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UPDATE!! Roland Emmerich = Shakespeare Conspiracy Thriller??
Merrick again...
Adding two more fun embeds pertaining to the Shakespeare authorship theories. They were sent in by a reader named Kai, who characterizes the videos thusly:
These are introductions to the new Norwegian documentary-series "Sweet Swan of Avon". A Norwegian discovers secret codes in Shakespeares first folio, on his tombstone and on his statue in the church where he is buried. To make a long story short: In the end he discovers an amazing treasure-map in Shakespeares works, which leads him to the famous "treasure island" - Oak Island - in Nova Scotia, Canada.
This series has created quite a buzz in Norway. This is an fantastic Indiana Jones story the world needs to experience, and I belive Emmerichs movie will be quite dull compared to this true story.
Hope You find this interesting!
Merrick here...
Maybe Roland Emmerich is establishing some kind of pattern here...a spectacle or two, then a history thing...a spectacle or two, then a history thing...
Last time, Emmerich broke the flow of his effects-intensive blow-outs with THE PATRIOT. His newest, post 2012 respite will be called ANONYMOUS.
Empire recently discussed the project with Roland, who revealed more details about what's going on with the film.
Anonymous tackles the thorny theory that's circulated for the past 100 years that Shakespeare’s plays were, in fact, written by Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford. The director divulged his cast of Elizabeth types when we caught up with him.
“We have Vanessa Redgrave as Queen Elizabeth; David Thewlis as William Cecil, old and young; and Rhys Ifans as The Earl Of Oxford. It’s a true English cast and I’m really proud of it. There’s 12 main characters and 20 or 30 other characters, and each of the characters is really good.”
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It’s the Tudors on one side and the Cecils on the other, and in between [the two] is the Queen. Through that story we tell how the plays written by the Earl of Oxford ended up labelled 'William Shakespeare'.”
...says Empire HERE.
ANONYMOUS should go before cameras next month or so.
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“We have Vanessa Redgrave as Queen Elizabeth; David Thewlis as William Cecil, old and young; and Rhys Ifans as The Earl Of Oxford. It’s a true English cast and I’m really proud of it. There’s 12 main characters and 20 or 30 other characters, and each of the characters is really good.”
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It’s the Tudors on one side and the Cecils on the other, and in between [the two] is the Queen. Through that story we tell how the plays written by the Earl of Oxford ended up labelled 'William Shakespeare'.”
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First!
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...it somehow involves Shakespeare destroying the entire world.
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Wow, Shakespeare is NOT being served well by the film industry. First the purile grade-9 drivel of "Shakespeare in Love" and now this ... Shakespeare-deniers are the "flat-earthers" and "birthers" of the literary world. They don't deserve to be dignified with a movie; they deserve to be punched in the taint.
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I would tell you to calm down, it's just a movie--but there are so many uneducated douchebags who think the DaVinci Code is legitimate theory that this movie will actually cause people to take it as fact.
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The Supreme Court??? He's fucking British!
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...William Shakespeare actually wrote them all. Deal with it.
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...Who just can't accept that one of the "great unwashed" rose above his station to pen the greatest literature in English history.
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Feb 25, 2010 11:03:00 AM CST
Emmerich's about as good at history as he is at sex w/ women
by yackbacker
The guy is incapable of doing either correctly. THE PATRIOT was one of the dumbest films committed by Hollywood. Dumb, dumb, fucking retarded dumb (Sarah Palin dumb).
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So when can we expect the moon landing denial film, a remake of Oliver Stone's JFK assassination denial film, and vaccine denial film to come out? Hollywood has no shame. JayLenoTookMyJob said it best:
"William Shakespeare actually wrote them all. Deal with it." -
No one has made a gangster style flick based on Julius Ceaser...
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... was a compelling pre-American example of The American Dream -- a humble man who became great thru talent, determination and hard work. Any American who believes this Oxford twaddle is trying to argue down the very principles of America. Anyway-- why would an aristocrat, a man who never had to work a day in his life, write 37 really complicated plays? 2 or 3 maybe, not 37. Only a lower or middle class fellow would put in the massive gruntwork that Shakespeare did. In short: Oxfordians are ASSES.
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How will he work in a massive explosion of The Globe theater.
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And by Kahless, I refuse to challenge the good general!
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He owned that wannabe Anglophile presenting Shakespeare's case at the end of the video. Christ, were there no pressing issues of the day that the court needed to work on that they could dick around on this question? This is akin to today's court conducting a mock trial on whether James Cameron plagiarized other works in making AVATAR.
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Wasn't that the same movie?
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i'm not on crack
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Way to go Roland. now you're making a movie purporting a nonsense theory as fact, and people are going to walk around for the next year after, saying, yeah, but you know what? Shakespeare wasnt even a real guy.
