Gambling with Facts and Fiction
Gambling People
larger so-called uneducated Americans as they lead themselves into
gambling with facts and fiction. Sony Pictures online site is a legacy
to the marketing leaps and bounds it takes to promote and push a film,
produced according to a book, The Da Vinci Code, written by Dan Brown.
Mr. Brown has been nicely placed into a forefront that previous, far
more educated authors had already gone more than a decade ago.
Dan Brown must be celebrating with lots of wine and dine; we won't yet
assume that women are involved. He has taken good threads of books
already written by, most famously, the italian Umberto Eco. Umberto's
books - The Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum and others have gone
where Dan Brown could not go and have formed the foundation of his own
thriller, now celebrated by millions.
A fine concoction of other books such as 'In God's Name' and 'The
Messianic Legacy', 'The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail' have also lent
good background information to allow Mr. Brown to weave an almost
believable (well, by the uneducated, believable) story of Roman
Catholic Church and Vatican intrigue, suspense and murder.
If Americans and other countries would have their citizen's reading
more books instead of watching MTV, ETV and the likes of Hollywood,
then they would know that the fanfare belongs to other writers who made
these foundations for a smart Dan Brown to build an empire upon. No-one
can be angry with Dan, he's just being a true commercial democrat who
had the full freedom to create a concoction of his own, more likely to
be read by his fellow countrymen. The lucky fact that his fellow
countrymen are 'All American' just makes his day and with Hollywood
backing him up; what exposure!
Umberto Eco, however, weaves far more real history and facts into his
fiction than Dan Brown ever would.