Braindead fundies working hard to promote upcoming movie "The Da Vinci Code"
Chom Noamsky
soon-to-be-released "The Da Vinci Code." It wasn't enough that they made
Mel Gibson millions of dollars and more famous than ever over their calls to
boycott "The Passion of The Christ," but now they want to do the same for
Dan Brown and the producers of the movie based on his novel. As Gibson
demonstrated, it's a formula that works -- stir up some religious
controversy and get churches full of angry, stupid fundies working hard for
you:
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Cardinal urges legal action against Da Vinci Code
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=686452006
Bill also
Chom Noamsky wrote:
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> Looks like fundies are raging again for the latest cause: a boycott of
> soon-to-be-released "The Da Vinci Code." It wasn't enough that they made
> Mel Gibson millions of dollars and more famous than ever over their calls to
> boycott "The Passion of The Christ," but now they want to do the same for
> Dan Brown and the producers of the movie based on his novel. As Gibson
> demonstrated, it's a formula that works -- stir up some religious
> controversy and get churches full of angry, stupid fundies working hard for
> you:
>
The Da Vinci Code is a work of fiction based on works of fiction pretending to be scholarship.
I have no problem with fictional movies. Bring it on! Bring it all on! Bring on the grays, the
reptilians, the flying saucer airports in Peru, the Incan secrets, the Aztec pyramids, the whole
freaking load of it along with the kitchen sink! I enjoy exotic fiction, and defend those who
trade in it, but hopefully people with a brain will get grip and recognize it as fiction.
Detector
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Oi don't loike the sound of these 'ere boncentration bamps!
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Rich
Notice JEW Hollywood would NEVER permit a making of the equally
silly "Protocols of the Elder's of Zion" but Christianity is fair game
in their books.
notritenoteri
camel and make watermelons is finished!
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worked out we'll call it "turds from the pit!
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Bill also
Detector wrote:
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> When will the movie about Mohammed and his child bride be made?
Which one?
Bill also
Bill Lewis wrote:
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> Chom Noamsky <e...@me.com> wrote:
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> > It wasn't enough that they made
> > Mel Gibson millions of dollars and more famous than ever over their calls to
> > boycott "The Passion of The Christ,"
> >
>
> I don't recall too many boycotts of TPOTC, in fact it was the opposite and (in
> the USA at least) they openly promoted it to the point where a movie that many
> critics contend was little more than a low-budget and obscure niche film was
> making hundreds of $millions. Don't you remember the stories about
> congregations purchasing tickets and having special showings?
>
I didn't like TPOTC because of the part where Jesus made an ugly face and stomped on a poor
little snake. As if that really happened!
SR 71
They have it showing on TMN On-Demand at the moment in 2 versions, a "cut"
and an "uncut" version. The difference in length is about 4 minutes!
Perhaps the "cut" version did away with the offensive snake routine.
:)
Bill also
I certainly hope so. In addition, there is nothing I have read in the Gospels to support the
idea that Jesus was essentially stripped of his skin by flogging with whips resembling hooked
chains - that too was made up. In fact, a number of medical doctors have noted that no human
being could have lived through the scourging and blood loss depicted in TPOTC, and I was
personally offended that this invention out of the mind of the director would probably have been
more painful than the crucifixion itself, to the point of trivializing the latter. The Gospels
do not say that Jesus was beaten and flogged to within an inch of his life, after which his
nearly-lifeless and almost skinless body was nailed to a tree. The Gospels say that the
Crucifixion was the main focal point, and so I fault TPOTC for so flagrantly misrepresenting the Gospels.
notritenoteri
comics. WTF is the differecence between TPOTC fromn the gospels and BAtman
returns from MArvel comics or was it DC
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notritenoteri
who will play alah?
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notritenoteri wrote:
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> do you get upset when hollywood does't exactlyfollo the dialog inthebatman
> comics. WTF is the differecence between TPOTC fromn the gospels and BAtman
> returns from MArvel comics or was it DC
Generally screenplays differ from the original book, or comic book, in the interests of
speeding up the plot and accentuating the action scenes and explosions, and so as long as people
understand that TPOTC is a movie screenplay loosely based on the Gospels, and dealing
specifically with the Passion (=execution and suffering) of Jesus, while giving very short
shrift to his parables and other teachings of neighbourly love, I don't have a problem with it.
The Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dali did some rather unorthodox renderings of the
Crucifixion, and I have no problem with that either, because it is obviously his artistic
interpretation. The problem I have is that there are too many people who go to the movies and
accept everything as fact. The Da Vinci Code, for example, is a purely fictional movie based on
purely speculative books that are riddled with factual errors, but as long as people realize the
fictional nature of it, I am fine with it. I enjoyed the movie, years ago, called Fire In The
Sky, about the alleged abduction of Travis Walton by a UFO, even though I am a doubter about
that particular abduction case. The movies of Michael Moore are another example. I found
"Bowling For Columbine" and "Fahrenheit 911" to be entertaining tragedy-exploitation flicks,
just as I enjoyed his "Canadian Bacon" - Moore makes funny movies - but I recoil at the idea
that any of his movies are "documentaries". That is what bugs me about TPOTC, i.e., gullible
marshmellow heads will think it is a documentary. Do you not find it disquieting that the
distinction between "fictional entertainment" and "documentary" is being blurred by the mass media?
notritenoteri
par excellence since before uncle Adolph Hitler masturbated for the first
time. People read the newspapers, (at least some people do) , read national
enquirer and other canary cage liners and accept them as real. The govt
produces such great informational films as"duck and cover" and the US
military has its very own propaganda channel on TV where they tell the world
why they're the bestest with the mostest etc etc.
If I understand you correctly what your trying to say in a nice way is that
people should have faith in the story of the life of christ as it is written
and told by holy mother church inc. Lets get real. Some, in fact a lot of
people, have trouble distinguishing between fact and fiction every day of
their lives. If it were so easy do you think there would be any salesmen
left alive?
Why shouldn't people take the DaVinci Code as the gospel so to speak. There
is no absolute proof that what christians refer to as the new testament is
fact.THe DaVinci Code is as good an explanation of its errors or omissions
as anything else. IN the scheme of things one has to wonder whether it is
relevant in anyway as to what christians believe. I'm a lot more concerned
about what the followers of mohamed believe since they seem to be much more
interested in converting their beliefs into actions.
If you want to believe good for you there are many things in the bible that
make a great deal of sense and provide reasonable tenets to live by. On the
other hand in my opinion there is no concept in the book that is either
worth killing for or dying for!
Given some of the weird and wonderful things that go on in "real life" like
the guy who shot himself 12 times in the head with a nail gun and only got
a headache, is it not reasonable to wonder where fiction ends and
documentary begins?
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notritenoteri wrote:
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> What distinction is this you refer to? Films have been a propaganda medium
...cut if off there. I nevertheless enjoy going out to see a movie, bearing all that in mind, as
best as can be expected.