{"id":176,"date":"2012-02-27T04:50:28","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T09:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moviesformysoul.com\/?p=176"},"modified":"2018-04-15T19:01:47","modified_gmt":"2018-04-15T23:01:47","slug":"anonymous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moviesformysoul.com\/anonymous\/","title":{"rendered":"Anonymous (2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Was Shakespeare a fraud? A question that’s been asked for hundreds of years and Roland Emmerich decided to run some light on this legend via Anonymous – a movie starring Rhys Ifans.<\/h3>\n

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I have recently decided that Anonymous director,\u00a0Roland Emmerich<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0is one of my favorite movie directors.<\/p>\n

Independence Day<\/strong> is one of those movies I watch with the same interest each time it\u2019s on tv. And I still feel some tension until the first misle hits the alien spaceship above the USA<\/strong>. Id made an impression to me as a kid that still holds\u00a0on until this day.<\/p>\n

2012<\/strong>,\u00a0The day after\u00a0<\/strong>tomorrow<\/b>,\u00a0Godzilla<\/strong>\u00a0just to name a few of his other \u201cmasterpieces\u201d. I like to compare his movies to wrestling: you know it\u2019s fake but you really want to see how it will end.<\/span><\/p>\n

The first exception from the list will be The Patriot<\/strong>. Or not.\u00a0It\u2019s more than funny that a German\u00a0born director is responsible for a patriotic movie about the United States of America<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

And, to me, more funny is that it\u2019s starring Mel Gibson<\/strong><\/a> as the main\u00a0character, an Australian\u00a0born actor, witch five years before The Patriot<\/strong>, directed and had the leading role (I think he won himself a few Oscars for that one) in Braveheart<\/strong>, a film based on the life of William Wallace<\/strong>, a Scottish national hero.<\/p>\n

The second I will count to be is the Anonymous<\/strong> movie.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s based on a legend (witch\u00a0first I hear from my\u00a0Slovenian\u00a0English teacher from high-school), a legend that says William Shakespeare<\/strong> isn’t the author of the plays\u00a0witch\u00a0the name is known for, but it\u2019s more than a fictional\u00a0character.<\/p>\n

That more than one author used to sign for\u00a0their\u00a0plays. As\u00a0always, the truth is\u00a0probably\u00a0somewhere in the middle. Shakespeare is loved all over the world for his plays and his\u00a0probably\u00a0more popular than ever today.<\/p>\n

Some non-English speaking nations had the opportunity to read Shakespeare with\u00a0very\u00a0good translation, more adapted to the present day language (East-Europe), as opposed to the English natives, who are reading\/studying him in the old English language that was used in his time.<\/p>\n

My first surprise was the main character, Sir Earl of Oxford<\/strong>, played by the wales born actor Rhys Ifans<\/strong> (I\u2019m not sure how that\u2019s\u00a0pronounced).<\/p>\n

First seen the guy in Notting Hill<\/strong> (starring Hugh Grant\u00a0<\/strong>and Julia Roberts<\/strong>) back in 1999<\/strong>. He was the house-mate\u00a0witch\u00a0lived with Grant\u2019s\u00a0character, a more than\u00a0eccentric\u00a0appearance. He did some other roles based on the same type of\u00a0character.<\/p>\n

But, in Anonymous<\/strong>, he definitely\u00a0proved\u00a0himself as a great actor, a person who could do just about\u00a0any\u00a0role that is out there (sometimes you go on with a character\u00a0tag all your life until you got a chance like he had on this one). A remarkable role.<\/p>\n

As the movie goes on, you\u2019ll find a present-day\u00a0resemblance\u00a0with the medieval times the movie is set on, with the same politics and plots\u00a0witch\u00a0runs the\u00a0deciding\u00a0minority.<\/p>\n

There’s a scene that I remembered recently from a LinkedIn post that I’m having trouble finding (LinkedIn should do better in giving you the option to see what your activity was in the previous months).<\/p>\n

The post was about public manipulation via Social Media, or, the modern day theater plays. You already know I don’t like to talk about scenes in the movies but for this, I need to give a spoiler alert<\/strong> first.<\/p>\n

On a play premier night, when the social situation was already unstable, Shakespeare\u00a0<\/em>made the characters resembling real-life persons and strategically planted people in the audience that, at a trigger moment, they would shout and incite the mob. Public manipulation 101.<\/p>\n

A story about a man\u2019s passion, about a man\u2019s obsessions, about a man who is\u00a0possessed by voices that would not go away until their message was written down.<\/p>\n

A story about a man, despite all the troubles he encountered, had putt he\u2019s devotion to the Art above all: belief, family, social status, and money. He put his work above all.<\/p>\n

It didn\u2019t matter he would remain Anonymous<\/strong>ly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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