code breakers ( film )
a return to glory and
code breakers
: historical fact vs. dramatization
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two female british code breakers team with american cryptographers to solve a series of murders in san francisco .
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world war ii may have been won by our side because of what british code - breakers accomplished at a countryside retreat named bletchley park .
the film follows the pioneering code breaker and his team at bletchley park in a race against time to break the german enigma code during the darkest days of world war ii .
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based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst alan turing, the film portrays the nail - biting race against time by turing and his brilliant team of code - breakers at britain' s top - secret government code and cypher school at bletchley park, during the darkest days of world war ii .
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while there are some marked differences between the book, a return to glory, and
code breakers ,
the differences don' t detract from the fundamental truths derived from and portrayed in the book .
during world war two susan, a pattern recognition expert, mathematician millie, information gatherer jean and lucy, a young girl with an incredible memory, work as code - breakers at bletchley park. in ...
the movie, which will open this year’s london film festival, stars keira knightley as turing’s friend and fellow code breaker joan clarke, who worked alongside turing in bletchley park .
during the world war ii, the mathematician alan turing joins a team of code - breakers at top - secret facility at bletchley park to try to decipher the code of the german enigma machine. turing is a homosexual genius and during two years, he and his team successfully develop another machine to decipher the enigma .
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a film about homosexual wartime codebreaker and father of modern computing alan turing has been attacked by his biographer .
enigma hero turing (left) played a key role in breaking the german enigma code during the second world war while working at bletchley park. benedict cumberbatch (right) is set to play him in an american funded film
the sports network, espn, premiered
code breakers ,
on saturday evening, 10 december 2005 following its filming, which began on 6 june 2005, and a 6 december telecast of the documentary, then subsequently released both on a hart sharp dvd, 11 jul 2006 .
my earnest hope is the paper that follows will answer most of the questions regarding historical fact vs film dramatization .
a young genius frantically races against time to crack an enemy code and solve the mystery surrounding the woman he loves .
o the portrayal of him within the context of events described in the book and depicted in the film ,
code breakers ,
and the recalling of those events, brought an emotional release for all he had been through in his life. neither he nor his classmate in cadet company h - 2 were ever thanked by the academy for their participation in the breaking of the cheating ring in 1951 .
during world war ii, the english mathematical genius alan turing tries to crack the german enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians .
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in 1952, four women who worked at the wartime code - breaking center, bletchley park, reunite to track down a serial killer .
the sunday times reports that mr hodges has been sent a script of the film and is' alarmed by the inaccuracies it' .
the film follows the break - up of their relationship, which happened because turing was unable to live a lie by marrying her .
in his off - duty hours, hilton (played by matthew beard in the film) earned a reputation as a convivial companion .
in this thoughtful thriller loosely based on the true story of second world war code - breakers at bletchley park, thomas jericho is a gifted but unstable mathematician and cryptologist who returns to his job after having a nervous breakdown caused by overwork and a failed love affair with his co - worker claire romilly. however, he is soon thrown into fresh intrigue as, after he starts work on a seemingly uncrackable german code, claire goes missing and it becomes apparent that a spy has infiltrated the enigma project .
turing, whose genius is attributed to significantly shortening the length of wwii, helped save thousands of lives after discovering the algorithm to break the nazi’s code .
that accuracy wasn' t that easy to come by, however; most of the records of turing' s work for british intelligence during world war ii were destroyed. following the war, nearly every trace of bletchley park' s day - to - day operations—where turing (played by benedict cumberbatch in the film) and his fellow code - breakers were working on cracking germany' s enigma code—was either erased from history or kept extremely confidential. (it' s one of history' s awful ironies that the general public found out turing was gay, by way of an indecency trial brought by british authorities, long before they found out he was largely responsible for outsmarting the nazis. )
the made for television movie ,
code breakers
was based primarily on the first three chapters, plus excerpts from chapters 8, 10, and 20 and other factual information found in the appendices of the book, a return to glory. fundamentally accurate in portraying the essential truths and key figures in west point' s 1951 honor incident, the film story does, for several reasons, differ from the book in a number of ways, and should be pointed out in use of either or both the book and dvd in classrooms .
