Posted on 05/14/2006 12:29:14 PM PDT by NorthEasterner
'Da Vinci' unlikely to pass Egypt censors By Betsy Hiel TRIBUNE-REVIEW Sunday, May 14, 2006
CAIRO, Egypt - "The Da Vinci Code," the film based on Dan Brown's best-selling book, will not be seen in Egypt when it is released worldwide Friday.
Nor will the long-awaited film play in Jordan or Lebanon, which banned Arabic translations of the book.
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Uh, check out the original article. This one DOES attack "a prophet of Islam."
Why should Egypt read this piece of pulp trash or see the movie? It's nothing more than American pornographic gutter culture, no, thank you. Oh, and by the way, read a good book today, unless you think that 44 million horse flies can't be wrong.
Are you saying that it should be banned, or that people should choose to not see it?
I don't want to see it either. My reason it that the movie looks weak.
I saw a commercial where there was a "smart car" as part of a high speed chase. (two seats 1/2 car with 3 cylinders.)
This is the same situation as "the last temptation of christ".
Remember national treasure? Everone knew that one was "contrived" for fun.
This is the same situation, All day today there have been Da Vinci Code documentaries which all universally show this is just a flight of fancy of some french guy who was trying to say he was really french royalty.
That one never purported to be anything but fiction. dan Brown has been rather dishonest, though, and it seems (from people I talk with and the polls) that many people are duped by it.
Yes, but in that film
nobody pretended that
the Declaration
of Independence
was only a cartoon scroll
that Jefferson found
in a cereal
box. That film showed respect for
its subject matter.
I really don't think you want to trade reviews of this book. I read a lot of mysteries and thrillers. I have rarely seen as many good reviews, and by other authors, as this book has received. For politics I'll take Steyn. For book reviews I'll go with Harlan Coben.
I had sent him a SATIRE email called The Smell Dogs Really Love: The Da Vinci Cr@p
It is a take off on changing the word "code" with a smelly word that also begins with C. In this case the word is analogous to horse manure, dog manure, buffalo chips, cow pies, bird do-do, etc.
I have tried to do it in a tasteful way (pardon the bun) and place a stigma on those reading the book or seeing the movie (you spent $15 to see a bunch of horse manure/dog cr@p/bird do-do...)
After this is all about a BROWN book and a BROWN movie.
Why not call it a piece of cr$p.
I can certainly understand fundamentalists, especially those unsure of the roots of their faith condemning the book on its substance, but the writing is far above average, and I am an avid reader of mysteries and thrillers. I'm not sure what your standard is, nor whether you have actually read the book, but the money I spent was well worth it. Brown has taken some controversial historical references, some facts, and built a brilliant fast moving thriller.
Perhaps you and your Catholic friend also found State of Fear also a piece of crap. Funny that none of the Catholics/Christians on this site condemned that book. After all, it does exactly the same thing, only with the environmental movement.
But just as the Da Vinci Code can taint people's belief by misinformation (book and movie), I can use what it uses to taint that BROWN book...
Why not have fun with a novel that has significant historic inaccuracies and therefore puts errors into people's minds.
Maybe it really is nothing more than a cow pie to those who are well educated...
The Da Vinci Code does about the same - it assumes everybody wants to be sexually active for only pleasure's sake, and that no one in history could have done good deeds...
So why not create a website - GET AIDS TODAY -- HAVE AS MUCH SEX AND DRUGS AS YOU WANT...
That appears to be the moral heading of the book and movie -- that great people in history really were not great...
But there is a fact that no one can dismiss -- the Twelve men went off and formed a religion that today has eclipsed almost all other accomplishments. It was the Christian Church that has given us a correct Calendar and designated where time begins (the birth of Christ).
One of those Twelve is proven to have established the Christian Church in India -- 2000 years ago, and 6 of those churches that were established 2000 years ago still exist today.
That was by the apostle who doubted that Jesus rose from the dead until he put his hands into his wounds...
Unfortunately for Dan Brown, Ron Howard, and Tom Hanks, works such as those that brought about the Saint Thomas Christians are not fiction but fact. Those Christians in Southern India did have help 5 centures later when a Bishop Mar Thomas was sent to them. Then it was another 1100 years before the Portugese came to India (and English)...
