I think both Turing and Hawking fit the definition of hero. In addition Turing fits the definition of a war hero.
Says the jerk off that thinks the "gubber mint" is going to show up in Black Helicopters and take away your guns
Turing and Hawking weren't distinguished in their abilities ? Hawking didn't show courage ? Turing didn't save the lives of millions of people in his war efforts ?
That is pure Zionist propaganda..
One of the things that has really changed in the last decade or so is the extent to which EVERYTHING is getting politicized. There are now "lefty" foods (arugala and kale), and right-wing foods (chik-fil-a, beef). And movies are no different. There are increasing numbers of movies that are adopted as a kind of cultural acid test for the left and the right. American Sniper has been adopted by the right. Hollywood is very smart and knows how to manipulate this phenomenon. They play up the culture-war aspect of films like this (remember "Passion of the Christ"?), in order to get free word-of-mouth advertising.
A lot of fiction in the Alan Turing movie for dramatic effects in the movie.. So too in this movie about a killer sniper.. just how much fiction it would be god to know because of all the noise about this movie. .
Funny how most of the right never served they were all chicken hawks. So any one that serves is a hero because they are cowards and they try to hide their cowardly hearts by championing heroes. Makes them feel like a hero just by saying the word hero but deep down inside they remain chicken hawks.
I see it as a cynical exchange. The idea is that politicians on the right will throw away the lives of military personnel on half-baked foreign adventures that ultimately only serve the American aristocracy (opening up new oil fields or markets, undermining socialist movements, etc.) And, in exchange, they agree to pay all sorts of lip service to the supposed super-heroic natures of the soldiers. Basically: "we'll toss your life away to enrich ourselves, but in the meantime we'll drone on about your courage and thank you for your service." Meanwhile, the left wants to use the military much more sparingly, only in cases where undeniable critical national interests are at stake, or where the US is facing a genuine existential threat, or, at most, where there's some genocide ongoing that limited US involvement might stop. But, on the left, people aren't as cynical about giving the military lip service. And, human nature being what it is, most military personnel prefer those who hold them in utter contempt but pay them lip service, to those who actually value their lives but don't pay them the vocal tributes they feel they're due.
As demonstrated by the resident wingnuts here, if it doesn't involve killing anyone, then you can't be a hero.
Taking a page from the Tyler Perry book of movie making and promotion. Find a sizable audience that hasn't been catered to, feed them what they hunger for and they'll line up. Perry did it with Black women wanting to see a lead character espousing their point of view. Except American Sniper is at least a good movie but it is still that same kind of movie.
You're gubber mint might, not my government.
No, Hawking showed a will to live (maybe even a fear to die).
