Meet the Real Dan Brown, A Couple of things You Should Know About the Author

TFP ^ | 04.28.06 | Michael Whitcraft

[CobaltBlue]

Apostle sitting on Jesus' right hand in "The Last Supper" really does look like a woman, though, once you look at it.

Doesn't prove anything, of course.

[Darkwolf377]

As an atheist who thinks Brown's novel is crammed with errors and just plain boring, I have to wonder why Catholics who don't like this movie simply don't pay money to see it. It's not about being quiet--certainly these criticisms should be heard, but they ARE being heard. It's about making more stories on the MSM to publicize this movie. Instead of just a wave of The Movie's Out stories, there will now be a second, even a third wave of Movie Controversy articles and stories.

You all do as you will, of course, but it seems counter-productive if your goal is to counteract this silly book and movie, which will only feed on that kind of protest.

[pcottraux]

Of course it doesn't. It's not like Da Vinci was at the REAL last supper, for crying out loud! And the real one probably looked nothing like the painting.

[Holden Magroin]

Yeah, so the apostle in the "Last Supper" looks like a woman. But last time I checked, Leonardo Da Vinci wasn't at the Last Supper.

[soupcon]

This is nonsense. "Code" was a very enjoyable work of fiction. Everyone with half a brain realizes it is a work of fiction. It's not a Manifesto, it's not attempting subvert Christianity, it's just a good book by a smart guy.
The Exorcist had people believing stupid things for years. Trust me, it's a blip, not a movement.

[Doctor Stochastic]

Someone will probabably claim to be Scarlet O'Hara's great-grandaughter.

[Sans-Culotte]

Jesus looks kinda feminine sometimes in Renaissance art as well. Hmmm...maybe Jesus and Mary M were one and the same woman?

[Revolting cat!]

Bravo! And excellent refutation of the "it's only an enjoyable piece of fiction" nonsense. So were the Protocols of the Elders of Zion!

[CWOJackson]

The producers of The DiVinci Code couldn't afford to but this much publicity. Way to go guys.

[Flightdeck]

Who gives a crap what other people believe about what you believe to be true? If Dan Brown and Hollywood want to make a movie about it, let them. Is somebody here too insecure about their faith that they feel the need to protest in some street about it? Pathetic.

[308MBR]

This either proves Dan Brown is a freak, or really smart at marketing.

[baa39]

Exactly, about 14 centuries too late to be an accurate portrayal. And to thoroughly vet this "theory" wouldn't we have to look for all those clues and symbols in the thousands of other "Last Supper" paintings?

[AnalogReigns]

"Apostle sitting on Jesus' right hand in "The Last Supper" really does look like a woman..."

Half of renaissance art's men, particularly the saintly holy men, have an effeminate look....don't ask me why, God knows. John too was traditionally always thought to be a very young man (perhaps even a teenager) and its hard to paint a teen male, no beard and fresh faced, without him looking girlish I suppose.

[orionblamblam]

> I hope to organize several protests...

Wonderful! A movie studio can't *buy* advertising that good. Protests will only make the movie more money.

[Revolting cat!]

Let me recommend a piece of literary fiction one might characterize as anti-DaVinci Code. The author, an admitted atheist, set out to write a book about Christ's 40 days in the desert. He produced a philosophical masterpiece, the conclusion of which you might disagree with, but without anger, resentment and hatred towards the Catholic or Christian tradition or authorities. (The book had provoked some debate, but not of the pedestrian kind we are witnessing here - "it's only fiction, people, get over it". Yawn.)

Jim Crace - Quarantine

[MississippiMan]

Who gives a crap what other people believe about what you believe to be true? If Dan Brown and Hollywood want to make a movie about it, let them. Is somebody here too insecure about their faith that they feel the need to protest in some street about it? Pathetic.

Well, it's actually quite simple: If you're a believing Christian, as am I, there's no doubt in my mind that this book and this movie will play a part in sending people to hell by filling their heads with this nonsense. I can't imagine not being concerned, and insecurity has zero to do with it.

MM

[JulieRNR21]

Debunking DaVinci Code:


http://www.truthnet.org/Christianity/cults/davincicode/

[knarf]

There are those that do not accept Catholicism as Christian because of its devotion and deifying of Mary. This is something that will henceforth be argued and never really reconciled.

I'm not Catholic bashing, but pointing out a division in religious doctrine(s).