tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6816366806127608207.post7996247688681218095..comments2024-03-21T22:19:26.920-05:00Comments on A Follow Spot: "Anonymous," the Movie. Will I or Won't I?JulieKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12521424567356348282noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6816366806127608207.post-64293287954588563152011-10-24T19:40:23.475-05:002011-10-24T19:40:23.475-05:00Not quite on the topic of the movie, but related:
...Not quite on the topic of the movie, but related:<br /><br />One of my favorite books ever is "The Shakespearean CIphers Examined," by William and Elizebeth [sic] Friedman, professional cryptographers (they met when both worked for a nutty lady who believed that Bacon had enchiphered secret messages into the First Folio and got financing for large-scale research teams, and they were at the top level of the US's WWII crytographic work).<br /><br />In the book, they very dispassionately and fairly look at every effort to find coded messages in Shakespeare's work and disprove each of them on the merits -- show that the method is no method at all, or that anything could be "proven" using it, or that the results were clearly fudged. Great stuff.JAChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10942256334004773509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6816366806127608207.post-69492605739380508282011-10-24T14:20:31.866-05:002011-10-24T14:20:31.866-05:00Yeah, I agree that the Elizabeth I problems are hu...Yeah, I agree that the Elizabeth I problems are huge and weird and just unnecessary. It's one thing to grind your Oxfordian ax, but to bring Eliz into the mess... Just silly.<br /><br />Best of luck if you see the movie! I may wear sunglasses and sneak in.JulieKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12521424567356348282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6816366806127608207.post-33218919036309634182011-10-24T14:08:19.862-05:002011-10-24T14:08:19.862-05:00I have Oxfordian friends and because I expect they...I have Oxfordian friends and because I expect they will be talking about this a lot, I might have to see it. I'll be Over There around the time of its Stateside release, so very likely we won't get round to it till it's on DVD. <br />I think I'm going to have big big problems with the Elizabeth I aspects of the story. Or rather, Big Problems with capital BP. Not sure I will willingly suspend belief.<br />I hope you do see it, because afterwards you will review it in your inimitable awesome fashion! And that's certain to be more interesting/entertaining even than the film....Margaret Porterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16202290659191790984noreply@blogger.com