"You could ever imagine that THIS guy could write plays? What a GENIUS!!! Oh wait... let's debate this 400 years LATER... "
For the past week, Ms. A (The wonderful woman/teacher she is ;D ) has given us a MOVIE week!!! (CUSS YAY!!! XD) Our 1st movie we got to watch and just finished today, was none other than the movie... ANONYMOUS!!! Ms. A has been wanting to watch this movie for like... EVER.... Well, it starts out with this regular struggling playwright/poet named Ben Johnson... hes running away from these guards and he hides these documents... which are plays btw...
"Ben Johnson: unfortunate schmuck that gets screwed over in history books forever..."
Long story short, William Shakespeare didn't write his own plays, yeah, that's right... Shakespeare was a fraud, a d-bag loser pants whose awkward, not funny, and overly whimsical... that's what this whole
FREAKING movie is about!!! And that impostor even BLACKMAILED the man you REALLY wrote the greatest plays in Britain...
FREAKING movie is about!!! And that impostor even BLACKMAILED the man you REALLY wrote the greatest plays in Britain...
"Don't be fooled by what you see... this is indeed an angry mob who can't wait to rip Shakespeare into itty bitty pieces..."
You see, Ben Johnson was asked, actually he was told that he will take have the glory of writing the plays that Lord Oxford had written, Lord Oxford is the genius, the mastermind... he can't write plays because it makes his whole family look bad... Now you wants that? Heaven forBID a Lord can express his talents and write beautiful literature that he shares with the world...
"Lord Oxford: Errol Flynn looking and Dave Matthew talking tragic man who is doomed from the beginning... WHOSE even more screwed over than any character in this movie..."
You see, Lord of Oxford had a little "fling" with Queen Elizabeth the 1st several years before, like when he was 12 or some crap like that and she was like...55...
"Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore of the Middle Ages..."
"See what YEARS and YEARS and YEARS and YEARS of rule, family dysfunctional relationships, and having affairs with boys 20 years younger than you can do to a woman?"
So, during his years with this Cecil guy who is the closest advisor to the Queen, when Oxford's secret affair (Ewwwwie...) is discovered Cecil forces him to marry his only rather boring young daughter. Out of that mess came a boy and Oxford's works.
"Cecil: Father of Robert Cecil, advisor and a man who passes his grunges and a-hole characteristics to his son... He would be proud"
"Lord of so and so (Something really British) and that redhead general: Two generals who happen to have fabulous perfectly quaffed hair and outstanding strategy skills..."
"Robert Cecil: A little dark hunchback creep/stool pigeon who constantly lies to the Queen and secretly likes to cause drama in the royal family..."
The sad part of this whole movie is that, not only is Oxford not being credited for his plays but he slept/ conceived a boy with his SISTER Queen Elizabeth the 1st... Yeah... turns out he was one of the sons to Henry the VIII and he did it with his cougar sister... (Not the only one, mind you... she gets around) Oxford could have even been king... if he didn't write his silly little plays (Which aren't silly at all) The Queen dies and King James of Scotland takes over in her place. Oxford, wanting to die, asks Ben Johnson to disponse of his works. When he leaves, Oxford dies, probably from gulit and more gulit. If there is hope in the end, when King James (Like the Queen, who even unbuttons her dress because she is so moved by the words... please don't question) fancies these plays and they are saved from the fire and buring of the theater...
All in all, I enjoyed this movie and I like it! ;)
Actually I believe it was his mother, the first child of Elizabeth. But pretty good character description most of the info is spot on. And irony does get the best of young Cecil cause King James loves the Shakespeare plays so he has to endure all of them :D.
ReplyDeleteVery good description of the movie. It was weird back then, not being able to write plays if you are royal, and all these scandalous affairs. This time period is messed up and that is why so many people talk about it for years to come.
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