First Time Watching | The Imitation Game (2014) | Reaction
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American Reacts to The Imitation Game starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing and Keira Knightley as Joan Clarke. First Time Watching the movie in its entirety, King Boomer is moved by this World War 2 British Drama about Alan Turing and other mathematicians and scientists in The United Kingdom who were tasked with cracking the German code that was deemed unbreakable (ENIGMA).
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Alan Turing the father of modern computing is on the british £50 note. Incredible that the very machine you are using to react to a film about him can be traced back to his achievements.
Alan Turing as portrayed here is meant to have autism, basically meaning taking stuff as it’s said, lacking social skills, and finding his hobbies are more interesting than other people, very broadly speaking. And I love people who think differently, also having autism myself, “normal” people are so boring. And one of my favorite quotes is “nobody ever made a difference by being like everyone else”.
@@ncard00. I absolutely love Bletchley Park it’s my favourite place
I think the best part of Turing on the £50 note is the quote:
“This Is Only a Foretaste of What Is To Come, and Only the Shadow of What Is Going To Be”
Don’t forget Tommy Flowers who built the world’s first programmable computer (Colossus).
Apparently Alan committed suicide by taking a bite out of a poisoned apple. (Snow white vibes anyone?) When Steve Jobs was asked if the Apple logo was a tribute to Turing, he said "no, but it damn well should of been."
I didn't know the Job's quote! I had heard that the logo was a tribute to Turing!
Far more likely he said ".... should have been."
He said he wished it was.
If you ever come to England, you can now visit the real Bletchley Park!! They've opened it to the public as a massive museum
Had the joy of an amazing tour of Bletchley Park with a great Scottish lady who worked there during the war
I want or we want the part 2 of The Imitation Game movie seriously
Benedict Cumberbatch always delivers. This man can do anything when it comes to acting.
Just to answer the bit about Churchill allowing a convoy to be attacked and people killed.
This occurred in the bombing of the city of Coventry when Churchill new that the city was about to be bombed and he had to allow it to take place to prevent the Germans from knowing they have broken the enigma code.
the cathedral of Coventry (its ruins) has been left standing as a memorial to the people who died during the bombing.
That is total nonsense. The mass bombing of Coventry occurred on November 14 1940. Enigma was broken on July 9, 1941. Stop making stuff up to sound knowledgeable and intelligent.
Apparently there is a memo from Churchill that he wrote after a visit to BP, as there were requests for more funding. The memo simply read, 'Give them what they want.'
Benedict Cumberbatch was nominated for an Oscar for his portrayal of Alan Turing in this film. However, he was up against Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything for the Best Actor category, and Eddie Redmayne won. Both actors attended the most prestigious schools in the UK. Cumberbatch went to Harrow. Redmayne went to Eton (and was in the same year as Prince William).
I want or we want the part 2 of The Imitation Game movie seriously. Greatt movies
For non-British what the hell is a prestigious school
@@BabaGoesHollywood Britain's top private schools
He has finally got some respect as his portrait is on a £50 note in the UK. Also my where I work university named one of its buildings a few years ago, fittingly the Maths/Science centre.
Sadly ironic they put him on a bank note that isn't accepted in a lot of places!
An interesting Charles dance fact... His Father Walter was born in 1874 and had him at age 72. Chalres had a daughter in 2012 aged 66. Her grandfather was born 138 years before her.
A wonderful film about a genuine international treasure and a very British kind of superhero.
It wasn’t just London my dad (aged Eleven )and his younger brother sat under a table during the Sheffield blitz 12 Dec 1940 their mother was not there she was across town and came back the next day. They were made of sterner stuff back then. He never mentioned it, his brother my uncle told us about it a few years before his own death.
Nice one KB, my mum had her 99th birthday this week, which included her giving a talk on her minor part in the war effort, having joined the Air Force in 1942 (where she learned to drive). She mainly worked with photo reconnaissance squadrons whose interpretation was concentrated at RAF Medmenham - a key counterpart to the signals intelligence at Bletchley Park (which interests her too). A further element of the backroom activities was then deception - you might be interested in the film Operation Mincemeat... which was a particularly filmable one, unlike the massive subterfuge for D--Day - Operation Fortitude. By the time of D-Day, Bletchley Park was deciphering German signals faster than the intended recipients, but still having to decide what they could act on with a plausible explanation that didn't involve having broken the code. On the flip side, when a German U Boat sank HMS Barham (see youtube for the clip released after the war), they knew the Captain didn't know he had sunk it, so didn't make it public for ages (leading to the last conviction under the Witchcraft Act 1735 for Helen Duncan - if that doesn't pique someone's interest for a Google...). All the above relates to Europe and the film to the Enigma code, but I'm sure you are aware that it was the US breaking some Japanese Code that enabled the battle of Midway and often covered in films on the subject.
I found the 1956 film 'The man who never was' to be a better version of the story than ;Operation Mincemeat'. The former was flawed a bit as some facts were still shrouded in secrecy and the second seemed to drift into personalities/relationships with god knows how much fantasy built in.
