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'The Imitation Game' director Morten Tyldum responds to criticism about the film's historical accuracy._ --- Jul 27, 2023 5:57 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Morten Tyldum: 'The Imitation Game' is About Lost Love](/video/eKNpPLhW/) ### Morten Tyldum: 'The Imitation Game' is About Lost Love [THE IMITATION GAME - Exclusive Clip](/video/dFvutCZ3/) ### THE IMITATION GAME - Exclusive Clip [The Imitation Game - Official Trailer - The Weinstein Company](/video/UpkAUeEi/) ### The Imitation Game - Official Trailer - The Weinstein Company --- ## Transcript [ NOISE ] You will never understand the importance of what I am creating here. Our patience has expired. No. [ MUSIC ] It's based on the machine in built, it's a credible design, all of pieces are full of colorful dials. You know, in red and yellow. That's how it was. To us, we also wanted to emphasize that it was more than a machine to Alan, so we added all this red cabling, that was all like the blood veins of something that's alive. And that's what we wanted to communicated with by the design, it's, the size of it the scope, and all this, these moving dials and all that, all of that is based on. From the real machine that he built, which actually, it looks amazing. But they were all destroyed after the war. One thing that, that people are, been saying like, it's not accurate that the machine he built was named Christopher. Okay. Here's the fact though. The machine was inspired by Christopher. That we know for a fact. We know this because he wrote letters to. To Christopher's mom and his whole life, and know if that his obsession about recreating a consciousness, and recreating something he lost. That's his inspiration, the computer came out of that. So, how do you communication that on screen? By naming it, christening the machine Christopher, you're able to communicate that. You're able to communicate how the machine, the importance of the machine, how it was for Alan. We are conveying the emotional [ INAUDIBLE ] truth, by actually adding something which is fictional. 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