Hidden Figures is a dramatic film about three black women who defied the odds in a racially segregated America and became vital parts of NASA’s team. Adapted by Theodore Melfi and Allison Schroeder from Margot Lee Shetterly’s book and directed by Melfi, Hidden Figures is an inspirational 2016 film. Being based on a true story makes Hidden Figures even more relatable for viewers as it reminds them of the benefits of an equal society. The story took place in the 1960’s with the real NASA and with black women working as calculation computers. Hidden Figures was nominated for Best Motion Picture, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Adapted Screenplay. Between, these outstanding nominations it didn't win any, but was awarded the WFCC(Women Film Critics Circle).
In Hidden Figures Taraji P. Henson plays the role of Katherine Johnson an intelligent, independent, and brainy computer at NASA. With her two best friends, Dorothy Vaughan played by Octavia Spencer,
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The theme is sex and race it does a outstanding job resolving issues between white and blacks also showing what people had to go through back then. Although, people in Langleys control group treat catherine like a stray dog, after hearing Katherine's rant he tears down the colored sign and breaks retail barrier. Seeing characters come together to form a bond that breaks through their simple appearance makes viewers feel accomplished. After, watching this film it relates back 1960’s with racial issues but, together work in harmony. The directing by Theodore Melfi couldn't have dumbfounded viewers more, with such a phenomenal movie that gets your mind thinking. When the rocket gets sent into space great symbolism is shown everybody's work at NASA just came together and launched succeeding. Viewers will not be able to get enough out of Hidden Figures so many themes appear time to find out what they’re all
The movie Shock Doctrine revolves around the concept of the same name. The film begins by discussing psychological research on the effects of shock therapy. It is evident that a person under extreme stress and anxiety commonly experienced during a crisis functions and performs inadequately. It is noted that the studies are conducted by a man by the name of Milton Friedman, from the University of Chicago; the studies took place in the past, and some of the subjects are still recovering in the aftermath. From this research, interrogation techniques were learned and the concept of the shock doctrine was formed. Essentially through causing a crisis, the population of a country can be shocked into complying with accepting laws that favors the United States and capitalism. This theory coexists with Friedman’s belief in that government regulation is bad, and through a crisis a country would better itself with deregulation. The video uses Chile as an example and shows how America allowed a crisis to occur in Chile, through coups, interrogations and subterfuge. In the end a new government is formed that allows capitalism. Unfortunately afterwards violence and riots occur, as the rich gain most of the wealth and poverty rises. In addition to Chile, Argentina, Russia and even Iraq underwent the shock doctrine. Almost in every account, poverty rises and violence ends up erupting. The movie ends by showing how the US was in the process of the shock doctrine, and still is but the population has taken notice. Protests such as Occupy Wall Street are some of the initiatives necessary to bring awareness to the problems of class inequalities in order to prevent capitalism from benefitting the rich and increasing the wealth gap among the classes.
The movie I chose to write about was the “Secret Window”. The main characters were Mort, Shooter (a hallucination of a person made up by Mort), Amy (Mort’s ex-wife), Ted (Amy’s boyfriend). The movie starts out with Mort, a published author, finding out that his wife was having an affair and wanted to leave him. In the same time he was having strife with another “author” Shooter, who was accusing him of plagiarizing his story. Events occurred in the middle where Mort was trying to find proof that Shooter was incorrect and that the story was his first, and he was also having issues with his wife who was pleading with him to sign divorce papers. Leading to the end, I’m not sure if Mort realized that he was Shooter and it was someone he had made up, but the director of the movie made it clear to the viewers this was happening and Mort ended up murdering Amy and Ted and completely losing sight of reality. The movie ends with him eating corn and implying that he buried their bodies in a corn field outside the secret window of his cabin home.
A League of Their Own (Marshall, 1992) explicitly characterizes an American era when a woman’s place was in the home. Even our modern perspective implicitly follows suit. Although women have gained rights and freedoms since the 1930’s, sexism remains prevalent in America. This film offers an illustration when men went to war and big business men utilized women as temporary replacements in factories, sports, and so on. Here, course concepts, such as gender socialization, gender expressions, role stereotypes, emotion expressions, and language, correspond to the film’s characters and themes.
This movie is a wonderful production starting from 1960 and ending in 1969 covering all the different things that occurred during this unbelievable decade. The movie takes place in many different areas starring two main families; a very suburban, white family who were excepting of blacks, and a very positive black family trying to push black rights in Mississippi. The movie portrayed many historical events while also including the families and how the two were intertwined. These families were very different, yet so much alike, they both portrayed what to me the whole ‘message’ of the movie was. Although everyone was so different they all faced such drastic decisions and issues that affected everyone in so many different ways. It wasn’t like one person’s pain was easier to handle than another is that’s like saying Vietnam was harder on those men than on the men that stood for black rights or vice versa, everyone faced these equally hard issues. So it seemed everyone was very emotionally involved. In fact our whole country was very involved in president elections and campaigns against the war, it seemed everyone really cared.
