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* MistakenForServant: On Katherine's first day with the mathematicians, one of them hands her a garbage can, complaining, "This wasn't emptied last night", then walking away, oblivious to Katherine's trying to tell him that she isn't the custodian.
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* ForegoneConclusion: John Glenn's pod has some trouble with the heat shield. If it fails, it will invariably kill him. It's PlayedForDrama in the movies, movie, but most people in the audience will be at least somewhat familiar with Senator John Glenn Glenn, the former astronaut.
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** Mary states that if she was a white man, she wouldn't want to be an engineer, SHE'D BE ONE ALREADY. Her husband gives her a hard time for working outside the home before he gets over it. When she enters the first of her classes, the teacher opines he's afraid the class would be too much for a woman.
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** When Harrison tells the team they will be working late, he says to them to "call your wives", even with Katherine and a secretary in the room, one of whom has a mother living with her and her three daughters.
** Mary states that if she was a white man, she wouldn't want to be an engineer, SHE'D BE ONE ALREADY. Her husband gives her a hard time for working outside the home before he gets over it. When she enters the first of her classes, the teacher opines he's afraid the class would be too much for a woman.
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* EasilyForgiven: Katherine is suspected of being a Soviet spy because she knows the plans for the Atlas rocket. It's revealed that the pens that the men are using to redact documents aren't dark enough to blot out the information. Either could be grounds for termination (either of Katherine, who knows information higher than her security clearance, or of Stafford, who hasn't been redacting his work properly), but Harrison is understanding and just says that they should get darker ink.
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* RageBreakingPoint: Mr. Harrison realizes that Katherine has been out for forty minutes and asks her where she's been. She's soaking wet, having just run half a mile in a skirt and heels in the pouring rain just to use the bathroom. She snaps, rightfully angry at how she's been treated by him and the other mathematicians.
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* ForegoneConclusion: John Glenn's pod has some trouble with the heat shield. If it fails, it will invariably kill him. PlayedForDrama in the movies, but most people in the audience will be at least somewhat familiar with Senator John Glenn the former astronaut.
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* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Katherine and Jim Johnson. She's a widow with three young girls, he's a National Guardsman. [[spoiler:They got married and have been together (as of 2016) for 56 years.]]
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** Mary is standing by making funny comments.
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''Hidden Figures'' is a 2016 biographical comedy-drama film directed by Theodore Melfi and written by Melfi and Allison Schroeder, based on the nonfiction book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly. The film stars TarajiPHenson as Katherine Johnson, the African-American mathematician who calculated flight trajectories for Project Mercury and the 1969 Apollo 11 flight to the Moon. The film also features OctaviaSpencer, Creator/OctaviaSpencer, [[JanelleMonae Janelle Monáe]], KevinCostner, KirstenDunst and JimParsons.
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** To a lesser extent, the judge that Mary Jackson petitions to allow her to attend classes at a segregated white school. Despite the dubious looks of the spectators in court, he hears her out [[spoiler: and allows her to permission to take night courses.]]
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''Hidden Figures'' is a 2016 biographical comedy-drama film directed by Theodore Melfi and written by Melfi and Allison Schroeder, based on the nonfiction book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly. The film stars Taraji P. Henson TarajiPHenson as Katherine Johnson, the African-American mathematician who calculated flight trajectories for Project Mercury and the 1969 Apollo 11 flight to the Moon. The film also features Octavia Spencer, OctaviaSpencer, [[JanelleMonae Janelle Monáe, Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst Monáe]], KevinCostner, KirstenDunst and Jim Parsons.
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* NoAntagonist: The level and pervasiveness of institutional racism in the American South of the 1960s is the real antagonist. None of the white characters are actively trying to undermine or attack the leads (even though Stafford is insecure about Katherine's greater mathematical ability), they mostly serve as roadblocks to the leads' success by insisting "That's just how things are."
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The film recounts the story of the African-American mathematician Katherine Johnson and her two colleagues, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson, who, while working in the segregated West Area Computers division of Langley Research Center, helped NASA catch up in the Space Race. Using their calculations, John Glenn became the first American astronaut to make a complete orbit of the Earth.
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* TruthInTelevision: Segregated bathrooms and water fountains were very real in the 1960s, as evidenced by some of the historical photographs displayed alongside the credits.
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: The lives of the three leading characters[[spoiler:, including the accolades they eventually received]] are given.
''Hidden Figures'' is a 2016 biographical comedy-drama film directed by Theodore Melfi and written by Melfi and Allison Schroeder, based on the nonfiction book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly. The film stars Taraji P. Henson as Katherine Johnson, the African-American mathematician who calculated flight trajectories for Project Mercury and the 1969 Apollo 11 flight to the Moon. The film also features Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst and Jim Parsons.
The film recounts the story of the African-American mathematician Katherine Johnson and her two colleagues, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson, who, while working in the segregated West Area Computers division of Langley Research Center, helped NASA catch up in the Space Race. Using their calculations, John Glenn became the first American astronaut to make a complete orbit of the Earth.
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* TruthInTelevision: Segregated bathrooms and water fountains were very real in the 1960s, as evidenced by some of the historical photographs displayed alongside the credits.
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: The lives of the three leading characters[[spoiler:, including the accolades they eventually received]] are given.
