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I feel like Hidden Figures did a good job showing the impact of innovation and the impact of hard work done on the ground. There’s drama too but it has a uniqu
by mulmen 2y ago
I feel like Hidden Figures did a good job showing the impact of innovation and the impact of hard work done on the ground. There’s drama too but it has a unique perspective. The “this has to be calculated correctly or we miss the moon and people die” moment was particularly impactful to me
- ted_dunning 2y agoSadly many of the situations depicted in the movie were entirely fictional. There were plenty of critical moments and plenty of drama. Ironically, for all of the manufactured scenes about discrimination and rejiggering of timelines by decades in the movie, John Glenn apparently did ask for Johnson to check some calculations ... he just didn't do it during final launch prep. The wikipedia page on the topic has a great list of "things that didn't happen that way" in the movie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_Figures#Historical_accuracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_Figures#Historical_accu...