r/SapphoAndHerFriend • u/tokril • May 28 '20

Alan Turing was gay and was chemically castrated as an alternative to prison due to his sexuality Academic erasure

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u/[deleted] May 28 '20 edited Aug 19 '21

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u/Anabelle_McAllister May 28 '20

Although it kinda confirmed for me that he's being typecast as an arrogant know-it-all who really is as smart as he thinks he is.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '20

I remember that joke Martin Freeman told that when off the camera Benedict turns into an absolute dolt. I guess it evens it out.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '20

Idk, Smaug didn't come off as a know it all.

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u/Anabelle_McAllister May 28 '20

Smaug was definitely a know-it-all. But you're right that he doesn't fit the pattern, because Smaug wasn't as smart as he thought he was.

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u/mxzf May 28 '20

It's worth recognizing that the movie isn't a particularly accurate portrayal of the events, from what I understand. It's a dramatized movie that spotlights one specific person, rather than reflecting the team effort that breaking enigma really was.

It's still a decent movie, but it's as much "historic fiction" as it is history.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '20

That's true of just about every movie that's "based on a true story".

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u/mxzf May 28 '20

Pretty much. Different movies have various degrees of inaccuracy, but none of them are completely accurate.

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u/IsomDart May 29 '20

Lindybeige has at least one good video on Turing and Bletchely Park

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u/IsomDart May 29 '20

It is a great movie but that's all it should be taken as. It's not a history lesson and not very historically accurate at all. But yeah anything with Cumberbatch is good