Hidden Figures DVD [2017]

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a b " Space So White - Oscar-nominated "Hidden Figures" was whitewashed — but it didn't have to be". Fifty million people watch the lift-off on television while Mary and Al watch from the control room. She says yes before he gets his proposal out, though he follows up with touching words about how he's joining the family, not just marrying Katherine.

Though the mathematicians are ultimately replaced by electronic computers, a textual epilogue reveals Mary obtained her engineering degree and became NASA's first female African American engineer; Dorothy continued as NASA's first African American supervisor; and Katherine, accepted by Stafford as a report coauthor, went on to calculate the trajectories for the Apollo 11 and Space Shuttle missions. The male engineers in the observation room shout that her life is not worth a shoe so she abandons it and joins the engineers behind the glass.But his suggestion that a feel-good scene like that was needed for the marketability and overall appeal of the film speaks to the fact that Hollywood at large still has a long way to go in telling Black stories, no matter how many strides have been made. The remaining extras are the usual things: eight deleted scenes (10:14) are good, particularly Henson's character talking to her late husband, "Filming in Georgia" (5:15) is a now-requisite look at the Peachtree state-centric production, a stills gallery comes with it along with a trailer (2:25), to say nothing for the digital and standard definition copies of the movie.

The three women go to church with their families and a handsome colonel (Mahershala Ali) catches Katherine's eye. Schroeder grew up by Cape Canaveral and her grandparents worked at NASA, where she also interned as a teenager, and as a result saw the project as a perfect fit for herself. S. Department of State on the third annual "Hidden No More" exchange program, which was inspired by the film and brings to the United States 50 women from around the world who have excelled in STEM careers such as spacecraft engineering, data solutions and data privacy, and STEM-related education.You had some bureaucratic obstacles that served as larger social ones that conflicted the characters, be it Vivian Mitchell (Kirsten Dunst, Midnight Special) for Dorothy, or Paul Stafford (Jim Parsons, Big Bang Theory) for Katherine.

Encouraged by her team leader Karl Zielinski, a Polish-Jewish Holocaust survivor, Mary applies for a NASA engineer position. Vaughan and many of the former West computers transferred to the new Analysis and Computation Division (ACD), a racially and gender-integrated group.Get ready to be inspired by the incredible true story of three African-American women who serve as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history. The Hidden Figures Effect Is Real: How It's Inspiring Young Women to Seek Careers in Science and Technology". Vivian tells Dorothy she has nothing against the black women under her supervision and always did the best she could for them. Al points out there's no protocol for women attending meetings but she responds there's no protocol for a man circling the Earth either.

Fox provides an AVC encode for the high-definition transfer of Hidden Figures, and it looks quite the jewel.Tension between Katherine and Paul Stafford continue over the issue of credit for the reports they both contribute to, and a new problem arises: the details of the Friendship mission are changing so fast that her calculations are often wrong by the time she's done with them. 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. The only downside I can think of is that the game's theme is really secondary to the gameplay/mechanisms.