Part of why it took until 2013 to pardon Alan Turing because the whole story of what he and his team did during the war wasn't public knowledge until then. Once the information about breaking enigma was released he was pardoned.
The UK Government release the "ULTRA secret" in 1971.
No. The cracking of the Enigma code and Ultra became public knowledge in the 1970s with the release of several books about Bletchley Park, and was officially declassified by the British government in 1989. Don't make stuff up or hold forth on matter on which you are clearly ignorant.
Darkest hour is a good film about what Churchill did during ww2 - Churchill and Alan Turing were the biggest influences from britain in terms of winning the war. Gary Oldman also won best actor for his performance as Churchill
Would definitely recommend this film for a reaction and one of the best, if not THE best portrayal of Sir Winston Churchill I have ever seen.
I vote for Ricky Gervais’s “After Life” next, it’s absolutely hilarious 👍🏻
More than The Office & The Ricky Gervais Show?
@@davidz3879 Loved The Office, but I think Extras was better, maybe because I've seen The Office too many times, but After Life is very good.
@@davidz3879 The After Life out takes are so funny! Should be bottled as a cure for depression 😂
The after life is too sad to be a comedy. Derek is more light hearted
Also ‘the invention of lying’
A good film, shame how things went for Turing 😔
Kids were taken out of the cities and were passed on to folk living in the country pretty much randomly.
Often the kids were housed on farms and it was the first time kids had been away from their families.
Brilliant reaction, thank you King!
Laughs are great, but I'm equally fascinated by your reactions on history-based things too!
Touching to hear why you wear the DTs and yes we owe so much to the older generations especially those that went to wars!
Really impressed with your history knowledge. Learnt some things, even about my own bloody country that I didn't know before watching this video. great reaction.
it was all kept top secret for so long, thats why it took the Queen until the 2000s to pardon him
The Russians were using captured German equipment into the 1970s ... That is why.
Actually it was originally rejected by the government because they tried to say that within that time it was still illegal and he knew it was so they wasn’t going to pardon him. The only reason this got overturned was because millions of people went mad and a petition was made once again and it pressured the government to actually pardon him which is why they ended up asking the queen to pardon him in 2013 if it wasn’t for all those people signing the petition and basically pressuring them I reckon it would have never happened. Honestly he was a hero and he could have done so much more for our country if the world wasn’t so ignorant back then.
There are some really good gentle English comedies like the detectorists (series) or Mrs Coldicots cabbage war (film) or maybe you'd like gone fishing with Bob Mortimer & Paul Whitehouse -just being themselves in a program that shows Paul trying to teach Bob how to fish for different fish in a variety of rivers & lakes all around Britain.
I love the detectorists did you watch the Xmas special
@@cryptosammy yep, I saw the Christmas special & the feature length special this last Christmas just gone as well. This program has always struck a thumbs up from me & I never want it to end.
After Life is a must. Its absolutely thought provoking, hilarious and my god you will cry. Definitely one to watch with Queen Boomer however she will cry lol. Seen it three times ❤❤
The last episode crushed me!😢
Please rewatch this with both of you guys! This is one of my favourite films of all time
Unbelievable film my favourite film of all time. one of the only films I have watched multiple times
Alan Turing and Jean Laidlaw are definitely 2 of the biggest heroes on the Homefront of WWII, I would recommend looking into Jean Laidlaw of the Royal Navy's Western Approaches Tactical Unit because she was the one who helped design the Tactics and Training to solve the U-boat problem. Also I have seen it mentioned in other comments but A trip to Bletchley Park is highly recommended just to be able to walk around the huts, to see the machines is really an experience not to be missed if you are in the London area.
Really enjoyed your reaction & your understanding of how we faced up to the Nazis basically alone for 2 years.
The blitz was awful but the british Spirit never caved, everyone just carried on like normal the next day, hitler wanted us to be his ally and he feared fhe british resolve, he knew wed never give up and that scared him, although we was on our knees and he battered our supply lines the spitfire conquered. Apparently we was like a few weeks away from defeat too, but thats never spoken about, still, we won and britain will never surrender no matter what.
The one thing the history books never told you about the blitz, was it wasn't all holding hands and singing war songs in the underground tunnels, there was a lot of thievery, prostitution, fist fighting to the death over ration stubs and a lot of backstabbing. Keep calm and carry on.
THANK YOU for doing a reaction to this movie... for some reason it's one of the RAREST movies to find a reaction to. It is one of MY favorites though.
Mark Strong along with Keifer Sutherland and many other great actors are in another fantastic movie about WW2 this time about POW'S of the Japanese it's called "To End All Wars" (2001) it's one of those movies that really got to me, it should've won Oscars
If you want to see Mark strong in a completely different role you should watch brothers grimsby.
Watch it with Queen Boomer...............
I was visiting friends in London a few years back and on return at Kings Cross station to catch my train back oop north was 2 steam trains and loads of extras milling about. I asked one of the crew what was going on and they said they was doing some filming for a movie coming out the next year called The Imitation Game. Iv'e watched it a fair few times since.
This is the second war film with Benedict and Keira Knightly. The film being the equally brilliant Atonement.
'Went The Day Well?' is an interesting little film, released in 1942 so made during the war, about possible invasion. It has it's unexpected moments.
