Posted on 01/31/2015 10:37:53 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
The Weinstein Co. originally promoted The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, as a period thriller that paid tribute to Alan Turing, the father of modern computing.
But on Jan. 19, appearing on CBS This Morning, Harvey Weinstein introduced a new tactic, arguing that though Turing received a royal pardon in 2013 for his 1952 conviction for gross indecency because of his homosexuality, he deserves to be honored by the British government. He added the government also should pardon the thousands of British citizens convicted under laws forbidding homosexuality, which wasn't decriminalized in the U.K. until 1967. Weinstein, who was named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2004, said he "was willing to give up my own CBE" to make that happen.
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He portrays Alan Turing...because Turing was a homosexual, suddenly the Academy is supposed to be all aglow over the film.
Kind of like how everyone was supposed to love "Brokeback Mountain".
Pathetic.
Seems as though even some in Hollywood are getting tired of this song and dance.
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Turing was a queer?
I’m surprised he wasn’t a double agent.
There was a queer close in the Wehrmacht general staff and he fed the Communists very damning information about German war plans.
I’ve decided not to see the movie because judging from the trailers, it’s at least as much about Turing’s homosexuality as it is about his accomplishments.
My daughter saw this movie. She said she was disgusted how they seemed to portray Turing’s homosexuality as a reason why we won the war. She said she almost got up and walked out in the middle of the movie, the only thing that stopped her was the fact she was with a group of friends.
A gay Nazi? Nooooooo!!!! /
Turing was a significant figure, and he deserves to be famous for his very real accomplishments. However, his sort of accomplishments (logic and cryptography) don't generally make front-page news. So, the sad fact is that Turing is primarily famous because the homosexuals turned him into a poster-boy years ago.
Pathetic legacy for a great man.
I tried to watch the movie. I wanted to see how TURING solved the ENIGMA MACHINE code. All I saw was him whining about being a homosexual.
Crud. I really enjoy Benedict Cumberbatch. Sorry to see him make such a poor career choice. :(
A friend saw the movie and called it, ‘boring and pedantic.’ I’ll skip this one of his.
Stupid gays. Just shut up about it for once in your goofy lives, would ya? Yeesh!
Yes. Absolutely. We don't remember Euler because he was married twice, fathered at least thirteen children, was a devoted family man and devout Christian.
Nor is Newton, who by all accounts was asexual, revered for his abstinence.
luckily neither the film or actor will win an Oscar. I am pretty sure that Michael Keaton will win best Actor and Birdman will win best picture. Although I am hoping that Bradley Cooper wins....well see.
We must have seen different movies. I saw a man with aspergers syndrome struggling to solve a hugely important mystery for his nations war efforts. The movie should him as gay but only to the extent necessary for historical accuracy,IMHO.
I can see how one man putting his penis into another man’s anal canal is the pinnacle of intellectual achievement.
It was a pretty good movie. The gay angle really doesn’t come into play until he’s chemically castrated at the end of the movie, which probably triggered his suicide. I’m as sensitive as anyone about gay mafia propaganda.
Either way the gay angle is not front and center and just one component in a fairly complex yarn. Trust me, if there was a sex scene I would have walked out. It’s more like a grown up Big Bang Theory in some ways.
This was a hugely important point in history. To ignore the homo angle would have been disingenuous.
My big critique is they sort of glossed over they key mistake the NAZI’s made that allowed them to break the code. It’s only mentioned once during a picnic scene in an offhand comment.
Exactly right. Fine movie.
yeah, I haven’t seen it...I trust you though.
I am not against being historically accurate.
My concern is that we begin to treat sexuality as a heroic component of a person’s life. Or demand that one particular behavioral aspect of sexuality be praised.
If anything, to my thinking, it shows his gayness as one the manifestations of mental illness.
You can’t forget this is show biz, without some bleeding heart storyline blended in, how else are you going to educate females in WWII history.
If you listen to the Bletchley Park or Los Alamos scientists, they were God’s gift, etc, etc,
In reality, there was a layer of minds above them, selecting, guiding, and judging them. The minds you never have and never will hear about.
I knew a guy who was in the OSS in WWII — his IQ guaranteed he would always be “the smartest guy in the room”. His career after the war was one of uniquely great accomplishments. I asked him why his work during WWII was in such a backwater area (on the front of all places!) He got very modest, and said his superiors (he knew them all the way up) were just conduits and he was a pawn. He said there was a super layer of command that he could sense, but never confirm. That layer was where the really bright people anonymously operated. He said he once got into a dispute with Stilwell, and figured his career, if not his life, was over. Then, for no apparent reason, he was given all the leeway and resources he needed. No one, not Stilwell, not any of his superiors, let on that there was ever a problem. He mumbled something about them all being pawns.
There's still hope for Oscar Wilde?
I recently read the book ULTRA GOES TO WAR, which was an overview of the entire Bletchly Park operation and how indispensable it was to winning the war. Turing was in the book, but he was simply portrayed as one of many contributors, albeit the most brilliant. I would have preferred a movie along those lines.
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