Breaking the "Code"

Though I have not read the book (when it first came out, I thought it was like those creepy Left Behind books, so I stayed far, far away), I plan on seeing The Da Vinci Code. This is the rebel in me. I have been waiting for the movie the minute the go-Jesus people started making a fuss and when I learned that Marry M is NOT portrayed as a biblical hooker (why do the fundies like thinking she was a prostitute?).

Yes, I will read the book, eventually (I was an English major, so I can read anything). But, I can't wait to go to the theatre and see if there are people protesting. It would be so cool if one of them got so incited that he stabbed me in the side or cut up my forehead with thorns from throwing roses at me. How symbolic and ironic. It won't happen. I've never once been to a "racy" or "evil" movie where people protest.

You know, as much as people bash Harry Potter flicks or The Da Vinci Code, it still makes no sense to me. Where are they when those bad teenage horror movies come out? There's more evil and senselessness in those movies than in a kid movie that teaches moral lessons or a thriller that has never claimed to be true (too bad). I heard someone (on the radio as I woke up, so there's no chance of me remembering a name, sorry) make the point that "If their faith is so weak that this movie will turn their faith, then they had crappy faith to begin with" (or something similar to those words:)

That's right. If people are dumb enough to believe what they watch in a movie or on TV, then it is the fault of Bush and crew. (Well, probably Chenney and the "W" crew.) We worry about spying on the phone? Well, this is much more insidious. They tell us what to believe everyday (note--FOX News). So, of course, that technology could be in the hands of these Hollywood-type people, too. No, it's probably the gays again or the immigrants who want us to change how we see Jesus. You know, as a nice regular guy.