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

[Charles Shapiro]

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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