How disappointing, I have been looking forward for a long time to seeing the da Vinci code movie and have purposely not read the book so I would enjoy the movie without analyzing the comparison with the book at the theater. This week the da Vinci Code movie with tom Hanks comes out and the reviews have been terrible. Does no one like this movie? As Dave D said a few months back, “It’s only a book” sure maybe the contyent is based on flimsy research and lots of conspiracy theories but that is great pulp for a great movie. How could they have got it wrong then? My fear and it seems to be true after reading a few reviews is that the movie is trying to be everything that the book is. When was the last time a movie could live up to the whole content of a book?
If you look back at great movies in the past such as The Grapes of Wrath with its very long complex stroyline what the best film makers have done is to grab scenes and string them together with the temperature and feel of the underlying scenes. No one is going to be very successful trying to get everything of paper and onto the screen…unless of course you are Peter Jackson with patient fans, studios and actors.
I am sure that I will see the Da Vinci Code soon but now I am going to have to really be looking forward to the great entertaining book instead as my main vehicle of the story.
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