sadly Katherine was the only one of the group who lived long enough to see their story filmed. She passed away just over four years ago, at the age of 101.

@a.g.demada5263

4 ай бұрын

She lived a long life. That's good to know at least one of them lived enough for seeing this movie. The moment they show the real MC and what happened next are always my favorite part of this type of movies

@user-be7tc2bd6e

4 ай бұрын

People from those times have a very long life span.

This film should be mandatory viewing in all middle schools…

@joellenglass2344

4 ай бұрын

I agree

@the_nikster1

4 ай бұрын

yes!

@user-kv2tj4du8p

4 ай бұрын

amen.

@jennym2276

4 ай бұрын

It's watched in some high schools. Black history or women's history months.

@johnmavroudis2054

3 ай бұрын

@@Bluejacket4life2 no it won’t. It doesn’t even exist in Middle School. You can’t even define CRT… so turn off the Fox “News” propaganda network.

As a woman working in STEM I can't even express the emotions this movie makes me feel. So thankful for the women who paved the way and that their stories are being told!

This film won one of the most important awards to any actor “Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture”. It is voted on by their peers, and the only award they won. It means more than anything.

If Kirsten Dunst & Jim Parsons' characters r making u mad & uncomfortable then they did their job well. They were fantastic. I loved this movie. The book is even better. 😊

John Glenn actually refused to go up unless Katherine checked the numbers.

He didn't accuse her of being a spy. He decided that she needed top clearance. His background check was asking her if she was a Russian spy. She said no and that was good enough for him.

@a.g.demada5263

4 ай бұрын

What is funny in this scene is the fact she said no only about not being russian

@Lensmaster1

4 ай бұрын

@a.g.demada5263 therefore she is not a Russian spy. What is funny is that he has decided to authorize a security clearance, so he asks this simple question as the background check.

I just fell in love with this movie the first time I saw it. I feel cheated as when our children are missing out on all these wonderful historical story in our American history classes. These are what heroes are made of

"Seriously. A whole separate pot for one person." Welcome to The *Jim Crow Laws* which were still in force in 1961. Bathrooms, water fountains, restaurants, buses (blacks had to sit in the back) and hotels were separate. I am a white guy who was dating a black girl in 1963. That didn't go well for she and I. If you have not seen "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" yet check it out. Great reaction to this movie. I could see that you were moved. I watch this a lot but always have a hard time with it too. Memories.

Aside from the creative license taken (like having the three women be such close friends which was not the case), this is a powerful and beautiful movie. I wish this were shown in schools, it might encourage and inspire girls and young women to take their education more seriously... and go into STEM careers perhaps.

This movie really inspired my daughter, who loves and excels in STEM subjects. I love that they made a Catherine Johnson barbie a few years back. They were great example for girls, showing that you could have interests that aren't traditionally feminine, but could still be in other ways in terms of appearance or being nurturing. At lot of girls are like this but are made to feel weird, like they must choose between "traditional girl" and their intellectual interests.

Taraji’s monologue gets me EVERY time

@user-kv2tj4du8p

4 ай бұрын

same! I would haver given her the Oscar for that monologue alone. what a brilliant actress!

I loved this movie. These women are spectacular and courageous!

@CasualNerdReactions

5 ай бұрын

Yes they are. They had an incredible story and I’m glad it was told.

Hi Chris, your reaction to this one was beautiful! I loved seeing you cringe , rage, root, and cheer in all the best places! These were incredible women and they deserved this beautiful recognition. Also, I noticed as you watched more and more, the southern accent came out in you.😂 My true accent always shows up stronger when I'm invested and emotional, too! Great video! Thanks for sharing with us! ❤😊

This is one of my FAVORITE FILMS. I am so happy you watched it. ❤

@johnnehrich9601

4 ай бұрын

Ditto, many times! Have rewatched it so many times and tear up through the entire movie, EVERY time.

