I have to admit it. I really enjoyed the book: "The DaVinci Code" and am looking forward to the movie. But not so much for the plot, which I found fun, but that's about it.
It's because of the art. This is a book about PAINTING. Yeah, there's the whole theology part and that sort of thing, and while I enjoy a good conspiracy theory as much as the next person, it's not, for me, what makes the book and movie so COOl. It's about ART!!!!!
According to the movie's press, they were able to shoot in the LOUVRE! No one does that! I remember reading the book and the thing that struck me about the whole thing was that I can't remember ever seeing art in this sort of context before. When are art historians cast as big heroes? I had the urge the entire time to review my Renaissance notes from undergrad and thinking that as an art teacher how cool is this to have a pop-culture link back to my subject? Imagine the cool projects on symbolism and representation that can come from this?
So that's why I'm going to see the movie. It's about ART and it's set in the LOUVRE. All controversy aside, I think this is the coolest thing EVER!!
2 comments:
I hope you get to see Da Vinci Code on your birthday- that would be a treat!
Our book group read Girl in Hyacinth Blue- about a possible Vermeer. What you said about keeping a Munch in a vault made me think of that book. Rootietoot
Well, it comes out on the 19th, so I'll have to wait a few days :) But I'm not missing this one.
"Girl in Hyacinth Blue" is on my reading list, actually. :)
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