You know, sometimes studios actually do something BRILLIANT! Such is the case here with Sony and their forthcoming movie “The Da Vinci Code”. Everyone knows that there is a lot of controversy over the project and the film and book has it detractors. So what does Sony do? They start an open dialog about it and create a forum for leading religious leaders and scholars to talk about it and present their points of view and arguments.
This is a FANTASTIC idea. Instead of getting defensive, Sony has been proactive. Instead of starting a fight, Sony started a conversation. Besides the civil benefits of this move, all this will do is INCREASE interest in the movie at the same time. BRILLIANT!
See? Good things can happen when you actually listen to the people you disagree with instead of just shooting off your mouth (like we all do from time to time) and hurl insults at each other.
The site is called “The Davinci Challenge” and can be seen here.
People are too damn sensitive about their religion. I’m sorry, but with this movie coming and people overseas having a hissy fit over a damn editorial cartoon, it seems that people are just going bonkers with it. It’ll be funny as hell when these people croak and realize it was all for nothing.
this is one of my favorite points of discussion… whethar or not jesus got some tail while he was on this earth.
what i find amazing are the people who are so against such a concept. AS IF the fact that jesus procreated somehow took away from his divinity.
if god made us to fuck, and sent himself down to us as one of us, why wouldnt he fuck?
that’s my viewpoint.
i’m going over there to discuss this matter in forum. thanks for pointing this site out, John.
And to those who think that this movie is going to suck since it’s “obviously fiction”, i want to point out that the original Alien saga was a great movie, but only because it was completely true.
if it had been fiction, after all, it would have sucked ( end sarcasm here)
One more thing, before this comes out as Triflic says Munich-never-happeend…
The above examples is supposed to get across an exercise in style from a real person (Domino) is no different than a movie whose aim is to shed light on world events.
I probably should have used something a little less hot-button like TITANIC, PEARL HARBOUR, SCHINDLERS’ LIST, or JARHEAD.
A solid reminder that while film can evoke history/times/events/lives, it is NEVER, ever a substitue for it. Please help anyone who goes to the movies for history lessons to a dose of reality….
“Based on a True Story” (which in the above case doesn’t even apply that far) only means that occasionally a name or place may match —LITTLE ELSE!!!
Yes, this applies to DOMINO
Yes, this !!equally!! applies to MUNICH
Sorry to Rant, but this is a major pet peeve. The Coen Brothers did it right when they attached “Based on a True Story” to Fargo, which was completely..COMPLETELY..fiction.
/end rant
I’m not exactly sure what’s to discuss about. I mean the whole story is basically fiction, there’s nothing real about it – that is unless you only read the book, heard some urban myths about Jesus and basically kept your head in the sand the rest of the time. There were documentaries on Discovery and National Geographic that easily dismissed the story as fake, books have been written etc. I’m rather tired of the whole thing.