“About the movie, my question is whether it will be flop along the lines of Bonfire of the Vanities, which seemed like a sure-fire hit and fooled everyone. The presence of Tom Hanks in both of these movies makes me wonder.”
Guess what John, you assclown, you lose. How dare a work of fiction be made into a film. Anything that challenges the original work of fiction can’t be tolerated (insert sarcasm). Here is a fantastic comment from the same site that covers it nicely.
Oh, the irony. Two works of fiction battling it out.Seriously people, does the Catholic church feel so weak that it even cares about this stuff. All of the hot air coming out of Catholics at the moment is giving the film more publicity than any money could buy. The producers of this film are definitely going to put you guys on their Christmas card list.
Keep up the hard work.
The Vatican as well, the beacon of enlightenment that it is, has come out against the Da Vinci Code movie.
The popularity of The Da Vinci Code is a shocking indication of both mass ignorance and the “voluptuous pleasure” the media take in promoting works with no basis in truth, the Vatican’s culture minister says.
The attempts to browbeat people into shunning the movie were laughable at best. The church has concern that people will not be able to tell the difference between fact and fiction. So, short story is that the church sees people as bithering morons. Nice. Just because I watch porn it doesn’t mean that a busload of hot chicks are going to show up in my hot tub and want me to disappoint them all at once.
The movie is never as good as the book is the critics refrain. Well, of course. There’s a damn good reason for that. When reading a book your mind fills in the pictures, adds colour, builds the characters. In a movie all of the imagination has been done through the eyes of the director and Ron Howard did a good job. The Critics and the Catholic Church got together and managed to do what the marketing machine for Hollywood couldn’t do. A great sales pitch. I thought it was a good movie. Go see it and make your own decision.
[tags]Da Vinci Code, Da Vinci, Christianity, Tom Hanks, Ron Howard[/tags]
Hi Gattaca,
Here is the key to understanding what the Vatican/Papacy fears…
Yes, the DaVinci Code novel is better than the movie. Both are no more accurate as a literal version of history than is the New Testament. In other words, none of them is the literal truth, which is a key fact of the story and ancient history. The primary sub-plot is about purposeful symbology being used to encode hidden meanings, exactly like the Bible and related texts. Arguing about whether the DaVinci Code, Gospel of Judas, or the Bible are accurate history is a Machiavellian red herring.
There is a foolproof way to verify the truth and expose religious deceptions. It is the common thread connecting the ancient Hebrews, Yahad/Essene, Jews, Gnostics, Cathars, Templars, Dead Sea Scrolls, DaVinci Code, and others who have all been targets of Rome’s evil machinations. What the Vatican and its secret society cohorts don’t want you to understand is that the ancient Hebrew symbology in all of these texts purposely encodes and exposes the truth about them. Furthermore, the structure of ancient symbology verifiably encodes the rules to decode messages built with it. This is what they most fear you will discover.
It is undeniable the New Testament is framed by ancient Hebrew symbolism and allegory. The same is evidenced in the Dead Sea Scrolls, Gnostic texts, biblical apocrypha, DaVinci Code, and other related texts. All ancient religious, mystical, and wisdom texts have been shrouded in mystery for millennia for one primary reason: The ability to understand their widely evidenced symbology was lost in antiquity. How do we finally solve these ages-old mysteries? To recast an often-used political adage: It’s [the] symbology, stupid!
It is amazing the Vatican still tries to insist the Gospels are literal truth. It is beyond obvious they are replete with ancient Hebrew symbology. Every miracle purported for Jesus has multiple direct symbolic parallels in other symbolic narratives and traditions. This is the secret held by the ancient Gnostics, Templars, and Cathars, which is presented with dramatic effect in the DaVinci Code. None of these narratives or stories were ever intended as the literal truth.
Likewise, the following Washington Post article (The Book of Bart) describes the many embellishments made to the New Testament over the centuries, demonstrating it is not original, infallible, or truthful.
What then is the purpose of “faith” but to keep good people from seeking to understand truth and wisdom? It’s no wonder the Vatican fears the truth more than anything else. Now comes justice, hot on its heels… (symbolism…)
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