No Hidden Figures Thread?

Why would anyone have interest in a film that was specifically made to cause racial dissent?

The story is great. The execution screams liberal agenda.

I'll pass.

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Why would anyone have interest in a film that was specifically made to cause racial dissent?

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Lol

I was amazed to learn that the only reason NASA has succeeded in anything was because they hired powerful black women.

Not the astronauts, not the hard work of hundreds of people, not the scientists, not the inventors, no, just some no-nonsense black women. And then the evil white people covered it up and took credit for it even though they had nothing to do with it.

That's what the preview said.

Why would I watch that movie?

I saw it on xmas day in a packed theater in Houston. Very diverse crowd and ecstatic reception. The critics have pegged it properly - a feel good movie with great performances telling an unknown story.

I am a vested interest in this because i served as Art Director, which means i was a a part of many meetings, events, etc that contributed to the making of this film. The only agenda was to tell the unknown story of these women as they overcame obstacles of the time - separate bathrooms, sexism, etc to help in the space race. As a matter of fact John Glenn requested that Katherine Johnson check the numbers before he took of for his historic flight. We also worked closely with NASA on a daily basis to get their story right as well especially with recreating spacecraft including the Friendship 7 capsule. In addition to the women's obstacles the movie focuses heavily on the obstacles NASA had to overcome to compete with the Russians and get someone in space (re-entry calculations, IMB computers)

Cynicism reigns these days, so i get it to a degree but if you like uplifting movies then give it a chance. Either way, I was happy with the outcome because it's not every day a real script comes across my desk (I also worked on Dirty Grandpa)

People I know who have seen it loved it. I never go to the theatre, but I'm considering it for this one.

It's bad.

NASA is two buildings.

30 white guys in one.

30 black girls in another.

And the white guys seem lost.

NASA was huge...and Hollywood admitted, they had to act like it was 3 black girls and a few white men...

and the girls contributed - this is not fiction. That's true.

But the movie is one of those amalgamations...to heighten the story and actually make it interesting...the people of the story have to be at every significant point in history and save the day...

Hollywood does this often with white famous people too. It's their thing they justify in making movies watchable.

No one is going to watch a movie where women do math.

So they make it seem that everything they do is pivotal to everything succeeding.

This story was such a blip in history - it's not even mentioned in anybody's history of NASA.

The girls were there and did the math...that's true...and I think I heard that Glenn did ask for her. So that is probably real.

I think what gets people is the white guys are all sheepish and dumb.

These are the people blacks were afraid of? Sheepish and stupid and stammering everytime they met a wise-talking black person?

How the frick did segregation ever exist?

Thats the dumb part. If you want to tell a story about racism and segregation show the reality of it.

What Hollywood does is the "dialogue of the innocent."

In retrospection, they create a reality where

Person A: is embarrassed by their actions, even though it's the norm at the time...And doesn't know how to react to commonplace things at the time. Its future emotions portraying past events.

And they are smart stupid people. Sheepishly smart.

Person B: knows the world they live in but acts like it doesn't exist. It's not really there but only in movieland . They are on screen to buck history...And tell it like it is now. It's a better world, and we can't fathom how awful it was back then...So we act like 2015.


So you have three current figures trying to convey reality 50 years ago.

Why can't Hollywood just tell stories that are a product of their time and keep them in their time?

Far more powerful. To end bigotry.

You can't put a modern handcuff on past crimes.

You can only put past handcuffs on past crimes.