yoaver OP t1_j29smac wrote
The more I read about Turing, the more I hate the Imitation Game. Way to ruin a person's legacy whose legacy was already tarnished beforehand.
The_Global_Norwegian t1_j29txzq wrote
Didn't know this - what were the primary inaccuracies regarding Turing?
yoaver OP t1_j29vd03 wrote
Everything:
- Turing wasn't autistic, nor was he insufferable. He was reportedly very well liked among his peers.
- The film majorly downplayed Turing being gay and his gay relationships
- All the drama in the enigma team never happened
- The thing with the not reporting the ship is not a call researchers are in position to make in the first place
- The movie focused a lot on Keira Knightley's character despite the real person not being that close to Turing
- The "breakthroughs" in research shown in the film of looking for patterns in coded messages is the very basis of code cracking, they dumbed it down because they thought audiences were too dumb for the actual breakthroughs.
- They downplayed the horrors he suffered through the end of his life
Dangle76 t1_j2a4dy7 wrote
To be fair, a mainstream audience probably won’t understand the breakthroughs
jeppeww t1_j29vprv wrote
The funniest innaccuracy is when they only think of the central purpose behind their machine after they've already built it and it doesn't "work".
It's a bit like if you made a movie about the invention of the boat, and only after it can't move on land do they think of putting it in the water.
StMirrenU12s t1_j29vx3j wrote
I didn't see any, I don't know what OP is talking about.
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