The Philippine Alliance Against Pornography made a bold statement against the showing of the movie adaptation of the Da Vinci Code and wants to declare Mr. Dan Brown persona non grata in the country.
The movie is set to be shown this May 2006 and already the interest of every common people is piqued. What does the Da Vinci Code film have to offer that would insult or debase the Christian Community in our country?
Dan Brown's version of the 'Holy Grail' is the bone of contention between the author and several Catholic groups around the world. Already Lebanon has just recently banned the book and the film (despite it being around for a very long long time already). And Catholic groups in Korea are also pushing for the ban of the film. And locally, PAAP is appealing to PGMA to push through with their plea.
From what I see, I don't think there's any difference between the novel and the film script, so, why are the religious groups voicing out their protests only recently? Only after the book has sold millions, after Sony has filmed parts of the movie in places with religious relevance, only after the film is being readied for worldwide release.
More importantly, why is the seat of all Christianity, the Vatican, mum about the controversy? Several people's opinions are probably right on. By fueling the controversy and getting everyone interested, Dan Brown and Sony stands to only get more monetary profit from the whole brouhaha. It's because everyone would want to see why everyone's raising their torches and pitchforks against the demon, Dan Brown. And giving him more money and fame is something I bet the religious organizations would not want to happen.
Why not let the movie have its run and let the people decide for themselves? Every Christian knows Dan Brown's version of the Holy Grail is way out there with space monkeys. Are they so afraid that it's so crazy it might be true and they're doing their early best to blow the fire down? It's not as if Dan Brown is making a universal proclamation similar to the Earth being round.
Just my 2 cents. And all kinds of feedback is appreciated.
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2 comments:
to those morons you mentioned:
1) why didn't you raise a protest before, when dan brown was selling truckloads of copies of the book? i'd hate to assume it's because you people don't read.
2) why don't you protest the local soft-porn trash being churned out every year by the local movie industry? i would think, from your organization name, that you'd be more interested in those as an agent of society's corruption, rather than a Tom Hanks movie. face it, no one could possibly get turned on by this movie and rape someone.
3) so what if jesus had sex? he was married (accdg to the book). if not, so what? do we really care? what does his having sex have to do with his teachings? having sex is not a crime unless it involves children and/or animals, which i don't see you protesting.
note to the rev: obviously those people concerned will not be reading this, because i suspect that they do not read. they probably had to have someone explain the movie plot to them.
whatever the furor that happened over the movie has apparently died down by April's dusk. The movie is set to be released as planned and there are already advance screenings starting next week lined up.
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