<p dir="ltr">Gah! That's quite pathetic. </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 5, 2014 8:43 PM, "Charles Shapiro" <<a href="mailto:hooterpincher@gmail.com">hooterpincher@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>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." ( <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/02/movies/the-imitation-game-dramatizes-the-story-of-alan-turing.html" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/02/movies/the-imitation-game-dramatizes-the-story-of-alan-turing.html</a> ). <br><br></div>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.<br><br></div>-- CHS<br><br></div>
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