What's the Difference between Alan Turing: The Enigma the Book and The Imitation Game the Movie?
The Imitation Game Book vs Movie
In the Book |
In the Movie |
QThe process of breaking the codes began at the start of the war and progress was made by many, many people. |
A small group of code breakers have a breakthrough after a few years. |
The Enigma breaking machine was named the Bombe. |
It was named Christopher after Turing's brother.
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Information from the broken codes were conveyed by higher ups. No ones brother was saved by withholding information. |
Peter Hilton's brother is on a German convoy, and the team decides to withhold the information in order to save him. |
The team all made requests to Churchill for more funding. |
Alan does this all by himself.
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Turing had friends and was a functioning adult. |
He has Asperger syndrome and no friends. |