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

[leatherdykeuk.livejournal.com]

I shall have to see it. I've written Marlowe stories myself.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

This sounds like me faced with anything claiming to be set in 'the Dark Ages'. I sympathise.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Don't touch it! It's eeeeevil!

By which I mean, seriously, don't watch it, it will be worse than Erik the Viking.

[wshaffer.livejournal.com]

Let's wait for the DVD so we can watch it together and heckle it.

[wadam.livejournal.com]

Wow. That looks shockingly bad.

And yet I think I have to see it.

[tiamat360.livejournal.com]

No matter how bad it may be...it has Derek Jacobi.

[skirmish-of-wit.livejournal.com]

Argh, anti-Stratforianism, it burns.

I feel like I should recommend James Shapiro's Contested Will and the Shakespeare Authorship website to counteract the batshittery.

[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.

[d-c-m.livejournal.com]

*giggle* I shouldn't laugh at your brain's angst but I did see the preview for that flick today and thought "Wow! What is Derek Jacobi doing there?"