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Videos can use content-based copyright law contains reasonable use Fair Use ( "Women don't belong in balloons!" If you've heard that phrase and/or it makes you laugh, it's likely because you listen to Who? Weekly, the pop culture podcast, with that lines from The Aeronauts trailer instantly becoming a running joke for the hosts and their listeners. But it's also an ironic line to be featured in the trailer for the new Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones film, which came out on December 6 and tells the incredible real-life story of James Glaisher (Redmayne), a British man who soared higher in the sky than any person before him in a hot air balloon in 1862. Jones plays Amelia Wren, a rare female aeronaut and Glaisher's co-pilot for the history-making ascent. It's an inspiring tale...but it's also not true, as Wren is not an actual person, with the creative team behind The Aeronauts choosing to not including the the actual person who worked by Glaisher's side (and saved his life): Henry Tracey Coxwell. So yeah, a woman really didn't belong in The Aeronauts' movie balloon! Photos Bah, Humbug! The Worst Christmas Movies of All-Time In an interview with USA Today, the film's director Tom Harper defended the major change to the real-life, explaining, "We change all sorts of things all the time. There would never have been an Indian man [played by Himesh Patel] in the Royal Society. But representation is important, and we are cutting this film for a modern audience." Jones also addressed the creation of Amelia, revealing she was a "an amalgamation" of the best female pilots, and was inspired by one specific French aeronaut named Sophie Blanchard. "She was the first woman to fly solo and fly at night and she used to set off fireworks from her balloon," Jones. "So I very much had her in my mind as I was making it." it was also who Harper and his co-writer Jack Thorne had in mind for Amelia when they made the decision "very early on" to make the character a woman and someone who was "quite different" from the real-life meteorologist. "She was such a flamboyant firecracker. She was driven, primarily, by instinct," he explained to Forbes. "So, I thought if I took those two characters, it could be something quite remarkable." Plus, as Harper succinctly put it to THR, "Two men in a basket not talking to each other was not going to fly." He does have a point, as history (and its retelling through movies) tends to favor male protagonists. "I think the problem with telling historical dramas is there's kind of a bias towards men because there's a gender bias in so many fields—science and the film industry for sure," he told The Hollywood Reporter. "So given the opportunity to work towards better representation, I think it's something that we embraced and, I think, we all need to do much more of. Whe
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