“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 FENDS FILM'S LACK OF GAY SEX SCEN
- BUT IS IT GAY ENOUGH?: THE IMATN GAME
- THE IMATN GAME DIRECTOR MORTEN TYLDUM: WE DIDN'T NEED 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
THE IMATN GAME DIRECTOR FENDS FILM'S LACK OF GAY SEX SCEN
By focg on Alan Turg’s outsir nature as a facet of his sexualy, The Imatn Game succsfully brgs gay culture to the mastream * the imitation game gay *
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
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 gay *
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.
Equally well-known, at least Bra, is the fact that Turg was gay, a homosexual, to e the termology of the day, and that he reputedly mted suici 1954 at the age of 41 after receivg hormone therapy as a rult of a nvictn 1952 for gross cency. The film has also attracted cricism some quarters for unrplayg Turg’s homosexualy, and foregroundg a (non-sexual) relatnship wh fellow mathematician, Joan Clarke, played by Brish actrs Keira Knightley.
THE IMATN GAME DIRECTOR MORTEN TYLDUM: WE DIDN'T NEED GAY SEX SCEN
"It’s kd of prejudiced to say that if you have a gay character a movie, you need to show explic gay sex." * the imitation game gay *
But bis such personal tails, the film’s more general portrayal of homosexual life the 1940s and 1950s do stand up to cril scty.
<I>THE IMATN GAME</I>'S ALAN TURG -- A GAY MAN FOR ALL SEASONS
Blackout durg wartime afford opportuni for homosexual liaisons that many wouldn’t have experienced before.
However, homosexualy remaed illegal unr the hated “Labouchère” amendment to the Crimal Law Amendment Act 1885, which outlawed “gross cency” between men.
In this sense the film ptur the perpetual threat that homosexual men had to live wh.
‘IMATN GAME,’ ALAN TURG AND THE CHEMIL WAR ON U.K.’S GAYS
The war years may have been relatively kd to homosexual men but prosecutns for sexual crim creased the perd immediately after the war, reachg a peak 1961. The police pursu of Turg The Imatn Game provis an sight to the importance the police gave to prosecutg homosexual “crim”.