Is this based on actual events?

Is this based on actual events?

Yes

Very loosely.

In reality it was three white males instead of three black females.

Of course it is. Down to every single detail.

jesus what message are they trying to send with the actors' expressions in that poster? DMV ladies who scowl like warthogs wuz NASA and sheeeeeiiiit

also the lady taraji p. henson is playing was lily white with straight hair. she was maybe a quadroon

>half-black chick was a secretary
>FULL BLOWN BLACK WOMAN WAS IN CHARGE OF THE WHOLE OPERATION!
God bless Hollywood.

why do they keep recasting the whale on the right? is that really the best the africans have to offer?

>also the lady taraji p. henson is playing was lily white with straight hair.

katherine johnson in real life

katherine johnson as photographed in a recent vanity fair article put out in anticipation of the movie

taraji p. henson portraying katherine johnson in hidden figures

...

really makes you think

>2015, Presidential Medal of Freedom
>2010, Honorary Doctorate of Science from Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia
>2006, Honorary Doctor of Science by the Capitol College, Laurel, Maryland
>1999, West Virginia State College Outstanding Alumnus of the Year
>1998, Honorary Doctor of Laws, from SUNY Farmingdale
>1986, NASA Langley Research Center Special Achievement award
>1985, NASA Langley Research Center Special Achievement award
>1984, NASA Langley Research Center Special Achievement award
>1980, NASA Langley Research Center Special Achievement award
>1971, NASA Langley Research Center Special Achievement award
>1967, Apollo Group Achievement Award – this award included one of only 300 flags flown to the moon on board the Apollo 11
>1967, NASA Lunar Orbiter Spacecraft and Operations team award – for pioneering work in the field of navigation problems supporting the five spacecraft that orbited and mapped the moon in preparation for the Apollo program

"Hidden" figures

probably in term of being known in the popular culture
i honestly don't know who she was and couldn't give less shit b4 this movie

Yeah but did you any of the white engineers names by heart?

this is clearly a black woman

Well, yeah, that's what i was guessing, but how is the fact that she's not as popular as Armstrong or whatev mean her story was "untold", as the cover suggests? Of course people with no real interest won't research these women's existence, it's just like when people associate a movie they like with the lead actor instead of the writer, director, producers etc.

Huh, Janelle's doing acting now?

>tfw Suites V and VI never

I still don't give a shit.

nope

You guys just know that the first person on mars is going to be a black male, right? Fuck I hate this world.

WE

>In reality it was three german males instead of three black females.

fixed it for ya amerilard

WUZ

John Aaron but only because he's a steely eyed missile man.

A movie about Operation Paperclip would be more interesting and relevant.

But right... who cares about literally dozens of top-tier German engineers, scientists who kickstarted US space and ballistic missile program.

reminds me of when they tried to say the hurricane dindu nuffin

MATTEMAGICIANS N SHEEEIT NIGGA

Oh user, how is some movie about a bunch of rich stuffy white nerds supposed to stir the hearts of black Americans (the most important Americans) who desperately need to see that fictional characters with the same skin color as them can achieve things that no black person ever really did.

I mean, remember that time Abraham Lincoln freed all the slaves in America? If he weren't our first black president, I'll bet none of that would have happened. And even going back to the crusades, if it weren't for Joan of Arc showing that colored women can make a difference in the world, we would still be at war with the middle east.

GLORIFIED CALCULATORS ANYONE WITH A HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION COULD HAVE BEEN

Is that Janelle? Where the fuck are Suites VI & VII? I know you'll never top The ArchAndroid you could at least finish the damn thing.

LOOK AT HER HAND

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA

>Alright guys, the social climate is changing, and people are getting unsettled
>We need to start making movies about the accomplishments of black people so that we can cast black actors and actresses and actrexes in influential and hope-inspiring roles so that they stop calling us racist
>I'm thinking Martin Luther King Jr.
>We already did that, but we can tell the whole story of black Americans from the beginning to now! We can make it a series!
>That's great, the story of how black people came to be equal citizens in America is both relevant to them, AND perfectly showcases the triumph of black Americans!

>12 Years a Slave
>The Slave Diaries
>America's Dark History
>Life as a Slave
>Slaves No More
>Snatched from our Home: The Story of the American Slave
>Tales of Enslaved Slaves from the Slave Pits where the Slaves were Beaten, Eaten, Fed to Other Slaves, and Enslaved to Other Slaves: True Stories of the Double-Slaves
>Canadian Slaves: Technically They Did it Too and it was Probably Just as Bad
>Whiteout: The Double-Feature Torture-Porn/Revenge-Porn Blockbuster

>Guys, this is great and all, but they're getting riled up again. While they love how gruesome, gory, and batshit illogical we portrayed their history, apparently they don't just want to be associated with slavery, and demand to have more roles that showcase black people's influence on the advancement of American society.
>Okay, well, we'll just use...
>Uh...
>Harriet Tubman? Wait no, that's a slavery thing. Louie Armstrong and the Jazz scene? No, no, we already did that too. Uh... Donovan Bailey? George Foreman? That guy who invented peanut butter?
>Wait, I've got it.
>Jim, come on. There's no way.
>No, seriously, they'll never know the difference!

>Coming this Fall, Current Year:
>America's History - The Story of America's First Black President: George Washington

>no guys, black women knew math at some point, WE SWEAR, THIS MOVIE IS TRUE!!!!!!!

the fact that they suppose this is news speaks to what they think about black people

the noble savage

>movie studios are responsible for keeping people civilized
My favorite meme.

WE WAZ NASA AN SHIIIIIT!

It's not about keeping anything civilized, if anything Hollywood's goal is the opposite: Stir shit up so people want to see what you'll do next.

This is just Hollywood trying to keep the BLM mobs from breaking down the doors and flooding the studios, demanding some form or another of endless reparations from the American film industry too.

>movie studios are trying to make people hate each other
My other favorite meme.

If you don't like it, nobody's forcing you to watch it. Go full censorship or shut up.

I bet Sup Forums can't stand the fact we wouldn't have been able to land on the moon without black people helping.

this cant be real

DUDE GIVE US OSCARS LMAO

we got there because we spent the most on r&d

Sup Forums doesn't care about that.
I mean, SOMEONE had to get coffee and donuts for the staff. "Hired Help" isn't a foreign concept to Sup Forums.

What Sup Forums really can't stand is what this movie/series is trying to do:
Rewrite history, retconning actual, living white people's accomplishments as those of a black person.

I mean seriously, look at this photoshit:
I'd bet my house on the producers waiting with baited breath for this woman to die so that they can go full-blast and photoshop all of her pictures throughout history to look like she was black all along, without her being around to say anything about it. Hell, I wouldn't even be surprised if she somehow failed to die of natural causes, say, from some kind of "accident" instead of old age.