"9 Secrets About The Imitation Game, Straight From ..." Topic

…Its Screenwriter.

"Screenwriter Graham Moore is a self-described Alan Turing obsessive: He went to space camp and computer programming camp as a teenager, so the famed mathematician loomed large, "like a campfire legend or something." Turing's life ultimately proved so inspirational to Moore that bringing his story to the big screen became a life goal.

"Once I became a writer I would go to my agents once a year and say, ‘Hey, there's this movie I really want to write about a gay English mathematician who commits suicide after the Second World War,'" Moore remembers. "And they were like, ‘That's a big Hollywood movie!' … No, they did not say that at all. They were like, ‘Please don't ever write that; no one will ever finance that movie.'"

Nevertheless, when producers Nora Grossman and Ido Ostrowsky got the rights to Andrew Hodges' Turing autobiography Alan Turing: The Enigma, Moore signed up to write the script—for free. And while he was writing, he was aware that he wanted the screenplay for The Imitation Game, which hits theaters today, to do Turing justice. "There's this responsibility to do it properly and to do it with respect," Moore says. "Historical accuracy was tremendously important to us." …"

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Amicalement
Armand

It's an excellent film – well acted, great script, and compelling. Intelligent and witty as well. One of the best films I've seen in years.

Thanks for the recomendations my friend.

Amicalement
Armand

20th, I second that – an excellent film, well worth a trip to the cinema.