Hidden Figures (2016) and Lion (2016)

[lifeofmendel]

I still pay for this account, so i guess i should use it sometimes, huh.
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Everything about the movie fit into a nice neat package for me - nothing felt overly drawn out, nothing felt left out, and the pacing of everything felt exactly right.  The only real complaint I can lodge is that I've only ever seen Aldis Hodge in Leverage and his character

Comments

[derien]

I was actually surprised at the things which were and were not dramatized in "Hidden Figures." According to this site the line John Glen delivers in the movie, "Get the girl to check the numbers... If she says the numbers are good... I'm ready to go," is from the transcript of the phone conversation. But that the whole thing about her running across campus to the bathroom and her boss tearing down the "colored restroom" sign was made up. (I called it, too, as we were walking out of the theater. That seemed too theatrical to me.) In fact, on the NASA campus she had gone ahead and used the bathroom closest to her office and only once did anyone say anything... and she ignored them.

[derien]

I've got to admit I squeed at the fact that the John Glen line was legit. :)

[lifeofmendel]

yeah, that bathroom thing felt like it could have been manufactured, but it doesn't surprise me that the John Glen line was genuine. :)