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The Da Vinci Code movie

Postby dugoboy » Wed Jun 07, 2006 3:31 pm

has anyone seen this movie yet? i saw it last night. i really like it. what did you guys think of it? <p>___________________________________________<br>"BUSHCO aren't incompetent...they are COMPLICIT." -Me<br><br>"Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act" -George Orwell</p><i></i>
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Re: The Da Vinci Code movie

Postby Gouda » Wed Jun 07, 2006 6:32 pm

Awful as films go, with a few very nice effects (ho-hum). Hanks officially sacrificed any artistic cache he may have accumulated with this cardboard non-performance. We might have also witnessed Tatou selling her soul on film. Not a pretty sight. <br><br>What I am waiting for is the myriad of people coming out of this over the next couple of years claiming or believing they are of the bloodline. Shortcuts, shortcuts. When I was young(er), I would leave the cinema really feeling like superman, or luke skywalker, or little orphan annie. Even this, now - I left the building wondering, just a little, if I might have some of that christblood in me. Maybe that can be a good thing. <br><br>Won't say more so as not to spoil the plot for those not familiar with this book or others like <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Holy Blood, Holy Grail</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->. <p></p><i></i>
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Re: The Da Vinci Code movie

Postby dugoboy » Wed Jun 07, 2006 6:41 pm

i will get into this later but i wanted to talk about the expierence i had at the last scene. it was very wierd, like my heart was racing and had this feeling of together at last or something... integration of halves... i dunno.<br><br>i did notice how dead audrey tautou seemed in her acting for like the first 30 minutes she was on scren, showed very little emotion. <p>___________________________________________<br>"BUSHCO aren't incompetent...they are COMPLICIT." -Me<br><br>"Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act" -George Orwell</p><i></i>
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Re: The Da Vinci Code movie

Postby Gouda » Thu Jun 08, 2006 11:02 am

Curious. <br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>China theaters to pull 'Da Vinci Code'</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>By MIN LEE, Associated Press WriterThu Jun 8, 6:58 AM ET<br><br>The Chinese government, in an unprecedented move, has ordered movie theaters to stop showing "The Da Vinci Code," movie industry officials said Thursday.<br><br>Chinese authorities said the withdrawal of the movie from theaters Friday was to make way for locally produced films, one industry executive said, declining to be named because she wasn't authorized to speak to the media on the matter.<br><br>But another Hollywood blockbuster, "Ice Age: The Meltdown" was to be released in China on Friday, said the executive, who added that "The Da Vinci Code" was the first foreign film to be pulled from theaters in China after being approved for release.<br><br>"The Da Vinci Code," which has been opposed by Christian groups because it suggests Jesus fathered children who continued his lineage, has made $13 million since its release on May 19. It was on its way to becoming one of the highest-earning foreign films in China, the executive said.<br><br>A man who answered the phone at the press office of China's Film Bureau in Beijing said he was "unclear" about whether the film was pulled from cinemas. He declined to give his name.<br><br>Wu Hehu, a spokesman for Shanghai's United Cinema Line Corporation, said he received a notice to cease showing the film, but he didn't know why the order was made.<br><br>"This is such a short notice from the film's distributor. They will stop showing it from tomorrow," Wu said.<br><br>"I don't know the reason either. We just do what we are told to do," he said.<br><br>"Pearl Harbor," which made $13 million, has been the No. 2 foreign film in Chinese box office history, the industry executive said.<br><br>"Titanic" was first, fetching $45 million.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060608/ap_en_mo/china_da_vinci_code&printer=1;_ylt=AmsK0Cquwc0heiQKL_PBDgimG78C;_ylu=X3oDMTA3MXN1bHE0BHNlYwN0bWE-">news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060...NlYwN0bWE-</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>****<br>Dugo, would not mind hearing about your experience with the last scene.... <p></p><i></i>
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Re: The Da Vinci Code movie

