‘Imatn Game,’ Alan Turg and the Chemil War on U.K.’s Gays – The Hollywood Reporter

Contents:

• THE IMATN GAME DIRECTOR MORTEN TYLDUM: WE DIDN'T NEED GAY SEX SCEN
• BUT IS IT GAY ENOUGH?: THE IMATN GAME
• THE IMATN GAME DIRECTOR FENDS FILM'S LACK OF GAY SEX SCEN
• GAY CRICISM(THE IMATN GAME)
• <I>THE IMATN GAME</I>'S ALAN TURG -- A GAY MAN FOR ALL SEASONS
• THE IMATN GAME FIGHTS FOR GAY RIGHTS WH TURG'S 'UNFAIR' STORY
• ‘IMATN GAME,’ ALAN TURG AND THE CHEMIL WAR ON U.K.’S GAYS
• ‘THE IMATN GAME’ ISN’T REALLY ABOUT GAY RIGHTS. BUT S OSRS MPAIGN IS.

THE IMATN GAME DIRECTOR MORTEN TYLDUM: WE DIDN'T NEED GAY SEX SCEN

It’s this gets sticky is when to the fate of Turg himself, who was gay when was still illegal and nvicted for gross cency, opted for chemil stratn rather than imprisonment, and died a year later, probably by his own hand, while sufferg this digny. The Imatn Game marks the return of spoiler-gate, that endls argy-bargy between crics and rears about how much rmatn is too other problem wh The Imatn Game is that tri to have s gay martyr ke and eat .

Later, he pneered digal putg and artificial telligence before killg himself 1952 followg his nvictn for gross cency – that is, gay sex.

But mak his gayns unambiguoly clear and shows how his adolcent sire for another boy is bound up secrecy, reprsn, shame and grief – a tragic ndn but one that also fuelled his tellectual foc and self-sufficiency wh such tremendo plex chicken-and-egg relatnship between persecutn and perceptn is at the heart of queerns, but gets ltle regnn the tim of bland pop monoculture and the LGBT mastream’s yearng for normaly.

BUT IS IT GAY ENOUGH?: THE IMATN GAME

A climactic scene featur Benedict Cumberbatch (as Turg) tearfully explag he chose chemil stratn over two year jail time as his punishment for beg charged "gross cency" for homosexual ntact. He had to fd himself as a homosexual a society dog s bt to csh homosexualy out of existence; and ls acute, though equally persistent as a problem his life, he had to f to an amic system that did not su his particular le of thought.

If elements of gay sexualy are ignored, is the name of munitn (that is, by not distractg more ignorant members of the dience) or supprsn (that is by avoidg offendg homophob)? The Imatn Game thks n get away wh skirtg the more salac tails of Turg's life bee follows a gay man durg a time when the revelatn of such tails uld lead to his arrt. The only reason to have a sex scene the film would be to satisfy crics who feels that every gay character needs to have a gay sex scene.

THE IMATN GAME DIRECTOR FENDS FILM'S LACK OF GAY SEX SCEN

”The Imatn Game is up for eight Osrs, cludg bt picture and bt actor for Benedict Cumberbatch, who has ed the film to support a mpaign to get other gay men arrted durg the same perd pardoned for their crim.

At the same time, Turg's meticulo and obssive personaly grated on his workers, he was nstantly sctized by Bletchley Park lear Commanr Denniston (Charl Dance), and he lived fear of people fdg out he was gay. Didn't start to crimalize homosexualy until 1967, 13 years after Turg died by suici, and wasn't until 2003 that the law ed to nvict Turg was repealed England and Wal.

GAY CRICISM(THE IMATN GAME)

This experience was also reflected Turg's relatnship wh the dghters of his psychologist Franz Greenbm, whom Turg started seeg for therapy 1952, after beg nvicted of homosexualy. In the movie, Turg realiz that Cairncross is a spy, but Cairncross blackmails him to stayg quiet by threateng to reveal that Turg is gay.

However, unlike the movie, the police didn't learn that Turg was gay while vtigatg him for beg a Soviet spy, and he was arrted 1952, not 1951.

<I>THE IMATN GAME</I>'S ALAN TURG -- A GAY MAN FOR ALL SEASONS

Alan Turg was a closeted gay man Rulg: Fact Alan Turg was gay at a time when homexual activy was outlawed England.

Gay men were nsired a secury risk to the ernment bee they were open to blackmail, so Turg lost his secury clearance.

The Imatn Game tri to rectify that, by pictg Turg as both a war hero and gay martyr; someone who sgle-handly end World War II at least two years early, and who suffered tragic jtice at the hands of his own ernment due to his sexualy.

THE IMATN GAME FIGHTS FOR GAY RIGHTS WH TURG'S 'UNFAIR' STORY

The biggt liberty taken by The Imatn Game is to acce Turg of beg a traor to Bra, by not reportg spy John Cairncross (Allen Leech) after Cairncross threatened to expose Turg as a homosexual.

‘IMATN GAME,’ ALAN TURG AND THE CHEMIL WAR ON U.K.’S GAYS

Rather, the police were told of Turg’s homosexualy while terrogatg the burglar, and this is what they went after him for.

Turg’s sexualy is certaly a key aspect of The Imatn Game, but the film picts him as a gay man who keeps his sexualy as a closely guard secret, on a par wh the secrecy surroundg his employment at Bletchley.

‘THE IMATN GAME’ ISN’T REALLY ABOUT GAY RIGHTS. BUT S OSRS MPAIGN IS.

Although homosexualy was at the time illegal Bra, Turg was open wh his iends and lleagu, and was known to equently make advanc to other men. Articl / 01 Activi & Events / Natnal English Competn (NEC) / Articl / 03 Stunts & Alumni / Stunts' PortfolGay Cricism(The Imatn Game).

Joan Clarke uld have ttified that he was ‘normal’ stead of havg him go through tough terrogatn to ‘e out’ as homosexual. In 1951, Alan Turg was ptured for beg a ‘poofter’ or homosexual and he was given choic; two years prison or two years of therapy.