#The Imitation Game

[lianxingkoi]

Happy birthday to Benedict！

[high-functioning-fangirl]

Happy birthday to my favourite actor, the best Sherlock Holmes ever in my incredibly biased opinion, as well as every other flawless performance. Praying with all I am to meet this man some day - the one and only Benedict Cumberbatch.

[elennemigo]

"When (Benedict´s) characters become obsessed with something."

[Insp. by @/Ayatay tweet.]

[mrmousetolliver]

Alan Mathison Turing

Alan Turing was  was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist and is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science. During the Second World War, Turing worked for the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, Britain's codebreaking centre that produced Ultra intelligence. He led Hut 8, the section responsible for German naval cryptanalysis. He devised techniques for speeding the breaking of German ciphers, including improvements to the pre-war Polish bomba method, an electromechanical machine that could find settings for the Enigma machine. Turing played a crucial role in cracking intercepted messages that enabled the Allies to defeat the Axis powers in many crucial engagements, including the Battle of the Atlantic. in 1952 when Turing was 39, he began a relationship with Arnold Murray, a 19 year old unemployed man. In January of 1952, Turings house was burgled, and Murray told Turing that he and the burglar were acquainted, and Turing called the police to report the crime. During the investigation, he acknowledged a sexual relationship with Murray and both men were charged with "gross indecency" under Section 11 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885. On the advice of his family and lawyer he pled guilty. In March of 1952 he was convicted and given a choice between imprisonment or probation with the condition that he undergo a hormonal treatment to reduce libido, aka as "chemical castration". Turing opted for probation and began the chemical treatments. Over the course of the following year he was injected with estrogen, causing impotence and for breast tissue to form. In a letter, Turing wrote that "no doubt I shall emerge from it all a different man, but quite who I've not found out".

On 8 June 1954, at his house at 43 Adlington Road, Wilmslow, Turing's housekeeper found him dead. A post mortem was held that evening which determined that he had died the previous day at the age of 41 with cyanide poisoning cited as the cause of death. When his body was discovered, an apple lay half-eaten beside his bed, and although the apple was not tested for cyanide, it was speculated that this was the means by which Turing had consumed a fatal dose. Many question whether his death was suicide or accidental but it is officially listed as suicide. In 2013, Queen Elizabeth II signed a pardon for Turings conviction of "gross indencency", with immediate effect. The Queen officially pronounced Turing pardoned in August 2014. The Queen's action is only the fourth royal pardon granted since the conclusion of the Second World War. Pardons are normally granted only when the person is technically innocent, and a request has been made by the family or other interested party; neither condition was met in regard to Turing's conviction. In September 2016, the government announced its intention to expand this retroactive exoneration to other men convicted of similar historical indecency offences, in what was described as an "Alan Turing law". The Alan Turing law is now an informal term for the law in the United Kingdom, contained in the Policing and Crime Act 2017, which serves as an amnesty law to retroactively pardon men who were cautioned or convicted under historical legislation that outlawed homosexual acts. The law applies in England and Wales.

[parkjihyoist]

The Imitation Game (2014)

Are you paying attention? Good. If you are not listening carefully, you will miss things. Important things. I will not pause, I will not repeat myself, and you will not interrupt me. You think that because you're sitting where you are, and I am sitting where I am, that you are in control of what is about to happen. You're mistaken. I am in control, because I know things that you do not know.

[asgoodeasgold]

Random GIFs of Matthew Goode eating

You never know when it may be handy 🤷🏻‍♀️

I might add to the collection as the opportunity arises.

[pinkeoni]

will byers' painting in STRANGER THINGS 4 // alan turing's message in THE IMITATION GAME

[anaamaya]

Happy Matthew Goode!❤

[qnfrtt]

but I'm a million different people from one day to the next.

[tobitoooo]

MATTHEW GOODE FROM DEPT Q IS THE HOT MAN FROM STOKER AND IMITATION GAME?????

[sobeautifullyobsessed]

I had the opportunity the past couple of days to revisit some of Benedict's work from over a decade ago. Namely, Parade's End

and The Imitation Game.

What a pleasure to go back and be reminded of why I fell in love with such a brilliant, talented, intuitive, compassionate (specifically regarding the foibles of human nature) Actor! He always thoroughly embodies the character, living and breathing them into life. One can feel the character's truth sourced from his very soul ~ as though each element of that character is a part of him, and he just taps into them to make us see and understand their struggles and pain. It hits me directly in my heart, and I am both better & grateful for the insight into humanity.

The man should have ALL the freaking awards by now...but I suppose that those who vote on such things lack the gift of reckognizing his gift. And that such awards aren't fully based on merit, but on whose 'turn' it is to win (*cough,cough* The Slapper) or some other ridiculous Hollywood popularity game. I know that Benedict says time and again that he doesn't care ~ but this Fan always will.

GREATEST ACTOR

OF HIS

GENERATION

[dreamerontherun]

Happy Birthday to the most talented Matthew Beard !

[elennemigo]

OLYMPIC GAMES 2024: Benedict Cumberbatch edition. 🥇🥈🥉

[greenfiend]

I was actually shocked by the similarities when I watched The Imitation Game…

[star-lights-up]

watched the imitation game today in history class.

(spoilers below)

WHAT DO YOU MEAN THAT I WAS RIGHT ABOUT HIM BEING GAY!?!?!????!!???

WHAT DO YOU MEAN HIS FRIEND DIED BEFORE HE COULD CONFESS HIS LOVE????!?!?!?!??????

WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE TURNED DOWN A LAVENDER MARRIAGE WITH KIERA KNIGHTLY ONLY TO GET ARRESTED, CHEMICALLY CASTRATED, AND COMMIT SUICIDE???????!?!!!!!!!!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?

AND W H A T D O Y O U M E A N A REAL PERSON ACTUALLY WENT THROUGH THIS?!?!?!?!?

awful. ugh. destroyed. emotionally distraught.

[asgoodeasgold]

The Matthew Goode side glance

It sends shivers down my spine.

📷 My edits from Netflix Dept. Q (2025) ep4, The Colour Room (2021), Burning Man (2011), The Imitation Game (2014), A Discovery of Witches (2018) s1:01