alongside the fun, code breakers ponders important questions in the post - gamergate landscape: how do women carve a path in an industry that has historically been hostile towards them? how do we encourage diversity? what does a more inclusive games industry look like? each maker reflects on the sometimes challenging journey they’ve made in this male - dominated industry, revealing the human stories behind their games .
the ballad of narayama
is a japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. what a space it opens…
stylish, neatly constructed film about a maths genius who' s sure he' s close to discovering the key to everything and that hostile forces are watching .
cumberbatch stars as the esoteric outsider, a tortured genius - like character he has often played before in sherlock, the fifth estate and the forthcoming film black mass .
background: the made for television movie ,
code breakers ,
was based upon the book a return to glory. the documentary ,
faces of sports: brave old army team ,
contrary to prior statements, wasn' t based upon the book but was researched and produced entirely separate and apart from the television movie, although late in the documentary production process i gave the production company a copy of the book .
the film was written by graham moore and is to be directed by the norwegian morten tyldum whose last production was the violent thriller headhunters, and produced by teddy schwarzmann .
mr schwarzmann said the film was a drama, not a piece of entertainment and added while they do not want to invent events, there are some' creative liberties' .
in june 1954, he decided to imitate his favourite film, walt disney’s snow white - which he had watched seven times - and fatally bit into an apple coated with cyanide .
enigma hero turing played a key role in breaking the german enigma code during the second world war while working at bletchley park. he is credited with saving thousands of lives during the conflict .
chris hemsworth kicks off filming for the star - studded men in black spin - off as he cuts a sharp figure in london... 21 years after the first film hit screens
nearly a third of the imitation game takes place at the decryption facility at bletchley park, where turing, joan clarke (keira knightly), and their fellow code - breakers worked tirelessly to decipher the german military' s enigma code. most of the scenes set at bletchley were shot on soundstages—and surprisingly, the ones that weren' t were the ones filmed at the bar where turing and his colleagues drank and socialized .
the beer hut was one of the most difficult locations, we struggled with that. and that' s the one we ended up shooting in bletchley park ,
says production designer maria djurkovic .
we felt it was right to shoot something there .
list of maps abbreviations diagram of allied code - breaking units 1. burn the codes and ciphers 2. pioneer of the code breaker' s craft 3. special intelligence bureau 4. the road to corregidor 5. scramble to safety 6. the turning of the tide 7. midway 8. central bureau 9. the water transport code broken 10. the admiral' s itinerary 11. buried treasure 12. the front line and the back room 13. a new world, a new enemy coding and decoding japan' s military messages glossary of technical terms cast of characters acknowledgements notes bibliography index
enigma hero turing played a key role in breaking the german enigma code during the second world war while working at bletchley park (pictured). he is credited with saving thousands of lives during the conflict
turing led the team at bletchley park that cracked the world war ii nazi enigma code, allowing the allies to anticipate every move the germans made. he is now widely recognised as a computing pioneer .
t uring led the team at bletchley park that cracked the world war ii nazi enigma code, allowing the allies to anticipate every move the germans made. he is now widely recognised as a computing pioneer .
a biography of the english mathematician alan turing, who was one of the inventors of the digital computer and one of the key figures in the breaking of the enigma code, used by the germans... see full summary »
but a new american funded film about his life has been lambasted for exaggerating a love affair with a woman, played by keira knightley, and making a fictional connection to a notorious spy. turing was a well known homosexual .
o as portrayed in the movie, evidence strongly suggests football head coach earl h .
red
blaik, usma class of 1920, was completely blind - sided by the cheating ring, which had found root on his nationally - ranked, much - admired football team, and the film accurately portrays him as stunned by his team' s and his son' s revelations to him, although the disclosures portrayed in the film didn' t occur as shown .
