Il Papa e Arrabbiato

We never read Dan Brown's thunderously popular book The Da Vinci Code, but we know so many people who did, and saw so many copies of it in so many airports across this great land, that we almost feel like we know the story, too. It's about Leonardo DaVinci, evidently, and some kind of code he came up with, possibly so he could send messages to his friends about girls he liked without them finding out. For some reason this angered the ultra-secret Catholic sect Opus Dei and a couple popes, who keep issuing fatwas or bulls or whatever on the topic of this book, and now have a new challenge — as of our no. 8 top link today, the movie trailer is out. A movie about a book this popular is inevitably going to provoke some strong reactions from bloggers, and it has, as evidenced by this remark by Screenhead: "...An awful but very popular book is made into what looks like an awful movie by people who get to keep making movies despite the fact that their last movie, A Beautiful Mind, was awful but popular. If we were filmmakers or had any ambition in that direction we’d have killed ourselves with a dull-pronged spork by now. The best we can say for this is that it seems to irritate the Pope." Meanwhile, this post criticizes the advertising campaign. At least this blogger is keeping an open mind about the movie. So are we, but the flick we're most looking forward to is this one.

(If your Italian's a little rusty, you might be interested to know the title of this post is "The Pope is angry.")

Posted by Philip Ewing at December 15, 2005 11:05 AM

Category: Moving Pictures