Re: Tom Hiddleston | Only Lovers Left Alive: Cannes Interview and Press Conference

[carolinelamb]

The press conference about the film is quite long (40:42) so only for die-hard fans ;)

I've never seen a full-length press conference at Cannes before, so I don't know if the journalists would be that friendly if the film would have been terrible, but the gathered journalists looked as if they really liked the film :)

Here is a shorter interview

Comments

[ericadawn16]

Hmm...I'm watching the interview second so this is my thoughts just on the press conference so far

[rexluscus]

To say that because he had such little education, this could not be possible smacks of elitism and furthering the oppression of the poor.

Yes, thank you. Anti-Stratfordians always say "it isn't about class" but it is about nothing BUT class. That is literally all it is about. Works of genius can only be produced by people with leisure time and a "proper education" (whatever they think that meant in the 16th century). Genius couldn't possibly have emerged from a life of nonstop economic scrambling, reading bits of Ovid and Plutarch at the dinner table, picking up scraps of politics and foreign affairs around London...no, you can only do what Shakespeare did if you went to Cambridge.

Sorry to hijack your thread and spam Caro's journal. I just have Some Feelings about this...

[carolinelamb]

Hahahaha OMG, I LOVE THAT YOU WATCHED THE WHOLE VIDEO :D

[rexluscus]

FUCKING ANTI-STRATFORDIANS ARGGHGHGHGH WHY.

Why couldn't they put Marlowe in the film and just not get into this fucking Shakespeare authorship wank for once? Do people not think Marlowe's existing body of work is good enough to be taken on its own as a proper achievement? Why does everything always have to be about Shakespeare, FFS???

(Also, why would you think *Marlowe* of all people had written Shakespeare's works??? That makes even less sense than the Earl of Oxford.)

Ahem, sorry. Now that THAT's out of the way...I'm looking forward to this weird-ass movie. Tom and Tilda are so beautiful and freaky-looking together. Jarmusch is, well, him. John Hurt is a legend. It might be a terrible film but it might also be kinda great. But Tom will be half-naked and frankly that's good enough for me! Let's focus on the important things here. :)

[carolinelamb]

But Tom will be half-naked and frankly that's good enough for me! Let's focus on the important things here. :)

HAHAHA! When I heard Jim Jarmsusch and John Hurt launch into their Anti Stratfordian talk, I firmly focussed on the thought:

Tom Hiddleston will be naked.
Tom Hiddleston will be naked.
Tom Hiddleston will be naked.
Tom Hiddleston will be naked.
Tom Hiddleston will be naked.
...
:D

drowning out Jarmusch's "Shakepseare was possibly illiterate" speech ...

[rexluscus]

drowning out Jarmusch's "Shakepseare was possibly illiterate" speech ...

Hahaha! Me too. But seriously, with this illiteracy shit - it's as if they've never seen anything written in secretary hand. Or thought about the relatively recent fashion of standardized spellings. Or... Uh sorry. Tom! Half-naked! Hurray!!!! lalalalalala....