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The Imitation Game: inventing a new slander to insult Alan Turing

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The wartime codebreaker and computing genius was pursued for homosexuality, but nobody - until film-makers came along - accused him of being a traitor, writes Alex von Tunzelmann

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https://www.sciencenews.org/article/‘-imitation-game’-entertains-expense-accuracy

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http://time.com/3609585/the-true-story-of-the-imitation-game/

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The Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game was an "absolute historical mess of the first order", the eminent historian Antony Beevor has said.

He warned of the "real danger" of fiction masquerading as fact in novels and on screen, and accused the film's creators of "changing characters deliberately". He suggested that unless historical figures were portrayed accurately their names should be changed to keep them "one step away from reality".

Alternatively, certain passages of a novel that are based on historical documents could appear in a different typeface, in order to alert the reader to what is and is not made up, he suggested.

Since people get most of their knowledge from books and films, Beevor said, it is "completely wrong" to "put words or thoughts into people from history".

He told Cheltenham Literary Festival: "This very grey area between fact and fiction means it is very hard to pin down what is genuinely based on history and authenticated documents, what is based on pure supposition or speculation and what is completely invented.

"I feel that is a danger area, especially when one sees some of the characters, in say some of the more recent novels and films." Beevor did, regardless, concede that The Imitation Game featured a "brilliant performance" by Benedict Cumberbatch as mathematician Alan Turing.

The Man Booker Prize-winning author Pat Barker said there was "nothing to be gained" from renaming characters, since people would recognize them anyway. "My own practice is that if the character appears under their own name, where you possibly can...keep it accurate as possible," she said.

"I do think that the rules change as soon as you are using a real character; you acquire the historian or the biographer's absolute duty to be fair, which is not a duty you have to any fictional character. It is quite different."

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The Imitation Game was a mess, the past deserves better, says historian

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The Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game was an "absolute historical mess of the first order", the eminent historian Antony Beevor has said. He warned of the "real danger" of fiction masquerading as fact in novels and on screen, and accused the film's creators of "changing characters deliberately".

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What's fact and what's fiction in the Benedict Cumberbatch film about the man who cracked the Nazi's code

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https://www.google.at/amp/s/thonyc.wordpress.com/2015/03/10/why-the-imitation-game-is-a-disaster-for-historians/amp/

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https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2015/03/10/why-the-imitation-game-is-a-disaster-for-historians/

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http://time.com/3609585/the-true-story-of-the-imitation-game/

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qvFppclGz0c

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https://www.google.at/amp/s/www.hypable.com/the-imitation-game-historical-accuracy/amp/

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2015/02/17/how-accurate-is-the-imitation-game/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.d0b4d6867c6a

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