Ron Howard: No 'Da Vinci Code' Disclaimer

NewsMax ^ | 5/12/06 | NewsMax

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Catholic League President Bill Donohue is deeply disturbed by Howard’s stance.

Isn't Donahue the guy who regularly gets publicly upset over South Park episodes? Probably helps Catholic League fund raising. It's just a story - and not a very good one, IMHO. Most people are smart enough to realize they shouldn't take lessons on reality from the movies.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Figures.

[A.P.M.]

Agreed! Polanski did an excellent job of capturing the satirical paranoia of Ira Levin's novel.

[Borges]

I did say 'Black' comedy. Perhaps you have to be Eastern European. Hitchcock regarded Psycho as a comedy. If I recall it was also based on a best selling novel. I don't know what imposition is being made...other then just releasing the product and letting people decide for themselves.

[Dane]

I did say 'Black' comedy. Perhaps you have to be Eastern European. Hitchcock regarded Psycho as a comedy. If I recall it was also based on a best selling novel. I don't know what imposition is being made...other then just releasing the product and letting people decide for themselves

And that is what I have done, decided for myself, and you seem to have a problem with that.

[eleni121]

That one I have not seen. Is that it? I think so.

[Borges]

No problems. Just the idea of someone trying to impose their values on you by merely making a movie.

[wagglebee]

Rent "Cinderella Man" you won't be dissapointed.

[Ole Okie]

Killer Kane went bye-bye already.

Killer Kane is dead?

Oh sob, I didn't even know he was sick.

[American Quilter]

Killer Kane is dead? Oh sob, I didn't even know he was sick.

It was very sudden. He succumbed in just a few hours.

[CWW]

You must not be much of a Catholic if you don't get it.

The book/movie should be offensive to all Christians because, whether fiction or not,

(1) it portrays Christ as a liar and a fake;

(2) it denies the most central tenets of Christianity -- the divinity of Christ and the Resurrection;

(3) It portrays a Christian Church of almost a billion members as conspirators who have perpetrated a fraud on the entire world for the last 2,000 years; etc.

If you are not offended by this, then how about I write a book about your mother and portray her as a lying crack-whore? Hey, what's the problem? It's only fiction, right? Right?

Do you get it now?

[Borges]

Kane is dead? Oh sob, I didn't even know he was sick.

His last word was Rosebud.

[Ole Okie]

It's two, two, two shows in one!

If that motto works, advertisers will next work on "It's three, three, three mints shows in one!"

And if that motto is successful or marginally so, guess where it goes from there.

[American Quilter]

His last word was Rosebud.

And his last sensory impression was the smell of ozone.

[Non-Sequitur]

It is a Hollywood movie. It is, by definition, a work of fiction. What other disclaimer does one need?

[Borges]

Historical fiction to be exact...Fiction using historical figures. It's always bound to upset some group of people. The French still don't like the way Shakespeare portrayed Joan of Arc.

[justche]

(1) it portrays Christ as a liar and a fake

Do you get it now?

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But as Christians, we're not called to be offended, we're called to share the gospel of Jesus. Don't go see the movie if your offended by it. I'm not a Tom Hanks fan so I won't see it - I do agree that it is terribly offensive to try to show Jesus anything less than perectly sinless - BUT it's not up to us to be offended if people choose to not believe the same as us. That's what makes us different than the muslims who believe they have to kill and make others see their point. That right there is the core of Christianity - God gives us the choice to believe or not believe and no one twists our arms.

[HungarianGypsy]

I remember back in the '80s the movie "The Last Temptation of Christ" came out. From what I heard of it, it was vile and nasty. I was a little girl and had no desire to see it, but I remember people saying, "No one is going to tell me I can't see that movie." I would have hoped that the Catholic church would have learned from that. A movie that most people wouldn't have bothered with became a movie to go see because it was forbidden.

[A.P.M.]

Think however you'd like, it's really no skin off of my back.

Have a good evening! :)

[Centurion2000]

Muslims: "True Lies”

No disclaimer on my DVD at all.

Of course there's also no disclaimer on my copy of Blazing Saddles either.