I wasn already a huge fan of all three lead actresses, so when I heard they were all starring in a film together I was so excited. Went to see it in theatres with my parents (my dad's been working in computers since the 60s). We all loved it.

John Glenn was in Congress until 1999, and even knowing that, I heaved a sigh when his flight in this movie was a success.

it's funny you mention 'enthusiasm & joy is contagious' because that's one of the reasons we've subbed to your channel! :D

All the cool "time period" music was all done by Pharrell Williams. SO GOOD! All the orchestral music was Hans Zimmer. Also SO GOOD!

Having followed the space missions as a young teenager I was so pleased to get more up to speed on the background stories of this endeavor. Anything that expands my knowledge on a favorite subject is welcomed in my head. Just sad I knew so little about parts of this. Makes me smile.

I love this movie. The real footage at the end gets me too. In your journey through space you should watch the Martian. Also the show the expanse.

you are really such a good guy. thank heavens for guys like you in the world. the world is a scary place these days. and people are better than many would like us to believe. thank you for making be believe in good guys. love your channel. thanks for posting. and this film is a knock out. so well acted. it should be shown in all middle schools. it is inspiring, and important. and teaches a part of history that has indeed been hidden. everyone needs to see this story! thanks again.

(6:31) I had the same thought watching this movie. They are using the word "computer" as they would back then, but that usage is so alien to us. They use the word IBM more like we use "computer," whereas we would think of that as a company.

@CasualNerdReactions

5 ай бұрын

Oh absolutely! It took WAY to long for it to click. 😅

@johnnehrich9601

4 ай бұрын

Yes, back then, a person who computed numbers was a "computer." Same thing with "typewriter." People who were hired to type were originally called "typewriters," and only later the title shifted to the machine it self. IBM, International Business Machines, was founded in 1911, although not so named until 1924. As their name suggested, they were well known for their large line of adding and accounting machines. I don't remember the name, alone, being considered the name of the computer. When I was in college c. 1970, the school got its first computer, which filled the entire basement of an academic building. Required tons of air conditioning at it was still using vacuum tubes (I think, although the transistor had been around for a decade or so). Vacuum tubes were basically dim light bulbs with a special extra plate inside, and gave off heat like incandescant bulbs did at the time. The machine required hundreds if not thousands of tubes. I don't remember the brand of the computer. We kids nicknamed it "Fat Albert," from a character created by Bill Cosby. The term "main frame" was not in use to designate a computer from a pc, as there were no personal computers yet. The movie had to use this term to make it clear to the audience this is not what we think of today as a computer. (It's computing power was probably less than any electronic device in use today.) These original computers didn't any enough memory to store programs. You had to feed it a deck of punched cards, EACH TIME to do the most basic thing, like sort or alphabetize a list of names. Originally (and this was still ~1970, not ~1960, the time of the movie), you would submit your deck of cards to an operator who fed the cards in. You got the cards back right away but had to wait hours for the output. Since you were writing your own programs (using "Fortran," formula translator," or "Cobol," "common business oriented language"), you could easily make a mistake, like have a line of command out of order, so typically you'd get your results with an error. Fix the deck of cards, resubmit, wait hours, get a new error and so on. It lots of manual labor associated with operating the machine. By the way, when the first personal computers were being developed, IBM left the field to others, as they thought they could easily produced ALL the limited number the world would even need.

@MichaelJohnson-vi6eh

4 ай бұрын

Before there were human computers there were human "typewriters" instead of Typists or Word Processors.

Thank you so much for your heartfelt reaction. Since you loved this movie so much, I really recommend you read the book it was based on. There was so much the film left out and/or dramatized, but the actual stories of these women deserve to be understood in their entirety. I hope the movie can serve as a jumping off point for you and your audience!

Your reaction gave me hope that we can be civil to each other as a society. Thank you

Have you heard of The First Astronauts Wives Club? It's a limited episode series which shows how the wives were. John Glenn, the nice astronaut, his wife had a stammer and so would not speak. He stood by her all the way. And you'll know about Alan Shepherd's wife. She was a better pilot than he.

