Hidden Figures - Give or Take | official FIRST LOOK clip (2017)

Movies are a fail for me if the science is wrong or the musicians aren’t playing the music. May be a good movie, but that will never not bug me.

Nailed it. SHOW don't tell.

And then he fired her after she came up with the Go-No_Go and all of the rest of the math that made that mission possible.

also echoes a scene at the start of the movie, where the teacher hands her the chalk in the classroom

Her teacher did the same thing

It also highlights the fact that nobody else in that room could do that math.

Let's face it, the Kevin Costner character was just tired if being berated by the condescending outsider. He knew she could do it but the beautiful realization of her greatness came as a surprise to him. Way to write a scene.

Also the transfer of the primitive writing instrument signifies the the simple truth. The only power is the power of the mind. The only truth is the correct answer, not the color of your skin or your gender.

Earlier in the movie, John Glenn goes out of his way to chat w/the ladies. True respect.

Was that Glenn Powell??

This event actually occurred during the first Gemini launch. During the actual first launch of the Gemini capsule there was a question about the correctness of the calculations from the IBM computer. John Glenn specifically requested Katlyn Johnson review the equations before the launch. The calculations were reviewed and check by Katlyn Johnson. She gave the ok for the calculations. John Glenn trusted Katlyn Johnson. And the rest is history. A beautiful movie. This movie epitomize what America can become. You have a nice day.

I never paid attention to that before. Thank you for pointing out that very telling background detail. It makes this story telling even more rich.

@@ohmightywez I'm not trying to disrespect John Glenn. Those were the times he lived. But he unwittingly used a racist term at the time toward Katheren Johnson when he requested that she review the calculations. During slavery up to the time of the Civil Rights Era. Black men were referred to as 'Boys'. Black women were referred to as 'Girl'. Not mam, miss, or any appropriate title for an adult black woman. John Glenn specifically referred to Katheren Johnson as a girl and not the black female mathematician when he made his request for her assistance. Does this make John Glenn a racist? In my opinion. No. John Glenn was simply a product of the Era he lived in. I'm a black American. Racism is ignorance. The only way to eliminate racism is through education, communication, and interaction. Martin Luther King indicated that we love thy enemy. He was referring to the white supremacist in America. I can't love thy enemy. But I do pity them. In the case of white supremacist in America someone as an adult past on this hate to their children. To cause that child to grow up and become a white supremacist. Nelson Mandela - A racist is not born their made. So as a human being I can't truly hate a white supremacist. In America as a black man, I served in the military and police force. I worked with racist. But what I discovered what influenced their behavior was that they recognized that me and other people of color were professionals and did our jobs. Did this totally eliminate their racist views. No. But I knew I and other people of color had their respect and trust of these particular coworkers. One last thing about Katheran Johnson. It was reported fact that she was the go-to person at NASA in regard to mathematical calculations through the Appollo fights to the moon. You have a nice day.

Kevin Costner is your 80th favorite actor?

The most emotional part of this scene is where they show his hand passing her the chalk. It is his acceptance of her as a peer in a world that still had trouble accepting that a black could be a whites equal in any aspect. He made her part of his team in that moment and no one had better question her abilities unless they wanted to tangle with him.

Scooter Tramp Yes it is a beautiful and very symbolic image. I love it.

she is!! Katherine Johnson is alive and well

Estefanía Salazar - No longer. The great lady passed at 101 years of age.

@@belladharma sadly. But she (her legacy) shall live forever

@@belladharma gone but not forgotten. She was amazing.

Just saw this movie for the first time yesterday. It is incredible and I am amazed/angry that I didn't know if it sooner

Why should you ashamed of not seeing a movie? Is that one of the worst things you have done in your life?

@@minispinakins2034 It was my humble attempt to say I wish I had seen this years ago. A joke.

you haven't watched a lot of movies have you

@@feelmehish8506 What do you hope to gain by commenting like this to me or anyone else? Being negative shows your weakness. Sad.

I saw Taraji Henson interviewed about this scene. She said she’s a math idiot and compared this scene to choreography. She memorized the lines in a language unfamiliar to her, had to be 100% accurate in the math, and had to convey that she knew what she was talking about. What that means, of course, is that she’s one hell of an actress and really deserved more recognition for this work. I will watch ANY thing she’s in from now on.

