Eastwood and Tyldum both show their main characters as stoic individuals, who survive against oppressive odds; in the belief that such characters are true national heroes in the eyes of the public. The texts explore this engaging phenomenon of surviving against all odds and their insistence on their innocence. In Eastwood’s Sully, it is the final NTSB hearing where Sully asserts his contention that the computer simulations ‘did not account for the human factor’; 35 seconds. In Tyldum’s The Imitation Game, it is Turing whose rose against his own personal odds and the sheer task as he finishes the world's first computer, a factor attributed as one of the main reasons the allies won the war. However, unlike Sully, Alan Turing did not become an