t is implied in the film that menzies knew exactly what the spy john cairncross was up to at station x. an intelligent, spiky man, cairncross was described by his colleagues at bletchley park as
a bit of a loner
.
this is a documentary about unsung heroes of world war ii. in 1943, a 24 - year - old maths student and a gpo engineer combined to hack into hitler' s personal super - code machine - not enigma... see full summary »
o the film goes into considerable depth telling of the relationship between blaik and his son, which was only briefly and superficially covered in the book the producers didn' t disclose whether or not they used other sources to delve into the relationship on screen .
some of them saw a clip from wakolda (the german doctor) on tv recently and really wanted to watch it. so i thought i’d take a chance, not expecting them to watch the whole film but the majority were absolutely gripped .
when good (played by james northcote in the film) mentioned his discovery to turing, the genius felt embarrassed, and said ,
i could have sworn that i tried that already .
it quickly became an important part of the banburismus procedure .
while the group is trying to decipher the daily enigma code, the wall clock strikes midnight setting off an alarm. in frustration, hugh throws all of the days work to the floor because the german military change the enigma code daily at midnight (german time) rendering the work useless. however, the work done could be completed (as was often done) in the early hours of the morning or at a later date - the information would not be as timely, but the intercepts and any work would be saved, not discarded .
hroughout the war, cairncross passed documents through secret channels to his kgb handlers, who gave him the code name liszt, because of his love of music. he smuggled the decrypts out of the hut in his trousers, transferring them to his bag at the railway station .
everyone has heard of turing now, and rightly so, but, as this film reminds us, he was part of an extraordinary team, some brilliant, others unprofessional, one treacherous. so who were they? well, the second most important person at bletchley was hugh alexander .
opening credits prologue: hollywood, 1954 1. the victorian irishman 2. bluenoses against the screen 3. hollywood shot to pieces 4. the breen office 5. decoding classical hollywood cinema 6. confessional 7. intermission at rko 8. at war with the breen office 9. in his sacerdotalism 10 .
our semitic brethren
11. social problems, existential dilemmas, and outsized anatomies 12. invasion of the art films 13. amending the ten commandments 14. not the breen office 15. final cut: joseph i. breen and the auteur theory appendix: the production code notes film index index
we never wanted to see him commit suicide on screen ,
moore says .
this film was about paying attention to alan turing' s tremendous life and his amazing accomplishments. it felt to us more ethical and more responsible to focus on his life and his accomplishments than the nitty - gritty of his suicide .
oprah winfrey, viola davis, octavia spencer and taraji p. henson are said to be all on the producer’s short list of actresses for starring roles in the film – the usual suspects; although, quite frankly, i wouldn’t mind if an entirely unexpected group of black actresses were cast in this. give some fresh faces the opportunity. surprise me !
o nolan' s roommate in the film, george holbrook, is portrayed as the wavering, eventually errant football player from a broken home, who had lived with his grandmother, and had nothing else in his life but west point and football. holbrook was in fact a fictitious character who represented a combination of several men in real life who participated in the cheating ring .
since so much of turing' s work with british intelligence and mi6 was kept secret, moore went hunting for details about what turing did and what influence he had in the organization—with some surprising results .
the best evidence we have as to alan turing' s work with mi6 after they' d broken the code actually comes from the diary of ian fleming, which is so bizarre ,
moore says .
author margot lee shetterly ’s book, “hidden figures, ” which actually won’t be published until next year, via harpercollins, has been optioned for ted melfi to direct (he’s the director of last year’s acclaimed dramedy “st. vincent, ” which starred bill murray, melissa mccarthy, and naomi watts. terrence howard played a supporting role in the film, which was melfi’s feature directorial debut) .
nd so we come to our final unsung bletchley hero. jack good was a slender, good - humoured, bushy - moustached mathematician (cambridge) who worked closely with turing in hut 8 and was prone to having catnaps on the floor of the hut, especially after a long shift. this was just as well because he broke one vital code in his sleep, with the solution coming to him in a dream .
