Jan

22

‘First Man’ Has a Deleted Scene That Would Have Fit Perfectly with the Rest of the Film

If you look at First Man as the story of the first man on the moon, it may come up short because that’s not really the story director Damien Chazelle was aiming to make. Yes, it’s a “mission movie” of sorts, but everything he does is to make the journey as intimate as possible. Although there’s still some distance due to the stoicism of Neil Armstrong (Ryan Gosling in a criminally overlooked performance that’s too quiet for most awards prognosticators and voters), what Chazelle is looking at is a story of monumental achievement punctuated by grief …