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Everyone was on board with building codebreaking machines, and the Poles had already done it. Turing was not a lone voice in the wilderness, and he wasn’t fighting the system.The historical stuff is easiest to pull apart: Only the very broadest shape of the plot is real and the rest is assembled from tiny fragments of fact or just made up. The movie’s plot comes across like Harvey Weinstein skimmed Turing’s Wikipedia summary and sketched the general outlines to a producer, who then got massively drunk before giving an embellished version to the screenwriter. How about inventing some new tropes guys? Taking Liberties
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I’m also getting pretty bored of having a Meaningful Phrase repeated at key points in a movie (and as Meaningful Phrases go, the thing about doing things no-one can imagine was pretty dang flat). (B kisses A on the mouth and runs out of the bar, knocking over a waitress)
Is anyone else sick of seeing an chance phrase spark a revalation?Ī: “I’ll have a strawberry daiquiri please.”ī: “Daiquiri… daiquiri… That’s it! You’re a genius!” He invented some pretty abstract stuff (that the movie ignores or dumbs down beyond the point of meaninglessness), and he was a real person with the complexities of a real person (as opposed to a tortured mad genius). The audience is flattered - aren’t you clever for watching a movie where everyone uses long words! - but implicitly treated like dullards who don’t have attention-span enough to follow a complex story that happens in a complex world.Īnd Turing’s life and work is fundamentally a complex story. Pick some kind of message about the human soul and hammer it home at every opportunity, throw in some classy actors, and release around Oscar time. It takes a brainy sounding premise, squishes any subtlety and complexity out of it, and hacks at the story until it hits the right emotional beats at the right moments. I love smartdumb movies.Ī dumbsmart movie - this, The King’s Speech, Shakespeare In Love - does the opposite. The movies might be idiotic, but it’s grandmaster-level idiocy. A smartdumb movie - say, Dumb and Dumber - harnesses the creator’s skill, intelligence, wit and creativity to make something gloriously infantile and crass. Actually I find ‘middlebrow’ a bit of a snooty term, so I propose a word that better captures what I hate about them: dumbsmart. On a macro level, I’m starting to really hate middlebrow movies. So although I am going to take a royal dump on the movie, probably the more important bit for my mental health is figuring out why it upsets me so badly. Because it’s not an awful film - I’ve seen way worse and I mostly found them boring or occasionally entertaining. But as more and more reasons kept popping into my head, it occurred to me I should probably think some more about exactly why I have so much bad feeling towards this movie. I was just going to do a brain-dump about all the reasons The Imitation Game is bad movie.
Chunky Comic Reader 7 years ago Why did The Imitation Game bug me so much?