First Man	comment	First Man is a 2018 biopic film about the first man to walk on the moon, Neil Armstrong, starring Ryan Gosling as Armstrong, with Claire Foy, Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler, Corey Stoll, Christopher Abbott, and Pablo Schreiber. The film was directed by Damien Chazelle, who previously directed Whiplash and La La Land.The movie chronicles the career of Neil Armstrong during the Space Race, from his selection into the Gemini Program to the landing on the moon. It is based the book by James R. Hansen.Previews: Trailer 1, Trailer 2, Trailer 3.
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First Man / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
First Man / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: After the Apollo 1 disaster, Janet finds Pat standing silent and motionless in her driveway, with a slew of forgotten newspapers scattered around.
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First Man / int_19d06ef7	type	A Father to His Men
First Man / int_19d06ef7	comment	A Father to His Men: Deke Slayton, one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts, deeply cares for the Gemini and Apollo crews. He is nearly brought to tears when going over the "worst case scenario" brief for Apollo 11. Incidentally, Slayton was the only one of the Mercury Seven who, at that time, had not gone into space. He was diagnosed with erratic heart rhythm shortly before his own space flight and was grounded. He finally did go into space in 1975 as part of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.
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First Man / int_1c5002bc	type	The Stoic
First Man / int_1c5002bc	comment	The Stoic: Not only are most of the pilots stoic (particularly Neil, who was famously quiet and enigmatic in real life), but their wives are as well, even during funerals (justified by Janet when she mentions that she and Neil got "good" at attending funerals do to a number of pilot deaths in previous years). When Janet finally sees Neil in quarantine after he comes back from the mission, she hardly changes expression.
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First Man / int_20ffc19a	type	Famous for Being First
First Man / int_20ffc19a	comment	Famous for Being First: Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon, an achievement so significant they made an entire movie about it.
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First Man / int_23ff95fb	type	Brutal Honesty
First Man / int_23ff95fb	comment	Brutal Honesty: Buzz Aldrin twice makes honest but rude remarks about dead pilots in the program. When he says that he's simply saying what everybody else is thinking, Neil remarks that maybe he shouldn't.
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First Man / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
First Man / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: As in real life, Neil's very young daughter dies of brain cancer early on in the film. The already stoic Armstrong withdraws from his family and throws himself into his dangerous work as an astronaut instead of grieving properly.
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First Man / int_28a1d0b	type	Sunk Cost Fallacy
First Man / int_28a1d0b	comment	Sunk Cost Fallacy: Alluded to when Neil is nearly killed in the LLRV accident. His seniors tell him it's too risky for him to fly such a dangerous machine again. Neil points out that it's the best training they have for how to fly the real lunar module, and that it's a "little late" to talk about not risking the lives of the astronauts. It's clear that Neil commits to the Apollo program because he thinks that backing out would make the sacrifices of the earlier astronauts, and other pilots who died during test flights, count for nothing.
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First Man / int_2b3bd260	type	Readings Are Off the Scale
First Man / int_2b3bd260	comment	Readings Are Off the Scale: The spin rate reading of Gemini 8 hits the top of the scale.
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First Man / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
First Man / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: Neil Armstrong lands on the moon. The infamous end to Apollo 1 also comes as no surprise. There's still an amazing amount of tension in the movie during these scenes.
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First Man / int_443f9d8a	type	Ask a Stupid Question...
First Man / int_443f9d8a	comment	Ask a Stupid Question...: An interviewer asks Neil if he'll be "affected" by the recent death of his daughter during the training program. An annoyed Neil responds by saying it'd be unreasonable to assume it wouldn't have an affect on him.
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First Man / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
First Man / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Buzz Aldrin is insensitive and arrogant, but he's still competent and charismatic, and he and Neil get along long enough to get to the moon together.
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First Man / int_4856ac40	type	Stock Footage
First Man / int_4856ac40	comment	Stock Footage: Much of the Apollo 11 launch sequence used genuine footage from NASA's archivesnote NASA documents and stores everything it can in every possible way with some VFX used to fill in the edges to match to the film's aspect ratio.
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First Man / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
First Man / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: Karen's bracelet shows up twice. First is when Neil hides it away in his desk drawer shortly after Karen dies at the beginning and before the Gemini program. The second is at the end of the film when Neil takes it with him and throws it into a crater on the moon.