@Allwayspsychic

4 ай бұрын

Fabulous show. Great book 😊

I'm so glad you did this movie! It moved me to tears when I saw it at the theater! BTW, it was nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars.

I like to watch The Help then Hidden Figures as it gives me hope to think humanity is progressing through learning from its mistakes; we have a long way to go but we are the path.

Human computers came before electronic computers were invented. Electronic computers got their name from doing the job of human computers

I often wonder when the one NASA guy ran to get Catherine to run the numbers for John Glenn, they didn't call over to her office and then drive a car to where she was, rather than do all that running to get to her. I guess they didn't have phones where she was, but they could have used a car to get her. This is a great film. I absolutely love it!

@jameskaten8291

4 ай бұрын

There was neither running nor driving. Glenn did, in fact, ask for Katherine to check the computation, but it took her (as I recall) two days of work to do it.

According to the Casper the Friendly Ghost comic, Friendship 7 got down safely with his assist as well! I was too young to really follow what was happening on TV, but I read that comic. The comic book explained it in child friendly terms for me.

The term computer as a person dates back to the victorian era at least.

This was an INCREDIBLE reaction, and I love how enthused you were while watching it. 😀👍💖👏👏

Dam sounded like something Sheldon would say. "My numbers are spot on "

Phenomenal movie with an amazing cast!! ❤💪🏽✊🏽👊🏽

I love this movie and so enjoyed your reaction! Blessings 🙏🏽💛

Enjoyed your reaction, as always! Great movie.

I loved your reaction.Its a great movie and I’m so glad I’ve had the chance to watch it again

In reality: - The 3 women didn't know each other. - They also took liberties with Kevin Costner's character which is NOT based on a real person, but is based on 3 different mangers around NASA at the time (none worked directly w/ Katherine). - Katherine herself said that while she was aware of societal prejudices, while at work she was never made to FEEL it by many as they were ALL focused on the work. - Paul Stafford (Jim Parsons) and Vivian Mitchell (Kirsten Dunst) are not based on real people. intended to represent the dismissive attitudes held by some of the white co-workers during this period. - Katherine, herself, confirmed that the bathroom scene never happened; despite the director's seemingly positive intentions, he just created a scenario with the sole purpose of making a “white savior” look good, diminishing the actual achievements made by Johnson. In real life, Johnson used the white bathrooms along with everyone else and was never questioned for it. The movie has been criticized overall for its whitewashing by the film's director Theodore Melfi, but I personally generally like it.

Young folk,including a lot of young Americans,don't realise how close to apartheid the USA used to be...I,a 54 year old Brit,probably wouldn't be had it not be my specialist topic in Modern History🎩

@johnnehrich9601

4 ай бұрын

Seventy-four here, and I lived it, as well as watch a lot of older movies where this crap was going on. Some of the most basic human things were denied others based on race, sexual orientation, or religion. (John Kennedy was the first president elected who was Roman Catholic, and that was considered "risky" for many voters, who thought he might owe his allegiance to the pope, not the constitution.

So amazing. Watch The Help next. Another inspirational movie.

@CasualNerdReactions

4 ай бұрын

I enjoyed that one! Unfortunately, I saw it before I started the channel otherwise I would definitely add that one!

Oh dude you’re getting in really good shape, congratulations!

20:15 Don't be fooled. He wasn't doing that for her out of the kindness of his heart, he was doing that to save NASA time.

I'm so excited to watch this with you!

In the 19th century--women were the first "computers"!! Ada Lovelace and others...you'd have fun looking it up. And wasn't one of the first computer languages called ADA after her? Not sure but there's more there ;-) I love this movie but I just wanted to throw in that the role of computers went further back...

This is a great movie, love your reaction. If you want to continue your journey through the history of NASA, you should definitely check out "The Right Stuff" from 1983. That one mostly focuses on the first astronauts and is very well done.

A fantastic film. The thrilling storytelling is great.

