Hanks blasts Da Vinci critics

This is London ^ | Tom Teodorczuk & Mike Goodridge, Evening Standard

[freakboy]

But Oscar-winner Hanks said objectors to The Da Vinci Code are taking the film too seriously, telling the Evening Standard: "We always knew there would be a segment of society that would not want this movie to be shown.

If this were a film about Mohammed and there was outrage by muslims, I don't think we would be hearing the same thing from Hanks.

[BallyBill]

fiction: a. An imaginative creation or a pretense that does not represent actuality but has been invented.

[zerosix]

"Cardinal Cormac Murphy O'Connor, head of the Roman Catholic church in England and Wales, told the Jonathan Dimbleby programme on ITV1 on Sunday: "I think it's a harmless thriller. If people want to read it they can and people who read it should realise it is fiction."

Shows how clueless this guy is when it comes to defining what is "harmless" when it comes to defining real live spiritual warfare in defaming Christ.

[AliVeritas]

You said it. Did we ever see the cartoons in MSM papers or CNN, MSNBC, CBS or ABC?

[KC_Conspirator]

"It's a damn good story and a lot of fun... all it is is dialogue. That never hurts."

Thats Hanks blasting critics hardly.

[siunevada]

Claus Von Bülow

There's a name you're not going to see very often.

[Hans]

Whats a little slander between friends.
Hank's would be tossed out of Hollywood if
he tried this on a privileged minority, women,
gays etc.

[Michael Goldsberry]

This is getting out of hand, the list is too long.

Okay, new list:

Hollywood Critters I Won't Automatically Ignore

• Chuck Norris

(Umm...)

[Zhang Fei]

If this were a film about Mohammed and there was outrage by muslims, I don't think we would be hearing the same thing from Hanks.

That kind of film can't get made. At all. Every participant in the movie would be targeted for death. Movie theaters all over would get bomb threats - and no theater that showed it would be able to get insurance coverage. Who would finance this kind of movie - a movie in which all the actors would have to perform incognito, without any credits, on pain of a lingering death at the hands of Muslim holy warriors? The reason the Da Vinci Code was made was because Christians don't get all that worked up about blasphemy, unlike Muslims, Sikhs, Hindus or Buddhists, who will kill people for blaspheming their religion.

[Williams]

Saw a very good show on Discovery or something and wow did it show in the end that the entire basis for the Davinci code was a fraud. I mean a guy who was a total admitted fraud who made up the key parts of this thing, none of which checked out. But the author continues to cite that guy and his "evidence" as the basis.

[BigBobber]

Somehow I think Christianity will survive this assault.

[GarySpFc]

Tommy, let's make a file portraying your mother as a slvt. We don't want you to take it seriously. sarcasm/off

[freedumb2003]

Shows how clueless this guy is when it comes to defining what is "harmless" when it comes to defining real live spiritual warfare in defaming Christ.

1. It doesn't defame Christ. It suggests an alternate universe where additional human things happened with him.

2. Where were you when "The Body" was released?

[Vaquero]

true...there is a hue and cry from muslems. So we should be (are) better then them.

This story is a work of FICTION, and nothing else.

[freakboy]

I have no problem with the film being shown even though I'm Christian. I just think it is a double standard.

[mnehring]

I bet the studios are just loving all this media the film is getting by all those 'boycotting' the film.. You cannot watch a half hour of news without a 'free advertisement' for the film..

There is no such thing as bad publicity.

[sono]

The one sure way to boost box office is to call for a boycott... works every time.

[BW2221]

If this were a film about Mohammad, Hanks and Ron Howard would be dead by now.

[trimom]

I agree. Anyone who is looking to a piece of fiction to get their theology is very, very lost. It's entertaining, not any different than a Harry Potter movie (and don't flame me......THAT's just fun as well).

Go or don't go. But give it a rest!

[Warren_Piece]

There is no such thing as bad publicity.

I bet Natalie Maines would disagree.