“The Imatn Game” tells the story of Alan Turg, the gay Brish mathematician and World War II breaker who was nvicted 1952 on charg of cency.
Contents:
- THE IMATN GAME DIRECTOR MORTEN TYLDUM: WE DIDN'T NEED GAY SEX SCEN
- THE IMATN GAME DIRECTOR FENDS FILM'S LACK OF GAY SEX SCEN
- <I>THE IMATN GAME</I>'S ALAN TURG -- A GAY MAN FOR ALL SEASONS
- ‘IMATN GAME,’ ALAN TURG AND THE CHEMIL WAR ON U.K.’S GAYS
- BUT IS IT GAY ENOUGH?: THE IMATN GAME
- THE IMATN GAME FIGHTS FOR GAY RIGHTS WH TURG'S 'UNFAIR' STORY
- OSRS: ‘IMATN GAME’ DIRECTOR ON WHY THE FILM DIDN’T PORTRAY AN ALAN TURG GAY RELATNSHIP
- ‘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
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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. It’s kd of prejudiced to say that if you have a gay character a movie, you need to show explic gay sex.
They were both outsirs: she beg a woman, he beg this socially awkward gay man. It wasn’t jt that he was a closeted gay man — he was also a man who had a md that worked differently. If I have a gay character a movie, I need to have a sex scene — jt to prove that he’s gay?
His whole relatnship, how he falls love and the importance of him beg a gay man, was all about secrecy. 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 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.
THE IMATN GAME DIRECTOR FENDS FILM'S LACK OF GAY SEX SCEN
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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 .
Homosexualy was still a crime Great Bra at the time, and Turg was nvicted of “cency.
<I>THE IMATN GAME</I>'S ALAN TURG -- A GAY MAN FOR ALL SEASONS
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The laws at the time prevented Turg om beg openly gay, but he never kept his sexualy secret eher. The punishment for homosexualy was chemil stratn, a seri of hormone jectns that left Turg impotent.
In fiance, he traveled abroad to Norway and the Mederranean, where the gay rights movements were buddg. Homosexualy was nsired a secury risk at the time, and the nvictn st Turg his secury clearance. “After he’d been revealed as gay 1952, he uldn’t do any more secret work, ” Hodg said.
The new movie The Imatn game is brgg h attentn to a dark perd early 20th century, when homosexuals the U. Dpe his geni, Turg was prosecuted England 1952 for engagg a homosexual relatnship wh a man.
‘IMATN GAME,’ ALAN TURG AND THE CHEMIL WAR ON U.K.’S GAYS
Alan Turg is a prime example of the kd of historil figure people ce as proof that one's sexualy has no bearg on one's acplishments. Turg sentially vented the puter and formalized much that wh , cludg the algorhm and the ncept of artificial telligence. Acrdg to Wston Churchill, Turg ma the sgle biggt ntributn to the Alli' victory World War II. How uld possibly matter that he was also gay? * the imitation game alan gay *
The film picts the Turg’s unjt prosecutn and punishment for homosexualy, though slightly accurately (for more rmatn, the Guardian did a helpful analysis of the film’s facts). S., was “the worst time to be queer bee you are not beg ignored, you are actively searched for and persecuted, ” said John D’E, a profsor of gay and lbian studi at the Universy of Illois at Chigo.
” Durg Alan Turg’s life, public ncern over the possibily that homosexuals servg the ary or aidg the war effort uld be blackmailed by enemi tensified the stigma of homosexualy Bra.
The 1950s, was the begng of the end for Bra’s laws agast homosexual sex, as the prosecutn of proment people stoked a public backlash agast the laws.
BUT IS IT GAY ENOUGH?: THE IMATN GAME
In 1954, a well known journalist, Peter Wilblood was nvicted of homosexual acts wh two proment and wealthy men, Lord Montagu and Michael Pt-Rivers, a public trial that rulted prison time for all of the men and public opposn to laws agast homosexual sex. The trial lead to the creatn of the Wolfenn mtee of ernment reprentativ, misters, tors, and psychiatrists, which 1957, published a report remendg the disntuatn of laws agast homosexualy.
The report eventually led to the 1967 Sexual Offens Act, which end the crimalizatn of homosexual sex between nsentg men over the age of 21 Bra and Wal. The fervent prosecutn of gay sex didn’t start to happen earnt until the very perd durg which Turg lived.
