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

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

Sympathies. The more backstory research I obtain for the novel that ate my brain last year (I had a slightly bland first draft, set entirely in the C20th, and then found someone who was prepared to fill in the historical details behind the central family, stately home and art works) the fewer historicals I can take seriously. Also I crave more and more good historicals set in the various periods I'm learning about.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

It is definitely true that while your tolerance for the bad stuff goes way down, your appreciation for the good stuff becomes that much deeper.