imitation game movie

On 2/10/2015 3:33 AM, Brent Hilpert wrote: I always worry about any storyteller who confused breaking Enigma and codebreaking with Ultra. The trailers for this movie have it in spades. I don't know the setting for one comment from a female character saying "I was happy I went thru a town you saved" or some such, but it would have been very unlikely that anyone would say that during the war, and until Winterbottom said fuck it, noone could say anything w/o a violation of the Official Secrets Act (or whatever the accurate name is for it). The codebreaking is better told if it includes all the players, including the Polish who had a good go at breaking it, and I think pointed out and held to death in the case of captured members of their group what the critical error was that the Bletchley park people's automation exploited. The automation exploited a common practice in encoding messages which allowed the presets for the Bombes. W/o that guess the automation didn't have that much to go on, and you were back to tedious methods that relied on much guesswork as to what the wheel settings were. This is not going to affect telling the human stories other than leaving out some of the groups who joined together to create Ultra. Ultra was so successful that even though the Germans got wind of it, they suspected a traitor rather than the actual truth. Another miniseries, Manhattan aired here on WGN and was somewhat entertaining, but again the pronouncements of the characters were totally unbelievable when one considers what was being done. One particularly silly line has to do with the project being so secret the Vice President didn't know about it. The character uttering that would have had no clue about that. Makes it hard to watch things when they screw things up like that and get no payback. I appreciate movie and tv writing enough to know about liberties in facts that are taken, but respect when they do something and get a really big plot payback for it, not just some sillyness. thanks Jim