10 Feb
2015
10 Feb
'15
3:33 a.m.
On 2015-Feb-10, at 2:39 AM, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 05:12:03AM -0500, Charles E.
Fox wrote:
I haven't seen the Imitation Game, but did view the trailer and what I saw there left
me with the sense while it might be fine as entertainment, the historical inaccuracies
would be annoying.
Maybe I shouldn't judge too much by the trailer but it left the impression it was
going to be dramatised along the stereotypical lines of the
'solitary-brilliant-genius-battling-alone-against-the-dumb-officious-bureaucrats-who-would-never-understand-what-he-was-doing'
(to get the Bombes constructed). I'm rather skeptical that was at all accurate to the
way things transpired.
As I recall, Enigma was different in that it wasn't trying to be an historic
docu-drama, it was just using Bletchley and WWII code-breaking for the setting of a
fictional story.
When Hollywood handles a story strange things happen. We are
lucky they mentioned
Bletchley Park at all.
Indeed, the movie "Enigma" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0157583/) didn't
include Turing at all.