Here is a new short clip from the film. Amazing.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/news/a604894/benedict-cumberbatch-attends-a-job-interview-in-the-imitation-game-clip.html?utm_source=twt&utm_medium=snets&utm_campaign=twitter#~oTBgsbdmmpLnRT

Are you getting it first?

That's more or less what I thought, thank you.

Last edited by besleybean (October 24, 2014 3:59 pm)

I still wish I could take you all with me.  
Imagine a theater full of forum memebers.

Last edited by tonnaree (October 24, 2014 4:02 pm)

tonnaree wrote:

I still wish I could take you all with me.  
Imagine a theater full of forum memebers.

There'd be a riot. heh
I often wonder what it will be like to go to one of the Hamlet perfomances next year. The tix sold out in minutes/hours, and you gotta know that a lot of those shows will be filled up with fans who just want to gawk. I've seen Hamlet on the stage, and if the audience is at all rowdy, it spoils the whole thing. I hope everyone will behave, but maybe that's a lot to ask.

 

ancientsgate wrote:

tonnaree wrote:

I still wish I could take you all with me.  
Imagine a theater full of forum memebers.

There'd be a riot. heh
I often wonder what it will be like to go to one of the Hamlet perfomances next year. The tix sold out in minutes/hours, and you gotta know that a lot of those shows will be filled up with fans who just want to gawk. I've seen Hamlet on the stage, and if the audience is at all rowdy, it spoils the whole thing. I hope everyone will behave, but maybe that's a lot to ask. 

I hope so too, as Hamlet is so intense it's a great pity to ruin the mood.

OTOH--It will be very authentic to Shakespeare's time if the "groundlings" are rambunctious!

SusiGo wrote:

This is great news. Alan Turing's niece Inagh Payne who had been a bit reserved towards the film and the role of Joan Clarke aka Keira Knightley has watched the film and is very happy with it. As the interview is no  longer available on BBC iPlayer, I am quoting it in full:

(Allan Beswick with BBC Radio Manchester talking to Inagh Payne)
AB: Inagh…
IP: Hello
AB: Have you seen the film yet?
IP: Yes, I’ve seen it twice, I went to premier last night and I really enjoyed it -  it was great. Benedict Cumberbatch portrayed Alan very well, he played the part with great sensitivity and that was very moving at the end and also Keira Knightley was very good indeed as Joan Clark - they seemed to  get the relationship just right in the film and the film really did honour to my uncle and it’ll should make everyone more aware of his immense achievements.
AB: Listening to your voice  - without being too rude - you sound like you were relieved after seeing the film to a certain extent… you must have been quite apprehensive 
IP: Um well, I faintly yes, I wasn’t quite sure what it was going to be like.  I was really pleasantly suprised when I saw it first time round ah with my family -and we, well, almost without exception we all thoroughly enjoyed it. But of course there are not many people alive now that remember my uncle, just just myself and my two sisters. [there’s two ladies who were daughters of Alan’s psychologist friend - I wonder if they’re still alive and I’m sure there are a couple codebreakers who recall their time at Bletchley Park - but, it’s not family of course]
AB: How well do you remember him? what age were you when he was doing his work and then his unfortunate life afterwards
IP: Well I was 18 when he died (AB: oh dear) but I have got vivid memories of him but I didn’t see that much of him because I was away at boarding school most of the time, but he was a wonderful uncle, very kind, very generous, very caring
AB: Somebody suggested this morning that he ought be on  a bank note
IP: That has been suggested before and yes (laughs) and um well that would be wonderful
AB: There is a sort of groundswell behind him now though isn’t there and it could get there
IP: Well it might do yes because he’s becoming more and more famous as time goes on
AB: Quite so… a pleasure to talk to talk to you…
 

An interview of bitter-sweet beauty... sound sweet and sad at the same time.
Still, the movie sounds great. Can´t wait for the premiere.
 

Just found this on Twitter, not sure if it has already been posted somewhere on these boards:

@AlanTuringYear: "The @ImitationGame, 'Birdman' to Open #Poland's Camerimage Festival" Nov.15 http://t.co/KFWqyTihLM #Turing via @THR http://t.co/yLoH4aiMR3

Now the festival is held in Bydgoszcz, not a major Polish town and not a one easy to reach.

SusiGo wrote:

This is about thing that were cut from th GN show. Really shocking, I did not know these details about the chemical castration:

Most importantly, BC spoke about Alan Turing and the treatment that the scientist received after his sentence. BC said that Turing’s doctor was embarrassed about Turing having to make regular visits to the surgery in order to have the oestrogen injections (chemical castration) and so instead fitted Turing with an implant directly into his hip. The treatment was to last for two years as, after that point, it would have been deemed to have been ‘successful’. BC said that such was Turing’s distress in having the device inside him, that at one stage of utter despair, he took a knife and attempted to cut the implant out himself. The scars of which he bore until his death. 

The inhumanity with which this man was treated is truly awful.