Family of 'The Imitation Game' Baddie Criticizes Film's Misrepresentation
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The grandchildren of Alastair Denniston said in a letter that the British commander and code breaker was different from what the movie portrays him as.

AceShowbiz - The family of Alastair Denniston steps up with their own fact as "The Imitation Game" gets the Oscar buzz. Descendants of the British codebreaker said he was misrepresented in the film which portrays him as the "baddie".

Played by Charles Dance in the drama, Denniston was seen on the big screen obstructing the work of Benedict Cumberbatch's Alan Turing. Dance called the character "pompous prat" for looking for excuses to get rid of Turing and arguing against his theories. However, Denniston's grandchildren said he was actually a "quiet, dignified" man.

"While the much-acclaimed film The Imitation Game rightly acknowledges Alan Turing's vital role in the war effort, it is sad that it does so by taking an unwarranted sideswipe at Cdr Alastair Denniston, portraying him as a hectoring character who merely hindered Turing's work," the grandchildren of Denniston, wrote in a letter to The Telegraph.

Denniston's granddaughter, Judith Finch, added, "He is completely misrepresented. They needed a baddy, and they've put him in there without researching the truth about the contribution he made."

Responding to the criticism, screenwriter Graham Moore said, "As such, he had the perhaps unenviable position of being a layman overseeing the work of some of the century's finest mathematicians and academics - a situation bound to result in conflict as to how best to get the job done." He added, "I would say that this is the natural conflict of people working extremely hard under unimaginable pressure with the fate of the war resting on their heroic shoulders."

Turing's biographer Andrew Hodges previously also protested against the film, saying he was "alarmed by the inaccuracies" in the film. He said the Caincross scenes are "ludicrous" and that Turing's relationship with codebreaker Keira Knightley's Joan Clarke is overplayed.

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