o contrary to the film' s portrayal, no member of the football team was on the cadet honor committee. however, in point of fact two cadets who were among 25 cadet academic tutors for the football team were found guilty of cheating, and one of the two was found guilty of
false swearing ,
that is, lying under oath then later recanting previous testimony - twice falsely given .
first was the need to evenhandedly portray an important, unprecedented, complex, and potentially controversial event in history in just 90 minutes of screen time, not an easy task. second, because the real story was truly complex and potentially confusing to audiences unfamiliar with the military academy, its mission, methods of education and training, honor code and system, and intercollegiate athletic programs, the story had to be simplified while retaining both its integrity and dramatic impact. third, the producer made an extraordinary effort to recreate the era, make the film a
period piece ,
in which the events occurred, which required a great deal of detailed effort during a compressed filming schedule. fourth, holding to people and events just exactly as history was, would have resulted in a much larger cast, and an unacceptably large increase in budget .
i liked this urltoken' s a movie about football, but it' s much more than urltoken' s really about honor, truth, and loyalty. it is set in 1950, and chronicles the
army
- the west point football team. west point is the very esteemed military urltoken the movie begins ,
army is coming off of 27 consecutive wins and hope to win the championship once again. along the way, many on the team will go through some trials that will test their morality and pledge to uphold the principle of honor at any cost. the backdrop to the story is the korean war. i like the fact the the story has some depth to it. the very fine performances go along way in anchoring the story. scott glenn gives a nice understated, quietly intense performance as one of of the coaches. even though this is a morality tale, it doesn' t hit you over the head, or preach to you. all in all a pretty good movie. for me
code breakers
is an 8 / 10
of course, cheating violates the military’s honor code, creating a moral dilemma for several of these young officers in training, among them blaik’s son bob (corey sevier), both a gridiron star and a top student; and roommates holbrook (jeff roop) and nolan (zachery bryan). when one of them chooses to report the malfeasance, it threatens to rock the institution and trigger the dishonorable discharge of the co - conspirators .
is the first to feature the work of alan turing, the english mathematical genius and pioneer of artificial intelligence. the movie focuses on turing' s attempts to break the secret of enigma while at the same time trying to conceal the secret of his sexual identity. however, the imitation game is very misleading - or downright inaccurate - about several key issues. turing and the team at bletchley was not the first to break the enigma code ;
o contrary to what coach blaik was told by several men on his football team, and he accepted at face value as the truth, then in fact and in the film repeated to the media in his 9 august 1951 press conference at mama leone' s restaurant in new york city, not one single cadet was discharged because he
only knew about the cheating, and didn' t cheat
or solely because he
told the truth .
the coach couldn' t accept or believe the men who cheated hadn' t told him the whole truth about their involvement, and under existing rules of evidence and the articles of war (which were in transition to the uniform code of military justice at that time) he could neither testify before the board because all his evidence would have been
hearsay ,
nor could he be given access to the board record .
after the war, good became a professor and worked as a consultant to stanley kubrick on the 1968 film 2001: a space odyssey. he never guessed turing' s sexual orientation in all the time they worked together, and neither did the bletchley park authorities .
otherwise ,
as good noted matter - of - factly ,
turing may have been driven to kill himself earlier, and we might have lost the war .
the one lament that i’m sure many of you will have is that this isn’t being made by black filmmakers (the producer is white, as is the writer and the director). what more can i say that hasn’t already been said on that subject? so it goes… let’s just hope that the film is true to author margot lee shetterly’s words, as well as the * forgotten * women she writes about in her book, and history .
this turned out not to be the case. after a period of clerical work with
the girls
, her mathematical gifts led to her becoming the only woman among a team of nine banburists. and according to her boss, alexander, she was
one of the best banburists in the section
. clarke wasn' t as glamorous as keira knightley, who plays her in the film, but her character is captured well by the actress .
ironically, perhaps some of the most compelling testimony heard, albeit right at the end of the bartlett board' s deliberations, from the man who possessed the most credible evidence and relevant institutional memory regarding weakened cadet support for the honor code and system in the years immediately following world war ii, was virtually ignored by the board. the board, by that time, was convinced. they had found both the underlying and proximate causes for the cheating incident of 1951. overemphasis on (winning) football .
