A Sophisticated Take on the Da Vinci Code
In addition to the articles recommeded by Carson Reed (N.T. Wright's is especially good), some of the guys here in Singapore pointed me to a less confessional perspective found at:
The New Yorker: The Critics: The Current Cinema
In case you're not inclined to read the entire review, here is a pretty good summary of the point-of-view of this high-brow magazine:
"The movie is baloney; the movie is an accurate representation of the book; therefore, the book is also baloney, although it takes even longer to consume."
Of course, that's just one guy's opinion. I haven't see it yet. The one person who I've talked who has seen it advised us to wait and buy the pirated DVD because the movie wasn't, in his opinion, worth the ticket price. (I'll withhold the name of this respected clergyman.)
posted by Anthony Parker @ 2:27 AM
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The following quote was posted to Roger Ebert's Web site by a reader:
One of the great ironies of Dan Brown's book is that it assaults you with its greatest piece of idiocy before you've even picked it up. The man's name is Leonardo, please. "da Vinci" (note the lower-case "d"), is NOT his family name, it's his hometown. He was born in Vinci, Italy, in 1452, in a time before Europeans had started surnaming themselves. Brown's error is on par with writing a book on the life of Christ called The Of Nazareth Code, or assuming St. Joan was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. "Of Arc." It's amazing that anyone could take seriously the historical claims of a work whose title screams out, "penned by an historical ignoramus!"
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