crunchy on 28/11/2007 at 01:55
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It really pisses me off when people say things like "Dan Brown got it all wrong in the Da Vinci Code". They say it like it was a frickin documentary. He took some somewhat unrelated facts and wove an interesting story about them. Take your damn heads outta your arses and accept it for what it is. FICTION!
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jtr7 on 28/11/2007 at 02:11
Heh. Did you read nickie's post?:D
Solabusca on 28/11/2007 at 07:56
Quote Posted by crunchy
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It really pisses me off when people say things like "Dan Brown got it all wrong in the Da Vinci Code". They say it like it was a frickin documentary. He took some somewhat unrelated facts and wove an interesting story about them. Take your damn heads outta your arses and accept it for what it is. FICTION!
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Actually, Brown took what was an established (but out there) 'conspiracy theory', already put forward in other sources, and tied a work of fiction to it.
He, himself, is not the one that did the detective work in order to come up with the story - it'd already been done by others.
Take a look at what happened when the authors of "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" attempted to sue Mr. Brown - he had cited their book as a primary resource for his fiction; but because he made so much bloody money with it, they wanted some of it for the fact that he didn't pay them for their work. I actually believe he borrowed the book as well, so he didn't even contribute the cost of his own copy.
.j.
nickie on 28/11/2007 at 10:01
Quote Posted by jtr7
Heh. Did you read nickie's post?:D
Was it something I said, do you think? :)
Actually, on doing a bit of research on Akiva Goldsman, I see he also produced a film called
Constantine in 2005. Mmm, the plot thickens!
