Imitation

Hank Green brought up many questions toward the accuracy and inaccuracy in regards to the scientific and historical aspect to their movie The Imitation Game, which Tyldum responds that “scientific discoveries (history) happens over time in life, but we have to make moments, and movie making (Hollywood) is all about moments” (“Alan Turing and The Imitation Game”). According to Tyldum, one goal is to make the movie “understandable and engaging to the viewers,” something that Hollywood films tend…

Imitation of Life is a movie directed by John M. Stahl in 1934. Claudette Colbert plays the protagonist in the role of Beatrice “Bea” Pullman. Bea’s new found friend is Delilah Johnson, played by Louise Beavers. Together, both of these ladies create a successful business. Throughout the film we see both their daughters, Jessie and Peola, grow into beautiful women. The Imitation of Life is relevant to our class due to Bea and Delilah’s success after the Great Depression. The three literary…

The Imitation Game is a movie based on true story that showed us about Britain in World War II era. Through this movie, we invited back turned to the past, where the World War II was happened. The emergence of Nazi party as a form of a revival of Germany made Adolf Hitler want his state became dominant power in Europe. However, the British build an alliance to prevent German. They were desirous to gain dominant power in the field of economic and military. At the moment was the outbreak of World…

Curiosity and uncertainty are known to fill the lives of children. From infancy, children notoriously imitate the actions they see, whether good or bad. Although idiosyncratic, Imitation is the basis for all humanly behaviors in the present and future. In The Glass Castle, imitation is very prevalent in the Walls family. Human beings are prone to repeat the actions of their elders, but childhood misdoing is not necessary. Baldwin’s observation represents the monumental task of trying to define…

Imitation of Life is the second Imitation of Life movie which was directed by Douglas Sirk and was produced by Ross Hunter in 1959. This movie is an American Drama that shows the love and hardships between mother and daughter while juggling the tasks of work, love, and personal problems. The french term mise-en-scene is shown throughout the film in many different ways through the camera angles, the setting of the movie, props, lighting, staging, makeup, and costumes. These elements play a huge…

The Imitation Game and mathematician stereotypes The Imitation Game was produced in 2014 and was directed by Morten Tyldum. It was set during the Second World War and it was based on a true story of Alan Turing, the genius mathematician that cracked Nazi codes, including Enigma, which was thought to be unbreakable. Turing loved codes and ciphers, which is a very hard category to enjoy and understand. The movie depicted Turing as mentally ill, having no sense of humor, and being disrespectful,…

are times where people feel it is necessary to do so. They do this either to benefit themselves or others and can often lead to a feeling of sadness and anger for the person who is hiding their feelings. This is illustrated well in the song “Best Imitation of Myself” by the band Ben Folds Five, which is about a guy who acts a certain way and hides his true feelings and personality to be with a girl. This song relates to myself as I too used to hide my feelings and was forced to act a certain…

mansions. They most likely have the tendency to spend a lot of money to gloat their wealth. For instance, one of the residents lives in a "factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy" (15). That 's a big house for just one person. Nick 's use of the two words "factual imitation" means a lot. Since it is factual, it should be identical, not an imitation, therefore he is saying that the hotel is a fraud. Not just the hotel, but also the person living in it, and all of the surrounding…

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…

INTRODUCTION In the field of SLA there are a few speculations about how individuals take in a second language. At first, Behaviorism hypothesis, which sees learning as imitation, practice, support, and encouragement. Skinner was the individual who best known about this hypothesis, he underlined the significance of imitation and repetition in learning the process. Learners…