What's the Difference between Hidden Figures the Book and Hidden Figures the Movie?
| In the Book |
In the Movie |
Dorothy Vaughan
|
Dorothy Vaughan
Portrayed by: Octavia Spencer
|
Katherine Johnson
|
Katherine Johnson
Portrayed by: Taraji P. Henson
|
Mary Jackson
|
Mary Jackson
Portrayed by: Janelle Monae
|
This Character does not appear.
|
Al Harrison
Portrayed by: Kevin Costner
|
This Character does not appear.
|
Vivian Mitchell
Portrayed by: Kirsten Dunst
|
Paul Stafford
|
Paul Stafford
Portrayed by: Jim Parsons
|
John Glenn
|
John Glenn
Portrayed by: Glen Powell
|
jim
|
jim
|
Hidden Figures Book vs Movie
| In the Book |
In the Movie |
|
Katherine kept her graduate school math textbooks at her desk for ready reference. |
She does not. |
|
In 1956 Mary Jackson was granted a dispensation to attend night classes at Hampton High School. She became an engineer at NASA in 1958. |
Mary Jackson is shown in court in 1961 privately addressing a judge at her hearing. She convinces him that it would be beneficial to him if he was the first to allow a black woman attend classes at a white school. He allows her to attend night classes.
|
|
Katherine is never treated like this by the other engineers. |
When Katherine is assigned to review another engineer's math results, he gives it to her with much of it redacted (blacked out). She holds it up to the light to see what he had blacked out (info on Mercury and Atlas projects) and after checking his work graphs some of it on the large chalkboard in the office. |
|
Near the end of WWII Dorothy Vanghan was made a supervisor and 1946 a permanent civil service employee. |
Vaughan was not officially promoted until 1962.
|
|
About 50 black women worked as computors, mathematicians, engineers or scientists from 1943-1980. |
The only black NASA employees shown are the female computors. |