Postby CyberChrist » Thu Jun 08, 2006 11:18 am

<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>has anyone seen this movie yet? i saw it last night. i really like it. what did you guys think of it?<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>I saw despite all of the bad reviews and I found it to be really enjoyable. I thought that it raised some very interesting topics and although the ending was a bit cheesy, I thought that the film overall was much more solid than the bad reviews gave it credit for.<br><br>As for the whole "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" connection, I would say that although it is conjecture, I have always felt that it was odd that people did not examine some of the earlier texts that are known to exist of the gospels and the goings on of the early Catholic Church, particularly the events of the Council of Nicea. <p>--<br>CyberChrist<br>http://www.hackerjournal.org<br>My brain is hung like a horse.</p><i></i>
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Re: The Da Vinci Code movie

Postby dbeach » Thu Jun 08, 2006 3:30 pm

book is mucho better <br><br> hanks howard was a losing combo from the getgo<br><br>found the film too slow no real chemistry between the stars thouh ganadalph as the bad guy was por castin IMO<br><br>the ending was listless and the key part of the survivng brother was left undone ..<br><br>WHAT BROTHER?<br><br>Maybe Christ did have kids SURE cold use them now .<br>Where is dey??<br><br>Oh Yeh its a big secret and the templars are protecting the bloodline???<br><br>It was good distraction by jollywood and the masses don't have to think about wars for profit and the police state<br>cuz now the kiddies of Christ will save em.. <p></p><i></i>
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Re: The Da Vinci Code movie

Postby CyberChrist » Thu Jun 08, 2006 3:40 pm

<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Oh Yeh its a big secret and the templars are protecting the bloodline???<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>Do you think that's farfetched then? <p>--<br>CyberChrist<br>http://www.hackerjournal.org<br>My brain is hung like a horse.</p><i></i>
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Re: dvc

Postby fujacko » Thu Jun 08, 2006 5:26 pm

I also saw it last night. As a film, it sucks. They tried to turn a historical suspense story into Eurodisney action flick. The music was also way inappropriate.<br><br>Culturally, this movie achieves 2 things: <br><br>-it gives people the idea that some magical person could be walking around Earth who will one day stand up and become our Lord and Savior (so we don't have to do it our psychospiritually-lazy-ass-selves). ie still a continuation of the myth they appear to be debunking.<br><br>-it shows people that things might not be as they seem, and belief is a dangerous thing. especially belief in symbolic entities and archetypes as actual, external beings (hint wink nudge hint). ie read Carl Jung.<br><br>That's the great thing about propaganda; it always cuts both ways, regardless of intent. Like everything else. Wonder what good will come of the United 93, the new 911 flick. <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :rolleyes --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/eyes.gif ALT=":rolleyes"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <p></p><i></i>
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Re: dvc

Postby Hugh Manatee Wins » Thu Jun 08, 2006 6:53 pm

Thank you for seeing it as propagating themes and not just 'entertainment.'<br><br>If you haven't grazed this yet, allow me to point you at a thread with lots of movie theme and mind virus analysis, especially the last three pages-<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://p216.ezboard.com/frigorousintuitionfrm10.showMessageRange?topicID=3427.topic&start=81&stop=100">p216.ezboard.com/frigorou...1&stop=100</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <p></p><i></i>
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Re: dvc