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First Man / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
First Man / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License – History: In reality the X-15 flight that opens the movie happened after Karen's death, not before. While Neil did crash while flying the LLRV, he suffered nothing more than a bit tongue during his parachute landing. The Apollo 1 disaster is portrayed as having killed the pilots within seconds by a fire followed by a large explosion. In real life, most of the burns on the astronauts occurred in postmortem, with the cause of death being asphyxiation and smoke inhalation.note The fire quickly consumed all the oxygen in the cabin, but not before melting the astronauts' suits and oxygen tubes, exposing them to the toxic cabin air. Furthermore, the spark caused by faulty wiring is portrayed as occurring within Ed White's line of sight, whereas in real life it originated from under Grissom's seat. Though Neil was attending an event at the White House at the same time as the Apollo 1 fire, he (as well as the other astronauts present) did not receive a call notifying him what had happened until after he had returned to his hotel. The film gives the impression that the American public opinion was against strongly against the Apollo program. While there was a vocal segment of the population who felt it was a waste of money, the majority of the American public was in support of the mission. During the Apollo 11 launch, Michael Collins is shown sitting in the LMP's seat while Buzz Aldrin is in the CDR's seat when it should have been the reversenote the mission commander sat in the CMP's seat during launch so he could grip the abort handle. While Neil really did head over to the West crater off the mission plan, it's speculation that he might have left anything in it, let alone any of Karen's possessions. Other astronauts did leave personal items on the Moon, but if Neil did this, he took that secret to his grave.
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First Man / int_581f6468	type	Hero of Another Story
First Man / int_581f6468	comment	Hero of Another Story: Chuck Yeager and Gus Grissom (The Right Stuff), and Jim Lovell (Apollo 13) have essentially cameos here. Deke Slayton, on the other hand, has prominent roles in all three of these films.
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First Man / int_5bdffefe	type	Jitter Cam
First Man / int_5bdffefe	comment	Jitter Cam: From beginning to end, the camera drifts around when one might expect it to keep steady.
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First Man / int_5deb34da	type	Ace Pilot
First Man / int_5deb34da	comment	Ace Pilot: The difficulty and danger of flights the Gemini and Apollo astronauts go through is emphasized to show just how skilled they are. In the opening scene, Neil takes an X-15 to the edge of the atmosphere and avoids bouncing off into space.
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First Man / int_61a35c24	type	Improbable Piloting Skills
First Man / int_61a35c24	comment	Improbable Piloting Skills: Naturally. Neil manages to regain control of the X-15 flight as it threatens to skip off the atmosphere helplessly into space and he even manages to land roughly where he was supposed to. Neil recovers the spin on the Gemini flight, with little help from Mission Control, in pitch darkness, and after his co-pilot has passed out from the G-forces. He does it by correctly deciding that the flight control thrusters are causing the problem, turning them off, and then using the ship's re-entry thrusters to regain control. He saves the astronauts' lives, but the mission has to be aborted because he used up three-quarters of the re-entry fuel doing it. Neil fails to regain control of the LLRV (in reality the vehicle suddenly lost fuel pressure to its attitude thrusters, so there was no way to regain control), but he does eject in time to avoid being killed in the crash. Lastly, and most memorably, landing the LEM manually to avoid landing on top of a boulder or in a crater, all while the landing computer keeps setting off the master alarm. The movie, in fact, downplays the precariousness of the LEM landing as the error codes displayed by the computer required more serious intervention than just turning the alarm off each time. This was displayed with some accuracy in From the Earth to the Moon.
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First Man / int_64e975cf	type	Manly Tears
First Man / int_64e975cf	comment	Manly Tears: Neil cries twice over his daughter Karen, but he does it where only the audience can see him do it.
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First Man / int_753a9ada	type	Centrifugal Farce
First Man / int_753a9ada	comment	Centrifugal Farce: Neil's first experience with the three-axis centrifuge is one of the more light-hearted moments in the film, especially when a clearly addled Armstrong goes to his next training class only to get a massive Doorstopper of a textbook (figuratively) thrown at him. However, the scene is also an opportunity for him to show how cool he is under pressure (and a foreshadowing of his much more serious encounter with centrifugal gee-forces on his Gemini 8 mission).
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First Man / int_77414bc2	type	Action Prologue
First Man / int_77414bc2	comment	Action Prologue: The film opens with Neil testing a high altitude supersonic jet which nearly skips off the atmosphere. Ultimately he ends up crash landing the plane.
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First Man / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
First Man / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: Asked by Janet to Neil:
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First Man / int_7e680062	type	Aspect Ratio Switch
First Man / int_7e680062	comment	Aspect Ratio Switch: The movie mostly uses Widescreen 2.39:1, as director Damien Chazelle shot the movie in a mixture of celluloid formats. These include 35mm 2-perf Techniscope, 3-perf Super 35, Super 16mm, and IMAX 15-perf 70mm. The latter is used for the lunar sequences with its taller aspect ratio of 1.43:1, but protected for 1.90:1 for Digital IMAX and 2.39:1. The Blu-ray and UHD Blu-ray releases both show the lunar sequences in 16:9, filling the whole TV.
