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Hidden Figures (2016) | Full Movie Reaction (Patreon)

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2024-02-16 20:59:34
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This was a beautiful film that really captured the triumphant feeling of overcoming the odds. 

YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/RMrV2kkXF-8

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Ryan

Katherine Johnson, the only one of the three to still be alive when the film was made, appeared at that year's Oscars where she got a resounding standing ovation. She lived a further three years to age 101, getting to know she wasn't hidden anymore. And her way of dealing with the bathroom issue in real life was even more awesome, but also apparently not cinematic enough: she simply started using the white bathroom without getting any kind of permission, and was never caught. That actually got some controversy over inserting a fictitious "white savior" moment, and even some rumors that Costner only agreed to do the movie if he got to be a hero like this, but no actual evidence of that has ever surfaced.

Charity Konusser (the chonus)

"That actually got some controversy over inserting a fictitious "white savior" moment," yeah it absolutely did. Al Harrison would never have casually flouted segregation laws (or *destroyed NASA property while doing so*), but movies have to have their big dramatic moments (another was Katherine yelling at Harrison at the top of her lungs in front of the department - that would have gotten *anyone* fired, let alone a Black woman shouting at a white superior). Still, the movie does a pretty good job of making sure the important facts were presented, even if theatrics were added, and what's important, in the end, is that these women's stories got told. John Glenn did in fact request Katherine, specifically, to be the one to check the numbers (though at a different moment in the narrative), and that makes me really happy. (I think I would have equally enjoyed the movie where Katherine had to sneak in and out of the whites-only bathroom; a good director could balance those moments between humor and suspense. It's not like the audience wouldn't know what was at stake.) I love the three main actresses and I thought they all deserved more attention during awards season - especially Taraji P. Henson. Ah, well, the more things change....

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*shock* the biggest cinematic moment wasn't strictly accurate. 😭 Still, these women deserved to have their stories told and for the most part the focus was on them!