So the Saint Thomas Christians existence seems to contradict the movie and book just by themselves.
If one gets into the tradition of the life of Saint John the Evangelist, one would find even more reason to doubt a pile of Dan Brown writings (those BROWN writings).
To me, cr@p is cr@p... Time to get off the cr@pper...
Then sooner or later their beliefs will give way to other philosopies. The point is, if they read the book and simply enjoy the good story, fine. If they change their beliefs because of it and fail to at least consider the various rebuttals, then Christianity has not lost much.
Why not have fun with a novel that has significant historic inaccuracies and therefore puts errors into people's minds.
You never did mention whether you read it or not. If you didn't, you would remind me of those on the left who go onto Amazon to critique books written by conservatives without so much as reading the book cover.
That's red herring. We are talking about the DaVinci Code, not Mother Teresa. And you may not like it, but what Brown has done is use theories and ideas that have existed for a couple of thousand years. He uses actual groups to build his story on. And yes, he creates his story out of whole cloth. You may not agree with those theories and stories, and I suspect few outside of the Gnostic circles would, but they are still there.
The Da Vinci Code does about the same - it assumes everybody wants to be sexually active for only pleasure's sake, and that no one in history could have done good deeds...
Well, lets face it, sex is a very powerful instinct, and today at least is rarely engaged in simply to procreate. I suspect it never has. And where do you get that part about no good deeds? I missed that part in the book.
That was by the apostle who doubted that Jesus rose from the dead until he put his hands into his wounds...
Few Catholics today believe in the complete literal writings of the Bible. Most understand that the writings of the time were generally done with metaphors. It is still an ageless book of wisdom, but again, most don't take everything in it literally.
So the Saint Thomas Christians existence seems to contradict the movie and book just by themselves.
I don't have a problem with that. I didn't buy and read it for any history lesson. I wanted a good thriller with some historical background. Both of his Robert Landon books do just that.
To me, cr@p is cr@p... Time to get off the cr@pper...
You do have this strange obsession with feces. BTW, have you read the book?
Neither will mombonn.
Why waste my time...
So just because I use SATIRE and HUMOR to make fun of people who invent things and claim it is historic fact is not a problem with me... I don't think I have a fixation with feces -- I am just using the BROWN analogy to poke fun at Brown's work - that's all.
If you want to have another opinion, that's fine.
I have thousands of posts on Freerepublic - alot on Pro-Life, some on Defense weapons, some on the military (Supporting them), etc. And I do suffer from FOOT-IN-MOUTH disease.
But only the SATIRE and HUMOR on DAN BROWN and his book and the movie has brought out talking about feces. If you can find a couple of hundred of posts that prove otherwise and do not talk about DAN BROWN and HIS BROWN WORK, then I welcome the rebuttal...
As for the literal aspect of the gospel writings, those have stood the test of time.
More interesting Science would go into the investigation of the Shroud of Turin.
For example, the Lame Stream Media only reported the negative things about research about that.
What NASA found about the Shroud is quite interesting.
The 2000 year old pollen that was only found in Palenstine 2000 years ago is interesting if the Shroud of Turin is a fake...
Seems those who like to throw stones at the church are very selective of what they believe about science and what they don't believe.
There is the fact that there is the bloods of countless martyrs who braved the Roman circus because of their beliefs.
Many things have been scientifically proven about those times. For example, the gospel writer Luke is proven to be buried in Padua, Italy.
What you call Agnostic is tradition to many.
The story of the Saint Thomas Christians is not Agnostic History, but History...
For the Roman Catholic Church or Christianity to be founded on ugly lies is ridiculous...
Such a coverup could never have withstood the test of time.
Science has proven the miracle (or miracles) that occurred in Fatima, Portugal on October 13th, 1917.
Science has proven that the cactus cloth of Juan Diego was not a painted image, but created by some form of energy in 1531.
The NASA research into the Shroud of Turin proved that the image was created by some unknown energy (two thousand years ago by other techniques of dating).
You're just piling it higher and deeper (Ph.D.)
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