The Da Vinci Code

Days ago, I watched the US movie The Davince Code, which left me with very deep impression. However, due to the great cultural differences between East and West,  i really have many to ask. I then refered to the book ,but found it little cultural elements contained to help me understand.

Edited by parthenon - 09-Jul-2006 at 10:14

The book was very intensing, the movie was beyond horrible...Godzilla vs. Mothra horrible

The DaVinci Code is a novel, that is, a work of fiction.

The movie (and Tom Hanks) were imbecelic. The book was a good "whodunnit", not a work of fact.

What I really hated was the part with the mirror writing. Somewhere at the beginning, he spends several pages explaining Leonardo's mirrorscript, on which the 'professor' supposedly studied a ling time. But when, somewhere later, he gets it under his nose, he is not even able to recognise it. I mean, was there anybody who did not see it was mirrorscript as soon as you turned the page?

Originally posted by Sparten "Church is trying to surpress the Holy Feminine", yeah right what about the Virgin Mary? She was most certainly not a man.

Perhaps they'll claim she was in the sequel: "The Michelangelo Message". It will propose that Mary was really a Roman man named Marius who travelled to Palestine during the reign of Augustus and impregnated Mary Magdalene's mother, who in turn gave birth to Jesus. Then Jesus and Magdalene re-instituted the ancient Egyptian practice of sibling marriage in the royal family, hence how it ties to the whole Da Vinci Code thing. All of this is, naturally, presented in Michelangelo's painting in the Sistine Chapel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:God2-Sistine_Chapel.png

See here, the old guy is really Marius. The female figure to his left is Magdalene's mother, and Adam is really Jesus. The other figures with Marius represent certain church fathers who supressed the truth.

The Movie was VERY bad, I read the book, and the book WOULD have been interesting if i hadn't already heard that information and cliams in OTHER books!
    

Edited by Red Russian - 24-Jul-2006 at 14:58

I started reading the book, that was ages ago and i've already lost interest very early. Not a good sign, on the other hand, it is competing with two Terry Pratchett books for my attention, which is some pretty stiff competition as far as i'm concerned.

Originally posted by Aelfgifu Nothing beats a Terry Pratchett book! All competition can just give up and go home!

   
Right on Aelfgifu!

I never read it or watched the movie simply because it's too popular with the masses, anything very popular isn't usually worth the attention.