Product Description
First Man is a 2018 biographical drama film based on
the book First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong by James R.
Hansen. The film stars Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong, alongside Claire Foy,
Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler, Corey Stoll, Ciarán Hinds, Christopher Abbott,
Patrick Fugit, and Lukas Haas, and follows the years leading up to the Apollo
11 mission to the Moon in 1969.
The film received critical praise,
particularly regarding the direction, Gosling and Foy's performances, the Moon
landing sequence and the musical score. The soundtrack, written by Justin
Hurwitz, won Best Original Score at the 76th Golden Globe Awards and Best Score
at the 24th Critics' Choice Awards.
Hurwitz began creating piano demos
before principal photography began until he and the director, Damien Chazelle,
decided on one that would become the main theme. "It had to have a sense
of loneliness but also beauty," said Hurwitz. "Like when he gets to
the moon you're on this barren surface; it's all very beautiful, but it's very,
very lonely." Chazelle liked the theremin's association with low-budget
sci-fi pictures of the '50s and early '60s because Armstrong and his NASA
colleagues were, in their race to the Moon, "basically doing real-life
science fiction," Chazelle said. "Those were the sounds and images we
had in our minds of the moon, and space in general."
A recording of the music from the
original soundtrack can be found on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr2EnBzyjfc.
Other searchable terms: Buzz Aldrin,
Michael Collins, Saturn V, Command Module, Lunar Module, Columbia,
Eagle, John F.
Kennedy, JFK, Richard Nixon, Sea of Tranquility, July 1969
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