http://www.grailcode.com/archives/anyone-remember-dan-brown The Holy Grail in history and in modern culture Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:24:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://www.grailcode.com/archives/anyone-remember-dan-brown/comment-page-1#comment-28526 The Grail Code» Blog Archive » New Dan Brown movie needs a better script Sun, 18 Nov 2007 16:55:56 +0000 http://www.grailcode.com/archives/anyone-remember-dan-brown#comment-28526 [...] The BBC reports that the writers’ strike has delayed the production of Angels and Demons, the “prequel” to The Da Vinci Code. It’s based on a book Dan Brown wrote before he wrote The Da Vinci Code, using the same hero and the same plot. Apparently “the script needs more work,” which is a bit of a puzzle for a number of reasons. First, couldn’t they just use the same script they used for The Da Vinci Code? I didn’t read Angels and Demons, but my wife (who read it for her book club at the Mystery Lovers Bookstore) tells me that a few global search-and-replace runs would take care of all the minor differences. Second, why does a script needing more work bother them now if it didn’t when they made The Da Vinci Code? Third, doesn’t delaying until the script can be polished pose a slight danger that the fascination with all things Dan Brown could fizzle before the movie is released? Fourth, when you announce to the world that the script for a Dan Brown story isn’t quite good enough, aren’t you just inviting long paragraphs of dripping sarcasm from the grumposphere? Fifth, if you’re adapting “a novel so bad that it gives novels a bad name” (as Salman Rushdie said about The Da Vinci Code), isn’t a bad script what you actually want? And sixth, if you’re a writer struggling to make a living from your writing, can you avoid lapsing into unseemly grouchiness when you see the Dan Brown empire poised to make another few hundred million dollars? Apparently not. [...] [...] The BBC reports that the writers’ strike has delayed the production of Angels and Demons, the “prequel” to The Da Vinci Code. It’s based on a book Dan Brown wrote before he wrote The Da Vinci Code, using the same hero and the same plot. Apparently “the script needs more work,” which is a bit of a puzzle for a number of reasons. First, couldn’t they just use the same script they used for The Da Vinci Code? I didn’t read Angels and Demons, but my wife (who read it for her book club at the Mystery Lovers Bookstore) tells me that a few global search-and-replace runs would take care of all the minor differences. Second, why does a script needing more work bother them now if it didn’t when they made The Da Vinci Code? Third, doesn’t delaying until the script can be polished pose a slight danger that the fascination with all things Dan Brown could fizzle before the movie is released? Fourth, when you announce to the world that the script for a Dan Brown story isn’t quite good enough, aren’t you just inviting long paragraphs of dripping sarcasm from the grumposphere? Fifth, if you’re adapting “a novel so bad that it gives novels a bad name” (as Salman Rushdie said about The Da Vinci Code), isn’t a bad script what you actually want? And sixth, if you’re a writer struggling to make a living from your writing, can you avoid lapsing into unseemly grouchiness when you see the Dan Brown empire poised to make another few hundred million dollars? Apparently not. [...]

]]> http://www.grailcode.com/archives/anyone-remember-dan-brown/comment-page-1#comment-28331 Chivalrous Broadmindedness « Mary Victrix Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:54:47 +0000 http://www.grailcode.com/archives/anyone-remember-dan-brown#comment-28331 [...] Here is great post from the authors of The Grail Code, Mike Aquilina and Christopher Bailey, on the oblivion into which the author of the Da Vinci Code has fallen. [...] [...] Here is great post from the authors of The Grail Code, Mike Aquilina and Christopher Bailey, on the oblivion into which the author of the Da Vinci Code has fallen. [...]

]]> http://www.grailcode.com/archives/anyone-remember-dan-brown/comment-page-1#comment-27986 Kevin Sat, 10 Nov 2007 11:14:27 +0000 http://www.grailcode.com/archives/anyone-remember-dan-brown#comment-27986 Mr. Brown seems to have fallen low in the West. In India, though, the 'da Vinci Code' is still in the top five. For whatever reason, young people simply love it, even Catholics. I expect the new movie to boost that other book of his too, the one it's based on. Help, I can't remember the name. Mr. Brown seems to have fallen low in the West. In India, though, the ‘da Vinci Code’ is still in the top five. For whatever reason, young people simply love it, even Catholics. I expect the new movie to boost that other book of his too, the one it’s based on. Help, I can’t remember the name.

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