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'The Imatn Game' Director on Lack of Gay Sex Movie and Workg Wh Benedict Cumberbatch

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

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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 IMATN GAME’ DIRECTOR ON LACK OF GAY SEX MOVIE AND WORKG WH BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

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? * imitation game gay scene *

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” stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turg, a World War II Brish mathematician famo for crackg Nazi Germany’s Enigma , but ultimately punished by the ernment for his homosexualy.

Somethg that’s been a pretty hotly bated topic around this film is the explic exprsn of homosexualy.

BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH TALKS ABOUT GAY SEX SCEN (OR LACK OF) THE IMATN GAME

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We don’t even know Christopher was gay.

BUT IS IT GAY ENOUGH?: THE IMATN GAME

So you have that and to add somethg any way, we felt, would be disrpectful to this character beg gay.

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

It’s almost like addg an unnecsary sex scene for a heterosexual character…like bee he’s gay, we have to have that. We’re not shyg away om him beg gay. He was a clost gay man dog the whole World War, which was really part of the whole [film].

Get our ee weekly email for all the latt cematic news om our film cric Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cematic email for eeBenedict Cumberbatch has fend the cisn not to clu overt gay sex scen his latt movie, The Imatn Brish actor plays geni breaker Alan Turg who helps the Alli feat the German Nazis World War II, only to be crimally prosecuted for beg a homosexual when he is ught wh a 19-year-old man crics have asked why sex do not feature the film but acrdg to Cumberbatch, is "not an exploratn of someone's sex life". "He's chemilly strated bee he adms to beg a homosexual; he talks about entreatg a young man to touch his penis. "If you need to see that to unrstand that he's gay, then all is lost for any kd of subtle storytellg.

The many fac of Benedict Cumberbatch Show all 12Director Morten Tyldum also mented on the lack of gay sex, addg that was a "very nsc choice" as Turg's sexualy was "jt one part of the character that [he] wanted to reveal" Knightley, Allen Leech, Matthew Goo and Rory Knear also star alongsi Cumberbatch the film, which is already beg tipped for an is due for release UK cemas on 14 November. ” But addn to beg a brilliant scientist and a World War II hero for crackg the German “Enigma” , Turg was also a homosexual man, a fact that would ultimately lead to his arrt and forced chemil stratn at the hands of his ernment—and his subsequent suici.

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

I shouldn’t be y: This was a damn good movie—not perfect, but very effective as both a sprely (somewhat fictnalized) wartime genre adventure and a eply movg recuperatn of one of the greatt gays who ever lived. While his homo-nature is certaly not hidn the film, ’s more talked about than lived , if you know what I mean.

That’s not to say that we need a gay sex scene, as some have suggted; the omissn of that sort of thg seems plsible to me given the perd of tense work on which this film foc. Rather, ’s jt disappotg that homosexualy is always prented (sympathetilly) as a problem for Turg, rather than a source of happs.

At the same time, that feels like a reasonable narrative choice rather than a pout, bee Turg lived a time and place when the typil experience of male homosexualy would be worry and furtivens rather than joy and celebratn.

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