used complicated sets of rotors, to change the letters or combinations of letters in a message or document into what seemed to be randomly selected substitutes. the rotors produced billions of possible combinations for the original message. a recipient with another enigma machine used a key to unlock the code. during the 1920s and 1930s the german military transformed this commercial encoding device into an incredibly sophisticated encoding system to transmit top - secret orders and messages to german military units on land and sea. however, the germans were unaware that
this is a documentary about unsung heroes of world war ii. in 1943, a 24 - year - old maths student and a gpo engineer combined to hack into hitler' s personal super - code machine - not enigma but an even tougher system, which he called his' secrets writer'. their break turned the battle of kursk, powered the d - day landings and orchestrated the end of the conflict in europe. but it was also to be used during the cold war - which meant both men' s achievements were hushed up and never officially recognized .
o in the film, brian nolan is portrayed as the only cadet involved in disclosing the existence of the cheating ring, reported his football player roommate, and then
following colonel harkins' order to' go under cover', joins the ring to verify the existence of the ring and obtain hard evidence against those found participating in cheating .
there was in fact a second cadet in company h - 2, who was on the swimming team with nolan, and volunteered to join in the undercover investigation for the commandant, colonel paul d. harkins .
o as portrayed in the film, a number of cadets found guilty of cheating, did lie under oath the first time they appeared before the collins board, though the movie didn' t say how many lied. the official investigation by a board of three army lieutenant colonels from the west point class of 1938, all world war ii veterans, found 22 cadets lied under oath in their first appearance to give sworn testimony to the board, which later took the name of its president, ltc arthur s. collins, jr. some of the men found guilty repeatedly lied .
there they broke, and broke again, the german code named
enigma ,
which was thought to be unbreakable, and was used by the nazis to direct their submarine convoys in the north atlantic. enigma was decoded with the help of a machine, and the british had captured one, but the machine alone was not enough. my notes, scribbled in the dark, indicate the machine had 4, 000 million trillion different positions - - a whole lot, anyway - - and the mathematicians and cryptologists at bletchley used educated guesses and primitive early computers to try to penetrate a message to the point where it could be tested on enigma .
during wwii, men and women working at bletchley park played a vital role, breaking the codes used by the german military. nine years later, former codebreaker susan is a housewife and mother, but she continues to recognize patterns that surround her in everyday life. when a series of women are brutally murdered around london, susan sees a pattern emerging. however, when a police - search for what susan believes to be an overlooked victim turns up nothing, she realizes she cannot solve this puzzle alone. enlisting three former bletchley park colleagues: millie, lucy, and jean; susan knows they have little time to break this code before the killer strikes again .
nock (rory kinnear), the officer who questions turing in the film, isn' t entirely real. rather, moore says, he' s meant to symbolize
the institutionalized homophobia of the day, to show that this wasn' t some raving lunatic who arrested in persecuted alan turing .
and, to protect the cop who did interrogate the computer scientist, moore changed his name .
i made that decision very early on because the real police officer didn' t die all that long ago and he still has family who are alive and i did not want to implicate the real person in that ,
he says .
kate winslett is impressive as a determined bletchley park team member dedicated to finding out what happened to a missing colleague and to help the object of her affections crack the german naval code. although her character is fictional, in fact women were a vital part of the park' s work force. most were employed in administrative, transcriptive and secretarial functions, but some, like joan clarke and marion body, worked alongside alan turing and other top decoders. one of the administrative staff was valerie glassborow, the grandmother of kate, duchess of cambridge, who had a tedious job in hut 16 - she and others monitored british listening stations to see that they were sending in regular reports of german radio activity .
o clearly implied but not specifically, factually highlighted in the movie was the fact that third classmen (sophomores) involved in cheating in three cadet companies deliberately schemed to elect one of their group as company honor representatives. this occurred in three cadet companies, b - 1, b - 2, and k - 1. the film dialog indicates the honor committee
was stacked ,
or
they' ve compromised the honor committee .