Nah she did it all wrong. Gotta take the Leo approach and say as little as possible and moan and grunt through the whole movie to get the Oscar...everyone knows that lol.

Yes, portraying a math genius is a challenge but you have not seen the work of the leading character, also an actress, in a Russian tv series from the KZhead channel, Epic Media English, called "The Mop" . She spouts reams of formulas til the cows come home. It also happens to be really good. And some of the other series they produced as well. These are thrillers and mysteries, rather gory, but just close your eyes. What I love here is how fully realized Taraji Hensen played Katherine Johnson. Not just someone with a brilliant mind but a well-rounded deeply felt humanity.

Its because discrimination is still a struggle even in hollywood. Some critics are still against the black community maybe thats why

Why does she deserve an Oscar? Because the color of her skin?

My response: Because you can do this. We all know it, and now we need to see it. Go show what you've got.

It shocked her because she was acknowledged and addressed in that manner and was given an opportunity to present her work in front of the others. Because of her skin color and sex she didn't really get the recognition that was due to her initially. Even when she did the work, she would give credit to Jim Parsons' character at first. Her name wasn't on the work at all. At the end of the movie, you see her get an opportunity to add her name with his finally.

Agreed. Movies like this and the Martian - and others- should be required viewing since some people don’t understand that math and science are absolutes. Math doesn’t lie. There is no “ I feel or I think”. The answer is the answer. And when handled correctly science is the same. I’m gawd awful at math and movies like this just blow me away, make me feel dumb AND I LOVE IT. Knowing people out there can do this stuff

@moiecol: well, it has to be about some of those things, and in particular wealth and gender: the guys there act as if they can turn up unprepared simply because... they are guys, and the military wants to do things that they can't figure out, so they bring in the academics (who they otherwise think little of...). No other women in the room besides Catherine. Now, while I realize that this is a movie depiction of a scene that might (or more likely, might not) have happened, the underlying assumptions obtain universally (for now) across our culture: being white, male, and monied is sufficient to make you the boss... even when you repeatedly get things very wrong.

Uhumm keep telling yourself that (racist on the cover)🙄😒

It's my favorite scene, too. She had fought her way into that room and won that fight. Boss let her into the room because he knew she was the only one who really knew the math.

@Patrick O'Brien - I understand what you're saying, but remove wealth,, gender and the only thing that solved the problem was math, which she knew very well !

It's about the numbers. Numbers don't lie, as Catherine proved.

Same look if you’re in his spot.

The look of I think my job is in jeopardy. 😅

He was such a hater in this film. They would have been embarrassed if she hadn't gotten to attend that meeting. He tried to keep her from attending and if she wasn't able to go in. It wouldn't have gone well for them at all.

well said

disagree. science is relative. Numbers are facts.

Indeed, but anyone who lived in those times or knew someone who did, knows it’s not that simple. Bigotry runs deep.

Math and numbers dont care about any of that. All they care about is does the equation make sense and is it correct.

Science keeps evolving as we learn more facts. Numbers are numbers, and she delivered on them.

err... no she referred to Eulers theorem, which is about 300 years old not 3000 and even that was rounded up generously. since Euler published it in 1763. You can do the math on your own, to check how old the needed equation really is.

@@mutajin7701 But it is still a gross approximation. There is no solution to the n body problem at this time. That is why the Apollo missions, and every other orbital transfer must make course corrections. If we could actually solve the problem then we could do the transfer as a single free fall transfer within the precision of our instruments and timing devices, and we have those precise enough to do anything we'd like at least in the inner system. Euler lets us get close enough that course corrections are possible. If your math is precise enough, your instruments are precise enough and your timing is precise enough you can get your course corrections down to as little as 2, one at the mid point of the transfer and one at orbital insertion, but so far no one has solved the n-body problem to get below that and plenty of mathematicians are arguing, without a mathematical proof so far, that no solution is possible more precise than that. And no most people cannot do the math. It is a fairly esoteric field of mathematics. Three dimensional geometry is pretty challenging even when you stick to a static Euclidean space but once you're in a relativistic one with gravity and true simultaneous motion things get very complex very quickly. You need to know not just advanced calculus but advanced trig and matrix math. I can do it by hand, with enough scratch paper and enough time but I have degrees in math. Most people would get lost very quickly at the first integration. That those teams of women did it by hand, with at most adding machines and eventually 4 bit computers, is something of a miracle. A minor mistake almost anywhere that got carried through to a final result and wasn't caught would have resulted in a dead crew.

