Despite the stress, let me entertain you instead with the latest cinemagraphy study that we've examined yesterday.. the movie many of you know as 'The Da Vinci's Code'..
"A smile of sad woman, or just Leonardo himself?"
To start off, we, the usual bunch (names can be obtained if you look to the right side of this blog, under 'contributors'), comprising of members of 2 males and 2 females embarked a journey of 2.5 hours, full of mysteries, excitement, and most of all, shocking experiences (well, not that shocking to me as i've watched it before the release in my place here, from a pirated DVD..)..
So, many have said: For those who had read the book, will definitely be disappointed with the movie...
let's assume that what they say is the pre-screening 'hypothesis'..
"Ahh, the Loooove.. or Louvre... Gallery of masterpieces, or just plain ol' Glass pyramid like grave for the old man Souniere.."
The story began with an old man being killed by some white albino sick-old-man-murderer-bastard by the name of Silas.. Reason? To obtain some secret, so important that someone has to die for it.. well, the the next scene shows Robbie (Robert Langdon played by Tom Hanks) having a class about some sign or symbol shit stuff..
"Ah yes... and i know all students understand that middle finger is the universal symbols which surprisingly carries the SAME meaning around the globe..."
well, if i'm not mistaken, the part when Fache (some french copper) appeared in the autograph session after Robbie's class is not consistent with the book, as what SHOULD be was that the copper' went to look for him personally in Robbie's hotel room and the time is quite late... midnight maybe?
Well, anyways, that is just some minor inconsistency.. Robbie was actually summoned by this old man (who was killed) to investigate on his (the old man's) murder, apparently, but the story slowly evolves away from the 'objective' of investigating on the murder, only to discover the main objective of the quest is that to discover the sweet chick with him, who said she was that old man's (Jacques Souniere) granddaughter, was actually (quick.. start gasping) a living decendant of *JC da man...
"Hey, did anyone say that you look more like Mona Lisa than JC da man himself? And hey, some say Mona Lisa is a guy..."
The movie involves alot of mind boggling puzzle solving skills, where Robbie had to find clue by clue through various stages set by the dead old man, similar to a treasure hunt, to find the truth he may say.. The fibonacci numbers (is that how you spell it?), the word scrambling and the cryptex... sighs.. and "my grandfather gave me a wagon for my birthday..."
So what happened in the buildup of the story? You have 2 obvious choices here for you to find out more,
a) Read the damn book, or
b) Watch the blardy movie, OR
c) Ask a superspoiler friend who likes to talk about the movie and wouldn't mind doing so to tell you what exactly happened in the movie.
Another inconsistency is that there is alot of illustration given by Robbie when he is running around the Louvre, basically expaining the hidden meanings behind Da Vinci's paintings, like the Madonna of the Rocks, and the 'thing' about the Vitruvian man etc. etc... Also they cut short the scene of the escape from the Louvre where the French Chick (Sophie) blackmailed the copper to drop the gun or she'll rip the painting snd i believe there are more scenes taken out which i cannot really remember..
Overall, i guess the movie was okay, despite several critics which said otherwise, and one of the member in our group actually declared: 'Be prepared to be disappointed' loudly before entering the cinema.. which in at the end of the show he came out splurting the words 'hey.. not bad' to show the hypocritism within him.. well, dissapointment is experienced in the minimal way as the bloody cinema experienced a 10 minute technical fault similar to our PC's 'blue screen of death'.. yes, no sound and the picture jammed and went haywire.. and when it went back to normal, those blokes in the film room don't even bother to rewind the lost parts to our poor viewers.. Shame to say, Miri only has one cinema so 'beggars can't be choosers'..
One piece of advice.. if you really wanna know more, do read the book, there is so so so much more to know about.. but for those lazy bastards fellas who don't want to spend the weekend reading one thick book, then just go for the movie, its enough to entertain and fill your empty little round container above your shoulder.. Just kidding..
*JC, is the man of mankind many would say.. so i'll leave it to you to find out who he is IF YOU REALLY DON'T KNOW... sighs...
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