the elections were in fact successful in two of the three cadet companies, b - 1 and b - 2, which meant, had they not been found out, the honor committee would have indeed been compromised when the class of 1953 became the senior class .
the goal was to tell alan' s story fairly and responsibly and accurately ,
moore says .
that meant that we sometimes had to dramatize things—or to take things that happened over a period of months and make them into a scene .
that also meant that multiple people, and the things they did, were condensed into a single person .
for example, the character that is called hugh alexander, who is played by matthew goode, he' s a character that is half hugh alexander and half gordon welchman, another mathematician on the team ,
he says
we had to sort of use little tricks like that. but every major event in the film did occur .
o in the film, nolan goes to his father for advice on what to do before he reports his football player roommate, then over his father' s objections reports him to the commandant. in real life, nolan was first asked by the commandant if he would go under cover, and colonel harkins explained why. nolan, who knew the serious implications of the matter, asked for permission to consult with his family, then called his uncle, a lawyer in new york city, and asked him to come to west point to visit. he wanted some advice. after his uncle recommended he accept the commandant' s request, he then went to colonel harkins and agreed to press ahead with what became a six week undercover investigation .
o the other blatant use of intimidation, which wasn' t portrayed in the film, involved two of the first few witnesses to appear before the collins board. one of them was the classmate nolan first reported, a member of the academy' s fencing team. approximately twelve men in the ring called a meeting in a room in company a - 1' s first division of barracks, the evening of the first day' s testimony. they demanded to know what the two men told the board, and also wanted to know what they had been asked during the proceedings, to help them prepare for their testimony - though the collins board had specifically instructed all witnesses not to discuss any aspect of the proceedings with anyone after their testimony .
the significance of the' enigma machine', and the unlocking of its secrets by a team of cryptological and mathematical geniuses at the top secret english location of bletchley park remained unknown and unheralded for many years after the end of the war. in the last couple of decades, the general public has become aware of the crucial role that bletchley park (and in particular the mathematician alan turing) played in unravelling germany' s military secrets and helping win the war. the main target of the bletchley team was not the german' s original so - called' enigma' cipher but the more technologically sophisticated version code - named' tunny' by the british. many documentaries have been made about enigma, bletchley park and turing. yet despite the controversial conflicts, issues and personalities surrounding the topic, before 2014' s release of
for years computer science circles have hummed with speculation that the bitten - apple logo on mac products was a reference to turing' s death. it' s such an interesting tidbit the filmmakers almost mentioned it in the movie .
we debated putting that in text at the end of the film; that was a lively debate for many months ,
moore says .
the debate was that this was this amazing story that there was this rumor and that steve jobs had publicly denied it many times but other people seemed to think it was true. … we would' ve loved for it to be true. but we didn' t have enough evidence to feel comfortable putting that in as text. personally, i think it might be true, but because we couldn' t prove it, it was ethically tricky .
kate winslet is very good here, plucky, wearing sensible shoes, with the wrong haircut - - and then, seen in the right light, as a little proletarian sex bomb. she moves between dowdy and sexy so easily, it must mystify even her. claire, when she is seen, is portrayed by saffron burrows as the kind of woman any sensible man knows cannot be kept in his net - - which is why she attracts a masochistic romantic like tom jericho, who sets himself up for his own betrayal. if it is true (and it is) that
pearl harbor
is the story of how the japanese staged a sneak attack on an american love triangle, at least
enigma
is not about how the nazis devised their code to undermine a british love triangle. that is true not least because the british place puzzle - solving at least on a par with sex, and like to conduct their affairs while on (not as a substitute for) duty .
