08-30-2020, 08:20 AM
Hmm, I thought DM reviewed this but I can't find his review.
What if Shakespeared didn't write Shakespeare is the basis for this movie. In an homage to Laurence Olivier's Henry the Fifth, the movie starts in the playhouse with Derek Jacoby setting up the story about who actually wrote the plays and then segues into actual Elizabethan England. It's quite the conspiracy theory and based on a book from the early 1900s.
It was very well done but I kept tripping on the fact the lead was played by the welsh roommate in the film Notting Hill. But there was a lot of name the British Actor in this. I especially like the fact Wonder Woman's Ares played the evil prime minister.
Oddly the film was directed by Roland Emmerich who brought us Independence Day. If you watch the making of sequences, it makes more sense as this is a CGI heavy film, more so than you would think.
But it was good. Great acting. Great story. I think all the American known British actors are there with the exception of Ralph Fiennes. I don't know they left him out. There are a lot of echoes to Henry the Fifth which makes the opening better. And lots of parallels to Richard the Third, so that was good.
The weird echo I get was from all the conspiracy theories that swirl around us today and this movie sounded like more of that.
If you haven't seen it and like the Shakespeare, I recommend it.
What if Shakespeared didn't write Shakespeare is the basis for this movie. In an homage to Laurence Olivier's Henry the Fifth, the movie starts in the playhouse with Derek Jacoby setting up the story about who actually wrote the plays and then segues into actual Elizabethan England. It's quite the conspiracy theory and based on a book from the early 1900s.
It was very well done but I kept tripping on the fact the lead was played by the welsh roommate in the film Notting Hill. But there was a lot of name the British Actor in this. I especially like the fact Wonder Woman's Ares played the evil prime minister.
Oddly the film was directed by Roland Emmerich who brought us Independence Day. If you watch the making of sequences, it makes more sense as this is a CGI heavy film, more so than you would think.
But it was good. Great acting. Great story. I think all the American known British actors are there with the exception of Ralph Fiennes. I don't know they left him out. There are a lot of echoes to Henry the Fifth which makes the opening better. And lots of parallels to Richard the Third, so that was good.
The weird echo I get was from all the conspiracy theories that swirl around us today and this movie sounded like more of that.
If you haven't seen it and like the Shakespeare, I recommend it.
As a matter of fact, my anger does keep me warm