Wiggy Peggy
May 19th, 2006 at 2:05 pm by Susie
Peggy Noonan’s all in a fluster over “The DaVinci Code”:
I do not understand the thinking of a studio that would make, for the amusement of a nation 85% to 90% of whose people identify themselves as Christian, a major movie aimed at attacking the central tenets of that faith, and insulting as poor fools its gulled adherents. Why would Tom Hanks lend his prestige to such a film? Why would Ron Howard?
Lance points out an obvious flaw in her thinking:
That she apparently can’t see any connection between its bestseller status and its being turned into a movie is just another sign that she needs to get out more and spend less time communing with angels in the form of dolphins.
But her assertion that 85 to 90 percent of Americans are Christians shows that A.) she doesn’t bother to look things up before throwing numbers around and B.) she has the same understanding of math and fractions as Bertie Wooster, who has observed that half the world doesn’t know how the other three-quarters lives.
Surely it should have occured to her that if 85 to 90 percent of Americans are Christians and The Da Vinci Code is selling like…well, like a book that everybody and his brother are buying, then some of those books must be being bought by Christians.
All these people complaining about this movie must think we are dopes who don’t realize it’s fiction…I wish they would get a life.
over 40 million copies of the book have been sold. It is at the walmart for 5 bucks. Dan Brown is a very rich man.
I’ve just returned from viewing the film. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I read the book when it was first released and therefore didn’t mind the refresher course on facts from the book.
Like all movies based on books the movie was intended for someone who had NOT read the book. That may seem like rehashing old ground for someone familiar with the story.
If your belief system is so shallow that you lose faith in your god when the grass turns brown in the winter, you may want to stay away from the film. If you get your spiritual guidance from pensioner bilkers like Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell you may not like the fact that Christ was a living being at one time.
No one tried to make me join a cult or disown my parents. Any consenting, open minded adult would be entertained by the excellent acting, directing and production of this murder mystery. It’s a novel. It’s fiction. IT’S A FUCKING MOVIE!!! And, I thoroughly enjoyed it.