Episode 66: Hidden Figures
Beyond the Screenplay
Michael Tucker
4.7 • 626 Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2021
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
The LFTS team discusses Hidden Figures’s cleverly constructed subplots, the story’s relationship with historical accuracy, and the filmmakers’ strategic approach to getting the film made.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to Beyond the Screenplay, the podcast for each week we do a |
| 0:10.4 | conversational deep dive analysis into a film. Today, we are talking about hidden figures, |
| 0:15.9 | the 2016 film directed by Theodore Melfy, screenplay by Alison Sroeder and Theater Melfi. |
| 0:21.4 | Based on the book by Margo Lee Shetterly, I'm joined by the Beyond the Screenplay team, |
| 0:26.1 | Trisha Arand. |
| 0:27.0 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:28.1 | Brian Bittner. |
| 0:28.9 | Hello, hello. |
| 0:29.8 | And Alex Coyotes. |
| 0:31.1 | Hi. |
| 0:31.7 | So before we jump into Hidden Figures, first I just want to say thank you to everyone who left answers to our question |
| 0:38.8 | on the Two Towers episode, where we mentioned Spotify has this new feature where if you're listening |
| 0:44.0 | on Spotify, we can ask a question and you guys can share your answers and we can pin some of the |
| 0:48.6 | comments. And it's been really fun to see that we got 67 replies, which was definitely more than I was expecting. |
| 0:54.6 | The question for that one was, of course, theatrical or extended edition of Lord of the Rings, |
| 1:00.2 | which do people prefer? It seems like the overwhelming majority prefer the extended edition. |
| 1:05.7 | Brian wins. So to that end, we have a new question for you guys today. |
| 1:12.7 | We did Lord of the Rings because we passed 500 patrons on Patreon. |
| 1:16.8 | And so for our 750 patron goal, we're going to be doing a trilogy on the Indiana Jones trilogy. |
| 1:23.5 | So three episodes on those three movies. |
| 1:25.1 | And then a patron exclusive on that other thing. |
| 1:27.1 | And so the question for on that other thing. |
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