Does Ron Howard believe what he directed about the Davinci Code, or did he just Direct it a Top Selling Movie?
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My guess is that it is a combination of liberal Hollywood's answer to the Passion, and a guaranteed block buster.
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Part of the reason that it is coming up now is because of the hype hollywood is making on the upcoming movie the OMEN. Here is an article on the subject I read:\n\nLOS ANGELES (AFP) - With the clamor over religious thriller "The Da Vinci Code" barely fading, a major Hollywood studio is mining the same vein with a Satanic "666" marketing campaign for its new horror film. \n\n"The Omen", a remake of the 1976 horror classic, is the kind of film that routinely makes it big at the box office, appealing to the coveted demographic of young and predominantly male thrill-seekers.\n\nTwentieth Century Fox has banked "The Omen" on a promotional campaign based on "666", the number associated with Satan, based on Revelation, the last book in the Bible.\n\nEven the film's worldwide debut is set for June 6, 2006, or 06/06/06, which the studio conveniently has shortened to 666 in the film's logo.\n\nIn the Christian culture, the number "666" is the symbol of the devil, as related by Revelation 13:18: "This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is man's number. His number is 666."\n\n"The Omen" is the story of a father who realizes his adopted infant son, Damien, who has a 666 birthmark on his skull, is a reincarnation of Satan. A maelstrom of death surrounds the boy.\n\n"The prophecy is clear, the signs unmistakable: Armageddon is upon us. On 6/6/06, the omen is revealed...and our darkest fears are realized," says the 20th Century Fox website.\n\nThe use of a Satanic promotional campaign comes at a sensitive time, after this month's release of "The Da Vinci Code" provoked an outcry from religious groups protesting the film's controversial theme of a married Jesus Christ and a     Vatican cover-up.\n\n"Normally, a marketer is going to be very, very wary about using the devil," said Robert Thompson, professor of television at Syracuse University in New York state.\n\n"But 666 has really emerged in the popular culture as a funny thing you bring up when you're talking about a kid misbehaving on the playground, you say 'I bet this one has a 666 on his scalp'," he said.\n\nBut Ted Baehr, president of Movieguide, a conservative Christian publication, warned the marketing could backfire.\n\n"Any time you overemphasize the demonic and the satanic, you're feeding the lesser instincts of people who're susceptible," he told AFP.\n\n"The marketing can be the biggest drawback of the movie."
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in agreement to the first reply...X-Men 3 is coming out soon. come on...Da vinci code is fictional...a movie..all those pro-christian picketers should get a job. I am a christian too but loved the pace and STORY of dan brown!
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Don't see how it could be a conspiracy since National Treasure is now an "old movie" and the Da Vinci Code hasn't even been released yet. When National Treasure was released, the Da Vinci Code wasn't even on the best-seller list.
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It could be most of it fiction or reality.Still yet, whe don`t know if The Holy Grail really existed.Holly Blood And Holly Grail is the main book used in  Dan`s Brown book"The DaVinci Code".
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No, the Davinci Code is not real, it's a fictatious story. Made up from the minds of man. I don't get why people think that the book was real. It's not for crying out loud!! so no, they weren't lovers.
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The book was written as a book of FICTION.  Nothing more, what's so complicated about that.  Even Tom Hanks said on a talk show that he doesn't get it why so many people think that it's true.  My goodness people get a grip! Take it for what it's worth, a movie that Hollywood put out in the hopes of causing alot of controversy and it did just that.
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Unfortunately, A lot of people have a problem distinguishing the difference between fact and fiction. To make matters worse there are people who know this and try to blur the line even more. This causes even more people on the fringes to be sucked into the hog wash also. \n\nAs for the DaVinci Code the story line has been around for long before the book and debated for a long time. So the movie industry has used that to there advantage to market the movie and try and suck more people in for the almighty dollar. A lot of people love controversy.
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DAVINCI PEOPLE NEW RELIGION INSTEAD CHRISTIANITY\n\nNow most people turning their faith to the DaVinci code rather than the "LIE IN THE CHRISTIANITY". That is what they said. Most of them think with their plain brain and found that the DaVinci code is really turn to logic and not like the god fairy tale. Nobody believe that god turn to become a baby and died to save our sin. THE DAVINCI CODE revealed that Jesus Christ IS NOT A GOD ANYMORE. It is really breaking the LIE BEHIND christianity. What should i say, the logical turn to DaVinci. We have brain to choose.
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The DaVinci Code was on the New York Times bestseller list for over a year now, and it's still being sold and read.\n\nThe major controversy in the story is that the Holy Grail isn't a cup, but is the bloodline of Jesus Christ, and that Jesus didn't die on the cross and was resurrected in three days, but married Mary Magdalene and had children.
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i agree with you its fiction...its the only way to take it.  well it should be at least.  i saw it though and i thought the story was good but delivery wasn't so great......i'm not a huge ron howard fan though.
