[ale] Hollywood is making a movie about Alan Turing, but I already know it sucks

[jim.kinney at gmail.com (Jim Kinney)]

Gah! That's quite pathetic.
On Nov 5, 2014 8:43 PM, "Charles Shapiro" <hooterpincher at gmail.com> wrote:

> The Imitation Game is coming to a Theater Near You.  It's a biopic about
> Alan Turing during WW II, but they have made him over into a Breeder
> involved in a heterosexual love triangle.  " Hollywood is ?not really
> designed around making movies about gay English mathematicians,? Graham
> Moore, who wrote the script for ?The Imitation Game,? said in a recent
> email." (
> http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/02/movies/the-imitation-game-dramatizes-the-story-of-alan-turing.html
> ).
>
> This is approximately equivalent to making a film of the life of Frederic
> Douglass, but -- for marketing reasons -- making him a white plantation
> owner.  I am an enthusiastic heterosexual, but this really offends me.
> Alan Turing saved hundreds of thousands of English lives during World War
> 2, and his country repaid him by chemically castrating him and driving him
> to suicide.  And now they won't even tell his story with respect.
>
> -- CHS
>
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