Roland Emmerich,Shakespeare And The Baconian Theory

For some years now I have been a fan of Roland Emmerich's films He has always seemed to me to be the master of the big budget B picture.His Stargate was the first film of his which caught my attention with its clever conceit of taking the mythology of Von Daniken and turning it into a successful movie.His movie Independence Day based on H G Wells War Of The Worlds was a startling preview of 911.This was a a classic case of coming events cast their shadows before.The destruction of American landmarks in the film prefigured the twin towers and the former pilot President prefigured George Bush with his posturing landing on the aircraft carrier to announce victory in Iraq.More Fortean films have followed over the years such as the instant climate change film The Day After Tomorrow.10,000 BC was a great mixture of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Graham Hancock with pre-historic tribes ,mammoths,giant flightless birds and pyramid builders from Atlantis.2012 gave us the end of the world as illustrated by John Martin .The end of the world looked rather fun whereas in reality it would be more like the Vigo Mortennson film  The Road .Returning to the theme of my earlier blog The Singularity it seems that Emmerich is due to make a film about that too,he certainly keeps his finger on the pulse.