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"Do you mean Brown is lying when he calls his book, "fiction?""

Did you miss this post:

Dan Brown (the book's author) said it's fiction
WERTHEIMER: You're trying not to get too fictional with the facts here?

Mr. BROWN: Absolutely. The only thing fictional in "The Da Vinci Code" is the characters and the action that takes place. All of the locations, the paintings, the ancient history, the secret documents, the rituals, all of this is factual.

He is lying when he says it is factual.

And, if he really wanted to write fiction (and not libel), why not use a fictional organization? Why did he use Opus Dei?

I guess he used Opus Dei because the organization is widely perceived as being highly secretive, but it does look like he may be open for a libel action.

I guess Brown's attempt at "verisimilitude" is simply too real.

"Ear on the ground report" by Barbara Nicolosi posted to Amy Wellborn's blog on the Feast of Our Lady of Fatima. On her own blog, she remarks on the appearance of Ron Howard and his interview.

http://churchofthemasses.blogspot.com/2006/05/poor-ron-howard.html

The buzz on the streets here in Hollywood is that the film is embarrassingly bad. The studio has stirctly limied the MPAA screening - usually about 500-800 people - to only 100 people. No one is getting in to advance screenings which has everybody saying things like, "The only time studios act this way is when they have a Class A Dud on their hands."

The script is a dud. The ultra-weird transitions from people running from long-winded seminars on ecclesiastical history to murderous Opus Dei assassins to Biblical period flashbacks of Jesus and Mary Magdalen looking tenderly at each other made me laugh at loud.

Sony knows they will only have devastating word of mouth on this one. So they have to get everybody in the first weekend.

Posted by: Barb N at May 13, 2006 2:26:15 PM