People you'd like to see a good movie about.

[Svengoolie 3]

Alan Turing. British genius, creator of many of the theories and principes modern computers are based on. Was of vital help to england in ww2 by helping build computers to break Nazi codes,  created some of the earlier analog programmable computational devices. His contribution to the British war effort was incanucable.

His reward was to be hounded by the British government over his sexuality,  offered a choice between chemical castration or prison,  driven to suicide in a covert way so his family could collect his insruance.

[RCMerchant]

.Bela Lugosi. 

.Tesla. This man got so f**ked and buried by history. Perhaps the greatest inventor of the 20th Century.

[Alex]

Christopher Lee. Now there was a man who packed a lot into his life.

Lemmy. Willing to bet a warts (hah!) and all movie would blow anything in 'The Dirt', 'Bohemian Rhapsody' or 'Rocket Man' away lol.

[RCMerchant]

Christopher Lee. Now there was a man who packed a lot into his life.

Lemmy. Willing to bet a warts (hah!) and all movie would blow anything in 'The Dirt', 'Bohemian Rhapsody' or 'Rocket Man' away lol.

I'll go see either of those!

[Alex]

Alan Turing. British genius, creator of many of the theories and principes modern computers are based on. Was of vital help to england in ww2 by helping build computers to break Nazi codes,  created some of the earlier analog programmable computational devices. His contribution to the British war effort was incanucable.

His reward was to be hounded by the British government over his sexuality,  offered a choice between chemical castration or prison,  driven to suicide in a covert way so his family could collect his insruance.

Not one I've seen but you might want to check out The Imitation Game.

[Svengoolie 3]

Thanks Alex, I never heard of that one.

[Trevor]

Not one I've seen but you might want to check out The Imitation Game.
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That is a very good film indeed.

I would like to see a good biopic of a famous South African: the films made about Nelson Mandela and Steve Biko were not good and truthful as they should have been.

[Gabriel Knight]

I'm not very much into biographies that only tell the story of a person, instead of a particular event that just happens to serve as a mean to describe the character. Having said that...

Christopher Lee. Now there was a man who packed a lot into his life.

...this fella right there would be my first choice. And I would ask Luca Turilli and Fabio Lione, the former members of Rhapsody, to make the soundtrack.

On the other hand, after watching the horrible TOLKIEN movie, I'd say I would like a good biography about that great writer and professor. A movie that tells more about his work, not a s**tty remake of DEAD POETS SOCIETY.

[Alex]

Alan Turing. British genius, creator of many of the theories and principes modern computers are based on. Was of vital help to england in ww2 by helping build computers to break Nazi codes,  created some of the earlier analog programmable computational devices. His contribution to the British war effort was incanucable.

His reward was to be hounded by the British government over his sexuality,  offered a choice between chemical castration or prison,  driven to suicide in a covert way so his family could collect his insruance.

Not one I've seen but you might want to check out The Imitation Game.

On a slightly related note, Alan Turing has just been revealed as the face on the new £50 bank note.

[indianasmith]

Gunther von Pluschow, World War I aviator and the only German POW in either World War to escape from a prison camp in the UK.
His life was a very cool odyssey!

[316zombie]

piers anthony, and a DECENT film about l.frank baum.

[Svengoolie 3]

Gunther von Pluschow, World War I aviator and the only German POW in either World War to escape from a prison camp in the UK.
His life was a very cool odyssey!

I may be wrong but I think I heard about a German pow in ww2 who escaped,  stayed either in England or some other non German country to avoid being shipped to Russia as slave labor and lived his life married to some woman who's story came up recently. He was ww2  so not the guy you talked about.

[Svengoolie 3]

https://gizmodo.com/computer-science-legend-alan-turing-to-appear-on-new-5-1836371758

If they put   pic of a gay person on a bill in america hate groups would explode, places would refuse to accept them, politicians would camPaign on a promise to ban them, etc. I wonder how this will do In england.

[Alex]

On the theme of WW2, there were some Soviet POW's who escaped captivity and ended up as partisans in Italy. They knew that since they had been captured alive, should they ever return to the USSR that they'd be shot. As part of the agreements between the allies the UK had already agreed to return all Soviet POW's they liberated. The SAS were sent into Italy to work with the resistance and when the war ended they were ordered to put their comrades on a train to Moscow. Having spent some time fighting with these guys they decided on a liberal interpretation of their orders and rather than marching them at gunpoint to the train station invited the soldiers to go on a train ride home. The Soviets (many of whom had married local women) took the hint and disappeared and to the best of my knowledge lived out the rest of their lives in some of the remoter parts of northern Italy.

Anyway, I think that would make an interesting movie.

As for Turing on the £50 I haven't heard any protests about it. It is generally accepted that the government (and society in general) made a major mistake there. I have no doubt there would be some people who would be unhappy about it (although I doubt many of them will even know who Turing was never mind what he did).

Visited Bletchley Park once where they did all the code-breaking.

[Svengoolie 3]

OK my bad, what I remembered happened in america.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Gärtner

BTW, maybe it's time for a movie about the way German soldiers were  treated after ww2 especially in Russia. The Russian mass murder of German soldiers who surrendered in stalingrad, the murder of more who we're sent to Russia as basically slave labor by the allies,  etc.

With Vladimir Putin running Russia now maybe a movie reminding us how bad Russia could be  is one that needs made. As to russia threatening a boycott of it, so what?  Hollywood has a larger economy that Russia does now.