I appreciate your reactions, you are a sensitive and intelligent person who understands the human condition, I would dare to suggest Jojo Rabbit, it is a great movie, fun, emotional, wonderful and great. Maybe you suffer a little, and I don't like that, but I'm sure he would appreciate it.

@CasualNerdReactions

4 ай бұрын

Aww man, great suggestions, but I actually saw that in theaters! Absolutely wild film, and would make for a great reaction.

@jesusfernandezgarcia9449

4 ай бұрын

@@CasualNerdReactions Thank you for answering. Now I also appreciate your honesty.

Such a great movie, chills and tears every time I watch

This is one of my favourite films, so much in it, love it.

I loved this movie these woman are so fantastic I admire them so much ❤❤❤❤

Subscribed. Your awesome ❤❤❤

I adored all the actors in this film but I particularly liked Janelle Monae. Brilliant actor and performer.

32:40 comment in the room #movie Hamilton. From the stage play.-Ernie Moore Jr.

The three ladies broken down on the road in Virginia occurs in 1961. The Civil Rights Amendment wasn't passed until 1964 & '65. The Supreme Court didn't make interracial marriage legal until 1967 when an interracial couple sued the state of Virginia (Loving vs Virginia). You can understand the 'miracle' comment... Oh, and in 1961 we're over a decade before Women' Lib opened opportunities. The Langley campus of NASA is in Virginia; it was against state law in Virginia at that time for 'coloreds' to use a white bathroom. An arrest would cost her her job and make it impossible to get a government job that requires clearance. Consider: it's another 6 years before the Supreme Court rules (in Loving vs Virginia) to overturn the Virginia state law that made interracial marriage illegal. I think what her boss was trying to say is that his team is working in uncharted waters; he needs everybody to anticipate beyond stated problems, to think outside the box. Katherine takes that to heart; she understands that directive better than Paul. The 'loud silence' is very dramatic, but anyone knowing history knows John Glenn survived and lived to age 95. Glenn served in the US Senate from 1974 to 1999. He returned to space on October 29, 1998, as a payload specialist on the Space Shuttle Discovery's STS-95 mission, becoming at that time the oldest person to ever fly in space at age 77, 36 years after becoming the first American to orbit Earth in 1962. Since then, Canadian-born actor William Shatner in 2024 became the oldest at age 90, then Ed Dwight (in younger days the first black astronaut candidate) a few months later and a few months older than Shatner became the current oldest at 90 years 8 months.

25:55 comment 26:02.-Ernie Moore Jr.

Such a Great Movie!!

19:03 comment.-Ernie Moore Jr.

It was a great movie. I can't believe I didn't know about this.

This is such a brillant film

This is a great movie!

Another viewer who didn't know that SenatorJohn Glenn survived the mission. I'm feeling old. Do me a favor and put The Right Stuff on your schedule. It's about test pilots and the Mercury Seven.

Brilliant movie, I’ve watched it twice and videos on KZread of the real Katherine Johnson talking about her life. A beautiful gentle soul she was 💞

These ladies worked on getting John Glenn into orbit to orbit the earth for the first time. I remember this. I remember President Kennedy's speech. Paul is more afraid someone is going to pass him. If we rubbed Preparation H on him, I wonder if he would disappear? How does that foot taste, Col. Jim? Katherine is amazing. To me math is just another four-letter word. Running in heels is no mean feat.

It was a great movie!

I think, in the interest of fairness, it should be pointed out that the man on whom Paul Stafford was based never had a single problem with Katherine because she was black, or really because she was female. His problem was that in his opinion, she was "merely" a mathematician and not an engineer and thus felt she was unqualified to correct his work. Still an asshole attitude, but better than being a racist.

Heartbreaking but so good

31:04 comment react.-Ernie Moore Jr.

❤❤❤

36:54 react.-Ernie Moore Jr.

John Glenn became a senator from Ohio for many years

It would have been Amazing how far ahead America would have been if they took Racist Racism out of their Assess!

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