topic Imitation in Community Spirit

Imitation

rabbitearbandicoot — Wed, 27 May 2015 08:51:18 GMT

has anyone watched Imitation - the story of how Alan Turing and his team built the machine to crack Enigma code?

It was set in a time when, if you were a homosexual you could go to prison or, as in his case, be chemically casterated.

Re: Imitation

lurker172602 — Wed, 27 May 2015 09:11:37 GMT

Do you mean The Imitation Game? The movie released last year? No, I haven't, but I hear it's very good.

I'm confused though. What is the main point of your thread? The movie, the person, his work, his sexuality or the historical treatment of homosexual people?

Re: Imitation

rabbitearbandicoot — Wed, 27 May 2015 09:20:02 GMT

@lurker172602 wrote:
Do you mean The Imitation Game? The movie released last year? No, I haven't, but I hear it's very good.

I'm confused though. What is the main point of your thread? The movie, the person, his work, his sexuality or the historical treatment of homosexual people?

Yes.

Re: Imitation

the_great_she_elephant — Wed, 27 May 2015 09:33:14 GMT

Mr Elephant and I visited Bletchley Park a few years ago. It's an amazing place, and the machinery required to run those 'computers' is massive. I kept thinking what he might have accomplished if he'd had a few microchips.

Re: Imitation

rabbitearbandicoot — Wed, 27 May 2015 09:34:59 GMT

@the_great_she_elephant wrote:
Mr Elephant and I visited Bletchley Park a few years ago. It's an amazing place, and the machinery required to run those 'computers' is massive. I kept thinking what he might have accomplished if he'd had a few microchips.

Yes, I wonder how long it would take a super-computer to crack it these days?

Re: Imitation

rabbitearbandicoot — Wed, 27 May 2015 09:37:42 GMT

and, here's one for gleee - it was a woman who gave him the final hint that allowed him to crack it........ well, in the movie anyway ..

Re: Imitation

youcandoityoucandoityoucandoit — Wed, 27 May 2015 11:06:25 GMT

and that quote!:

'Sometimes its the people no one imagines anything of that do the things that no one imagined'

Theres also the earlier movie 'Breaking the Code' with the always excellent Derek Jacobi playing Alan Turing..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S23yie-779k

Each are quite different interpretations of his life..

I would love to go to Bletchley Park...