Or an M. Gibson.
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Monday, 24 October 2011 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
The film was to be the first major motion picture to be shot with Arriflex's new Alexa camera. However, Disney's 2011 film Prom made it to theatres first.[43]
― lagerfeld of modern despots (latebloomer), Monday, 24 October 2011 22:31 (twelve years ago) link
I love this beautifully insane asshole.
― ENERGY FOOD (en i see kay), Monday, 24 October 2011 22:32 (twelve years ago) link
there was a nyt (i think?) profile of emmerich's house, which is the awesomest thing ever
― lagerfeld of modern despots (latebloomer), Monday, 24 October 2011 22:39 (twelve years ago) link
he's gay, right?
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 24 October 2011 23:10 (twelve years ago) link
this is the house: http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/08/07/garden/20080807-EMMERICH_2.html
― turkey in the straw (x2) (remy bean), Monday, 24 October 2011 23:12 (twelve years ago) link
oh my god, that house
that almost makes up for the sickeningly offensive class dynamics of all this "oh, an actor from stratford who was only the son of a glover and didn't do greek at school could never have produced such ~art~" bullshit
― octavio paz de la huerta (c sharp major), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 00:26 (twelve years ago) link
yeah totally
― lagerfeld of modern despots (latebloomer), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 01:51 (twelve years ago) link
is this out already
― The sham nation of Israel should be destroyed. (Princess TamTam), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 02:01 (twelve years ago) link
im excited for this in theory but i doubt i'll enjoy watching it much
Opens Friday.
― The Man With The Flavored Toothpick (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 02:06 (twelve years ago) link
― The sham nation of Israel should be destroyed. (Princess TamTam), Tuesday, October 25, 2011 2:01 AM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark
otm...i have a feeling it'll just end up being a dour, subpar wannabe costume drama rather than the over-the-top absurd melodrama it really needs to be.
― lagerfeld of modern despots (latebloomer), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 02:10 (twelve years ago) link
― lagerfeld of modern despots (latebloomer), Monday, October 24, 2011 6:31 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark
almost shot my short with this but couldnt afford to :(
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 02:44 (twelve years ago) link
It's the camera that finally won Roger Deakins over to didge
s1ocki have you been to the deakmaster's online forum. he answers peoples questions on there, on the reg!
― The sham nation of Israel should be destroyed. (Princess TamTam), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 03:04 (twelve years ago) link
Ya a DP friend of mine claims its his assistants but IMHO it is actually tha deak
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 03:09 (twelve years ago) link
Okay wait a minute about Emmerich's house.
The library coffee table is made of a missile from Iraq and holds an Arabs-and-Americans chess set commissioned by Mr. Teall. (On the Arab side, pieces include an oil rig, Saddam Hussein and a suicide bomber, and on the American side, an exploding World Trade Center, President Bush and Rambo.)
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 03:21 (twelve years ago) link
touché
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 03:22 (twelve years ago) link
OCCUPY EMMERICH
― The Man With The Flavored Toothpick (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 03:45 (twelve years ago) link
michael bay gets all the attention, but i don't think even he'd have the balls to have that house.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 04:08 (twelve years ago) link
he would, however, have the chest hair.
He instructed the designer, John Teall, of Flux Interiors, to make it so that "when the neighbors peek in, they might want to call the police or something." A taxidermy zebra faces the living room, which reflects his predilection for art with a political edge.
― omar little, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 04:27 (twelve years ago) link
yeah make sense of that will you
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 05:13 (twelve years ago) link
Saw it tonight, I've seen worse.
Like Inception.
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 05:41 (twelve years ago) link
duh
Lots of lippy boys in this movie
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 05:42 (twelve years ago) link
that house looks amazing tbh, I straight-up like about half of it
― the men who glare at stoats (sic), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 06:11 (twelve years ago) link
has anyone ever seen joel schumacher and roland emmerich in the same room?
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 06:40 (twelve years ago) link
Shakespeare signs covered in protest of Anonymous film:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-15440882
Looks like a publicity stunt for the stupid film itself at first. I guess it's actually just the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust riding the coattails of the film to raise their own profile.
― Alba, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 08:48 (twelve years ago) link
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, October 25, 2011 1:41 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark
sounds amazing
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 12:27 (twelve years ago) link
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/08/06/garden/23922277.JPG
everyone else also grew up in houses in which this room was the toilet, right
― the contemporary jazz guitar gettin mad liberated (schlump), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 13:00 (twelve years ago) link
Pope John
roland emmerich rules fuiud
― dayo, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 13:04 (twelve years ago) link
MY POEMS ARE MY SOUL
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 15:48 (twelve years ago) link
audience was laughing at some of the dialogue, which is fairly unusual at an advance screening
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 15:56 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/magazine/wouldnt-it-be-cool-if-shakespeare-wasnt-shakespeare.html
― this is unusual for batman. (Jordan), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 16:20 (twelve years ago) link
People who don't think that Shakespeare wrote his plays are as bad as birthers.
