Wow... that was awful
Jun. 5th, 2012 10:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shipperxSo, I saw that Anonymous was OnDemand this month. (It was the movie that was saying that Shakespeare's plays weren't written by Shakespeare).
Friends, I watched it. And I have to agree with the reviewer who said that it could have been a fun satirical farce. However, trying to take this load of twaddle remotely seriously? Ha!
Forget the entire "Shakespeare conspiracy" of it. That was the nutty stuff I knew the movie was about. And don't bother with "The Virgin Queen" wasn't actually a virgin, because that's always wondered about. The topper of this ludicrous ice cream sundae is that it posits that Queen Elizabeth had not one, not two, but THREE bastard sons! (And history never noticed!)
Just to make it even more ridiculous. She actually gets pregnant by her own bastard son, and has a double bastard grandson! She's a Granny-mommy (It's so Westeros!)
Oh, she didn't know she had a child by her own child because, apparently, she had a way of losing track of her illegitimate children! (And of course nobles were all too willing to adopt these illegitimate foundlings, giving them their lands and titles... even though they gained no advantage from it because not even the queen knew what had happened to the spawn, who or where they were, or who was raising them! Irony is then found in her executing one of them for treason. [That would be Essex].)
Oh, and if you're curious, it's her illegitimate son-lover that she had her own grandson with who (this film claims) was the "real" William Shakespeare!
.... Riiiiiiiiggggghhhhhtttttt. Bwhahahaha!
( The sad part is, the mini-stagings of bits of Shakespeare's plays are actually interesting. And the mother/daughter team of Vanessa Redgrave and Joely Richardson playing old and young Elizabeth respectively was quite fetching. Given their identical eyes and cheekbones and their similar mannerisms, you could actually buy that they were the older and younger version of the same woman.)
Friends, I watched it. And I have to agree with the reviewer who said that it could have been a fun satirical farce. However, trying to take this load of twaddle remotely seriously? Ha!
Forget the entire "Shakespeare conspiracy" of it. That was the nutty stuff I knew the movie was about. And don't bother with "The Virgin Queen" wasn't actually a virgin, because that's always wondered about. The topper of this ludicrous ice cream sundae is that it posits that Queen Elizabeth had not one, not two, but THREE bastard sons! (And history never noticed!)
Just to make it even more ridiculous. She actually gets pregnant by her own bastard son, and has a double bastard grandson! She's a Granny-mommy (It's so Westeros!)
Oh, she didn't know she had a child by her own child because, apparently, she had a way of losing track of her illegitimate children! (And of course nobles were all too willing to adopt these illegitimate foundlings, giving them their lands and titles... even though they gained no advantage from it because not even the queen knew what had happened to the spawn, who or where they were, or who was raising them! Irony is then found in her executing one of them for treason. [That would be Essex].)
Oh, and if you're curious, it's her illegitimate son-lover that she had her own grandson with who (this film claims) was the "real" William Shakespeare!
.... Riiiiiiiiggggghhhhhtttttt. Bwhahahaha!
( The sad part is, the mini-stagings of bits of Shakespeare's plays are actually interesting. And the mother/daughter team of Vanessa Redgrave and Joely Richardson playing old and young Elizabeth respectively was quite fetching. Given their identical eyes and cheekbones and their similar mannerisms, you could actually buy that they were the older and younger version of the same woman.)
