Benedict Cumberbatch stars as Alan Turing, the brilliant U.K. mathematician and computer scientist who helped the Allies secure victory in World War II by cracking the German enigma code, and who later committed suicide after being prosecuted as a homosexual by his own government. Keira Knightly, Rory Kinnear, Mark Strong, Matthew Goode, Matthew Beard, and Charles Dance co-star in this biographical drama from director Morten Tyldum ("Headhunters")
mathematician and computer scientist who helped the Allies secure victory in World War II
who later committed suicide after being prosecuted as a homosexual by his own government
This is a huge opportunity for him (lead character in a movie for once), hope everything goes well, because the premises are good..if not great, imo.
He has been a lead before lol
Had forgotten about The Fifth Estate ..but, I want to give him another chance! (He actually didn't do bad in that movie as far as I remember, it was the rest that was rather underwhelming). Oh well, we'll see.
I wonder if Poland will get some credit in the movie for cracking it first (before the code became more sophisticated) :
"German military texts enciphered on the Enigma machine were first broken by the Polish Cipher Bureau, beginning in December 1932. This success was a result of efforts by three Polish cryptologists, Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Różycki and Henryk Zygalski, working for Polish military intelligence. Rejewski "reverse-engineered" the device, using theoretical mathematics and material supplied by French military intelligence. Subsequently the three mathematicians designed mechanical devices for breaking Enigma ciphers, including the cryptologic bomb. From 1938 onwards, additional complexity was repeatedly added to the Enigma machines, making decryption more difficult and necessitating larger numbers of equipment and personnel—more than the Poles could readily produce."
I understand that the movie will focus on life of Turing and his struggle after the war. Still, the plot synopsis sounds like he cracked the enigma single-handedly.
I've read they kinda fucked up Turing's personality. Cumberbitch practically played BBC's Sherlock whereas Turing was nothing like Sherlock + it has some historical inaccuracies.
I've read they kinda fucked up Turing's personality. Cumberbitch practically played BBC's Sherlock whereas Turing was nothing like Sherlock + it has some historical inaccuracies.
All that and ofc it has the usual cliches(until the last minute, the epiphany stuff, the hard nosed boss, etc etc), unfortunately.
boundle (thoughts on cracking AITD) wrote:
i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then
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..but, I want to give him another chance! 