Written by Graham Greene, it was later 'borrowed' as "The Eagle Has Landed".
My dad was evacuated during the war, he was sent Wales and learnt to be a blacksmith. Then when he was conscripted he drove trucks around europe and was stationed near Belsen. He hardly ever talked about that bit.
Films like this mean more to me, I live in the Channel Islands, the only part Britain that were occupied by the Germans during the war…
Not many The Imitation Game reactions out there. Thanks for doing it. Underrated movie for sure.
Great reaction, king , keep it going
If you enjoyed this you should watch Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy. Every British actor worth mentioning in it. One of the best British films In decades
Yesterday's Cheese Rolling" clips have appeared!!
" Thrills and spills as Cheese Rolling 2023 leads to MULTIPLE" seems the best (7 mins)
The crowds becoming funnier year by year and the Womens Winner finished unconscious!
Thanks Bobby I’ll check it out!
Bobby I did a reaction to that video but it was blocked. So I’ll try a different one soon and see if I can get it up for you.
Thank you for doing this one. Such a great story and an excellent film. Sad but true. Always brings me to tears every time i watch it. So sad Alan Turing was treated the way he was. I only wish he lived to see what he had created and even in Tim e met up with Prof Stephen Hawking. Imagine those to mind getting together.
Please please watch a British TV series called ‘Faulty Towers’ it’s such a humour-ridden series, John Cleese plays an amazing role in it!
Fawlty Towers is brilliant. A new series of it is being made.
@@davidz3879 oh man that’s news to me! Gonna have to look into it and get excited whilst at work tonight 😂
Don’t mention the war!
Fawlty.
And yes, although YT seem to be extra fussy over such shows and reactions, sadly
I can't imagine how woke the remake will be
I was an air cadet at Bletchley Park for 5 years or so during my teenage years in the 2000’s - It’s mad how even today with a film like the Imitation Game, how few people in the UK, let alone in the world, know of the work of Alan Turing and the codebreakers of Bletchley Park!
They literally shortened the war by YEARS and saved millions of lives on both sides of the war in the process, but did so in complete secrecy - Secrecy that was kept until at least 1975, with most information only coming out in the last 40 years or so. Many of those who worked there during wartime took their role and efforts to the grave with them.
It was so cool to be an air cadet there and using the entirety of Bletchley Park (mostly preserved since it’s war days and now a great museum) as a place to do cadet exercises and training knowing the history and importance of the place!
I went to Sherborne School from 2010 - 2015. They filmed the scenes of Turing's young life at the school itself and the children that play extras in those scenes are all my classmates. I was offered the chance to be in it too but ended up refusing because I didn't want to get a haircut... 😅
A friend of mine back in college was an extra in the film he went to the same school Alan Turing went to
Logically one would have to ration the use of the daily information from the German forces and i imagine one would have to attempt to look at the possible unseen consequences of a German victory and a German defeat on every occasion then inform the relevant service of the German plan of attack ,when the calculations are made that would allow interception that would not look like information received through enigma but other forms of intelligence.
Gay legalisation was in 1967 in the UK. The US legalised it nationwide in 2003, though that was just the last state to do it.
this is a great film but it does have some very significant ommissions and inaccuracies. the largest of which is the ommission of the contribution of the Polish in the development of the breaking of Enigma. and the basic way that the Bombe worked. it was not made and then refined by identifying key information. rather using key "unchanging" info to break codes is codebreaking 101. the bombe was used to make this faster.
25:20 GREAT Recommendation to KB. Whoever you are! Horray, Horray, Horray!
Great reaction! You might want to watch From Russia With Love after this as Ian Fleming worked for MI6 during the war and wrote the James Bond novels to fictionalise stories he knew about the intelligence service! He too could not say anything about the war for 50 years. The whole plot of this second James Bond movie (and Sean Connery's personal favourite) revolves around a coding machine like Enigma. From Russia With Love (1963) also has the first use of a mobile phone in movies (see if you can spot it) ;)
As others have said there are lots of inaccuracies in the movie, but it does give a flavour for the era and events. Alan Turning was treated appallingly by the “establishment “, and probably committed suicide. A lot of historians agree,as was said at the end of movie, that he probably shortened the war by 2 years and saved millions of lives. The only official recognition he has is that he on our £50 note (bill).
As lovely as it is to see Kiera Knightley, there were other women involved. At its height Bletchley Park employed 8,000 women which was 75% of its workforce. A high percentage involved in decrypting messages and translating from German to English. The existence of Bletchley Park wasn’t declassified until the the 1970’s, but no one was told. It took years to leak out, then stories started appearing about dear elderly ladies talking to their grandchildren about how gran was a “spy” during the Second World War. “OK Grandma, is turning funny again, she thinks she’s James Bond”.
I think that many people get the impression that Turing was the prime mover in cracking the enigma problem.
It was a collaboration of many extraordinary people, the Poles, Welchman and the often forgotten Tommy Flowers from the GPO. 👍
@@pauldurkee4764 I agree, in particular Tommy Flowers. He effectively with valves put the whole thoughts of Turnings thoughts together.