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    entire film and that was the Enigma machine. This machine was said to be the unbreakable message translator that would be all the leverage needed for Germany to have the victory at the end of the tunnel. The Enigma machine was easy to understand but extremely difficult to break, especially when you only had 24 hours to break that days worth of codes and then after all the work would change for a new day of code breaking. The second motif would be Turing’s machine named Christopher.

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    The Imitation Game The film, “The Imitation Game”, follows the life of Alan Turing, a homosexual mathematician, who became a war hero after breaking Enigma, an encryption device that the Germans used for communication purposes during World War II. Decoding Enigma had a major effect on World War II. In 1939, Alan Turing, and four other code breakers, Joan Clarke, Hugh Alexander, John Cairncross, and Peter Hilton were employed by the British military as cryptographers to decipher the secret messages

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    "The Imitation Game" by Morten Tyldum, is a handsomely engrossing and poignantly melancholic thriller about code-cracking World War Two thrills. Alan Turing successfully attempts to break the enigma code which leads to 14 million lives being saved and the war being shortened by 2 years. Conflict is all over this film emotionally and physically, externally and internally, especially in the protagonist's case, Alan Turing, who isn't exactly a straight forward character. As humans we generally feel

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    Tyldum and written by Graham Moore, which is based on the biography Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges. It is about the code breaking program by the British during World War II, which helped Britain to break encoded Enigma messages from the Germans. Alan Turning, the main character, is a homosexual mathematician that is in charge of the project and is portrayed as a selfish genius that builds the code breaking machine, “Christopher” almost by himself. During the movie, he is suspected to be a Soviet

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    The Imitation Game

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    historical film The Imitation Game, directed by Morten Tyldum. I would recommend this text because of how we can learn from the theme of Homophobia and the idea of Individualism. The film is about Alan Turing and his struggle to create a machine to decipher the enigma code used by the germans in the second world war. Throughout the film he works past obstacles in his way in order to achieve this goal of creating a “mechanical mind”.The film is mostly shown as a series of flashbacks from Alan as he

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    What is Enigma? It is a mysterious thing that is hard to understand, even if possible. During World War II, Alan Turing took on the mission to break the code that so many people in Britain thought was impossible. Even though Alan Turing’s childhood was full of misery, he was able to break a seemingly unbreakable code, and became a war hero by saving countless of lives during World War II. Alan Turing had a hard life in his childhood. His parents did not take care of him because they were always on

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    The film Falling Down Falling Down is a film about a man who we know very little about (at the start) apparently trying to get home to see his family, it is his little girls birthday. The film opens with the camera coming out of his mouth and showing his face then the rest of his body, you notice that he is wearing a white shirt and tie. It then moves around the scene showing you that he is very hot and stuck in a traffic jam, it shows the people in the cars around

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    PRADESH India Introduction The Imitation Game was the name of the test Alan Turing contrived to whether machines could think like humans. At the same time, as a man who had to enshroud his sexuality for his own well being and job security. A book can go to figurative places; the way Imitation Game makes literal Turing’s attractions is by having him emotionally connect with the decoding machine

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    to break Germany’s unbreakable Enigma code during World War II. Turing along with a group of unknown British scholars work desperately day and night under pressure to achieve this victory which ultimately ends in a tragedy. Alan Turing was a brilliant mathematician, but he lived with the insecurity of hiding his homosexuality. In the Oscar nominated film taking place in London World War II era, Alan Turing races against the clock to invent a revolutionary machine that would shorten the war by nearly

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    analyzes Enigma messages, and Turing builds a machine to decipher them. His team succeeds and become heroes, but in the year 1952 Alan encounters disgrace when the authorities find out he is homosexual, and they send him to prison. The reason I want to research this paper is because I want find out who Alan Turing really was, and I want to find out if there were different ways of code breaking during World War II. In the movie Alan Turing is a genius that single handily built a machine to help decipher

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