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Leonardo DiCaprio To Play Alan Turing?
mikejuk writes "2012 is the one hundredth anniversary of Alan Turing's birth, with many celebration events being planned around the world. This week Warner Bros outbid other companies for the script of a biopic based on Turing's life. The script for The Imitation Game, by first-time screenwriter Graham Moore and based in turn on the biography by Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma, was snapped up by Warner Bros in a 7-figure deal. Right now the leading candidate to portray Turing is Leonardo DiCaprio."
...although it would be ironic if the actor playing him would fail his test.
If Scorsese's directing, DiCaprio's leading.
If DiCaprio's leading, Scorsese's directing.
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As long as the movie is of infinite length, and certain other conditions are observed, shouldn't it be possible for any actor to successfully play Turing, albeit quite possibly requiring impractical amounts of time to do so?
He is one of the last actors I would imagine to play character like Turing, a thoughtful man, mathematician, scientist.. Everything Leo isn't.
Personally I think this would be fantastic. Two of my favorite people. I think Leo is a superb actor and we all know what a fascinating and enigmatic person Turning was.
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Women do drool over men who are into other men, you know.
Women love homo-erotica. They don't fantasize about guys having sex, but rather, imagine men falling romantically in love with each other. Weird, eh?
Like all pain, suffering is a signal that something isn't right
Being a gay man is a disease. AIDS is an advanced form.
You talk like a closet fag. Try not to dream of muscles when you sleep tonight.
Like all pain, suffering is a signal that something isn't right
A story on Turing could exploits a lot of interesting angles. He's an important figure in computer science AND in cryptography. His most prestigious work was done with WWII in the backdrop, and helped the allies tremendously. Finally, he has the total romantic yet misunderstood hero story - his contribution was a war secret, he was condemned for his homosexuality by the state he helped so much, and died a Plato death.
There's a kickass script to be made out of that.
Oh and DiCaprio is a fine choice. Great actor, versatile enough to pull it out and to let the character be the story.
How is that weird? Guys do the same about women. The falling in love part too.
Also, many girls have told me they like watching gay porn much more than lesbian porn.. which is true for most men too, just in reverse.
They don't drool over the fact they're into other men, they're like that because they (even if unknowingly) know that they cannot get that man. Same is true for men in relationships too. Women show much more interest towards you when someone else already has taken you.
because the anus tends to get torn and bleed much more than the naturally self-lubricating vagina or mouth. Other fact: gay men tend to have A LOT MORE partners than anyone else what with no female inhibitions to put the brakes on things. Being a gay man is a disease. AIDS is an advanced form.
You do know that you can have anal sex with women too, right? Besides, females don't put much brakes to amount of sex men have, not at least for me. Usually they're trying to get sex too often. On the other hand, I do live in Thailand.
And what would you say about having sex with kathoeys? They're originally men, but have turned into women, have boobs and are generally even more beautiful than real women. Is that gay sex if it's pre-op (still have penis), post-op (now they have vagina, but have been men before)?
Mad scientist Alan "Mhz" Turing invents an intelligent robot that transforms into a flying car, which he uses to embark on a great journey into space where he will find true love with an alien prince (cue for love scene on front of spaceship) and, of course, get the idea for the first desktop computer. When he returns to Earth, he builds a prototype for his new invention, which surprisingly turns out to be a modern Mac (because in Hollywood all computers are Macs), however his contemporaries find out about his love with the alien, which forces him to abandon the Mac and travel back into space where he lives happily ever after as the queen of an alien planet. THE END. If this does well at the box office, expect a sequel in a couple of years.
He was a fag. Stop making it normal. It's not. No matter how hard you try.
If there is anything more useless than a homophobe it is an anonymous coward homophobe.
I bet he was afraid to approach a woman anyway. They can be manipulative by nature you know. .
And a misogynist on top of it.
Poltroon.
more cowbell
I don't have any large issue with DiCaprio playing Turing. He is versatile, capable, and very hard working. However, the part should go to Jeremy Northam. It would have been a better age match if they tapped him 20 years ago, but there are other factors to consider than matching the actor's age to the character in his prime. I didn't know Turing, so it's just an impression, but I think Jeremy Northam would do a superb job. See The Winslow Boy and tell me I'm wrong.
All of that research into Turing's contemporaries just so you can justify your homophobic biases.
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It could be a zany rom-com with a dog, a monkey using an abacus, and even fit in the gay angle somehow (maybe a fashion designer on the side, a la Zoolander?). Tom Cruise could be the romantic interest, fighting with Turing the whole time about how machines are evil and Xenu is the one true way, until the monkey, riding the dog, slaps Cruise with a fish and makes him realize the errors of his ways. Let Terry Gilliam direct.
Guaranteed $500 mil 1st weekend.
Vote monkeys into Congress. They are cheaper and more trustworthy.
That I can't wait to see, or the part where Turing blasts the incoming V2 with a couple of .45s held sideways. Gangsta style. While diving over a moving tank. In slow motion.
This is gonna be AWESOME.
