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The book explained it much better.
The Chinese rationalized the offer to help with; We will be publicly rescuing the Americans, Chinese tech will be seen to be the equal of American tech, the Americans will put a Chinese astronaut on Mars for us. If Chinese and NASA administrators were able to arrange the deal before hand, then it is likely that the two governments would play along. The Chinese space official mentioned that his government ministers would trade their mothers for the chance to help the Americans in this fashion.
Understand that this movie takes place about 30 years in the future.
The movie merely shows an asian astronaut appearing in the final scene on the launch of an Ares mission.
Some people in the military deploy alone, it affects their marriages, but they still stay married.
The book explained that the extreme cold and lack of oxygen killed the potato plants and bacteria in the soil needed to farm them. The only reason he was able to start the farm to begin with it that he had fresh (ish), not frozen, viable potatoes to start with as seed. With everything frozen for the time it took to restore the HAB, he no longer had anything to start over again with.
I watched the movie. Your post says much more about you than the film.
As far as I could tell, the film was marketed as a movie about a reporter who interviews Rogers. If the movie poster was the sole source of marketing for this film that you were exposed to, then you might think it is about Fred Rogers for the most part.
Everything I read and watched indicated it was not a biopic about Rogers. I'm not sure why you're confused.
I've read that she would have possibly passed as white but chose not to.
The film covers dates that spanned NACA and NASA agencies early times. When NACA was expanding during and after WWII, they had to comply with the obscene segregation laws of Virginia even though they were a federal agency. So yes, they had white and colored restroom.
Costner's character (fictional) most likely did not have anything to do with removing any colored bathroom signs. Even then, how they did it in the film was stupid. It should have shown him removing the "white women" signs instead.
The book Hidden Figures does have several amusing anecdotes about the women resisting the stupid segregation rules. Miriam Mann kept on stealing the "colored computors" signs in the back of the cafeteria; it was her way of protesting. Eventually the signs were not replaced.
Katherine Johnson used the white women restrooms when she was transferred to work directly with the engineers because she did not know of any other restrooms. When she learned that she was to be using the colored restrooms only, she ignored the rule and no one ever complained.
Parsons is part of the main cast, but has less time then Henson, Spencer, Monae, Costner and Dunst. His character starts out as typical racist, but in the end is portrayed as one who works well with his colored co-worker.
Parsons does not play a version of Sheldon Cooper in this film.
https://bleedingfool.com/reviews/midway-remake-is-an-incredible-tribute-to-the-greatest-generation/
A graphic noted the Japanese had slaughtered a quarter of a million Chinese for assisting Doolittle and his squadron.
I can only recommend that you read a book about the Doolittle Raid then. Here is the Wikipedia article on it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doolittle_Raid
You're referring the the tribute to the Chinese people at the end of the film? How would it not be relevant?
Cons; too many scenes that were figments of the screen writers imagination. It made it seem like Shelby and Miles nearly made the GT-40 by themselves.
That said, I enjoyed the movie
Buying a LeMans victory by the method described above was not much different than trying to buy Ferrari in the first place.
But yeah, the movie did make Ford management look like back stabbing pussies.
I didn't get any anti-Trump vibe at all from the movie. Families squabble about politics all the time; just made this bunch look petty.
Ensemble films are better with B list casts as the actors are not detracting from the story. Also an A list start might be able to make the film about them instead of the historical event.
For example, a movie about Billy Fiske was planned with Tom Cruise. Had it been made, we might have been surprised to learn that Tom Cruise won the Battle of Britain by himself. :)
Do you think the actual Doolittle raid would have happened if the planes were not getting safe refuge in China?
This scene seems to be related to the violent interrogation of Ensign Osmus who gave up vital information (according to Japanese records found after the war) prior to being thrown overboard.
Ensign Omus had a ship named for him prior to the end of the war. It was not known at the time that he gave up valuable intel during his brief captivity.
While the German and Allied armies treated prisoners fairly well, the German/Russian and Japanese/Allied treatment of prisoners was frightful all around. The Americans were known for killing even sometimes helpless prisoners instead of capturing and the Japanese would do the same as well as torture and experiment on prisoners.
Give the book a try. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11472008-the-battle-of-midway
These are completely different movies. I liked Midway but I did not like the video game type action sequences in some parts of the dive bombing scenes.