Slow as it may be I think that you see how overtime a lot of things have changed in our culture the way they changed in film, from the start of the film from the hatred and unwillingness to allow the changes of African American students in their schools and allowing for the first African American Head football coach in their town, the town begins to relax and accept the changes and move on. The second film shows again the racial divide and the fight for equality in America. The film Men of Honor is based on Master Chief Carl Brashear who fought to become a Navy diver something that was not allowed in the Navy during that time period which was the 1950’s to 1960’s. You seem from the start the parallels of the time by not allowing Carl to even attend the diving school and sabotaging him in every way. You again see the similarities of what the culture was like then in America, and this is honestly the best example as this was based off of a man who went through these struggles. I chose these films because although they both deal with the same issue of racism I feel they do the best job of capturing the true nature of what our culture was like at the
Hidden Figures is about these three African-American women who work at NASA. They are all exceptionally smart but while being black in the 1960’s it was not easy for their voice to be heard. They had to work extra hard to show that they deserved to be there. These three women were basically the brains behind one of
The movie, Hidden Figures, is about three African-American women who worked at NASA and were faced with overcoming challenges thrown at them by racist and sexist characters in the movie. All of the African-American women in the movie started off working at the West Area, where they did math for the people at NASA, but were “behind the scenes people,” who got no credit for their work. One of the characters, Katherine Goble, was an amazing mathematician, who was allowed to work at the Space Task Group. She was the only African-American, and woman to work there. Everyone was very skeptical of her being there, and there was no colored bathroom in the whole entire campus, so she had to run all the way to the West Area, where she used to work, which was about 40 minutes away. Everyone
Even before reaching the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory, the women in Hidden Figures had to work harder than most to provide for their families. Many of them working as teachers and barely making
Prejudice is the first theme that Is big for the book. It is never right for an individual to own another. In the book and the movie the slaves were thought of as property and tortured when they did something wrong. Slaves are still human it doesn't matter the color of their skin or what they do differently from everyone else they’re still human and it's not right to treat them poorly because of it. They can’t help the color of
Hidden Figures tells the story of these three African-American mathematicians; Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson. During the Cold War, the trio worked at Nasa’s Langley Research Centre in Hampton as the US raced against the USSR to put a man into space. The intellectuals played a vital role in the launch of the now late astronaut John Glenn into orbit as well as in orchestrating his safe return. Hidden figures is a film that is reflected on these intelligent black women who were the first to be a part of NASA.
Although there were many social psychology topics illustrated in the film, some of them stood out more to me. There was a lot of prejudice situations in this movie, such as when they first came home
Hidden Figures is based on true events, and the movie tells the story about racism and sexism. There were three African American female mathematicians who worked at the NASA during the Space Race. In the beginning of the film about the broken-down car, I can know some of their common characteristics. They are brave and optimism because they would rather drive the old car to work than sit in the back of the bus. When the policeman help them guide to the NASA, they very excited about three negro women can chase a white police officer down the highway. Therefore, I want to share some movies experience from my opinions about their unequal treatment, attitude for the difficulty, and the way to which they use to teach their
This movie changed the way I viewed movies because it was a fantastic movie, that showed racial tension. So whenever I watch movies, I look for things like racism, classism, and sexism, this movie has helped me find these things in movies. I can use film theory and criticism to find and interpret meaning in movies because with criticism the movie is not being evaluated based off the critic's opinion of the movie, instead it is being evaluated based on the content, and when someone evaluates the content they have to provide explanation of why exactly the movie is great or not. One of the main ways of determining if a movie good or not is the overall message of the movie, or the meaning of the movie. Film Theory can be used to can interpret meaning in movies because it provides framework for understanding film and how it relates to the other arts and life, so I can analyze the framework and connect it back to all arts and life, to find a meaning. This course has changed my understanding of how movies are related to society because I have learned that almost everything is based of the film theory, which is connecting film back to the arts and real life, both of these have a major influence on film. I have learned some very important skills such as
Hidden figures is a very good movie which shows a lot of good things and also bad things that show people that are wrong. one of the good things in the movie that shows something that shows the audience the good of the movie is that there is good gender equality towards the end where it shows that the men need the women to help them further and not use them as tools. The bad thing about the movie that it show is people then in that time we're very rude to women they thought of them as nothing and treated them like garbage but how they use that in context shows the Watchers of the movie that what they're doing in the movie is wrong it later shows that when the commander-in-chief of NASA need the women as much as they need them and they're not simply as much as tools this shows that in the movie
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence is a Steven Spielberg science fiction drama film, which conveys the story of a younger generation robot, David, who yearns for his human mother’s love. David’s character stimulates the mind-body question. What is the connection between our “minds” and our bodies?