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.

[BoBToMatoE]

This movie and the book is 100% pure heracy - and fiction. (which heracy is, of course)

They had a special on the history channel a while back - digging for the truth. The whole "holy grail" concept comes from a medevial writer who was trying to stoke the hearts of men to go on crusade to the middle east.

Why does hollywood want this garbage to succede? because its the work of the devil and against anything in the God's word. Anyone remember the last temptation of Christ? Where is the outrage against this movie to the point of theatres pulling it?

[weegee]

But in the end – too bad! – the movie closes with Tom Hanks finding the tomb and disclosing nothing.

Geraldo would have bid to have the broadcast rights to open that tomb on a live television special.

[taxesareforever]

Many actors and actresses are finding too much time on their hands. Don't have to wonder why as long as they continue putting out crap. Gotta get their dime from someone and many aren't paying.

[weegee]

Wonder how the box office take will compare to The Passion Of The Christ.

Will Hollywood make more religious themed Da Vinci Code knockoffs if this is successful?

[CheyennePress]

Well, there was that whole detail about Brown claiming that all details relating to the history of the art was true. To quote him directly: All descriptions of artwork, architecture, documents, and secret rituals in this novel are accurate. There are way too many historical errors and fabrications in his work relating to artwork for Brown to have taken this statement seriously. The panels in the Louvre, for one. The six-sided star in the Rosslyn Chapel that does not exist and never did. The John-Mary Magdalene issue. Brown was clever in promoting this book, and he shied away from answering to affirmatively one way or the other. Yeah, it's a good read, but he misled a lot of people into thinking that what he was saying was truth.

[Euro-American Scum]

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!

And this crap was a bestseller? Just goes to prove the Sheeple will buy anything that shows up on the New York Times bestseller list.

[Cincinna]

The novel was of course, FICTION. A good summer read on the beach.
It isn't true, and no one reads fiction for truth.
For truth read the Good Book.

[Cincinna]

"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."

A little correction:
Legend has it that the line of MEROVINGIAN Kings of France were the descendents.

[Avenger]

I haven't read the Divinci Code but as far as I know, it is a bad knock-off of earlier pseudo-historical accounts such as "Holy Blood, Holy Grail", etc. However, the idea that Jesus and Mary Magdalene had a special relationship is quite old; the idea is probably largely motivated by the quote below from the Gospel of Philip (a part of the Nag Hammadi library discovered in 1945) which was apparently written around 150-250 AD:

And the companion of the [...] Mary Magdalene. [...] loved her more than all the disciples, and used to kiss her often on her mouth. The rest of the disciples [...]. They said to him "Why do you love her more than all of us?" The Savior answered and said to them,"Why do I not love you like her? When a blind man and one who sees are both together in darkness, they are no different from one another. When the light comes, then he who sees will see the light, and he who is blind will remain in darkness."

[Armigerous]

....not"Moravian".....Merovingian

[BurbankKarl]

Yes, a bunch of Art Bell regulars are suing Dan Brown for lifting materials from their Opus Dei books.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Are Chachi, Pinky Tuscadero, Leather Tuscadero, Laverne and Shirley and
Lenny and Squiggy in this film? Ron Howard will really be letting down his fans
if they aren't and he fails to deliver the kind of absurdist farce we all know he is
capable of.

They should begin reshooting this movie with Anson Williams (Potsie Weber
from Happy Days) in the role of Langdon accompanied by Donny Most (Ralph Malph)
as his assistant. Picking up on archaeological clues beneath a 1950s art deco
Hamburger joint in Kenosha, Wisconsin (Arnold's), Potsie and Ralph trace the
lost Templar "grail" treasure back to Mayberry where Barney Fife, Goober, and
Floyd...

[Thinkin' Gal]

Over here!

[Avenger]

Here's another passage from the Gospel of Philip that likely inspired the idea that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married:

"There were three who always walked with the Lord: Mary, his mother, and her sister, and Magdalene, the one who was called his companion. His sister and his mother and his companion were each a Mary."

http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/gop.html

What if it were true? Would it really matter?

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Meanwhile, Fr. Dowling (Tom Bosley) receives a mysterious medieval manuscript in the mail from France followed by death threats. Fearing for his life, Fr. Dowling hires Perry Mason to investigate. Perry, with the help of Della Street and Paul Drake, discovers that Fr. Dowling has been living a double life with a family known as the "Cunninghams" in suburban Wisconisn. Known there as "Howard" Cunningham, Fr. Dowling attends meetings in Kenosha of a mysterious secret society known as the Leopard Lodge...

[Ditter]

Someone found Mary Magdalen's tomb long before Tom Hanks did because her toe is a relic in the crypt of a church in central France. Really, I saw it. I'll have to look up the name of the town but they swear its her toe.

[Killborn]

"The DaVinci Code Movie--in a nutshell" Cliff Notes:

Blasphemy

[tcostell]

Yeah it's not that it's a fraud... it's just that it's not true. A fraud seems to imply that the point of the book was to discredit organized Christianity in some way and I don't believe that to be the case.

The movie will no doubt contain elements which show the catholic church in a negative light, but I attribute that to the immaturity and superficiality of Hollywood more than some conspiracy.

They're like 10 year old children making fun of the adults.

[mmercier]

"The DaVinci Code" was a straight out rip off from "Holy Blood Holy Grail" by Michael Baigent.

I read it in the 80's, it was better than the "DaVinci Code" by a mile.

The DaVinci code is just an overpriced detective novel, and not a particularly good one at that.

[Rudder]

"The DaVinci Code has been "outed" as a fraud over and over again..."

It's just a piece of fiction...did you think it was supposed to be non-fiction?