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[pugachevV]

Anyone who writes a story set in World War 2 can say it is based on historical facts.
It is a common practice that you have to take with a grain of salt.
If you write a novel about Jesus, you can say it is based on historical facts, because Jesus was a real man and he did live. Dan Brown is just such another person who based his work on speculation about Jesus and Mary Magdalene.
It is like a conspiracy theory. You can say it's true, even if you have no proof and if the government denies it, you say they're lying.
The Da Vinci codes is like that.

[Edoardo]

but if you tell a story involving WW2 you cant put some charaters in, but you cannot modify the events AND say that they've happened like you have invented...

[asterix]

I think it has been done many times. Hollywood does what it likes with the actual facts.
For instance 'Saving Private Ryan", U571, and so on.

[Edoardo]

but never has been done with the same proportions... What if, in a film about WWII, Mussolini becomes a pacifist?

[pugachevV]

Mussolini as a pacifist is a bit of a stretch - but it's possible some director could make a film about it and try to make us believe it was all Hitler's fault.
When I see film of Mussolini and Hitler now, I think they both look pretty funny, and I wonder how so many people could have followed them.

[Anuradha Chepur]

Too much protest might actually work as advertisement for the theories, that would otherwise have passed off as fiction.

An Indian painter disproves Dan Brown:

http://www.the-week.com/24sep19/lifestyle_article1.htm

[Edoardo]

thank you very much Anuradha Chepur, I didn't know about this study...



anyway, the scheme he discovered has definitively prooved something that it was known... that in the picture those "V"s do not mean "Woman", but it is just an old and universal artistic convention that puts Jesus in the center of the whole opera... futhermore, it is the only "Last supper" where st john is NOT physically attached to Jesus...

Futhermore, there are 13 glasses and not the Graal just because in every Last Supper it is so... it's normal, thirteen people, thirteen glasses... like in any dinner among friends... gospel do not tell about a "special glass"...


thanks again!

[Anuradha Chepur]

Apart from other books, I think Brown was also inspired by The seventh secret by Irwing Wallace (Hitler didn't die, but he and Eva Braun hid in a secret bunker, and they had a daughter. I don't remember clearly, but there is some painting thing too.) While reading The Da Vinci Code, I had this sense of deja vu all through.

[oferky]

It is a good movie and a good book, if you want something interesting, I recommend you the both, the book and the movie, but if you like to reed, I think that is better for you reed the book first and after to see the movie.

[Reem-o]

I've never read the book or seen the movie so thanks for recommending the order of book then movie. Is the movie scary?
Reem-o

[BlanK]