Tom Hanks: Angels & Demons plays fast & loose with facts
Most of the controversy in Dan Brown’s book and movie, The Da Vinci Code, was due to Brown’s insistence that “All descriptions of artwork, architecture, documents, and secret rituals in this novel are accurate.” That claim, printed under the heading “FACT” at the beginning of the book, has been proven to be inaccurate in many different ways. If Brown had simply promoted the book as being purely fiction, or clarified the many mistakes and misrepresentations in the book, a lot of the controversy would have been avoided.
Angels & Demons, actually written and published in book form before The Da Vinci Code, is out in theaters today. The book similarly contains a FACT page. Contra author Dan Brown, here’s what film star Tom Hanks (who plays the main character Robert Langdon) had to say about the movie:
In Angels & Demons, Hanks reprises the role of Harvard “symbologist” Robert Langdon from Dan Brown’s best-selling book.
In the long awaited sequel, an ancient secret brotherhood threatens to blow up the Vatican with antimatter stolen from Cern (the European Organisation for Nuclear Research), which houses the Large Hadron Collider.
“We play fast and loose with an awful lot of fact, but a trickle of authenticity makes it plausible. It’s not important, but it’s fun,” he told the Radio Times. (The Telegraph)
Unfortunately, some people will unquestioningly accept what these pseudo-historical stories say as being factual. Have you read Angels & Demons or The Da Vinci Code? What do you think of them?
For more info on the facts behind the fictions, see www.TheTruthAboutAngelsAndDemons.com
Controversy makes for great marketing, avoid it?
DeVenci Code was an entertaining movie/book, like going to any fiction movie, the acting was suburb and enjoyed it, certaining did not take it to heart and I am a christian.