The Da Vinci Code

[Mikielikesit]

I just went and saw the movie it was a very well done movie with some twists and turns some expected and others total surprizes. would like to hear others who have seen it and what do you think about the concept of.....Don't want to spoil the movie for the ones that have not seen it yet or read the book....... :devil

[Head Wreck]

i liked it. its exactly what hollywood needs to revive sales rather than remakes

[Slept with ghost]

i havent seen it yet

read the book though

and im pretty sure im one of the only people to have done so..............................................................................

[Steven]

curious about all of yro thoughts on this book.....

how much of what you've been told thru either media (book/movie) are you holding onto as truth, or fact?

fire away......

[Slept with ghost]

i just think it was a good book and thats all there is to it

if people want to throw some huge deal about it then thats up to them

[Msterbeau]

i just think it was a good book and thats all there is to it

if people want to throw some huge deal about it then thats up to them

Well...it states at the beginning that much of the book is based on facts... or perhaps I should say "facts"... many of which are contraversial to Catholics/Christians. I think that's what Steven's getting at. I haven't studied it at all so it'd just be conjecture on my part to say anything. However, my gut tells me at least some of it is true or based on nuggets of truth.

[Slept with ghost]

Well...it states at the beginning that much of the book is based on facts... or perhaps I should say "facts"... many of which are contraversial to Catholics/Christians.  I think that's what Steven's getting at.  I haven't studied it at all so it'd just be conjecture on my part to say anything.  However, my gut tells me at least some of it is true or  based on nuggets of truth.

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well from the looks of things it seems to be based more on ideas the actual facts some things have been proven and other disproven

these ideas arent really new ive heard of them before the book even came out and somebody just wrote a book around them its a good book but still nothing more then a work of fiction

now i can in some ways see why members of opus dei would get upset over the book mainly when over 40 million people have read it and it basiclly just calls the sect of church that you belong to a cult the opus dei itself only has around 80 thusand members world wide which is hardly a fraction of the amount of people who read the book but at the same time nobody gets up in arms when somebody writes a book or makes a movie potraying satanist or people who study witchcraft in a negative manner

some people just need to calm down about it

[The_Dark]

I wont support Plagerism. I don't know how the writer won his court case.. He admitted in court to stealing much of this book from someone elses's book.

Beyond that... much of his "facts" can be proven to be untrue.

A good example... the Priory of Sion... the documents that supports it's existance have been proven to be fake.

Come on.. the books claims the Catholics burned 5 million female witches during the middles ages. Historians say that the Church killed between 30-50,000 people for being witches (20% of that were men) Really big differance there.

[phee]

The book and the movie are fiction.... and should be treated as such

[Nevaeh]

i decided that i would read the book before seeing the movie...just started it the other day...so far so good. i do agree that some people need to just calm down...there are many movies and books that portray alternate ideas/theories of traditional christian history.

[Fierce Critter]

I can't think of a subject of popular interest I've been LESS interested in in recent years. Save, perhaps, Bradgelinaniferfartipuss.

Don't know, don't care. Might rent the DVD.

Ebert & Roeper both gave it thumbs up. Said it's good piece of movie fiction. Both agreed Ron Howard is a better movie maker than the author is a good book writer, which was an interesting take on it all.

The people picketing the theater nearby in the name of Christ & decrying Hollywood Blasphemy were pretty interesting.

[ZhukovCodeslinger]

I wont support Plagerism. I don't know how the writer won his court case.. He admitted in court to stealing much of this book from someone elses's book.

Beyond that... much of his "facts" can be proven to be untrue.

A good example... the Priory of Sion... the documents that supports it's existance have been proven to be fake.

Come on.. the books claims the Catholics burned 5 million female witches during the middles ages. Historians say that the Church killed between 30-50,000 people for being witches (20% of that were men) Really big differance there.

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he was able to beat the plagerism charge by simply pointing out that his book is fiction... the books that he lifted all of his info from were "historical research books". He took their ideas and then added a character and plot to it... very simple, yet hard enough to figure out that its an event when someone makes this much money by writing a book about non-verifiable historical mumbo jumbo.

the historical books he sources read somthing like this: Castle XXX in france was inhabited by kings of the XXX family. True enough. Now for the Easter Bunny part. They married into the family of the Last Scion... ok.. and the evidence for this is? "A two-thousand year conspiricy to opress women". Well, now he has help from activists who are pushing the "church stomps on women agenda" (Im not going to debate that part) as well as your run of the mill pseudoreligious quacks...

Most of his book is just as unverifiable as the Bible... uh-oh... huston, we have a problem. People are going to start believing his story on FAITH alone.... eeeeppppp it wont take many and out will pop another sect.

its really sad when this happens... like when martin luther came up with his quackery about how the bible should be in the native language of the reader.... sheesh what will come next, a ban on attractive alter boys?

I dont put any more into the book than I would any other religious garbage... but I am sure its a good story and may even sound plausible, or church would not have such an issue with it.

[phee]

Mmmmm alterboys.... let's go watch lord of the rings... shall we?

[phee]

double post of doom

[Head Wreck]

it was king james who first put forward that the bible should be in the language of the reader

thanks to king james the welsh language still survives today as wales was protestant in opposition to scotland and ireland where gealic is very rare.

anyhow. all arguments aside. the book was written as fictional.

else i'll start ranting on the bit on front of the last king arthur film that claims to be on archeological evidence (considering that they had arturious, forgot about uther pendragon his celtic ally, and his sons mordred and Arthur (named in honour of arturious), and that merddin was a boy according to the tales then as voldomere invited the saxons in.

[Steven]

I'm pretty buried in things right now, but by this weekend ill post some observations on what the book / movie alledges are factual (and bear in mind the book prefaces with a lead in stating that the following X amount of data is factual - but that is all part of the novel itself) versus what is really true.

I'm not going to argue the spiritual side of thigns - doesent apply here.

I'd just like to shed some light on how such popularity can create an impact even if its based in mostly lies. My concern is that many people will be influenced by it - they'll accept the "nuggets" without research and form their opinions as such.

[Head Wreck]

i think thats unavoidable steven

[Steven]

no, your right - its unavoidable.

I just like to offer a counter point of view as opposed to the majority vote.

[BrassFusion]

I'm starting to think I'll never bother to see the movie OR read the book. It's pretty clear that the author is a pinhead who researched a small number of resources he didn't try to verify (probably because he knew he wouldn't be able to).

But, if he honestly believes that the books he used information from are fact, then they only contributed to his "realistic" contemporary setting. No plagiarism there. I'm sure that's why he has the disclaimer before the novel... playing dumb.

[wheresmypiggy]

Read the book and loved it.

Saw the movie and appreciated it.

Did the two go together? For the most part yes. I understand they had to leave alot out of the movie for time issues but they left out key important parts that pave the way for the tale. The end of the movie was far far different then the end of the book. It was twice as insulting to christianity as was the book.