Postby dugoboy » Thu Jun 08, 2006 6:54 pm

fujacko i hope people didn't rest their hopes on your first point. i agree with your second point. for whatever reason the impression of the film i got from critics before i saw it is that the da vinci code as a concept is built of 'junk conspiracy theory' or whatever. they all keep saying 'its just fiction' and that may be, but on the other side of that coin what if jesus was just a fictitious person? i think he was. <br><br>but i do agree this film may just continue to perpetuate old myths. i hope not, you would hope they'd (the viewers) think about how things are not always a constant or how some things are 'officially' deemed worthy of merit or not by possibly not so malevelant people. it invokes into the viewer 'if the early catholic church could banish and bury things deemed too controversial, what else are they or other institutions hiding?' and then whereever that leads you..<br><br>ok now here come the hard to articulate thoughts i had..<br><br>one is how i realized, as i watched the movie further on, it was advantageous to powerful and wealthy people to have the common people, and continue too now, live half broken lives if that makes sense and seeing it in an actual visual represenatation. the PTB have great advantage in making people believe that they as a human being are not 'good enough', so catholicism is the mind control of a by gone age, you turn people into these fractured souls who could barely think for themselves let alone rise up in rebellion against those who keep them down. it makes sense why the gnostic gospels would be buried and torn to shreds and forgotten by those who wish to maintain control. <br><br>the gnostic texts had much to say, really talked about the value of self and that people <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>are</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> worthy of whatever comes to them. some of them talk of an innate divine spark all humans have, so that we could all be like jesus, and this involves a journey of self evaluation. a kind of eastern religion kind of thinking. does it not make sense that this would be suppressed? the gnostic texts say that jesus had a wife in mary magdelene, isn't that a powerful thing? it says that women have an equal status, have something to give. and isnt it interesting that something like that is kept quiet, because i think it would have lead to a more integrated equalitive system that men with power and money know violates the veil of silence and ignorance that is required for them to continue to exploit that very veil. it would destroy the systematic deception they hoped to keep forever.<br><br>so this got me thinking about how different things could be today, but thats a different timeline that never happened. <br><br>i liked the line 'so dark the con of man'. <br><br>Gouda heres what i have to say about the last scene:<br><br>BEWARE of SPOILERS next:<br><br>and that last scene was very powerful to me. tom hanks character made note of how those two pyramids in the Leurve met, resembling 'a perfect symmetric echo' i believe he said. its the same as saying 'as is above, so is below'. then the part about the phallic triangle and the womb like upside down triangle when unified leads to whatever, to god i think he said..<br><br>so then you later find out under that very double pyramid is where mary magdelene's tomb is..having learned everything else before it felt very complete to me, like some long hidden truth was finally 'exploded out', like the ian mclellan character said, into the public consciousnesss and that damned heavy dramatic music building up in that scene didn't help either, lol. i was crying momentarily seeing that..is the point i mean to tell you all, it moved me like no other thing has since i saw that 'second rennaisance' anime detailing the history of the matrix trilogy lore. <br><br>it takes alot to make me cry...and it sickens me how people mock truth when in something nearing its purest essence is finally shown in such a big way. the message of the movie is humans can be like god and i don't mean that in an egotistical sense. i mean it in actions sort of way, what we put our minds to, means we can do it. <br><br>do notice that the merovingians are the supposed descendency of christ in the film, they are part of the 12 families of the illuminati in reality, the 13th line to be precise, the ones who started it.<br><br>all i'm saying is sometimes things are misrepresented or misunderstood. <p>___________________________________________<br>"BUSHCO aren't incompetent...they are COMPLICIT." -Me<br><br>"Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act" -George Orwell</p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=dugoboy@rigorousintuition>dugoboy</A> at: 6/8/06 4:59 pm<br></i>
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Re: dvc

Postby streeb » Thu Jun 08, 2006 6:57 pm

Hanks and Howard? Ridiculous (and I loved "Apollo 13"). They shoulda got Peter Greenaway to direct. <p></p><i></i>
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Re: dvc