― bouquet beatdown (Nicole), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 19:16 (twelve years ago) link
other whacked-out theory that makes me smh: "abiotic oil". check it out.
― goole, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 19:21 (twelve years ago) link
I didn't know til a month or so ago that Derek Jacobi was on board with this
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 19:26 (twelve years ago) link
actors are mainly idiots [insert exceptions here] [won't take long] [<-- tracer hand, and er that's it maybe]
― mark s, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 21:22 (twelve years ago) link
― goole, Tuesday, October 25, 2011 3:21 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
haha I remember reading a theory that we shouldn't have to worry about peak oil because the oil fields are just gonna fill back up again in a few years or so, and that prediction was made by the same guy who correctly predicted that there would be dust on the moon
― dayo, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 21:25 (twelve years ago) link
it's rhys ifans! what could possibly go wrong
― Once Were Moderators (DG), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 22:39 (twelve years ago) link
I'm not convinced Ifans could write his own name.
― bouquet beatdown (Nicole), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 23:05 (twelve years ago) link
true story: real name is Russell Evanston, stage name was just what the clerk thought he scrawled on his Equity form
― the men who glare at stoats (sic), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 00:28 (twelve years ago) link
(not a true story)
― the men who glare at stoats (sic), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 00:45 (twelve years ago) link
Ifans aint bad at all in this, considering
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 01:20 (twelve years ago) link
here's a nutty unsupported theory emmerich totally SHOULD do a movie about:
http://io9.com/5848192/giant-prehistoric-krakens-may-have-sculpted-self+portraits-using-ichthyosaur-bones
― lagerfeld of modern despots (latebloomer), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 01:25 (twelve years ago) link
― bouquet beatdown (Nicole), Tuesday, October 25, 2011 3:16 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
idk wouldnt it just mean another guy was shakespeare
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 04:03 (twelve years ago) link
idk wouldn't it just mean another birth certificate was obama's
― the men who glare at stoats (sic), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 04:47 (twelve years ago) link
think abt it
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 04:48 (twelve years ago) link
I don't give a flying fuck who wrote the plays, even if these de Vere ppl are fantasizing.
btw Timothy Spall's son is quite funny as Will, playing him as a lecherous vain drunk.
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 11:48 (twelve years ago) link
my line on chariots of the gods -- i saw the documentary when it came out in 68-ish, at towyn cinema in mid-wales -- was that people loved the look and the thought of all this ancient stuff, the aztec pictures, the egyptian gold, it was great to look at, and the "pictures of aliens" stuff was an easily grasped "theory" to give you an excuse for talking about it and enthusing and saying "hey folks! look at this stuff, it's AWESOME!"when obviously very few of us have the actual archeological-ethnological chops to know anything about the relics or what they actually meant
so i think these kinds of theories can be consciously (if not particularly helpfully) counter-highbrow: they function as a sort of "set the information free" for historical or literary material -- there was an element of that in dan brown, or more accurately "holy blood, holy grail", which is where his stuff all comes from: it was the first place i ever read anything about the merovingians, for example
(i argued on some other thread -- the one on the Supreme Court? -- that i suspect the fashion among writers like twain and whitman for bacon-wrote-shakespeare was a complicated mix of american counter-highbrow cheek and resistance to the vulgar populism of how shakespeare was actually played in 19th-century new york especially, which was VERY riotous and street)
― mark s, Friday, 28 October 2011 13:45 (twelve years ago) link
I know there's a populist bent to these conspiracy theories and whatnot, but isn't the premise of this film/theory not that anyone can do it, but that Shakespeare couldn't do it because he was a common man and writing plays was the provence of the elite?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 28 October 2011 14:02 (twelve years ago) link
im guessing that's something you can easily read into this movie, but i doubt it's the whole PREMISE
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Friday, 28 October 2011 14:09 (twelve years ago) link
what does it say that Hollywood greenlit and actually made a big-budget movie about the contested authorship of Shakespeare's plays?
It's reported to have cost $30 million, a fraction of Emmerich's usual budgets. He also green-screened a ton of it rather than build Elizabethan London. (And the script's been around for 15 years.) So chalk it up to R.E.'s previous gross grosses.
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Friday, 28 October 2011 14:12 (twelve years ago) link
It would have been awesome if it was, like, 1/4 Shakespeare mystery and then it fast forwards a few years to the Great Fire of London.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 28 October 2011 14:14 (twelve years ago) link
The "authorship" thing really isn't what the bulk of the movie is about. Simpleton's version of palace intrigue, bastards' identities, incest etc.
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Friday, 28 October 2011 14:15 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeKjKWXWZOE
― ice cr?m, Friday, 28 October 2011 14:17 (twelve years ago) link
provence is the provence of the elite
― mark s, Friday, 28 October 2011 14:20 (twelve years ago) link
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