The Imitation Game - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of The Imitation Game or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to The Imitation Game

[melinda]

The scenes from Turing's childhood at the boarding school clearly indicate that he was somewhere on the Autism Spectrum Disorder. Sorting his peas from his carrots is one indicator, as well as his panic when the other boys toss their leftovers on his head and plate is a second indicator. The third is his inability to make jokes or understand jokes. The fourth indicator is his inability to socialize comfortably. There are likely other signs throughout the movie which would go with an Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis.

[ray]

Production designer Maria Djurkovic intended for the wallpapers in Alan Turing's house to be codes, with dots and lines. "It's very subtle, but she's trying to define him," says director Morten Tyldum.

[wallace]

Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley had personal milestones during the theatrical release of the film. Cumberbatch announced his engagement to theatre director Sophie Hunter in November 2014 and Knightley announced that she is expecting her first child with musician husband James Righton the following month.

[bernard]

Five weeks before the outbreak of World War II, on 25 July 1939, in Warsaw, the Polish Cipher Bureau revealed its Enigma-decryption techniques and equipment to representatives of French and British military intelligence, which had been unable to make any headway against Enigma. This Polish intelligence-and-technology transfer would give the Allies an unprecedented advantage (Ultra) in their ultimately victorious prosecution of World War II.

[nora]

Italian censorship visa # 109216 delivered on 18-12-2014.

[leo]

In a rare instance of kindness, Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch) gives each member of his team an apple. In real life, Turing committed suicide by taking a bite out of a poisonous apple.

[cassandra]

The film's screenplay topped the annual Blacklist for best non-Hollywood scripts of 2011.

[wallace]

Actress Keira Knightley and actor Benedict Cumberbatch previously both appeared in Atonement (2007), which had been made and released around seven years earlier.

[terry]

One of two espionage films that actress Keira Knightley appeared in during 2014, the other being Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014).

[dustin]

The movie went on general release in the UK on November 14, 2014. Coventry was blitzed by the Luftwaffe on the same day in 1940. It is long rumoured that plans for the attack had been discovered by the Bletchley Park code-breakers but no action was taken to stop it because the British Government was worried that such action would disclose the fact that the Enigma code had already been broken. The idea that the British knew about the pending attack on Coventry is incorrect. They knew there was an attack pending but not where it would be made. The allegation that Churchill purposely withheld information so the Germans would not know their code had been broken is false.

[charlie]

Catherine Duchess of Cambridge's maternal grandmother used to work at Bletchley Park, just like Alan Turing and his team of codebreakers.

[francisco]

On 8 November 2014, The Weinstein Company co-hosted a private screening of the film with Digital Sky Technologies billionaire Yuri Milner and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Attendees of the screening at Los Altos Hills, California, included Silicon Valley's top executives like Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, Linkedin's Reid Hoffman, Google co-founder Sergey Brin, Airbnb's Nathan Blecharczyk and Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, to name a few.

[mathew]

To play Turing, Benedict Cumberbatch wore dentures, at his own behest. No one else demanded that of him.

[bryan]

The official film website at theimitationgamemovie.com allows visitors to unlock exclusive content by solving crossword puzzles conceived by Turing in his lifetime.

[gabriel]

Matthew Goode and Allen Leech play co-workers in this movie working with Alan Turing. They also appear in Downton Abbey (2010) together as well, playing brothers-in-law (married to sisters).

[liam]

Alex Lawther, who plays the young Turing, and Benedict Cumberbatch both wore dentures in the film which were exact copies of Alan Turing's own 60-year old set of false teeth.

[bryan]

In its review of the film, The New York Times has indicated a parental warning for "advanced mathematics." The complete notice reads, "'The Imitation Game' is rated PG-13 (parents strongly cautioned). Illicit sex, cataclysmic violence and advanced math, most of it mentioned rather than shown."

[jamie]

"Alan Turing: The Enigma" by Andrew Hodges served as the main inspiration of this film's script. The book had previously served as source material for two made-for-television movies based on the life of Alan Turing in the 1990s.

[nicholas]

The scenes of young Alan during his schooldays were filmed at Sherborne School, where Alan was educated between 1926 and 1931. Many of the extras who played school boys were pupils at Sherborne School at the time of filming.