The DaVinci Code Movie--in a nutshell

Zarr Chasm Chronical [sic] | Nov. 30, 2005 | Keli_Kilohana

[Keli Kilohana]

Dan Brown’s novel, The DaVinci Code, is now a movie starring Tom Hanks and directed by Ron Howard. According to Brown, Jesus married Mary Magdalene, a fallen woman, had a son who moved to Gaul and fathered Frenchmen. Voile! Mary Magdalene is the chalice which contained the blood(line) of Christ. Oi vey!

Proof? DaVinci’s painting, The Last Supper, of course! (The John portrayed by Leonardo is not a John but a Mary! Holy switcheroo!) According to Brown, an international religious cabal known as Opus Dei works desperately to keep the facts about this chalice and child secret. (One can’t blame them!)

The book and the movie--I am told--is mostly spent chasing after Mary Magdalene’s tomb where, we are told, are all manner of secret documents whose contents will wreck Christianity. But in the end – too bad! – the movie closes with Tom Hanks finding the tomb and disclosing nothing. So, we will never know whether Mary Magdalene’s crypt contained a secret new Gospel or Opie’s grocery list.

[Keli Kilohana]

Forrest Gump, et al, have made a movie that proves this lie is like a crock full of bull squat. Phew! Better know what you get!

[birbear]

Uhm...

You didn't read the book, did you?

Or was your copy not in the "fiction" section?

[concerned about politics]

This movie will flop.

The DaVinci Code has been "outed" as a fraud over and over again by.......everyone! Even the History Channel made a joke out of it!

[Old Seadog]

It was a good and entertaining novel. A work of fiction.

[CheyennePress]

There's the whole historical inconvenience that Michelangelo labelled his sketches that he prepared for his Last Supper. Yes, John is John, and The DaVinci Code is a spiralling work of fiction based on faery dust.

This sort of thing normally wouldn't bother me if it weren't for all the other garbage accusations being brought against the Catholic Church as of, oh, how many decades has it been?

My other favorite work of Catholic historical distortion? The cover of Hitler's Pope that depicted Pope Pius XII being saluted by a German soldier. The problem, of course, is that this was not a Nazi soldier (despite the way this fraudulent photo has been touched up to bring about the resemblance of one) Indeed, Hitler hadn't even begun his rise to power and Pius XII wasn't even Pius XII, but Bishop Pacelli, who would become Pope 11-years later. But, my, was it dramatic!

[BunnySlippers]

Do you have a link?

[CheyennePress]

Did I just write Michelangelo? Geez, time for bed. ;)

Davinci Code? Hello? That would be Leonardo. ;)

Same difference at this hour.

[stevek2]

Well said birbear. Come on folks... It's fiction and it was a good read and very entertaining.

Knocking Dan Brown, Ron Howard and Tom Hanks seems a little silly.

[peyton randolph]

Let's see....DaVinci Code, Angels & Demons, etc. If Brown continues writing works of fiction, he'll have enough books to compile his own bible. Sadly for Brown, J.K. Rowling will still take top honors for book sales.

Hail Harry, full of grace. Lord Voldemort is with thee.

[Colinsky]

It was a good and entertaining novel. A work of fiction.

Just like ANOTHER ROADSIDE ATTRACTION. Except you knew ROADSIDE was tongue in cheek all the way.

[Keli Kilohana]

No...it is a vanity post.

[jobim]

Yes, a novel, but have you seen any patterns in the reactions of your aquaintances who have read it?

In my anecdotal polling, those who normally would have not the slightest interest in a book about Jesus and Mary Magdalen and Opus Dei, those with an animus against belief and Christianity and Catholicism in particular, are positively riveted by this book. I am convinced that it has provided anti-Catholics with reasons to continue their anti-Catholicism.

[jbstrick]

"The book and the movie--I am told"

Why would you post a stupid vanity about something you have not read or seen?

[birbear]

Actually it caused me (and my family) to further explore Catholicism.

[Quick1]

The book and the movie--I am told

Huh. So he heard it from his brother's friend's sister's aunt.

[dead]

I have to agree with you. I know of three real anti-religious liberals who all told me that they thought the fiction was OK, but it was the "background history" that the story played out against that was so fascinating for them.

"I never knew all that stuff!" they all excitedly told me in one way or another.

I'm not particularly religious or anti-religious, so I started reading it. I got through about fifty pages, but I felt like I was reading a bad novelization of a Scooby Doo episode.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Did they find any good roles for Floyd the barber, Goober, or Aunt Bea?

Maybe Aunt Bea could convene a lodge meeting of the Priory of Sion
and lecture on Tantric Kegel exercises and the sacred feminine of the
Lost Great Mother Goddess Isis followed by a Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF
Population Control rally... [Sarcasm Alert]

[Travis McGee]

Sadly, many millions of semi-literate readers, and even more movie goers, cannot define "fiction." Infotainment, news, fiction...are all one and the same.

And these millions of morons even vote...shudder.

[yankeedame]

Dan Brown’s novel, The DaVinci Code, is now a movie starring Tom Hanks and directed by Ron Howard. According to Brown, Jesus married Mary Magdalene, a fallen woman, had a son who moved to Gaul and fathered Frenchmen.

What?? I heard on that A7E (or was it the History Channel) a while back they had this thing called "Unlocking the DaVinci Code" and they said that according to the book...

-- Christ married MM;

-- she became not only his faithful companion, and un-official #1 apostle but also a sort of co-Savior [you know, like Hillary was "co-president" with BC?];

--that at the time of Christ's death MM was "with child" and had to flee to Egypt b/s "they" were out to get her and Christ's unborn child;

-- in Egypt she gave birth to a daughter, which was named Sarah. [This is where the God-is-a-woman angle fits in.]

--After a few years MM and daughter take a boat to southern France where the daughter-of-Jesus-Christ marries the founder of the Moravian line of kings.

[geopyg]

"Yes, a novel ......"

BUT, it COULD have happened this way, we'll never know. /sarc

A friend of mine is well versed in Christianity. He also thought the book was very entertaining. Hogwash - but fun. And in overhearing a conversation of his with a "code believer" he had some very obvious and straightforward arguments - although I can't remember a one. (I didn't read the book).