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The Alan Touring movie was also ugly by assigning credit of many people straight to him. I wonder if Hollywood writers just can't imagine having accomplishment

• boffinAudio 3y ago
  >Hollywood writers I'd wager the writers are just pandering to the mores of their audience, who currently seem more inclined to an affinity for cult-like behaviour than sustaining an actual interest in the reality of history.
  • aziaziazi 3y ago
    Exactly. Without diminishing their work, what they do has more in common with word freelancer than historian.
• dspillett 3y ago
  > The Alan Touring movie was also ugly by assigning credit Not just the movie, many books and articles. They often give him credit for what a team of people did (in the war-time code cracking efforts) and barely at all mention the work for which he was uniquely¹ responsible. He deserves huge credit for his life's work, no one of a sensible mind would argue there, but many give him sole credit for the wrong things at the expense of acknowledging those he worked with. From what I know (or I am lead to believe, to be more accurate) of his character I think he would be rather miffed by this. [1] “standing on the shoulders of past researchers/thinkers” arguments aside, in some places