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I just saw the film.\n\nThe part about how Christianity took pagan beliefs and mixed them in is correct. The fact that Constantine changed the religion (at least to a degree) is correct.  In fact when he ruled that in order to hold government office you had to be a Christian he managed to turn a bunch of pagans into Christians (in name only) over night.  Their underlying pagan beliefs remained the same, they just changed their title.\n\nThe part about the museum having bathroom windows that can be opened is absolutely false. Nor does the museum have bar soap that you can stick a GPS tracer into, they have liquid soap in the bathrooms.\n\nThe Priory has been pretty much determined to be a fraud. (Discovery Channel ran a series of shows which demonstrated this.) Of course, the paranoid will say that the "fraud" is just a cover story and it is exactly what the Priory wants you to think so that they stay secret.  \n\nThe idea that the "royal bloodline" filters down to one and only one woman in Europe seems pretty unbelievable. The Merovingians had many kids, there would have to be several thousand Merovingians by this point in history.\n\nThe idea that Jesus and Magdelene were married, well, not much proof one way or the other. Even if they were, it is that thing about rising from the dead that still sets things apart.\n\nOne idea that I don't think most people have considered is the possibility that the entire DaVinci Code movie and book might just be designed as a meme (brain virus as it were). Designed to "inject" the concept of this bloodline into the populace. Then, when the time is ripe, "they" will unveil a person who is supposedly the descendant in question whom "they" want to setup as a One World Leader.\n\nFrankly I think there is more "fact" in "The Norman Rockwell Code".
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Plot Summary for\nThe Da Vinci Code (2006)\n\nWhile in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon ('Tom Hanks') receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. Solving the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci - clues visible for all to see, and yet ingeniously disguised by the painter. Langdon joins forces with a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu (Audrey Tautou), and learns the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion - an actual secret society. In a breathless race through Paris, London and beyond, Langdon and Neveu match wits with a faceless powerbroker who appears to work for Opus Dei - a clandestine, Vatican-sanctioned Catholic organization believed to have long plotted to seize the Priory's secret. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle in time, the Priory's secret - and a stunning historical truth - will be lost forever.\n\nSummary written by bondish\n\nWhen respected American religious symbology expert Dr. Robert Langdon(Hanks) is summoned to the Louvre by the French version of the FBI, led by Captain Bezu Fache(Reno), he soon discovered that he is the #1 suspect for the murder of a historian Langdon had been scheduled to meet with.. Assisted by a French cryptographer and government agent named Sophie(Tautou), Langdon is challenged to decipher a chain of cryptic codes and puzzles, all the while trying to stay ahead of Fache's lawmen in a chase through the Louvre, and out into the Parisian cityscape, and finally across the channel to England. Can Langdon and Sophie decipher the nature of a secret dating back to Leonardo Da Vinci and earlier before those responsible for the historian's murder add them to their hit list..?\n\nSummary written by Austin4577@aol.com
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"and this whole The Bible is a myth garbage... Did you ever know that archaeologists have found countless cities, names,etc. mentioned in the bible that they didn't think existed?"\n\nThe Da Vinci Code mentions Paris and a Louvre museum and they happen to exist. Does that mean the whole Da Vinci Code is true? According to your "logic", it seems so.\n\nTroy has been found. Does that mean the greek gods exist?\n\nChichen Itza was found too, should we offer maidens to Kukulkan? When is Kukulkan second coming? It was predicted he'd do so.\n\nYou can't prove the miracles happened.
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I understand your confusion, and to a ceratin extent, I agree with you.\n\nI read the book, and I plan to see the movie (as soon as the hype dies down).  I think that the reason this book is taken so seriously is for two reasons:\n\n1.  Dan Brown begins the book by stating that all of the groups, artwork, etc. are completely true.  People assume that if these things are true and accurate, then the whole book must be as well.\n\n2.  The whole premise, that Jesus was married and that the "holy grail" isn't a cup but is in fact the holy bloodline of Jesus, isn't a new theory and is one that some people have argued for many years.  Plus, it is plausible!  I'm not saying that it is likely, but it is possible.\n\nWhat I don't understand is why this film has to change poeple's faith.  Even if it was discovered with 100% certainty that Jesus was married, that doesn't change my faith in Christianity at all!  (It makes me wonder about the people who made the decision to cover it all up, but it doesn't change my faith in God.)  In fact, learning that Jesus was married might actually make me identify with Him more than I currently do.\n\nI wish that people would think about that more seriously... what has REALLY changed?
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the "scandals" written in the Da Vinci Code have been around for centuries. heck, authors have written books about it since the middle ages. even the author of the Da Vinci Code admits to fudging "facts". it's a book/movie, and a bad one at that. if you believe one book/movie without doing your own research, then you're full of bologna too
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The Da Vinci Code is a novel.\nThe writer put some historical facts in it, but it remains a novel where he spun a nice fantasy web.\nIt is not because somebody writes that the world is square that you have to believe it!