Hidden Figures: Movie Analysis

preferred the book “Hidden Figures” rather than the movie representation of the story. The main reasons why I favored the book over the movie representation because the book gave more explicit details on the characters and their lives. Another reason is that the movie didn’t give us the full story. Also, the movie based its plot are adjusted to make the movie more appears to viewers. In the following paragraphs, I will explain the judgment I created.

The first reason I will explain is that the book gave more explicit details. I say this because in the movie they seem to only talk about the great things that these women but, in the book, it talked more about their personal lives. On page 107-108 it talks about what happens to Katherine's husband’s cause of death. “Ultimately, his doctors discovered a tumor on the base of his skull, where it could not be treated.” In the movie, I don’t recall them explaining the death of her husband only that he died. Secondly, in the book they gave us a more detail on the events happening during the time period these women were working in. On page 83 it talks about how people were accused of spying “An engineer was accused of stealing classified National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics

documents and giving them to the Soviet Union.” This is only one way they talk about current events another piece of evidence is on page 14 “ A civil rights leader named A.

Philip Randolph encouraged President Roosevelt to sign an executive order a law that ordered the segregation of the federal government and defense industry created the fair employment practices community.” This sentence talks about the executive order which impacted this story in a big way. In the movie, they just stated a few points in only one scene. In one scene Al Harrison (“Boss” of NASA) asked Katherine Johnson If she was a Russian spy that's the only thing that I recall they talked about with current events. Lastly, they changed the

story's plot a little to make the movie seem more appealing. I say this because in the movie they wanted to focus on the love story of Katherine Johnson (Near the middle of the movie) and they also wanted to talk about the empowering things that these women did. In addition, I don’t utterly believe that this is a bad idea, but it seemed to me that they added more emphasize on Katherine's love life rather than what these incredible women did and segregation.

To sum up, the book gives us more detail and facts behind the characters rather than the movie gives us a limited amount of details which is important to the reader/ moviegoer. Secondly, the movie didn’t give us exactly the same details that are crucial to comprehending the struggle that African Americans had to face not only that but gender inequality. Finally, the movie and its plot are adjusted to make the movie more appears to viewers. Inclusion, I believe the book was far superior to the movie representation of the story.