Imitation

The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley, is a World War 2 film, based on a true story of how those of the British Intelligence cracked the codes of the Enigma, an advanced German coding machine. The film was not bashed for its historical accuracy, but some of that ease on the criticism may have been because Alan Turing has finally been given justice after 60 years. The historical inaccuracies were not major, although added up, they play a key role in the interest…

Imitation of life That film is Lora’s transgression exacts a punishment that explicitly highlights her violation of her maternal role. Lora was not a perfect model mom and she lost her daughter’s respect and love. They portray how she wasn’t a perfect mom since the beginning of the film when she lost her daughter and was looking for her. She neglected her daughter and try to persuade her daughter that she made everything for. It was clear when Susie ask Lora how about mother love? You have…

destruction of such demeaning stereotypes. Some brave companies heard their calls for proper representation and decided to make movies they hoped would revise such stereotypes. However in this paper I will only focus on two influential movies of the time, Imitation of Life and Emperor Jones. I will discuss if they helped clear…

Movie is one of the lens for examining this hierarchy in America, both reflecting the ideology of societies and influencing it—the 1934 and 1959 versions of Imitation of life are two examples. As Kristi Branham argued, “The ‘woman question’ and the ‘race question’ are conflated in the passing story in both the 1934 and 1959 film versions of Imitation of Life” (258). Furthermore, underlying the two issues…

Imitation of Life directed by John M. Stahl and based on Fannie Hurst 's 1933 novel, is a film which can be described as an emotional, tragic, romance, and sorrowed filled film. What else fits in the film description category? The false black stereotype. The film Imitation of life creates an emotional roller coaster for a viewer today, however reflecting on this film present day we find it in cooperates the misinterpretations and false stereotypes for blacks in the early 20th century. These…

individual’s personal worth, but instead generalizes about him/her in a reproachful way. Preconceptions about the inferiority of members of certain groups may result in those individuals being treated with injustice through discrimination. The movie, The Imitation Game, focuses upon three main areas of disparity: homosexuality, mental disorder, and gender stratification. Groups of people within these areas are deemed to be inferior because they do not measure up to what is accepted as being…

From the time of the creation of the first films, films have reflected the values society holds at the time of the films creation. The film Imitation of life is no different, in two films adaptations it is easy to see the society and ideals reflected in both movies. Both of the films are similar in the issues that are dealt with in them, but are depicted differently on screen because of the vast time difference between the two periods. In the 1934 Version of the film by Director John M.…

The film, The Imitation of Life, starts off as Miss Lora is looking for Suzie, her daughter. Annie, an older black woman, has found Suzie and the young girl seems to be well off playing along with Sarah Jane, Annie’s daughter. Annie and her daughter have no other place to go ND SO Miss Lora invites them along, but tries to be clear that it is only for one night. The next morning, Annie has done all of the morning duties and allows Annie to stay beginning a grand friendship. The first glimpse we…

some; he was a pleasing brilliant mathematician that was persecuted because of his homosexuality rather than being seen for his brilliance. Turing’s invention of defeating the enigma of the Nazi code made an ostentatious impact on human history. The Imitation Game a boundless film based on a real story that can be a great addition to the English Curriculum: British literature because it portrays the crucial reality of how things were throughout World War II and how Turing’s success came to be.…

The Imitation Game was developed in 1950 by Alan Turing. The goal of the game is to proof that a machine can think. In the game the interrogator must determine which one of the participants is a human and which one is the machine. He states that if a machine passes the test, there will be no question that the machine is undeniably thinking. He rises the argument of consciousness, the objection of Lady Lovelace’s, his responses and leave as with the question if the test is a good way to tell if a…