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Old 02-09-2007, 12:08 AM
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just finished watching "Enigma" tonight on t.v. I thought it was quite good but can anyone explain to me why they did'nt shoot it at Bletchley Park? The building they chose did'nt even resemble the place. It looked more like a disused factory.

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Presumably because Bletchley Park is now a very active museum complex, stuffed full of various collections...the logistics would have made it impractical.
Bit of a Bay Window, what??
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just finished watching "Enigma" tonight on t.v. I thought it was quite good but can anyone explain to me why they did'nt shoot it at Bletchley Park? The building they chose did'nt even resemble the place. It looked more like a disused factory.
Enigma was "quite good". But if you can, watch Breaking the Code (1996) on BBC4 this evening (22:30 - 00:05) staring Derek Jacobi as Alan Turing..

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Presumably because Bletchley Park is now a very active museum complex, stuffed full of various collections...the logistics would have made it impractical.
I take your point but in 2001 the place was struggling to survive. I have visited it on several occasions and more than once have found myself being one of only a dozen or so visitors. I would have thought that any revenue taken even for just external shooting would have been most welcome.
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The film is just plain daft and bears little relation to reality.
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I remember seeing the film not long after I had read the book and being disappointed. Recently,however, I saw it again on DVD and enjoyed it much more. I guess I just took the film at face value and made no comparison.

Interestingly, the films of the books of Robert Harris have been a bit mixed. Fatherland, although not a bad film, is a shadow of the book while the BBC two- parter of Archangel with 'the new 007' isn't at all bad. I read somewhere that Roman Polanski is now making Pompeii - it will be interesting to see how that turns out.
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I read somewhere that Roman Polanski is now making Pompeii - it will be interesting to see how that turns out.
He will probably have the volcano losing..............
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The film is just plain daft and bears little relation to reality.
Are you refering to the movie U571....,,,,now that is a much more realsitic and sensible depiction of how the enigma code was cracked! ( by a secret mission of US Marines in a captured German U Boat of course)......
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what disappointed me was that i was given the impression it was about alan turing - he is the enigma machine - but it was nothing of the sort
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