3. Alan Turing
While The Imitation Game was a brilliant film, there’s a lot in it that isn’t true to real life. One of the main plot points is that a man named John Cairncross was a Soviet spy, and her blackmailed Alan Turing, threatening to reveal that he was gay. Turing is anti-social, but a true genius is able to break the code virtually on his own. In real life, a lot of the code broken in the movie was accomplished by Polish codebreaker who came before Turing. According to records, Alan Turing was also far more friendly and talkative than how he was depicted in the film. Unfortunately, the drama between him and Cairncross was total fiction, which ruins a man’s legacy. A historian named Alex von Tunzelmann was infuriated by this, saying that it was an act of slander.