Vatican bans 'godless' Da Vinci Code sequel Angels & Demons from Rome churches

[emad]

By Malcolm Moore in Rome
16/06/2008
The Vatican has banned the makers of Angels & Demons, the latest book from Da Vinci Code bestseller Dan Brown to be turned into a movie, from entering the Holy See and any church in Rome.

The movie, the sequel to the enormously successful The Da Vinci Code, sees Tom Hanks reprise his role as Harvard professor Robert Langdon. This time, however, Mr Langdon is on a mission to save the Vatican from being blown up by a canister of anti-matter.

The entire film is set in Rome, and Sony Pictures applied for permission to film two key scenes inside the churches of Santa Maria del Popolo and Santa Maria della Vittoria.

The plot of the book sees Mr Langdon arriving in Santa Maria della Vittoria to find a cardinal being set on fire.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2139472/Vatican-bans-%27godless%27-Da-Vinci-Code-sequel-Angels-andamp-Demons-from-Rome-churches.html

[Ian David]

1. Are they banned from filming in the churches, or from entering them even to pray?

And if the latter, are they allowed to take communion on the front steps?

[emad]

2. "Dan Brown is a rapscallion. The Vicariate has done well to deny them access."

Franco Zeffirelli, the director of Jesus of Nazareth, told the Corriere della Sera.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2139472/Vatican-bans-%27godless%27-Da-Vinci-Code-sequel-Angels-andamp-Demons-from-Rome-churches.html

Well, he would say that, wouldn't he?

[nxylas]

5. "Rapscallion"?

Now there's a word I haven't heard in a very long time.

[Ian David]

9. I hadn't heard "Trollop" for a long time until recently, either. n/t

[nxylas]

14. What skulduggery is this?

Forsooth.

[Ian David]

15. Google "Cindy McCain Trollop" n/t

[nxylas]

16. Yeah, I know

I just wanted an excuse to use the word "skulduggery", seeing as it seems to be Resurrect an Archaic Word Month or something.

[muriel_volestrangler]

19. I think the last time I heard it, it was pronounced "wapscallion"

1 geek point to whoever names the character and film first.

[nxylas]

20. Pontius Pilate in Life of Bwian?

I mean, Brian?

[muriel_volestrangler]

26. Cowect!

:toast:

[Warpy]

3. "cannister of antimatter?"

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

And we thought the crystal skulls were funny!

[Ian David]

4. Why couldn't it have been a chalice of Satan's blood? Or a vessel of Hellfire? n/t

[Warpy]

8. Yes, something that wouldn't take

a nuclear power plant to generate an adequate magnetic containment vessel.

I'll probably see this one for a major hoot to find out how they managed to keep the antimatter from annihilating the cannister it's supposedly sitting in.

[gatorboy]

6. It's actually a fun read.

Much better than that bore The DaVinci code in my opinion.

[JVS]

10. You don't believe in crystal skulls?

[Evoman]

13. The science in that book was atrocious.

And the representation of CERN was just weird.

Here is a link to CERN's discussion of the book:

http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/en/Spotlight/SpotlightAandD-en.html

[Dorian Gray]

22. It's a book that

offends many groups:

Catholics, Scientists, and anybody with decent literary tastes!

[gatorboy]

25. Schwing!

[LeftyMom]

18. Maybe the story takes place in an alternate universe with Star Trek physics?

Seems like they were forever carrying anti-matter around in something the size of a thermos.

[Warpy]

27. They also have McForce Fields

Presumably this exercise in dumbfuckery takes place in the here and now.

[Akoto]

7. "Blown up by a canister of anti-matter"

Damn USS Enterprise. This is what happens when they litter their warp core waste all over.

[lovuian]

11. there are pretty many pictures for Angels & Demons to

obtain of all these places...if there is any one book that scares the Hell out of the vatican Angels and Demons would

its pretty obvious the Vatican is afraid thats why the denial

[dflprincess]

12. Actually, "The DaVinci Code" is the sequel to "Angels & Demons"

"Angels and Demons" was published in 2000 and DaVinci in 2003.

[Chan790]

17. Good for them...

Strange words to hear from a noted atheist like me. That's their right. I'd only hope they'd go so far as to deny anybody working on the film rites of reconciliation and the communion. (Meaningless really, but meaningful to some people.)

As terrible as the holy See might be, and believe me I know first hand exactly how evil the Roman Catholic church can be, Dan Brown is no better...a Maria Monk for the new century. Religion is delusional, but anti-catholicism is evil...as much so as anti-semitism, anti-protestantism, anti-paganism, persecution of atheists,... (I can go on.)

The enemy of my enemy is not always my friend. Brown is little more than a well-read Jack Chick (that is...an anti-catholic peddling his own brand of bullshit equally or more dangerous), with friends like him I have no need of enemies.

Every page wasted printing Brown's shit is another page that could have borne great thinkers and writers like Vonnegut, Russell, Sartre and Dawkins to the masses. He is a thinker-lite, a fraud of literature. I wish him arthritis and a mute tongue.

[Dorian Gray]

21. Honestly....

I thought the book was absolute shit, so I can't blame them.

[Evoman]

24. For awhile after that book, I called all of my bowel movements "Dan Brown"

As in, "Excuse me, I have to take a Dan Brown"

This persisted until I became aware of Sanjaya, at which time the name was replaced.

Right now, I call it Tim Russert.

What, to soon?

[KG]

23. i'd support banning dan brown novels from bookstore shelves.

what banal bilge.

[Retrograde]

28. Good - for a different reason

Film making can be very disruptive, even with the best of intentions. Whether you subscribe to their religion or not, these are places of worship and have daily services: IMHO going into them, setting up equipment, getting in the way of the people who normally use the church and filming a potboiler for the studio's profit is disrespectful. Especially when said potboiler accuses you of various murders and other malfeasances. Kinda like biting the hand then asking for the handout.