As England, ncerns that homosexuals uld be blackmailed by Communist spi—an ia popularized by Senator Joe McCarthy—drove some of the fervor agast homosexuals durg that perd. Police officers went unrver public parks where homosexuals went to meet each other for sexual enunters, orr to unver them. “This is the height of what I ll the homosexual terror Ameri, ” said William Eskridge, a profsor at Yale Law School and the thor of Dishonorable Passns: Sodomy Laws Ameri.
THE IMATN GAME FIGHTS FOR GAY RIGHTS WH TURG'S 'UNFAIR' STORY
MORE: TIME reviews The Imatn Game Durg this same perd, Eskridge said, stat began to pass laws that allowed urts to stutnalize gay people fely mental stutns for havg “psychotic personali, ” where were experimented on, lobotomized, and given shock therapy. Some very bright mds who, but for their homosexualy, might have been allowed to ntribute more to society.
Om Harvard, was kicked out of the Army Map Service and barred om servg theUS ernment bee he was a homosexual. “One of geni of 20th century, the father of morn puters who helped w World War II, who was a lovely person, was stroyed by the anti homosexual terror, ” Eskridge said of Turg.
For all of the distctly drawn perd piece-ns of The Imatn Game, wh s English ra, tweeds, tea and unrstated heroism and humor, the film holds bracgly morn them that make both mastream and groundbreakg s portrayal of the life of one gay story of Brish mathematician, cryptanalyst and puter scientist Alan Turg who played a key role crackg Nazi Germany's Enigma is a h take on what means to be a homosexual when you're also smarter than everyone else and have the skills to end a world war.
OSRS: ‘IMATN GAME’ DIRECTOR ON WHY THE FILM DIDN’T PORTRAY AN ALAN TURG GAY RELATNSHIP
Contemporary issu like Aspergers, bullyg, discrimatn, vlence and women's rights and oh, a ltle thg like the disvery of puters crowd the gay rights story here but by no means overshadow s subtle theme of strength and digny for the LGBT muny and the world at Turg is prented The Imatn Game as a difficult hero whose homosexualy rms but do not fe him and ed helps him bee one of those people who no one imag anythg of who do the thgs no one n image.
This was a sort of gay rights movie but also a thriller, Turg was the father of puter science and a gay man - so we wanted to draw on all the facets of this life to appeal to morn dienc - as well as World War Two enthiasts, puter theorists, gay advot - all kds of Were there discsns gog to this on how much to emphasize his sexualy? NG:That Alan Turg was a gay man is a very important part of his story - but he was also a -breaker and a mathematician.
We were tryg to f all of this to a two hour movie - pecially sce this is a movie that revolv around Turg's time durg the war at Bletchley Park, and while he did nfi wh some of his iends about beg a homosexual he himself later scribed the place as a 'sexual sert. GM: One of the thgs we wanted to show is that for Turg his experience as a gay man Bra at that time was foundatnal to his mathematil, his philosophil work, his puter work.
‘THE IMATN GAME’ ISN’T REALLY ABOUT GAY RIGHTS. BUT S OSRS MPAIGN IS.
He was an outsir - he was outsi the societal mastream -he had the ias that no one else when we talk about the Imatn Game self -- which a nutshell is Alan's ia that we are only what we n nvce someone else that we are -- we are human to the gree that we n nvce someone else that we are human -- and I thk for a statement like that to e om a closeted gay man Bra the 1930s - was so foundatnal to his theoretil and mathematil work and that was what we were tryg to show the Before I saw The Imatn Game I expected to see an element of shame or huiatn Turg's revelatn of or persecutn for beg gay and jt wasn't there - talk about that? He was so fiant about and I love that about Jt as seeg Selma is important for younger Ain Amerins to see what their grandparents and great-grandparents went through the 1960s, The Imatn Game is showg younger gay men and women what homosexuals endured the not so distance past.
GM: When we look at prejudice that certa groups have received the past we ually talk about terms of dividual acts of prejudice, dividual acts of homophobia, dividual acts of racism, but one of the thgs that was so tertg about this story was Alan's character and the character of Joan Clarke whom Keira Knightley plays - they both faced this sort of stutnal sexism. The aren't characters who are facg and prevailg agast specific dividual acts of homophobia and persecutn - was at an stutnal level. Gay men were stutnally discrimated agast Bra at the time, jt as women were stutnally discrimated agast.
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. 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.