Postby BannedfromDU » Thu Jun 08, 2006 7:52 pm

I won't get into my personal beliefs or the reprecussions of the movie on any meta-levels, but I enjoyed the film as well. I thought it could have been much better, but that is a matter of another opinion I decline to get into. I have not read the book and actually avoided it as I read 'Holy Blood Holy Grail' long ago and thought it would be wrong to endulge/support DVC with all its 'borrowing', shall we say.<br><br>Anyway, re: the last scene w/Hanks- (SPOILER ALERT)<br><br>"o then you later find out under that very double pyramid is where mary magdelene's tomb is..having learned everything else before it felt very complete to me, like some long hidden truth was finally 'exploded out', like the ian mclellan character said, into the public consciousnesss and that damned heavy dramatic music building up in that scene didn't help either, lol. i was crying momentarily seeing that..is the point i mean to tell you all, it moved me ..."<br><br>I thought it was very appropriate. He (Hanks) by preying before the area, after he realized this needed to be done to complete the making-conscious to the world manifestation sequence. His act of completion was to make the feminine realized. <br><br>It brings to mind a similar event that as I remember, Jung believed the Pope/Vatican's recognition of Mary as Devine (Sacred Fem) was one of the most significant events in Catholocism in centuries.<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>..."or the feminine soul in man is the go-between and guide to reconciliation of man and his shadow. That is why Jung attached such an enormous symbolical importance to the Vatican's proclamation of the new doctrine of the bodily assumption of the Virgin Mary into Heaven. For him at last in the highest dimension of reality and its greatest symbol, the masculine and some of the feminine were at one; the conscious will of the masculine in creation was increasingly being joined to serve the love of the feminine and a creation, no longer static but procreatively on the move again. It was for him a welcome sign that the Christian myth which mattered so much to him was still alive and breathing, that its content was not one of mere "historicity" but of an historical conception of a profound need in man still capable of growing in meaning.<br><br> White was among the foremost of Catholic intellectualists who pronounced the doctrine as a religious scandal, reading it literally, of course, and not symbolically as Jung did. The objection is all the more glaring when one considers that even symbolically only part of the feminine had ascended to heaven. The woman so exalted was the image of the feminine in man, the mother of the son of man, Dante's virgin mother, daughter of her son. Woman and her masculine self were still left stranded on the earth...."</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>LINK-<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.ratical.org/many_worlds/LvdP/Jung.html">www.ratical.org/many_worl.../Jung.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br> <p></p><i></i>
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Re: dvc

Postby dugoboy » Thu Jun 08, 2006 8:15 pm

and us men ask why are 'women so crazy?'<br><br>could this be why? a lack of validation perhaps?<br><br>for thousands of years? i would suggest the PTB have had it wrong all along, ofcourse, but have we really acknowledged what this is all about? i've read somewhere someone called the elites, the out of touch - whatever - that are really just in a male domination cult. they rape little kids, other men, even killing. why? the taboo is why. in complete denial of the true potential of our reality. sorry to bust a few people's bubbles. <br><br>what is the goal of domination? to rule out all possibility of escape. <p>___________________________________________<br>"BUSHCO aren't incompetent...they are COMPLICIT." -Me<br><br>"Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act" -George Orwell</p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=dugoboy@rigorousintuition>dugoboy</A> at: 6/8/06 6:17 pm<br></i>
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Re: dvc

Postby dbeach » Thu Jun 08, 2006 10:34 pm

"Do you think that's farfetched then? '<br><br>no but dont think the templars would do us commonersany favors<br><br>I think the TepmlarsIF they do existareas corrupt as any of the rest vatcicans jesuits fremaosn ect..<br><br>It was a propaganda hit piece by the worst duo in jollywood that of hanks howie and the masses have more religious debate to divide them as to whether Christ got lucky with some Babe..NOTICE how the flick came out when Herr Bushler was pushing his anti-Gay marriage bill and trying to again divide the masses about illegal immigration<br><br>MEANWHILE the war drags on and bush and the band of evil brothers loot the treasury with YET another tax break for the UBER RICH .<br><br><br> ZEIL HEIL! <p></p><i></i>
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Re: dvc

Postby BannedfromDU » Fri Jun 09, 2006 9:00 am

But it isn't the women' who are 'crazy'...its the men who refuse to recognize the shadow. It has resulted in a worldwide affliction and mental illness. <p></p><i></i>
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