whatever the controversies... i'd say the da vinci code movie is worth the watch even if it may not appeal to you, or that it might be just for the locational settings... rosslyn chapel is spectacular without the scaffolding that is currently shielding it from further weathering damage... and of course, it was a heart-breaking reminder of the good times i had wandering alone on my bike (which i brought over from germany) to find it in the glen... and how much i miss europe...and at least the effigy features of Sir Isaac Newton's Monument were duplicated...
i enjoyed the film and thought the characters, Silas, and Fache, were particularly well-portrayed... the movie followed the novel closely, spare a few missing details... i might be bias... because, i am more nostalgic about the locations and settings and for the fact that the theories spun in the novel seem plausible and i could allow myself to be entertained by such postulations and mysteries... it makes me go wondering about a lot of things i have no answers to... and i ask ppl to tell me what they know or understand from their experience or knowledge and there's more speculation and discussion... i think amicable debate is good...
in any case, this bbc-magazine article has an interesting and growing trail of comments... which are quite amusing... here are some of my favourites for whatever reasons... :
"This entire thing highlights a huge snobbery inherent to British society. How can you possibly not have finished the first page? Are the sentences so offensive to your little eyes that you had to stop? It's like the princess and the pea. The reason Hollywood baddies are always English is because everyone sees you as dislikeable class snobs which, rather delightfully, this discussion goes to prove.
Paul , Edinburgh"
""Badly written" One word to all who say this. Sheep. I have read a great many books in my 38 years and I even have a English Lit. Diploma, so the sometimes torturous writings of the "best" have been read, discussed, praised and slated. The last novel I heaped praise upon was "Johnathon Strange and Mr Norrel". Possibly one of the best works of literature I have read in a long time. I like to think this shows me as someone that doesn't read "pulp" however according to the experts I do, because I love Dan Brown's writing. May I suggest to those who slate Mr Brown that they first attempt to write a novel, and then attempt to write one with the adrenalin Dan manages to inject into his fiction.
Vaughan Jackson, Vartdal, Norway"
"I find it hard to believe the level of snobbery about what is essentially a good, if simple, romp. In my view any book that gets people reading and talking about big issues rather than whose in the gossip mags cannot be a bad thing and you cannot deny people are talking about it! If people are stupid enough to take it as fact - then it's a pretty sad state of affairs, but give the average man some credit! I have a good classical education, know my Gospels and thought the theories were interesting food for thought.
Barbie, Hertfordshire"
"Yes, it's a harmless, disposable, page-turner - but one thing really does annoy me: that American pulp-fiction tic of cliched 'Briddish' typecasting. The baddie, is sexually repressed, upper-class, evil, two-faced, decrepit - and, inevitably, English!
Rob Ainsley, London, UK"
"I loved this book, its just a story, no-one dissects Indiana Jones for its factual inaccuracies about the Ark. The "facts" at the start are a blatant literary device, and the story is fantastic. Gutted to people like John Mortimer for not thinking of it first
Andy Wells, Romford, UK"
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