Thank you Roland, for continuing to make this stupid world that much stupider. -
Pisses me off how Americans consider everyone in the UK to be "English".
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It's a fact. It is also a fact that, as madCanada says, Oxfordians are asses. I know this because of the time I've spent in Oxford, Mississippi.
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under a mountain of literature?
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he could get another Robert Langdon book out of it.
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one of the Preston/Child books.
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I grew up in Nova Scotia and have heard about Oak Island all my life - People have spent millions digging half that island apart and haven't found any treasure yet - lots of odd wooden structures I think. As much as I would like to see more Nova Scotia in film, it seems like a desperate grasp at a Davinci /National Treasure movie though...
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Fuck you.
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No! Keep that hack director away from those novels! Dear God, man, have some sense...
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A vengeful Shakespeare leads the alien horde back to Earth...
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My dad subscribes to this bogus theory. This is going to lead to headaches... http://tinyurl.com/65zbt
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How would the government warn 6 billion people that Shakespeare was a fraud?
THEY WOULDNT
(or however the 2012 trailer went) -
He could make the great german crapsterpiece with the right overactor.
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Who cares if it doesn't actually happen in July? Even Die Hard dropped the Christmas schtick.
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sounds exciting
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that Shakespeare's plays were written by christopher Marlowe. all these theories emenate from the fact that no one man could write all of those plays and all of those sonnets at least not on his. mystery surrounds marlowes death. It had the thoery suggests something to do with money. Shakespear expert have been studying the all this stuff for decades and they either give up or believe shakespeare really wrote everything. three books to recommend. Peter Ackroyds book on shakespeare. fintan O'Tooles book and the former opera review of the observer and the showtime the secret history of the acdemy awards antohny holden
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as a entertaining, funny and extremely well rounded book about The Bard. Short too, for the easily distracted. Not suprising given the utter lack of almost any information about Shakey's life. Of course that is what really leads to these silly conspiracy theories.
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I highly recommend you guys read Bill Bryson's book on Shakespeare. He rips apart the deniers and gives a great background to the era.
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Hah needless to say I didn't see that post ahead of mine in time.
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General Chang to act as character witness at Roman Polanski's rape trial.
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Great Minds and all that ; )
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Finally a shout out for a Norwegian television series, and it's this speculative dreck... Go curling pants!
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I remember reading a novel in like grade 7 where some kid got his hand chopped off in that tunnel.
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Jettl93
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Vanessa Redgrave is going to be involved in this poo? Shame on her, taking her orders from a bunch of "Oxfordian Hoodlums".
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in the "DaVinci Code" the Oxfordian theory is another crackpot idea that has been around forever and is largely discredited.
And now, like the DaVinci Code, some hack digs it up, dusts it off and presents it as some long forbidden truth while braindead masses buy into it completely.
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are going to have a collective heart attack over this...and I can't say I blame them. And as a side note: I don't want Emmerich anywhere near the works of Shakespeare.
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I'd think it was obvious that DaVinci wrote Shakespeare's plays
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Theres no way a man from Maine could produce so many books... especially after gettin hit by a car... plus the guy is so handsome, he would never have the time to sit and write books, when he has so much ass thrown at him
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These historical "revalutions" of history seem an unnecessary biproduct of The Da Vinci Code's success. Meanwhile, Leonardo Da Vinci is now considered less an artist and more of a conspirator. Now we have William Shakespeare as another potential casualty. The potential cultural ripples are enough to give any knowledgeable individual nightmares. What was once the domain of conspiracy theorists and madmen, has now gone Hollywood. What's next? A high-budget adaptation of 'Loose Change'?
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your phone rings, a unrecognizable voice tells you to dont take your flight today... ALWAYS LISTEN
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.... It says "Botticelli is dead." ... FUCK YOU everyone connected with this film. I hope it gets 0% on the Tomatometer & ruins the careers of everyone involved.
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that man was pimpin' far ahead of his time
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to begin?
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don't talk shit about Billy Shakes, he wrote all those plays and if you deny it he'll fuck you up with his bitch slap
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so I guess this movie will NOT FORGIVE AND NOT FORGET and will contain lots lolcats, lazer chargin', goatse, epic fail guy, internet hate machine and attack, destroy, die
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this movie was better when it was called The Divinci Code, or American Treasure. Changing names does not change the crappy story.
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is the worst "main stream" director in the history of film.
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Sir Francis Bacon. He and several other scholars form his day formed a group and wrote the plays, as well as translated popular works of literature into many different languages, in order to unify the English language.
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was William Shakespeare of Stratford-on-Avon...not Bacon or Marlowe or Elizabeth or any of the other candidates of the anti-Stratfordians. Look it up--tis true.
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he'd probably agree with you
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... "this is not supposed to be Shakespeare". Actually, this time, it is.
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