Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game

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She even accepted Turing’s homosexuality; their engagement continued after he confessed his attraction to men. Anderson of Slate magazine compared the film's account of Turing's life and work to the biography it was based on, writing, "I discovered that The Imitation Game takes major liberties with its source material, injecting conflict where none existed, inventing entirely fictional characters, rearranging the chronology of events, and misrepresenting the very nature of Turing's work at Bletchley Park".

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They also added more red cables to give the audience the feeling that blood was pumping through its veins. During his interrogation by Nock, Turing tells of his time working at Bletchley Park during the Second World War. Cairncross did pass intelligence from Bletchley Park to the Soviet Union, but he worked in a different unit from Turing’s, and there’s no evidence the two knew each other.We didn't want to create this story of Alan being a sad character that bad things happened to, so we decided to show his final years through the perspective of this fictional detective. Enigma: How the German Machine Cipher Was Broken, and How It Was Read by the Allies in World War Two.

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Keira Knightley, who plays Clarke, told the Huffington Post, “I think what we’re trying to get to is the essence of what it was. Thanks to the movie The Imitation Game, Alan Turing has emerged from history's shadows, where his memory had languished for decades. Denniston's grandchildren stated that the film takes an "unwarranted sideswipe" at their grandfather's memory, showing him to be a "baddy" and a "hectoring character" who hinders the work of Turing. Biographer Andrew Hodges suggested that he was re-enacting a scene from the 1937 Walt Disney movie Snow White, his favorite fairy tale.The sequence, which brackets the whole film, in which Turing is arrested in 1951 when a detective suspects him of being a Soviet spy, which leads to the discovery that Turing is gay. In November 2014, the Weinstein Company co-hosted a private screening of the film with Digital Sky Technologies billionaire Yuri Milner and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The film had its world premiere at the 41st Telluride Film Festival in August 2014, and played at the 39th Toronto International Film Festival in September. I found it to be a page-turner in spite of the occasionally esoteric explanations of mathematical theories that reminded of why Brooklyn Technical High School was not the wisest choice for me. It began a limited theatrical release on November 28, 2014, in the United States, two weeks after its premiere in the United Kingdom on November 14.

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In an early scene where he is interviewed by Commander Denniston (Charles Dance), we learn that he made exceptional achievements in mathematics at a young age. Turing is difficult to work with, and considers his colleagues inferior; he works alone to design a machine to decipher Enigma messages. Alexander began working there several months after Turing arrived, and the two didn’t begin working together for another year or so, when Alexander was transferred to Turing’s team to work on breaking Germany’s naval Enigma code. The real Joan Clarke says that the two were interested in one another, despite their relationship lacking a certain physical element.During World War II, the English mathematical genius Alan Turing tries to crack the German Enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians while attempting to come to terms with his trouble.

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Although some modern scholars believe that his death from cyanide poisoning was an accident, Hodges believes that Turing made his suicide deliberately ambiguous so as to spare his mother the pain of believing that her son had killed himself on purpose. In real life, Turing's housekeeper found him dead in his bed, with the half-eaten apple next to him on his bedside table ( BBC News).The Imitation Game implies that the estrogen treatment sent Alan into an emotional tailspin, but Turing seems to have continued his work and social relationships normally during his year of probation. Please note that audiobooks and ebooks purchased from this site must be accessed on the Princeton University Press app. Despite earlier reservations, Turing's niece Inagh Payne told Allan Beswick of BBC Radio Manchester that the film "really did honour my uncle" after she watched the film at the London Film Festival in October 2014. The scenes depicting Turing's childhood friend, including the manner in which Turing learned of Morcom's illness and death. The subtle depiction of class rivalries, personal relationships, and Turing's tragic end are worthy of a novel.