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>Did Katherine Johnson feel the segregation of the outside world while working at NASA?
o. "I didn't feel the segregation at NASA, because everybody there was doing research," says the real Katherine G. Johnson. "You had a mission and you worked on it, and it was important to you to do your job...and play bridge at lunch. I didn't feel any segregation. I knew it was there, but I didn't feel it." Even though much of the racism coming from Katherine's coworkers in the movie seems to be largely made up (in real life she claimed to be treated as a peer), the movie's depiction of state laws regarding the use of separate bathrooms, buses, etc. was very real. African-American computers had also been put in the segregated west section of the Langley campus and were dubbed the "West Computers." -WHROTV Interview

In Margot Lee Shetterly's book, Hidden Figures, she writes about a cardboard sign on one of the tables in the back of NASA Langley's cafeteria during the early 1940s that read, "COLORED COMPUTERS." This particularly struck a nerve with the women because it seemed especially ridiculous and demeaning in a place where research and intellectual ability was focused on much more than skin color. It was Miriam Mann, a member of the West Computers, who finally decided to remove the sign, and when an unknown hand would make a new sign a few days later, Miriam would shove that sign into her purse too. Eventually, the signs stopped reappearing at some point during the war.

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>Is Jim Parsons' character, NASA engineer Paul Stafford, based on a real person?
No. In fact-checking the Hidden Figures movie, we learned that white collar statistician Paul Stafford, portrayed by Jim Parsons, is a fictional character. He was created to represent certain racist and sexist attitudes that existed during the 1950s. In the film, he thwarts every effort Katherine (Taraji P. Henson) makes to get ahead, including reducing her job qualifications to secretarial duty, omitting her byline on official reports, and telling her it's not appropriate for women to attend space program briefings. By the end of the movie, Stafford's fictional storyline includes the character having a change of heart, which is emphasized when he brings Katherine a cup of coffee.

>Is Kirsten Dunst's character, Vivian Mitchell, based on a real person?
No. Hard-nosed supervisor Vivian Mitchell (Kirsten Dunst) is a fictional character created to represent some of the unconscious bias and prejudice of the era. She is at best a composite of some of the supervisors who worked at NASA Langley.

>>79868610
Kevin Costner in Dances with Saddles and Dances With Solves

>>79868560
No.

>>79868560
It wasn't even a crime, it was a civil suit. He got in bed with his female employee, asked if she wanted to fuck, and left when she said no. That was the worst of the charges

>>79868560
Just watch what this misogynist does

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ2oSd4Ovjw

the greatest story never told

isn't making propaganda for enemies of the state treason or something?

>>79868940
not when Democrats do it.

it's reddit

>>79868737
this

>>79869356
>>79868737
you guys are blinding yourselves
some reddit is good, some is bad
some 4chan is good, most is bad
the more you try to fit in with the "cool kids" the more you'll block off edifying material

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Why do Trekkies hate this so much?

JMS gave the B5 bible to Paramount and after reading it through they were initially interested, but later on said no. Then JMS moved to Warner Bros. and got a deal.

There are some conspiracy theories that Paramount suits decided that hey, why should we buy and build another scifi space show from zero since they have one franchise already! So (according to the tinfoil hat nuts) they took most of the bits from the B5 bible, modified it here and there, added trek stuff and ta-fucking-daa! This all happened very quickly while B5 pilot The Gathering was getting ready and Paramount wanted to get on the air first.

There are a lot of similarities.

>a troubled space station with a number in the name
>in the middle of an important area of space, >there is a wormhole
>there is a jumpgate
>there is a shapeshifting being
>there is a assassin with a shapeshifting tech >war veteran as commanders
>shady bar and shady areas that were uncommon in Trek

And that is the the pilots mind you and not everything listed. Later on there were also a lot of similar plot lines.

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Jake! Why don't you quit FOOLING AROUND with Nog, and come have some DIN DIN with your old man?

>>79868278

Huge, unprofessional blunder that ruined a million dollar award show and it humiliated several people on stage in front of a massive worldwide TV audience.

Literally the lowest point in Oscar history.

>>79868278
Yes

>>79868278
We got a new goose meme so it was a success.

>>79868194
MKEKS BTFO

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Fantastic beasts doesn't count

I wonder how much WB paid the Academy for that pity Oscar?

so much bad press lately, they had to do it

>>79868131
How old are you?

>>79868131
You sound like a whiny faggot, this is why you're never invited to a oscers.

It's okay friend. We only go as far in life as our genes and environment allow us to go. Don't feel too bad about it.

Always remember every big name in Hollywood either descends from Hollywood families or comes from monied families who bribes their way into breakout roles. It's not how you think it is.

It's a bit cheesy near the beginning, and the camera quality isn't very good. The dinner scene was pretty good though

>>79868120
Pure kino. If you didn't love this movie to death, what are you even doing on /tv/?

Welcome them in your mansion

>>79868116
>Germans were sick, evil people and therefore fascism

Don't worry, Hanneke, you'll be first in line on the day of the rope.

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>>79870054
My movies provide more humanitarian relief, aid, and awareness than any of my spare bedrooms could offer. It is the responsibility of the native Europeans, who have become complacent in their comfortable lifestyles, to shoulder the burden.

I agree but come on the Oscars have been a joke for a long time now

You sound pretty butthurt, dude. It's just an awards show.

>>79868001
>Hasn't seen it
>Makes a thread to complain about it

/tv/

>>79867893
Reporting and no I haven't seen or plan to see propaganda movie.

>>79867893
fuck this numale poofter movie geeze

>>79867893
He did mention in an interview that Chungking Express was a big influence/ point of interest in his decision to make movies.

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>>79867838
It still one several Oscars. Stay mad, kiddo

>>79868045
But not the one it matters.
Your frog lookalike slipped.
Get fucked.

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>>79868125
The only one who slipped here is you, kiddo

Please for the mother of god I would kill for a RH4.

>rush hour 3 was ten years ago

They could honestly do another. Jackie and Chris aren't white so they haven't aged like shit over the years.

I want dat

>>79867828
tldr

>>79867828
Imagine the shitstorm if Whites made fun of Denzel like this

Would be on the front page of the NYT in the morning

They won't