Watched The Da Vinci Code again last night. Though people the world over lambasted the movie, I liked it.
Yeah, the movie has its pits - no character development & a virtually plastic Audrey Tautou. But the screenplay is very loyal to the book (perhaps a bit too loyal, choking the characters out) and is well-paced. Ron Howard has commendably brought the history of the Grail & the multiple associated, abutting legends to life. I could feel those goosebumps again as I watched the movie unfold.
Now, here is a thought which has nagged at me ever since I read that best-seller.
Could it be true? Could there be a descendant of Jesus Christ walking among us?
I have heard a million n one folks point out the poetic licenses the book has taken with some locations & historical facts in the story. However, I think they miss the larger picture.
Look at it this way - Arguably, there could exist a secret brotherhood, a la the Priori of Sion, protecting the bloodline over the centuries. They could ostensibly have a mission of revealing the truth at what they saw as the opportune time.
That time could be now. The Da Vinci Code could be a first in a series of plots towards achieving this mission. Dan Brown could be a member of this secret clique (one of the Senechaux, or perhaps, the Grandmaster himself!!). Or he could be a pawn in a larger scheme of things. Whichever way, the wheels of history could be in motion again.
Think about it. Think about what can be & not what is. How sensational it would be - it promises to throw every aspect of human belief into throes - history, religion, world politics. It'd be an event of true apocalyptic proportions!!
I'd love to be alive when such an event if & does ever happen. Conspiracy theories rock...
Yeah, the movie has its pits - no character development & a virtually plastic Audrey Tautou. But the screenplay is very loyal to the book (perhaps a bit too loyal, choking the characters out) and is well-paced. Ron Howard has commendably brought the history of the Grail & the multiple associated, abutting legends to life. I could feel those goosebumps again as I watched the movie unfold.
Now, here is a thought which has nagged at me ever since I read that best-seller.
Could it be true? Could there be a descendant of Jesus Christ walking among us?
I have heard a million n one folks point out the poetic licenses the book has taken with some locations & historical facts in the story. However, I think they miss the larger picture.
Look at it this way - Arguably, there could exist a secret brotherhood, a la the Priori of Sion, protecting the bloodline over the centuries. They could ostensibly have a mission of revealing the truth at what they saw as the opportune time.
That time could be now. The Da Vinci Code could be a first in a series of plots towards achieving this mission. Dan Brown could be a member of this secret clique (one of the Senechaux, or perhaps, the Grandmaster himself!!). Or he could be a pawn in a larger scheme of things. Whichever way, the wheels of history could be in motion again.
Think about it. Think about what can be & not what is. How sensational it would be - it promises to throw every aspect of human belief into throes - history, religion, world politics. It'd be an event of true apocalyptic proportions!!
I'd love to be alive when such an event if & does ever happen. Conspiracy theories rock...
5 comments:
Oh !
So it took a reallllly badly made movie for you to come up with this!!
:P
You must be the first person I have come accross to say anything nice about the movie - seriously, wasn't it terrible?
hi madhuri. dint know u were a visitor! welcome :).
no, i really dint find it that terrible. there is no character development - thats the prime drawback. apart from that, i think the pacing and the almost letter-to-letter translation of the book transcript to screenplay are decently watchable. i have seen worse n bigger disasters :).
why didnt u like it?
It was an extremely dull version of the book. The whole theory and research and suspense of the book vanished in the illustration. Not that the book was a great one, but at least it was more enjoyable.
i think that's due to a "i know what to expect next" bias from the book. agreed that it wasnt in the lord of the rings class at translation to screen, but wasnt downright shoddy.
i saw it with my folks who hadnt read the book then - they quite liked it.
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