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– "First Man" is a film imbued with history of space even larger than the public does not know.
Director Damien Chazelle's new film starring Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, is rich in visual and thematic scenes evoking the true story of NASA, since the detailed recreations of ships spatial and spatial combinations up to the use of real space. ground transcripts that shed light on Josh Singer's script.
"I wanted the film to be tactile, close to documentary and realistic, so it seemed to me that we needed to have the reality to confirm this style," Chazelle said in an interview with collectSPACE.
But in addition to ensuring overall authenticity for big scenes and backdrops, Chazelle and his fellow filmmakers also inserted much more subtle references to the story that they were describing. "First Man" is flush with these hidden details, or "Easter eggs," that only eagle-eyed space geeks could notice.
For all the others, here are some of the "little steps" that Chazelle and her team took to infuse "First Man" with even more history of space.
Spoiler warning: This article refers to the minor and major details of "First Man." If you have not seen the movie yet, you can read it after you've done it.
"Roger, Twan – Tranquility, we copy you to the floor, you have a group of guys about to turn blue, we're breathing again, thank you very much."
If this line (with the first drop on the pronunciation of "Tranquility") of "First Man" sounds familiar, it is because these are the exact words transmitted by radio to the real Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin after their arrival on the on July 20, 1969. In fact, it would be necessary sound more than familiar.
"First Man" has actors describing a number of fellow Armstrong astronauts, including some who served in Mission Control as the capsule communicator, the point of contact of the crew with the ground . But for those they have not chosen, including Bill Anders and Bruce McCandless, the filmmakers have instead decided to use the real voices of astronauts from audio archives.
So that's the real Charlie Duke, who served as "CapCom" during the lunar landing of Apollo 11, which the public hears when Mission Control radios "We're copying you, Eagle."
It's also Duke who reminds Armstrong (Gosling) of the total amount of fuel he has before starting the descent to the moon's surface. But unlike other calls, the audio does not come from NASA's archives.
Realizing that they had to explain to film-goers what was going to happen on the screen – explanations missing from the Apollo 11 disc – the filmmakers had recorded a few lines for Duke, thus taking over his role as capcom nearly 50 years later. the mission.
Thus, the mission control that listeners hear when landing the moon of "First Man" is still Duke, but sometimes his voice is separated by half a century.
Duke's voice is not the only cameo of "First Man". The film is dotted with faces of the space history community – particularly in its description of Gemini Mission Control.
When Armstrong (Gosling) and Dave Scott (Christopher Abbott) are back in radio contact after their Gemini 8 spacecraft became out of control, NASA flight crew operations director Deke Slayton (Kyle Chandler) ordered Paul Haney, "Voice of Mission Control," to cut the "squawk boxes" that fed the sound of the mission into the homes of astronauts.
Haney is described (and expressed on the box) by Mark Armstrong, Neil's son. Rick Armstrong, Mark's brother, is also in Mission Control, sitting to Mark's right.
Andrew Armstrong, Mark's son, also makes a brief appearance as a flight controller who plays the guitar after Gemini 8 makes the world's first docking in space.
Mark Kirkman, former Space Shuttle Training Instructor, who describes Jerry Bostick, a Flight Dynamics Officer (FIDO), and Rick Houston, co-author of "Go, Flight !: The Unsung Heroes of Mission Control," 1965 1992, "who served as a consultant on mission control scenes in" First Man. "
Cameos, however, do not end in Mission Control.
At the White House reception, Chazelle's parents are guests and her sister, Anna, is the staff member who informs Armstrong that Slayton is on the phone.
In Cape Town, at the pre-launch breakfast, the crew of Apollo 11 shows an artist drawing Armstrong. In real life, the late Paul Calle was present to sketch the breakfast and astronaut costumes as part of NASA's artistic program. Chris Calle, Paul's son and accomplished space artist, describes his father in "First Man".
And while Armstrong (Gosling), Aldrin (Corey Stoll) and Michael Collins (Lukas Haas) leave the quarters of the crew to board a van for the launch pad, the three go on a crawl and pass in front of a gentleman. This viewer is Kurt Debus, the first director of the Kennedy Space Center, described in "First Man" by historian James Hansen, author of the authoritative biography of Neil Armstrong, who served as the basis for the film.
In this same scene, Bonnie Baer, daughter of astronaut Ed White, Gemini 4 and Apollo 1, also makes an appearance.
As Collins (Haas) passes Debus (Hansen), he is seen carrying a brown paper bag reproducing a subtle detail of the story of Apollo 11.
It was a tradition for astronauts to bring Pad Leader Guenter Wendt (described by Steve Coulter in "First Man") to the launch pad, who oversaw the crew's fixation in the spacecraft and the last preparations for the launch. Armstrong offered Wendt a coupon for a free ride "between any planet, moon, star or galaxy in the solar system", Aldrin presented a copy of "Good News for Modern Man", a condensed version of the Bible, and Collins is removed from a brown paper bag a fish mounted on a wooden plate.
"At home, I've never seen a big trophy trout or trophy fish on your wall.You need one," said Collins, as Wendt recalled in an interview granted at NASA in 1999. But Collins's fish did have a few things. He was too small to have been legally captured, he was not cleaned and he was not preserved.
In preparing to represent Collins in "First Man," Haas discovered the trophy and realized that something was missing when filming.
"When we were about to go down the ramp, I did not have the bag," Haas recalled in an interview with collectSPACE. "And the accompaniment people were like," What? Nobody told us about it. "And I'm like," Well, if you read Collins' book or look the [July 16, 1969] photo, you can see that he has a brown paper bag. So they rushed and found a brown paper bag. "
"I felt proud of the fact that I remembered that he needed his fish," said Haas.
The brown bag adds an authentic detail to a scene that was already more than a mere recreation. The building that Haas, Gosling and Stoll leave, and the ramp that they come down from are not on a movie set but were filmed at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
"It's not even an acting game, it's a re-enactment," Haas said. "Because these shots [of the Apollo 11 crew walkout] were world famous. Everyone saw these, right? So we tried to copy the same movements that came into this van. "
Here are some Easter eggs from the extra space story of "First Man":
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