Dan Brown Forgot to Ask the Vatican for Forgiveness
'Angels and Demons' gets the Catholic snub
I thought the Catholics believed in forgiveness, but I guess not when your name is
It appears they made a very well-informed decision basing the banning of Angels and Demons on the content of "The Da Vinci Code" and the author of both "Da Vinci" and "Angels and Demons," Dan Brown. Did they read the script? No, but Father Marco Fibbi, spokesman for the diocese, said he would have had they pushed him to.
"Given the story of The Da Vinci Code, banning the filming for Angels & Demons was automatic – the name Dan Brown was enough," was a quote Father Fibbi gave to the Guardian. You gotta love it when things are now dismissed before anyone even knows what they are about.
Fibbi made a statement that makes no sense saying, "We think the books are fantasy and we allow films to be shot in churches when they have a religious context and do not offend religious sensitivity." So fantasy is now offensive, even if you haven't read it? Nice.
Since the snub, director, Ron Howard, has reportedly been building sets of the churches in Hollywood. The royal palace at Caserta near Naples is doubling for the Vatican.
Does any of this really matter? No, but I think it is a sad state of affairs when people don't make well-informed decisions. I respect the statement saying they banned it because of Dan Brown and "The Da Vinci Code". That's honest. However, the fantasy vs. offensive statement is trying to put a nice spin on it and it just doesn't work.
For more on the film, which stars Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon and centers on a ticking time bomb at Vatican City click here.
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From Rome's point of view it's not so strange to say no.
If they made a story about the FBI being behind a huge conspiracy killing people along the way and being the big evil, they wouldn't be inviting you in on your next project a couple of years later either.
And a religious institution is even less flexible.
It allso didn't help that so many idio…..eh….people believed the da vinci code.
No church, especially the catholic church, likes competition in headology (a Discworld term).