Posted on 04/20/2005 1:12:58 PM PDT by churchillbuff
Ian McKellen, famous for his role of Gandalf, and Alfred Molina will be joining Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou in The Da Vinci Code.
Ian McKellen, famous for his role of Gandalf, the wizard from The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and Alfred Molina of Spider-Man 2 will be joining Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou in The Da Vinci Code, according to Variety.
Alfred Molina is set to play zealous Bishop Arigarosa, who’s keenly interested in the sleuthing activities of Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon (Hanks) and cryptographer Sophie Neveu (Audrey Tautou).
Sir McKellen will play Sir Teabing, a wealthy man who acts as a resource for Langdon even as he shows his own ambitions to uncover the Holy Grail.
The Da Vinci Code directed by Ron Howard is an adaptation of Dan Brown’s bestseller of the same name.
Production of The Da Vinci Code begins in June for a May 19. The Da Vinci Code will be released in 2006.
"It's Mega-Maid ..... she's gone from suck .... to blow!"
Seems so. Terrible fraud of a film critic too.
The only way to make this boring book into an even more boring movie is to cast the ever-boring Tom Hanks.
Oh, wait. They did that. I'm off to snooze now.
You'd be surprised how boring a book can be written from an interesting premise.
I sure was.
The unanswered Holy Grail question is:(Cue Python tangent!)
King of Swamp Castle: Don't like her? What's wrong with her? She's beautiful, she's rich, she's got huge ... tracts of land.
ping
European or African?
To quote Judy Tenuta "it could happen".
Thanks. You just saved me $8.50.
Between the Acknowledgements and Prologue in The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown, there is the following text. It is in the hard back, paper back and electronic editions:
FACT:
The Priory of Sion — a European secret society founded in 1099 — is a real organization.
In 1975 Paris’s Bibliothèque Nationale discovered parchments known as Les Dossiers Secrets, identifying numerous members of the Priory of Sion, including Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo and Leonardo da Vinci.
The Vatican prelature known as Opus Dei is a deeply devout Catholic sect that has been the topic of recent controversy due to reports of brainwashing, coercion and a dangerous practice known as “corporal mortification.” Opus Dei has just completed construction of a $47 million World Headquarters at 243 Lexington Avenue in New York City.
All descriptions of artwork, architecture, documents and secret rituals in this novel are accurate.
He got the address for Opus Dei's world headquarters right, as well as the fact that they are Catholic.
Virtually every other statement is a bogus distortion or an outright lie, particularly the last statement about "all descriptions." They did have the sense to take out a phrase to the effect "all historical incidents are accurate" from the publicity for the very first edition since he screwed up badly on most of his historical timeline, putting such "little things" as the Council of Nicea several centuries after events that actually happened because of the council, for example.
Cause. Effect. It's the little things that will trip up a writer of historical fiction.
Further, the whole premise is part of the Cathar / NAZI / "pure blood" crap pushed by Otto Rahn (the real life NAZI archeologist who inspired the Indiana Jones stories) and exploited by Heinrich Himmler, along with such obscene pieces of "pure blood" propaganda as Wagner's Parzival.
The entire fantasy of Brown's Da Vinci Code is based on the core belief of NAZI mysticism about the Grail being about a blood line. The Priory of Sion, as described by Brown, is largely the NAZI propaganda version, except they leave off the involvement of the German knights and Himmler traced the blood line to... you guessed it... old Adolf himself.
The book is a fun read, the same way one of the 1920s pulp magazines is, so long as you know it's at heart an obscenity based on really bad research and plagiarism from NAZIs, among others. The author, the publishers and the folks behind this movie are striving very hard to hide this from the public. They're trying to sell this as "based on historical fact."
The book should be sold with a required disclaimer and limited to those who can prove that they can tell, well, what Shinola is. The movie should be rated NC-17.
But then, I haven't really paid attention to the whole thing. They've got a movie coming out? Neat. </sarcasm>
LOL
I was the reverse of you, loved LOTH, loathed Extrodinary Gentlemem. (rme)
hehe
It would be very interesting to find out how many in the cast are Jewish.
True.
When McKellen's at some hotel, he reaches for the Gideon's bible and tears out all the pages that have reference to homosexuality (per the Daily Telegraph, from an interview with him, done in the Fall of 2001).
Domestic or African?
No one claims this anything other then a work of fiction.
I’ve had three liberal friends recommend this book to me, and each described it as a fictional story that nonetheless reveals a lot of the fascinating history of the Catholic Church. ("The stuff they never tell you.")
People ain’t too bright. You give them too much credit.
We all can turn the TV off, not read a section of the paper or just ignore these people. However, I do enjoy a well acted play or movie or most types of great entertainment. And I try not to mix the two.
It's interesting to see how well Dan Brown wove various tidbits of semi-historical fact with outright imagination to write such a compelling read.
Made me start thinking of other ways one could possible utilize the same technique. (Of course, the old maxim applies that once you think you have a good idea, 20+ other people are already finished and pitching the script.)
I don't doubt it. I just wish those non-too bright people would be ignored and laughed at instead of being feared and catered to.
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