Last night Imitation Game (starring Benedict Cumberbatch) screenwriter Graham Moore won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. However, the film, and many of the films chosen for this years Oscars have been criticized for not being historically correct. Recently, writer Graham Moore and director Morten Tyldum opened up about the film, defencing the lack of facts as an right of art.
Imitation Game screenwriter Graham Moore recently spoke to HuffPost Live about the artistic liberties he took with the real life story of Alan Turing:
“When you use the language of 'fact checking' to talk about a film, I think you're sort of fundamentally misunderstanding how art works. You don't fact check Monet's 'Water Lilies. That's not what water lilies look like, that's what the sensation of experiencing water lilies feel like. That's the goal of the piece."
Director, Morten Tyldum also chimed in about making the film, adding:
"A lot of historical films sometimes feel like people reading a Wikipedia page to you on screen, like just reciting 'and then he did that, and then he did that, and then he did this other thing' -- it's like a 'Greatest Hits' compilation. We wanted the movie to be emotional and passionate."
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