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Because of the unrealistic timeline, the three main characters in the film, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson and Dorothy Vaughan, didn’t actually cross paths as much as in the film. And they definitely weren’t close friends who attended events for family milestones. This narrative change put the women together in a variety of scenarios where ...
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Hidden Figures is a 2016 American biographical drama film directed by Theodore Melfi and written by Melfi and Allison Schroeder.It is loosely based on the 2016 non-fiction book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly about three female African-American mathematicians: Katherine Goble Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer), and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe), who worked ...
Dec 20, 2016 · Though the cop situation is resolved in an amusing, joyous fashion, “Hidden Figures” never undercuts the fears and oppressions of this era. They’re omnipresent even when we don’t see them, and the film develops a particular rhythm between problems and solutions that is cathartic without feeling forced. At the request of Vaughan’s ...
Hidden Figures review: "captures all the grit, grace and brilliance of its three female protagonists" Behind the men who went to the Moon were three brilliant black women who never received their ...
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But Hidden Figures remains a crowd-pleaser because the main characters, while faced with insidious day-to-day discrimination (segregated bathrooms, offices, libraries, schools), don't endure the kind of horrific violence depicted in Selma. The three stars are all fantastic, with Henson clearly enjoying playing genius, widowed mother Katherine.
Jan 9, 2017 · Hidden Figures is not that kind of film: It’s a story of brilliance, but not of ego. It’s a story of struggle and willpower, but not of individual glory. Set in 1960s Virginia, the film ...