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First Man / int_83a903f6	type	Stepford Smiler
First Man / int_83a903f6	comment	Stepford Smiler: Janet is serious and not prone to smiling often, but is forced to put on a wholesome smile for the dozens of reporters who constantly lurk around her house or hang around for promotional photos.
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First Man / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
First Man / int_87504252	comment	The Big Board: Deke Slayton draws the distance from the Earth to the Moon to scale, across two blackboards.
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First Man / int_8b6de1eb	type	Airborne Aircraft Carrier
First Man / int_8b6de1eb	comment	Airborne Aircraft Carrier: While barely visible, as the opening takes place entirely from Neil's perspective in the cockpit, the X-15 is deployed from under the wing of a B-52.
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First Man / int_95c2a9dd	type	Outliving One's Offspring
First Man / int_95c2a9dd	comment	Outliving One's Offspring: The film opens with the death of Armstrong's daughter, Karen, from a brain tumor.
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First Man / int_97d54bb0	type	Tragic Keepsake
First Man / int_97d54bb0	comment	Tragic Keepsake: Neil keeps a bracelet with his dead daughter's name on it, later dropping it into a crater on the moon in her memory.
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First Man / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
First Man / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: At a press conference, the astronauts are asked what else they'd like to take to the Moon, and Armstrong answers "More fuel". The Lunar Module almost ran out of fuel during the landing.note The intended landing area turned out to be scattered with boulders, so Armstrong had to take manual control and fly further downrange until they found a clear patch of ground. The descent engine had less than 30 seconds worth of fuel remaining when they finally landed.
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First Man / int_a0edf122	type	Good with Numbers
First Man / int_a0edf122	comment	Good with Numbers: Neil works out a course correction with paper and pencil that puts Gemini 8 exactly where it needs to be to see the Agena target vehicle and dock.
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First Man / int_a1b76006	type	Nerves of Steel
First Man / int_a1b76006	comment	Nerves of Steel: You don't get to become an astronaut unless you are absolutely cool under pressure, as Armstrong demonstrates multiple times. Whether he's dismissing reporters certain of his coming demise, shaking off nausea from his daily flight simulator, or parachuting out of an exploding test plane, he stays as calm and disciplined as ever.
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First Man / int_a6a6de9a	type	Humble Hero
First Man / int_a6a6de9a	comment	Humble Hero: Both the movie version and the real Neil Armstrong. It was one of the reasons NASA chose him to be first on the moon.
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First Man / int_a8a4b41e	type	Not So Stoic
First Man / int_a8a4b41e	comment	Not So Stoic: At a funeral, Neil imagines seeing his dead daughter, and promptly leaves, banging his car into another in process. Earlier on in the film, at his daughter's wake, he keeps his cool until he heads alone into his study, at which point he promptly bursts into tears. Janet, who is as stoic as her husband is, completely loses it when she realizes Neil intends to leave for the Apollo 11 mission without preparing their sons for the possibility of him not making it back.
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First Man / int_abad35b4	type	Soundtrack Dissonance
First Man / int_abad35b4	comment	Soundtrack Dissonance: The unveiling of the iconic Saturn V rocket that would later send Apollo 11 to the moon is juxtaposed with a black activist performing the protest song "Whitey's on the Moon". There really wasn't much fanfare in real life, as the program was coming under fire for its financial (and human) costs and wasn't vindicated until after the moon landing.
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First Man / int_aca32000	type	Armor-Piercing Response
First Man / int_aca32000	comment	Armor-Piercing Response: After Neil injures himself training for the lunar landing, he's asked by superiors if it's worth the cost in lives. Neil, remembering the slew of dead astronauts left in the wake of the moon landing attempt, snaps that it's a little late to be asking that question.
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First Man / int_acf8f71a	type	Dispense with the Pleasantries
First Man / int_acf8f71a	comment	Dispense with the Pleasantries: A trait of Armstrong when he's trying to work, and especially in flight.
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First Man / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
First Man / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: On Gemini 8: The Apollo 1 pilots upon realizing there's a fire in the oxygen-rich cockpit. Neil and Buzz when they realize the LEM is headed towards a crater full of car-sized boulders. It's subdued but clearly tense when Neil takes over manual piloting to get to a better landing spot, and neither of them are comfortable until they've grounded.
