[ale] Hollywood is making a movie about Alan Turing, but I already know it sucks

[Tim Watts]

Actually, what sucks is that NYT article.  I haven't read anything that
muddled in I don't know how long.  That quote was about the movie/book
Enigma which did, in fact, do Turing a significant injustice.  "The
Imitation Game is not a Hollywood movie" was, I think, Mr. Moore's
point.  Presumably that means they'll be more true to who he really was.
But to tell you the truth I still wasn't sure by the end of the article.
Journalism today, amirite?


On Wed, 2014-11-05 at 20:39 -0500, Charles Shapiro wrote:
> The Imitation Game is coming to a Theater Near You.  It's a biopic
> about Alan Turing during WW II, but they have made him over into a
> Breeder involved in a heterosexual love triangle.  " Hollywood is “not
> really designed around making movies about gay English
> mathematicians,” Graham Moore, who wrote the script for “The Imitation
> Game,” said in a recent
> email." ( http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/02/movies/the-imitation-game-dramatizes-the-story-of-alan-turing.html ).  
> 
> 
> This is approximately equivalent to making a film of the life of
> Frederic Douglass, but -- for marketing reasons -- making him a white
> plantation owner.  I am an enthusiastic heterosexual, but this really
> offends me.  Alan Turing saved hundreds of thousands of English lives
> during World War 2, and his country repaid him by chemically
> castrating him and driving him to suicide.  And now they won't even
> tell his story with respect.
> 
> 
> -- CHS
> 
> 
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