re: So “First Man” is supposed to be a Armstrong & landing on the moon biopic- w/o USA Flag?

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I wonder how much time Gosling and Chazelle spent with Armstrong?

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Probably none given how long he’s been dead.

Regardless, Yeager is responding to some random guy who is trying to say that because they don’t show the flag planting that they are portraying Armstrong as some anti-Trump progressive.

Neither Chazelle nor Gosling are known as your typical “insert leftist politics into everything” Hollywood elitists. I specifically remember an interview before Chazelle’s Oscar win where he seemed to avoid getting political when the question was about the current political/cultural environment, which was only weeks after Trump was inaugurated. His wife even worked for a major business consulting firm, which isn’t really a place where prog mentality would be accepted.

And as it relates to Armstrong and the “global” achievement of the mission, here is a direct quote from the moon in an interview with Nixon:

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Thank you, Mr. President. It's a great honor and privilege for us to be here, representing not only the United States, but men of peace of all nations, and with interest and curiosity, and men with a vision for the future. It's an honor for us to be able to participate here today.

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That was after his infamous “small step for man” quote. It wasn’t “anti-American.” He was a scientist, the first to explore the very beginnings of a frontier beyond earth itself that extends to a nearly incomprehensible distance with incomprehensible possibilities. Maybe he saw something that was just plain bigger than any man, nation, or blimp in time, with endless possibilities to benefit everyone. But that doesn’t mean he was denigrating any man, nation, or blimp in time either.