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First Man / int_ad7a381d	type	P.O.V. Cam
First Man / int_ad7a381d	comment	P.O.V. Cam: Used on several occasions: The film open's with Neil's view out the X-15 cockpit windows. We also see Neil's POV as he climbs into the Gemini 8 capsule, which shows off the impressive number of switches and gauges. Most importantly, Neil's view as he climbs down the LEM ladder onto the surface of the moon and takes his first step.
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First Man / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
First Man / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: When asked at an Apollo 11 pre-launch press conference what he would like to take to the moon (after Buzz Aldrin gives a sentimental crowd-pleasing answer) Neil remarks if he had a choice he'd take "more fuel". Subverted because, while it sounds like a snarky response, he actually meant it.
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First Man / int_b3393a2e	type	Trip to the Moon Plot
First Man / int_b3393a2e	comment	Trip to the Moon Plot: The film is a biography of Neil Armstrong, so naturally enough the movie's climax features the Moon landing from Apollo 11.
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First Man / int_ba0ff694	type	You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!
First Man / int_ba0ff694	comment	You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: Ed White's reaction to seeing that the Russians have just beaten him at being the first EVA.
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First Man / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
First Man / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: Janet Armstrong snaps and uses the F-word when Neil replies to her question of how likely it is he will make it home from Apollo 11 with a dry non-committal answer.
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First Man / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
First Man / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Downplayed with someone as quiet as Neil, but one of the only times he gets truly angry is when an interviewer brings up his dead daughter. Whenever he is reminded of her he has to go be alone immediately.
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First Man / int_bebf0356	type	Mission Control
First Man / int_bebf0356	comment	Neil recovers the spin on the Gemini flight, with little help from Mission Control, in pitch darkness, and after his co-pilot has passed out from the G-forces. He does it by correctly deciding that the flight control thrusters are causing the problem, turning them off, and then using the ship's re-entry thrusters to regain control. He saves the astronauts' lives, but the mission has to be aborted because he used up three-quarters of the re-entry fuel doing it.
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First Man / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
First Man / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: Neil and Janet Armstrong, mostly, despite the stress of the astronaut training. In real life, they would divorce in 1994. Ed and Pat White, leading the latter to be rendered completely numb following her husband's death.
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First Man / int_c3478f1d	type	Badass Bookworm
First Man / int_c3478f1d	comment	Badass Bookworm: All the astronauts, really, but Neil is notably an engineer as well as an astronaut.
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First Man / int_c9981efb	type	The Engineer
First Man / int_c9981efb	comment	The Engineer: Neil's profession as an engineer is a major focus and one of the reasons he's chosen to be an astronaut. One of the military pilot candidates refers to him as an "egghead," which sounds amusingly odd given that the audience has already seen him as an Ace Pilot.
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First Man / int_cd2b8aa3	type	Space Is Noisy
First Man / int_cd2b8aa3	comment	Space Is Noisy: Averted. The moment Armstrong and Aldrin open the hatch on the LEM, all ambient noise stops. For the rest of their stay on the moon, the only sounds are radio transmissions and the soundtrack.
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First Man / int_cef6a167	type	Second Place Is for Losers
First Man / int_cef6a167	comment	Second Place Is for Losers: The Americans are determined to get to the moon because the Soviets have beaten them at every major space accomplishment so far. Ed White is stunned when he learns that they have just beaten him at being the first EVA.
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First Man / int_e528c7b4	type	And Mission Control Rejoiced
First Man / int_e528c7b4	comment	And Mission Control Rejoiced: Not, as might be expected with Apollo 11 (that is entirely done with the original radio audio), but with Gemini 8 docking with the Agena docking vehicle.note It's the first time two spacecraft had ever docked; for once, the Americans beat the Soviets to a major space milestone.
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First Man / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Neil Armstrong embodies this trope, being driven by the death of his daughter to get towards the moon. Every setback the program encounters along the way only makes him even more determined.
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First Man / int_edaedf90	type	Vomit Discretion Shot
First Man / int_edaedf90	comment	Vomit Discretion Shot: Subverted. Though the camera cuts away from most of the actual vomiting, the next scene shows the pilots in a classroom, with many of them having vomit stains over the fronts of their shirts.
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First Man / int_f3a8ec93	type	Billions of Buttons
First Man / int_f3a8ec93	comment	Billions of Buttons: When Neil enters Gemini 8 and Apollo 11, the camera lingers to show the countless buttons, switches, and displays both cockpits have.
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First Man / int_f88f2449	type	Downer Beginning
First Man / int_f88f2449	comment	Downer Beginning: The first few minutes are dedicated to showing the Armstrongs providing cancer treatment for their toddler daughter. Ultimately the treatments are unsuccessful and she dies.
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