God, you all are getting way too angry over nothing. Its a movie. Not reality. Besides, just because the theory they’re “exploring” in the movie is a fringe theory that, in all likelihood, isn’t true, doesn’t mean that it won’t make an interesting and intriguing movie. It also doesn’t mean that every English student everywhere will suddenly believe that Shakespeare never wrote his plays. So get the hell over yourselves. There’s no need for all the dramatics. Christ. :S

I found the Edward de Vere argument persuasive. There was a Frontline episode about this. They made some good points on the subject. I don’t know if it’s true, but it’s an interesting thing to ponder.

Ugh. This is going to do for English teachers/professors what The Matrix did for their colleagues in philosophy. Before The Matrix came out, when my husband would teach the brain in a vat thought experiment, his students all thought it was patently ridiculous to say that they might be a brain in a vat, merely having simulated experiences. The semester The Matrix came out, it became the polar opposite. Now you can hardly convince them that they might not be.

please someone make a mock trailer and have it be about 4chan’s anonymous

It’s a shitload less than a theory. It’s a Glen Beck theory.

boringggggg

so this film is about histories biggest troll?

Emmerich directed Stargate. Shakespeare wrote Hamlet. Nothing else needs to be said.

“Although the idea has attracted much public interest, all but a few Shakespeare scholars and literary historians consider it a fringe belief and for the most part disregard it except to rebut or disparage the claims.”* Next.

This has nothing to do with 4chan… I am disappoint.

This makes me unspeakably angry. Roland Emmerich shouldn’t even be allowed to speak Shakespeare’s name, let alone make a movie about him being a fraud, call it “Anonymous” (anyone ever heard of the hacker group? terrible choice in title), then throw some Radiohead on the soundtrack. Seriously? How could anyone think this will be good? It basically spits in the face of real art—now Shakespeare and Radiohead are ruined. Thanks a lot, Roland Emmer-bitch.

You lost me at “Roland Emmerich.” You lost me even more at “We’ve All Been Played.”

That’s pretty offensive. Shakespeare was an amazing writer, to say that he wasn’t is idiotic.

This looks absolutely incredible. Of course, it probably helps that I’m an avid fan of Shakespeare.