I think I'd prefer a Marlovian film.

[swan_tower]

It had to happen eventually, I suppose.

SCENE: The inside of swan_tower's head

SWAN: Let's go look at movie trailers. Anonymous -- what, like the group?

PAGE: <loads>

SWAN: No, it's something set in Elizabethan England! With Derek Jacobi and other cool people! <reads further in synopsis> . . . oh, shit. It's a "Shakespeare didn't write Shakespeare's plays" story.

TRAILER: <plays>

SWAN: Old London Bridge! <swoons in a fit of historical geekery>

DIRECTOR: <is Roland Emmerich>

SWAN: grk.

IMDb: This movie's theory is apparently Oxfordian, since Rhys Ifans has top billing, and he's playing Edward de Vere.

SWAN: <sigh> But . . . London Bridge . . . Elizabethan geekery . . . but Roland Emmerich. And Oxfordianism. <more sigh> Well, at least it seems I'm over my knee-jerk "please god no more" reaction to the sixteenth century. And that's something. Whether or not I can bring myself to watch this movie . . . we'll have to see.

Comments

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

Oh, god.

I mean, it isn't that I don't think historical conspiracy, however batshit, can't make good fiction. It's that I trust some people to do it (e.g. you), and not others (e.g. Roland Emmerich).

Yeah. I think the only way I'm going to watch this is at home, with knowledgable friends, and much sporking.

I might even bend my "I don't really drink" rule, and make a drinking game out of it.

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

It calls for a nice Rhenish, I think. With chipped sugar.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

Only if I can pour the Rhenish on Emmerich's head.

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

Not without mustard!