I just can't wait to see Leo bite into the poisoned apple. The hormonal castration should be particularly dramatic too. Maybe they can get the political apology right in the film, and properly repent for a truly disgusting deed. But I still think Matt Damon would be a goodlier choice, based on the face. ....Well Alan, you were way ahead of your time, but we were still in the dark ages. Sorry about that, and thanks for all the help. PS: If you come back, try San Francisco, Rome, or maybe Key West; I hear they finally accepted that patterns of "indecency" are not always matters of choice, and even if they were, they're your own. And anyway, you're really not missing much - and CCTV never flatters the form.
Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made. - Otto von Bismarck
Not Freud. They showed gay porn to homophobes and a control group and counted the boners. Verified.
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I know you're a troll, but let's do a simple takedown of some of your "points" shall we?
He should have waited for AIDS to come around.
He died in 1954 at the age of 41. AIDS was first discovered ca. 1979, so he would've been 66. Do you know a lot of 66-year-olds who have lots of sex? Especially with multiple partners? Neither do I.
AIDS = the Anally Injected Death Sentence!
Not anymore. Most people with AIDS in the first world live nearly as long as their counterparts without AIDS. Sure, it's still likely to do you in at some point, but when that point is at 70 vs 75 without AIDS, it's not such a huge setback. Nevertheless, the disease can still be deadly at a young age, and having a weakened immune system makes even minor infections much more serious.
Fact: anal sex transmits this virus more effectively than other forms of sex because the anus tends to get torn and bleed much more than the naturally self-lubricating vagina or mouth.
The mouth does not naturally lubricate per se; saliva is a digestive aid. However, there is nothing particularly heterosexual about the mouth nor particularly homosexual about the anus.
Other fact: gay men tend to have A LOT MORE partners than anyone else what with no female inhibitions to put the brakes on things.
Perhaps, although my straight friends seem to have a lot more sex than I do. Do you know Alan Turing's sexual history? If not, then tendencies are meaningless to the evaluation of the life of one man.
Being a gay man is a disease. AIDS is an advanced form.
There are far more heterosexuals with AIDS than there are homosexuals in total.
He was a fag. Stop making it normal. It's not. No matter how hard you try.
In one sense, you're right: homosexuals account for 2–5% of the population. In another sense, though, you are wrong: homosexuality occurs with enough frequency that it is not outside the range of normal variation, and it occurs in other species as well (to a much more limited extend). Also, there are plenty of things that (presently) aren't normal under the same criteria, like having a PhD, being a mathematical genius, and fundamentally defining the elements of an entirely new discipline. Are those also bad?
I bet he was afraid to approach a woman anyway.
Could be, but of what relevance is that? If he wasn't interested in women, then being afraid to approach them is largely irrelevant, especially at a time when women were virtually nonexistent in math and science.
They can be manipulative by nature you know.
Funnily enough again, the most manipulative people I know are straight. Although I've certainly known manipulative homosexuals, they do not seem over-represented vis-á-vis heterosexuals. Hard statistics, of course, would be preferable.
Unless you're enough of a man to win their trust.
What, you mean like an anonymous coward?
Fags aren't.
See, once again I find myself in the strange position where most of my friends consider me the most trustworthy person they know. It's a shame you never bothered to actually meet some real gay people.
They can be substitute "girlfriends" to women.
Some are, to be sure. I have one straight female friend, and we usually do "guy" things together. The rest of my friends are straight males, none of whom are particularly lacking for masculinity, I might add.
They definitely can't close the deal.
A gay man can have sex with a woman just as well as a straight man. In fact, he might even enjoy it (physically). It will never, however, be what he primarily desires nor what he finds as expressive of a lasting emotional connection. Thus, gay men tend to avoid sex with women, since it leads to false promises, mistrust, and broken hearts.
They're fags.
That's a tautology.
Why not a British actor?
Other fact: gay men tend to have A LOT MORE partners than anyone else
Awww, looks like someone's jealous..
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The reason Turing is so respected is that he, like Dijkstra and very few others, made significant contributions to both the theoretical and practical side of computer science. As well as proposing a theoretical model of computation, he worked to create some of the first real computing engines. That's what makes people regard him as the father of modern computing: taking some interesting theories and turning them into machines that helped win the second world war and went on to produce the foundations for our society.
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Except that there was a control group. IDIOT!
Like all pain, suffering is a signal that something isn't right
"Bullshit. No real man cares about women falling in love with eachother. We just like to see hot chicks dyke out. Q: Why do women fake orgasms? A: They think we fucking care. Quit sissy-fying guyhood or GTFO."
I didn't think this was funny until I saw the poster's username.
I like to think that, sometimes, when someone takes the time to do a reasonable, polite, well-considered analysis of some common horseshit... there can be a real benefit to other readers too.
Obviously the original troll isn't going to stop being an asshole, but someone else might read the response and learn something, or just see things in a different way. That can't be a bad thing.
I say "nice work" on keeping it level-headed. If I had cared enough to reply, I certainly wouldn't have been so decent about it.