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May 28, 2006
Dan Brown - the secret arm of American Foreign Policy
"There's a fact that until now has been rarely considered. The Da Vinci Code came out in 2000, but had its greatest success in 2002 at a time of strong friction between the White House and the Vatican, opposed to the impending attack on Iraq. [...] In those days, in the US, the scandal of paeodophile priests suddenly blew up. And this book, with a strong anti-catholic imprint and heavy leaning towards the feminist movement starts to have success. If September 11th hadn't happened, the Da Vinci Code success would never have happened." [Prof. Franco Cardini, University of Florence 1]
Where to begin? Well, perhaps by rushing out to buy a ticket for the Da Vinci Code. Not to see the film - bring along a book and a reading light if you don't fancy having to listen to hocus pocus new age mysticism debunking (fictionally of course) a hocus pocus traditional mysticism - but to irritate the fundamentalists whose response to child-abuse scandals is to suggest that the media/cia/dan brown/feminists/godless communists are somehow behind it.
Incidentally, when the film version of Dan Brown's book received a critical mauling at Cannes, it was headline news on state broadcaster RAI's news bulletins. When the film broke all box office records here in Italy, while the news made headlines in the international media, it wasn't deemed newsworthy by la RAI.
[1]"C'č un fatto finora poco considerato. Il Codice da Vinci uscě nel 2000, ma ha conosciuto la massima fortuna nel 2002 in un momento di forti frizioni fra Casa Bianca e Vaticano, contrario all'attacco all'Iraq che andava profilandosi», ha detto lo storico toscano. «In quei giorni negli Usa scoppia improvvisamente lo scandalo dei preti pedofili. E comincia ad avere successo questo libro dalla marcata impronta anticattolica e con forte captatio benevolentiae verso il movimento femminista. Se non ci fosse stato l'11 settembre, non ci sarebbe neppure stato il successo di questo codice»" - Libero Magazine.
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