Henson play the three leads of the film who find themselves facing different tasks and circumstances as they work at NASA's Langley Research Center. Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, and Taraji P. In telling this story, Hidden Figures brings together a strong cast. It takes viewers back to the early 1960s as America pushed headlong into the Space Race and the role that a group of female African-American mathematicians, effectively tasked as human computers, played in that effort. Hidden Figures is a prime example of this. Even when the events are apparently well documented, such as NASA and the American space program, they have often become fine pieces of film-making as sometimes little known stories and details are found and illuminated on screen. These extraordinary women deserve better.Real-life events have often proven to be fertile ground for filmmakers. But it’s unlikely that audiences will be able to recall anything significant about it a year from now.
KATHERINE JOHNSON NASA CUTOUTS MOVIE
It’s not a movie that will offend anyone’s sensibilities. But as important as the stories of these three often overlooked women are, it feels as if not enough time, effort, or vision were really put into the film to make it stand out. It’s a perfectly okay film in the feel-good crowd pleaser mold. This isn’t to say that Hidden Figures is a bad movie. Between the relative flatness of the film’s other stories, and Janelle Monae’s standout performance in the role, the biggest disappointment of Hidden Figures is that Jackson’s particular story doesn’t get more screen time. Most of the conflict Johnson faces comes in moments of irritating passive aggression on behalf of her co-workers, while other plot lines, like Jackson’s, involve a protagonist actively taking on an unfair system and winning. The movie also places most of its focus on Johnson’s story, and while hers is certainly the most high-profile of the three, it’s definitely not the most interesting. The film’s characters may be based on real people, but they often seem like cardboard cutouts. While that’s enough to create a skeleton of a story, it’s not enough to let audiences identify with the characters, and sometimes creates emotional moments that seem to have come from nowhere. We know little about the characters other than these basic definitions. Johnson’s supervisor, Al Harrison (Kevin Costner), is grumpy.
Each of the characters in Hidden Figures, from the women to their supervisors, are given only one trait that defines their character. Pleasant, too, is the supportive, family-positive atmosphere of the movie - each woman has strong familial relationships, and together they form a community in which they lift each other up. There are plenty of interesting moments of lesser-known history on display throughout the film, from introducing the all-women computing pool, and its racially segregated offices, to the frequent gender and race-based obstacles placed in front of Johnson, Jackson, and Vaughn.
KATHERINE JOHNSON NASA CUTOUTS CODE
Vaughn (Octavia Spencer) runs the black computer pool, and endeavors to master IBM code after NASA introduces a machine that threatens to put her and her fellow computers out of work. Jackson (Janelle Monae) seeks to become an engineer, and has to stand up to her town’s legal system in order to take required extension courses, taught only at an all-white high school. Henson) is a widowed mother and brilliant mathematician plucked from the computing pool to assist with the calculations for John Glenn’s Friendship 7 mission. It’s mostly fine but largely forgettable, with a script that suffers from flat characters and which treats its story less like the powerful drama it is and more like a straight line evenly peppered with plot points. Their stories also deserve a better telling than they get in the new film Hidden Figures, an unchallenging, by-the-numbers movie. Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, and Dorothy Vaughn - three African-American women who worked at NASA as “computers,” or figure-checkers, and came to play invaluable roles in the space race - have incredible stories to tell.
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