{"id":1403,"date":"2006-05-19T07:36:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-19T14:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2006\/05\/19\/post-film-discussion-1123-the-da-vinci-code\/"},"modified":"2006-05-19T07:36:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-19T14:36:00","slug":"post-film-discussion-1123-the-da-vinci-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2006\/05\/19\/post-film-discussion-1123-the-da-vinci-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-Film Discussion #1123: The Da Vinci Code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">upon exiting the theatre<\/span>)<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(204, 0, 0);\">CKL:<\/span> So, what did you think of the movie?<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 255);\">D:<\/span> I have two words for it: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrcranky.com\/movies\/nationaltreasure.html\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">National. Treasure.<\/span><\/a><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(204, 0, 0);\">CKL:<\/span> Hmm.  Or perhaps &#8220;<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Inter<\/span>-National Treasure&#8221;!<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 255);\">D:<\/span> Perhaps.  I have two more words: <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Bull. Shit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Referring, of course, to the egregious historical inaccuracies and outright fiction perpetrated by author Dan Brown and company.<\/p>\n<p>Being an atheist, I don&#8217;t really care about or believe the film&#8217;s central premise: that settling the question of Jesus Christ&#8217;s divinity with empirical evidence would destroy Christianity, in particular the Catholic Church.  (This is the same problem I had with <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Stigmata<\/span>, which also posits the existence of long-lost Gospels which have been covered up by The Man.)<\/p>\n<p>The question also seems like something that&#8217;s more likely to be debated in academia, as demonstrated by the lengthy expository scene wherein Ian McKellen&#8217;s character lays out all the author-fabricated evidence for this <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Da_vinci_code#Literary_significance_and_criticism\">crackpot theory<\/a>.  You call this archaeology?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway.  This really should have been Audrey Tautou&#8217;s movie, since her character, Sophie Neveu, has the most interesting story arc.  As D pointed out later, Kevin Smith had already covered pretty much this same territory, religious controversy-wise, with <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Dogma<\/span>.  Linda Fiorentino&#8217;s character in that movie was on the same journey as Sophie, but Bethany actually got to be the hero.  After the car chase in the first act, I was hoping that Sophie would continue to kick ass, but I guess Tom Hanks has a better agent.  And a couple of Oscars.<\/p>\n<p>But if there&#8217;s a sequel, it should totally be called <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Da Vinci Code II: Never Say Neveu Again<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Totally.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(upon exiting the theatre)CKL: So, what did you think of the movie?D: I have two words for it: National. Treasure.CKL: Hmm. Or perhaps &#8220;Inter-National Treasure&#8221;!D: Perhaps. I have two more words: Bull. Shit. Referring, of course, to the egregious historical&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}