Perspective: 'The Aeronauts' tries to fictionalize history and makes a big blunder
Discussion of news topics with a point of view, including narratives by individuals regarding their own experiencesWe need historical representations of women that acknowledge the structural forces that held them back.
Harper is aware of that and one can easily justify some of his more imaginative choices, such as having one of the characters dramatically scale the frozen exterior of the hydrogen balloon to release an escape valve, something that never happened in real life.But more significantly, the film makes a radical departure from the historical record: a gender swap. Glaisher is still around, played by an anxious and way-too-young Redmayne .
, Glaisher’s major struggle was to “legitimate the balloon as a ‘philosophical instrument’ for field work in the new science of the Earth’s atmosphere.” And Harper’s movie faithfully reproduces this effort, using it to provide drama.But this push to make ballooning scientific also required making it gendered. And this is where “The Aeronauts” runs amok.
This history means that Glaisher would have never been caught in a gondola with a woman, since, as it were, he already had enough trouble legitimizing ballooning as a scientific practice. Though women were central to the rise of ballooning, when it made the critical shift to legitimate science they were eliminated — at least in the most visible, prominent roles.
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