Notes - the day /script /

         You and Carol had your gift exchange, breakfast, and you read the paper. Carol is readying for the film before finishing the paper. Kim called to wish you both a “Merry Christmas”. The boys are up in their playroom with their new toys. Paul received his DNA kit yesterday too.

         You saw “The Imitation Game” then Carol made Xmas dinner, which was excellent – ham, veggies, half a baked potato and one-fourth of an orange potato as well as an a new recipe for cranberry sauce. You concluded with a cup of Graeter’s – Carol had peppermint and you black cherry chocolate chip. – Amorella

         1524 hours. I cannot remember what the orange potato is called.

         I can only write with words in your conscious mind, boy, if you haven’t noticed. – Amorella

         1525 hours. Sweet potato, that’s the word. I don’t know where the words are when they are not in consciousness.

         There is nothing new there, boy. – Amorella

         1527 hours. The seamless film on Alan Turing is excellent. It should win an Oscar award or two. If you are a student of the human condition you will enjoy this work of art on the decoding the German enigma machine at Bletchley Radio during W.W. II.

         Late afternoon. Carol is on the phone with her sister. You keep the iPad on Christmas melodies via Pandora radio from the Xmas dinner setting and find it difficult to focus.

         I turned it off. There was a line in the film where Alan says to someone, ‘listening to language is decoding . . . I do not always understand what people are saying.’

         Find the line in the script. – Amorella

         1641 hours. I found the scene.

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A Scene from The Imitation Game script.

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EXT. SHERBORNE SCHOOL FOR BOYS - DAY – 1927

Young Alan and Christopher sit under a tree, the school in

the distance.

Alan is going through a crossword puzzle, Christopher is reading a book. Their legs are touching affectionately without either even knowing, like two people who are effortlessly comfortable with one another.

YOUNG ALAN 

What’s that you’re reading?

Christopher shows him: “A Guide to Codes and Cyphers.”

CHRISTOPHER

It’s about cryptography.

YOUNG ALAN

What’s cryptography?

CHRISTOPHER
It’s complicated. You wouldn’t understand.

CUT TO:

YOUNG ALAN

I’m only fourteen months younger than you. Don’t treat me like a child.

CHRISTOPHER 

Cryptography is the science of codes.

YOUNG ALAN 

Like secret messages?

CHRISTOPHER
Not secret. That’s the brilliant part. Messages that anyone can see, but no one knows what they mean, unless you have the key.

YOUNG ALAN (confused) How is that different from talking?

CHRISTOPHER

Talking?

YOUNG ALAN
When people talk to each other they never say what they mean. They say something else. And you’re supposed to just know what they mean. Only, I never do. So how is that different?

CHRISTOPHER (handing him the book)

Alan, I have a funny feeling that you’re going to be very good at this.

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[THE IMITATION GAME Written by Graham Moore

Based on "Alan Turing: The Enigma" By Andrew Hodges]

Edited from - http://twcguilds.com/assets/downloads/ScreenplayTIG.DOT.pdf

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         The line I most identify with is this:

YOUNG ALAN
When people talk to each other they never say what they mean. They say something else. And you’re supposed to just know what they mean. Only, I never do. So how is that different?

            You are embarrassed for no reason. People read books and watch films and find a way to identify with at least one of principle characters. This is how you (as a child) identify with Turing. – Amorella

         1756 hours. I am glad I actually looked up the words rather than try to paraphrase.

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