@@KenS1267 Agreed, but I assume NASA had a few polymaths working for them or the think tanks they contracted. And I remember when watching Apollo 13 live when I was a kid, and them mentioning that Jim Lovell was an Instantaneous Calculator. He could do complex multidimensional math in his head in just a second or two. There is a brief scene the the Ron Howard movie where they allude to it that even when stressed, tired, cold and suffering from CO2 poisoning, Jim does a 3D translation in his head to transfer the flight vector and spacecraft orientation from the CM to the LEM in 2 seconds. I remember listening live on TV during the return flight from the moon, they were having to do several correction burns a day because the spacecraft kept drifting off course (not surprising that the mass, center of gravity, explosion deflection, and continued gas leaks were all unknown factors). Jim was taking star sightings through a star-scope and making the corrections by hand faster than NASA could check the numbers on the ground. The only time I ever heard Ground Control say a harsh word was "Damn it Jim! Slow down, we can't do the numbers that fast!"

@@waynecampeau4566 Polymath is one of those terms that gets tossed around a lot but in this case what was really need were true experts in just one specific field. Analytic geometry and specifically in higher dimensional non Euclidean analytic geometry. Katherine Johnson was just such an expert. She was one of the experts who came up with the plan to use a single star in the Apollo 13's telescope to keep it on course. That is how Lovell navigated to come back to Earth. I've looked at the problem and can see how it works but I'll be damned if I would have ever come up with it.

@@mutajin7701 Wrong.. Euler-Lagrange (EL) equations are based off Maxwell's equations. Used in classical mechanics...Which goes as far back as Newtons laws of Physics... The issue was they had to transfer the guidance computer from orbital flight. To elliptical. As you had two different spacecraft. In two different orbits. Trying to Rendezvous..One was programmed ie the CSM. The other programmed for Elliptical ie the LEM....These two had to figure out how to dock...So they actually transferred this information back and forth to each other. ie relative position to The Guidance computers on both spacecraft. Emphasis on relative Position. As they made several course corrections during this transition..Something that is still hard to do today...As Computers can't be programmed to take over the whole task. Hell just docking to the space station takes hours...And human input is required. As humans are forward thinking. They know where they want to be. Then figure out how too accomplish it. Computers can't do that..

Yes! It’s oh so easy in these allegedly United States to spot people with skin color “issues”! HaHa!

She said she was horrible at math, she just memorized the dialogue.

Most if not all of Costner's films are great and Hollywood hates to admit it.

She should be an American hero.

It's Katherine with a K

I remember when virtually every doctor smoked the who time you were in their exam room.

WebMD +KZhead. The future is now

EMH on Star Trek: Voyager. Or at least a biobed of some kind.

My sister was hired at NASA in the early 60's. Her job title: Computer.

That's the name of the song in the soundtrack

1ginner1 Sin and Cos are easy actually you don't need calculator

You dont need to calculate pi. you just have to memorize it's 3.14159 like a lot of other constants and formulas. It's no different from memorizing how to spell.

3.14159... + whatever precision you need.

...no, they don't "always" have a good paying job. Obviously, you didn't see the entire movie...let alone experience/observe the obstacles educated blacks and other "minorities" faced in this country. One day this country will have to faceup to it's past.

@TRACY BOND The good pay is there if you have the knowledge.

That's a relief. It would be terrible if you focused on her brain and thoughts.

You seem to believe that liking her figure is mutually exclusive with focusing on her brain and her thoughts. It's not. If you're going to jump to conclusions, stretch first.

Her hidden figure. And her figures that she just wrote out. :P

The title of the movie is in the title of the video.

Then why DIDNT he? Enlighten us.

Critical Race Theory?