Da Vinci Code controversy - Progressive Rock Music Forum

All i can tell you is i'm tired to see everybody do the same and read the same book.

Blacksword wrote:

Ron Howards film of Dan Browns 'Davinci Code' opens on May the 19th in the UK. The film is causing uproar. The Opus Dei catholic sect is demanding that the film has a disclaimer making it clear that it is a work of fiction. The book and film portray the sect as a dark and sinister organisation who self harm and abuse others. The Vatican is also launching a counter PR offensive.

Director Ron Howard says it should be obvious to anyone that it is fictional, and that spy thrillers dont need disclaimers. The film stars Tom Hanks as a Harvard scholar entwined in a murder mystery which points to an alternative history of Christianity.

Is the controversy justifed, or should the church butt out??

Only the truth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Opus dei represents the most absurdly and integrist current of Catholic faith and are thouroughly hateble although I think there are more dangerous christian sects around >> Scientology for ex.

if you listen to Opus Dei you should go to mass everyday in Latin and the priest turning his back on the communiants etc...

This alternative christian history is however a bit of loch ness monster and subject to a bunch od fantasies! I call these stories Vat-Fi (Vatican Fiction)

Thing is that those new testaments or Evangiles were actually written some 400 years after the prophet's death, completely manypulated by the so-called authorities who decided that such and such verse should be interpreted as they see it and no other way

let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword

Sony must be figuratively rubbing its hands in glee... the Church is adding to the hype and providing added publicity, arousing more Public curiosity.

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^Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.

Last time I checked, a Novel is a work of FICTION.

Asking Dan Brown, or Ron Howard to post a disclaimer would be like asking Tom Clancy to do the same because his novels are about the CIA & the US Military. I personally find these works of fiction very interesting reading. The fact that the entities portrayed exist should in no way lead readers to any conclusions regarding real events, real people, or real organizations.

I read The DaVinci Code & enjoyed it as fiction. Mr. Brown has a vivid imagination & I give him credit for writing a compelling novel set in the present day.

That being said, I enjoyed his novel Angels and Demons more - it too relies heavily on the Vatican & religious entities for its plot. If you liked The DaVinci Code, you will probably love Angels And Demons.

Oh yeah, seems like every novel i've ever read has a "Disclaimer" page at the beginning stating something to the effect that... This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual people of events is coincidental & the work of the author's imagination.

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It seems to me that every movie made that deals with Christ always generates a controversy. Think about Mel Gibson's 'Passion of the Christ' or Martin Scorsese's 'Last Temptation of Christ'. Both of those caused an uproar when they were released; 'Passion' from the Jews who believed it betrayed them in a bad light, 'Temptation' from the Evagelical Christians who felt it was sacrilegious. When making a movie about Jesus it's bound to piss off someone. Why should Ron Howard's movie be any different?

Sorry....It was NOT MY INTENSION

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Velvetclown wrote:

Sorry....It was NOT MY INTENSION

I must be gettin soft

Old age striking quicker than you thought , Uh

next step is premature ejaculation, Velvie

Better that than total impotency

let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword

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Velvetclown wrote:

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Now I recognize our Velvie better!

I was afraid his identity was being usurped

let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword

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