The Vatican has banned the makers of the movie, “Angels & Demons,” from filming on its grounds. The Church constituted the ban because the film, and the book it is based on, is “an offence against God.” The book is written by Dan Brown, author of “The Da Vinci Code,” and the Pope said that there was no reason to even read the script of “A & D,” just knowing that it is a Dan Brown story was more than enough for them to make the ban.
Dan Brown’s “The Da Vinci Code” was not only a New York Times’ Best Seller, but it argueably became the most popular book of this decade. But amongst its fame, it received criticism from churches (which historically ban art) and the literary world because of its provaking of Christian symbology and text to create 2000 year old conspiracy theories. Churches (catholic and protestant) viewed this as sacreligious and the literary world saw it as a cheap way to sell poorly written novel. The movie, “A & D,” hopes to live off of Dan Brown’s popularity to make millions in the box office.
It’s about time that the Catholic Church helps the artforms of film and literature by stopping Brown’s abominations that a large population of the western world call “literature,” instead of banning controversial books and films that actually are art. Thanks, Vatican, for making it that much harder for the makers of this movie, I appreciate it.