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in fact, in real life, neither of nolan' s two roommates in company k - 1 were football players. the man he actually, eventually reported as pressing him to join
a group of cadets
involved in cheating was in fact a classmate - the member of the fencing team - and lived in another cadet room in nolan' s company. the fencing team member was also the son of an academy graduate who was a brigadier general in the army' s occupation forces in germany at the time, whereas in the film nolan is portrayed as the son of an academy graduate, with uncles who were also academy graduates. the real nolan was a recruited swimming team member, whose father wasn' t career military or a graduate. the two roommates (classmates) of the man whom nolan reported were academy intercollegiate athletes. one was on the boxing team, the other a junior varsity football player, and was the football player who threatened nolan and was detained by the fbi .
fresh off
four minutes ,
espn returns to the 1950s and comes up with another winning pic. dealing with a cheating scandal that rocked west point and army' s then - powerhouse football team, pic is a complex exploration of whistle - blowing, rule - bending and the anything - to - win mentality that remains prevalent today .
fresh off “four minutes, ” espn returns to the 1950s and comes up with another winning pic — one that possesses greater resonance in terms of modern college sports and double standards governing athletes. dealing with a cheating scandal that rocked west point and army’s then - powerhouse football team, pic is distinguished by a nifty period look, solid perfs throughout and complex exploration of whistle - blowing, rule - bending and the anything - to - win mentality that remains prevalent today .
“codebreakers” (a terrible title that sounds more like a world war ii espionage thriller) also features a born - to - play role for scott glenn as army’s snarling, grizzled football coach earl “red” blaik. his assistant was none other than vince lombardi (richard zeppieri), who went on to gain fame coaching the green bay packers and is credited with the phrase, “winning isn’t everything; it’s the only thing. ”
that determination to win, however, often comes at a price — in this case, an answer - passing system among members of the army team, who, in 1950, were in the midst of a dominant winning streak. that success fueled an almost messianic zeal, with blaik insisting his charges don’t just represent west point: “we play for the american people. ”
yet as is so frequently true, the brawniest and swiftest on the field aren’t always the brainiest and swiftest in the classroom. so the players began assisting each other in an elaborate scheme, convinced the coaches either know what they’re up to or at least are willing to look the other way .
working from a script by g. ross parker, veteran episodic director rod holcomb brings a starched efficiency to the proceedings, including a particularly well - staged re - enactment of the army - navy game. in many respects, the movie is reminiscent of john sayles’ “eight men out, ” as even players reluctant to participate at first are drawn in by the apparent ease of a perilous situation that, as the younger blaik realizes, “is spreading too wide. ”
both the toronto locations and the fresh - faced cast lend period authenticity to the production, though at times it’s difficult to distinguish one young cadet from another. nevertheless, there are enduring themes here about the courage to resist peer pressure as well as viewing athletes as a privileged group to whom the usual rules don’t apply .
granted, espn’s forays into dramatic fare remain a little fuzzy strategically, especially with its drift toward less recognizable topics after more easily marketed (but less appealing) biopics of pete rose, dale earnhardt and bobby knight .
production: filmed in toronto by orly adelson prods. executive producer, adelson; co - executive producer, jonathan eskenas; producer, frank siracusa; director, rod holcomb; writer, g. ross parker, based on the book
a return to glory
by bill mcwilliams ;
crew: camera, thomas del ruth; production design, james newport; editor, michael brown; music, anthony marinelli; casting, junie lowry johnson, libby goldstein. running time: 120 min .
fresh off “four minutes, ” espn returns to the 1950s and comes up with another winning pic — one that possesses greater resonance in terms of modern college sports and double standards governing athletes. dealing with a cheating scandal that rocked west point and army’s then - powerhouse football team, pic is distinguished by a nifty period look, [ … ]
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code breakers is an espn original entertainment television film that was first broadcast december 10 , 2005 at 9 pm et on espn and espn hd . the movie followed the heisman trophy presentation . 
code breakers is an espn original entertainment television film that was first broadcast december 10, 2005 at 9 pm et on espn and espn hd. the movie followed the heisman trophy presentation.
code breakers is an espn original entertainment television film that was first broadcast december 10, 2005 at 9 pm et on espn and espn hd. the movie followed the heisman trophy presentation.