and yes, it's the combination elitism&populism of middlebrow dimwits
― mark s, Friday, 28 October 2011 14:23 (twelve years ago) link
the combination elitism&populism of middlebrow dimwits
New name for the politics thread?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 28 October 2011 14:25 (twelve years ago) link
From Film Freak Central's review:
In Emmerich's lone gesture to watchability, he gets just about the worst of it out of the way first, panning down from a laughable God's-eye-view of New York City to hone in on a scarf-decked Derek Jacobi strolling importantly into an old theatre with "ANONYMOUS" emblazoned on the marquee. Surely this is meant to signal maturity, trading in Godzilla's Big Apple smash-and-burn for the more academic (!) interiors of Broadway. And probably we're meant to think of the city-symphony of Manhattan, but Emmerich, high as he's aimed, accidentally recreates that moment in "Siskel & Ebert"'s opening credits where the cab driver gives Siskel a too-wide grin and an enthusiastic thumb up. No matter. Jacobi's task: to recite the WIKIPEDIA entry on "Oxfordian theory" to a bunch of chumps who've no doubt paid good money for a bad show, and to advance an alternative origin story for Shakespeare.
Future camp classic in the making right here.
― jer.fairall, Friday, 28 October 2011 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
Jacobi also wraps things up, strides off, and leaves the audience to buzz and leave (no applause).
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Friday, 28 October 2011 16:04 (twelve years ago) link
ouch
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Friday, 28 October 2011 16:06 (twelve years ago) link
a scarf-decked Derek Jacobi
Isn't that what he looked like in Branagh's Henry V?
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 28 October 2011 16:14 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.independent.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00507/radio_507764a.jpg
it's in his rider
― mark s, Friday, 28 October 2011 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
and this is not even a fictional W.S. "biopic" -- Rafe Spall is in it for about 10 minutes. He seems to kill Marlowe offscreen tho, and crowd-surfs the groundlings.
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Friday, 28 October 2011 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
― mark s, Friday, October 28, 2011 9:23 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark
should go on the poster.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 28 October 2011 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
You know, I'm sure this is a POS, but what does it say that Hollywood greenlit and actually made a big-budget movie about the contested authorship of Shakespeare's plays?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, October 28, 2011 9:00 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark
it says emmerich just had a huge hit and he's using his juice to do something 'serious' while he can
― The sham nation of Israel should be destroyed. (Princess TamTam), Friday, 28 October 2011 19:47 (twelve years ago) link
might as well put this here
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/2011/11/william-shakespeare-gangster/
― goole, Monday, 14 November 2011 20:54 (twelve years ago) link
bump
― mattresslessness, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 18:32 (nine years ago) link