Leah Z's Movie Reviews

The Movie Hidden Figures , Fox 2000 Pictures shows the based on a true story of how three African American Women, Katherine Goble was also known as Katherine Johnson later in the movie, Dorothy Vaughn, and Mary Jackson all have gifted intelligence in Mathematics and Science and have the determination to follow their dreams; even though, they are barred from reaching their full potential due to racial and gender stereotypes of 1920s-1960s.  They end up working for NASA but are not entirely free from negative societal views.  The movie challenges the idea, Can a black woman be a math genius? Memorable Quotes, During a Post Test Discussion of Friendship 7          “There is another opening in the engineer training program.  Mary a person with an engineer mind should be an engineer.  You can’t be a computer the rest of your life.” “Mr. Selenzki (Sp?) I am a Negro woman.  I am not going to entertain the impossi...

The movie _The Boss Baby_ is based on the board book _ The Boss Baby_ by Marla Frazee.   I think in the movie format it was a really good technique to have the brother as narrator; there is a shortness of the board book that doesn’t allow for that dimension.   I also really liked how the text from the book is narrated at the beginning of the movie when Tim is exasperated at the perpetual alienation caused by The Boss Baby’s nasty demeanor.   If I wrote the book I would want the text inserted in this manner.   I did a similar technique on the novel I am working on since it is expanded from a lyrical poem, and it was important to me to retain where it came from I have lines from that in the 1 st chapter.