Posted on 05/05/2009 10:46:53 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
Tom Hanks, who plays the character Robert Langdon in the controversial new film Angels & Demons, has described the plot as “playing fast and loose with the truth”.
The plot of the film sees a secret society known as the Illuminati try to destroy the Vatican in order to take revenge for a massacre against its members by the Catholic Church.
The film is the prequel to The Da Vinci Code, which claimed that the Church covered up Jesus’ secret marriage to Mary Magdalene.
Leaders within the Catholic Church have already condemned the film as offensive to Catholics. The Catholic Bishop of Nottingham, the Rt Rev Malcolm McMahon described the film as “total rubbish” and “far removed from the truth", reports The Telegraph.
Speaking to the Radio Times, Tom Hanks, 52, said of the film, "Why would I hand this gig to someone else? I'm not stupid. If you can make sense of The Da Vinci Code, you realise Langdon is a highly intelligent, interdisciplinary genius, and that's the sort of part selfish actors try to land.
"We play fast and loose with an awful lot of fact, but a trickle of authenticity makes it plausible. It's not important, but it's fun."
Hanks also spoke of how the previous film, The Da Vinci Code, was not well received by critics.
He said, "The movie did OK with its faked contrivances and goofy hunt through the Priory of Sion, but you should have been in Cannes with us when it opened. The reception couldn't have been worse. Everyone slunk out of town with their heads between their shoulders.
"We called it the 'Bonfire of the Unsold Tickets'. Everything ended up in its proper perspective, which usually happens. The audience wins out.”
Welllllll, it is fiction after all.
fast and loose with the truth....
yeah, ya think???
If they would just promote it that way and not keep trying to quietly deny that it isn’t all somehow secretly true, maybe you’d get fewer people pissing on you.
But they need more people pissing on them, so why should I help them..
I liked Tom Hanks a lot more when he was making movies like “Bachelor Party.”
The trick is the liar sets a historic context which the viewer or reader will learn some history from--even some false misleading history.
But they made the second one anyway...
So Hanks is saying that there are aspects of “truth” in the movie?
“Deep serious thriller” movies are not Tom’s acting forte.
Welfare for Tom. He’s gotta eat too.
It took two posts this time to educate us fools that it is fiction (therefore we must accept it!)
“Stupid is as stupid does.”
Must have had something to do with the $760 million gross on the first one.
“It’s not important, but it’s fun.”
Well, I guess that makes it all right then.
I’m supposed to account for the bad taste of the world, now?
Well...there really is a Rome in Italy...there really is a Vatican in Rome...and there really is a Pope in the Vatican. Other than that the truth gets pretty thin.
Well, if someone can do that then can they please explain the attraction of Jim Carey?
Opie is a Catholic hater. Who knew?
It’s done with mirrors.
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