Day, Aaron (June 24, 2013). "Alan Turing's biographer criticises upcoming biopic for downplaying gay identity". Pink News . Retrieved September 10, 2014. Andrew Hodges' 1983 book Alan Turing: The Enigma, is the indispensable guide to Turing's life and work and one of the finest biographies of a scientific genius ever written."—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times One of the finest scientific biographies I've ever read: authoritative, superbly researched, deeply sympathetic, and beautifully told."—Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful Mind

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New editions appeared in 2012, for the centenary of Turing's birth, and 2014, the year the film The Imitation Game was released. [2] Audio Grant, Andrew (December 30, 2014). " 'The Imitation Game' entertains at the expense of accuracy". Science News. Archived from the original on April 5, 2015 . Retrieved January 18, 2015. A Most Violent Year named best film by National Board of Review". BBC. December 3, 2014 . Retrieved November 5, 2018.This article is about the film. For the testing technique, see Turing test. For other uses, see The Imitation Game (disambiguation). a b c Roberts, Shiela (November 21, 2014). "Composer Alexandre Desplat Talks THE IMITATION GAME, Coming to the Project Late, Finding Continuity in His Scores, His Love of Conducting, and More". Collider.com. Just how inaccurate are those inaccuracies? I read the masterful biography that the screenplay is based on, Andrew Hodges’ Alan Turing: The Enigma, to find out. 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. At the same time, the film might paint Turing as being more unlovable than he actually was. For details on the film’s flights of fancy, read on. (There will, naturally, be spoilers.) Speaking to Empire, director Tyldum expressed his decision to take on the project: "It is such a complex story. It was the gay rights element, but also how his (Turing's) ideas were kept secret and how incredibly important his work was during the war, that he was never given credit for it". [26] In an interview for GQ UK, Matthew Goode, who plays fellow cryptographer Hugh Alexander in the film, stated that the script focuses on "Turing's life and how as a nation we celebrated him as being a hero by chemically castrating him because he was gay". [104] The producers of the film stated: "There is not – and never has been – a version of our script where Alan Turing is anything other than homosexual, nor have we included fictitious sex scenes." [105] The book inspired the 2014 film The Imitation Game, directed by Morten Tyldum and starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley.

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In January 2015, Cumberbatch, comedian-actor Stephen Fry, producer Harvey Weinstein, and Turing's great-niece Rachel Barnes launched a campaign to pardon the 49,000 gay men convicted under the same law that led to Turing's chemical castration. An open letter published in The Guardian urged the British government and the Royal family, particularly Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, to aid the campaign. [92] I've now got myself into the kind of trouble that I have always considered to be quite a possibility for me, though I have usually rated it at about 10 to 1 against. I shall shortly be pleading guilty to a charge of sexual offenses with a young man. The story of how it all came to be found out is a long and fascinating one... but I haven't got time to tell you now. No doubt I shall emerge from it all a different man, but quite who I've not found out. -Alan Turing, 1952, Letter to Friend and Colleague Norman RoutledgeIn 1928, the young Turing is unhappy and bullied at boarding school. He develops a friendship with Christopher Morcom, who sparks his interest in cryptography. Turing develops romantic feelings for him, but Christopher soon dies from tuberculosis. Noteworthy is also how his work in Bletchley Park had to be downplayed, and how it had been the same for all the cryptanalystes, scientists, “wrens” and other people involved. Since it was classified information, none were allowed to tell, even after World War II was over, what kind of work exactly they had done. Some were finally allowed to reveal it decades later, after the classified bit was lifted, while others died without never having opened their mouths about it. I felt this was important, as Turing may have been more respected by his peers if he had been able to list his achievements in that regard (and the trial seems to reflect that, with those against him looking at him in belittling ways, as if he had just done “some work” and not been part of something bigger, something much more important—as if all that defined him was that “gross misconduct with another man”, and the rest wasn't worth being mentioned). No. Andrew Hodges' biography states that Alan wrote to Joan and told her that he had been found out, but there is no mention of Joan coming to visit Alan. At the time of his letter, Joan was engaged to be married, as Keira Knightley's character is when she visits Alan (Benedict Cumberbatch) in the movie. The general public became familiar with the name Alan Turing after learning of his indecency conviction and suicide. It would be years before they learned that he was also largely responsible for outsmarting the Nazis. -Tumblr (imitationgamemovie) The film's title quotes the name of the game cryptanalyst Alan Turing proposed for answering the question "Can machines think?", in his 1950 seminal paper " Computing Machinery and Intelligence". The film stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Turing, who decrypted German intelligence messages for the British government during World War II. Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Rory Kinnear, Charles Dance, and Mark Strong appear in supporting roles.

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If [The Imitation Game] does nothing else but send you, as it did me, to Alan Hodges's Alan Turing: The Enigma (1983, newly prefaced in the 2014 Princeton University Press edition) it more than justifies its existence. A great read, Hodges's intellectual biography depicts Turing as a brilliant mathematician; a crucial pioneering figure in the theorization and engineering of digital computing; and the biggest brain in Bletchley Park's Hut #8."—Amy Taubin, ArtforumSometimes this comics reminded me of “Breaking the Code”—I guess that was because of the different narrators, and possibly also the interrogator's questions hinting at Turing's homosexuality, although the focus was less on that here than it was in the play. Interestingly, those “hints” were most often dismissed by the people telling about Turing's life: his mother (apparently naively) understanding this was about girls, Clarke and others basically shrugging it off (“he wasn't the only one, and we didn't care anyway because we were in Bletchley Park to work, not to worry about such things”), a colleague wondering why the hell Alan even broached the subject yet being his friend and working with him pretty fine all the same, etc. This aspect of Turing's life is always difficult to deal with, IMHO: it shouldn't matter so much, what matters is hius work, but since it was illegal in the UK at the time, it's just not something one could overlook, as it impacted his life nonetheless. Alan Turing: The Enigma «آلن تورینگ: انیگما» (۱۹۹۲) نوشته "ادرو هودگز" منتشر شده است.[5] همچنین فیلم سینمایی "The Imitation Game" «بازی تقلید»[6] محصول سال 2014 م براساس داستان واقعي زندگی او در شهر منچستر انگلستان ساخته شد. گراهام مور، فیلم‌‌نامه‌نویس "بازی تقلید" برنده‌ی جایزه‌ی بهترین فیلم‌نامه در مراسم اسکار 2015 شد. در این فیلم می بینیم که پدر محاسبه‌‌نوین و هوش‌مصنوعی به دلیل گرایش هم‌جنس‌گونگی خود مورد آزار و شکنجه قرار گرفت و از تمامی تسهیلات خود محروم شد. در دادگاه برای او حکم زندان یا پذیزش هورمون درمانی را تصویب کردند که او به ناچارگزینه ی دوم را انتخاب نمود. بعد از يک سال دستور دولت مبني بر هورمون درماني، آلن تورينگ در 7ژوئن 1954 دست به خودکشي زد. او تنها 41 سال داشت. The Imitation Game review: Knightley and Cumberbatch impress, but historical spoilers lower the tension". The Guardian. September 8, 2014 . Retrieved October 7, 2014.