> The fabrications were especially frustrating to me, because we know it’s possible to bring Alan Turing’s story to life in a way that fully honors the true science and history. We know that, because Hugh Whitemore’s 1986 play Breaking the Code did it. The producers of The Imitation Game would’ve done better just to junk their script, and remake Breaking the Code into a Hollywood blockbuster. (Note that there is a 1996 BBC adaptation of Breaking the Code, with Derek Jacobi as Turing.)

Except that this is simply patently untrue in this case. The allegation here is precisely that the film makers were too lazy to fully exploit what real life gave them, and instead resorted to Hollywood stock.

And the director didn’t just “rearrange a few things”, he completely mis-represents, at the same time, Turing’s (as well as others’) character, the nature of his work, and the historical progression. After that there’s not much left.