The Da Vinci Job

[altariel]

Oh man! I just checked back on the cast list for The Da Vinci Job Code, and Paul Bettany has been cast as Silas the albino killer monk!

Can't wait to see him act this bit:

"Andorra, he thought feeling his muscles tighten. Incredibly, it was in that barren and forsaken suzerain between Spain and France, shivering in his stone cell, wanting only to die, that Silas had been saved."

That's made my morning, that has. Ah, Andorra! Why did I ever leave?

Comments

[teawith.livejournal.com]

There's an albino killer monk?? I've avoided the Da Vinci Code like the plague, but I *like* Paul Bettany. Wah. Will I have to see it after all? My eyes, my eyes!

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

Bwahaha!

You should give warning before posting passages like that. I just snorted loudly enough to be heard all the way down the corridor.

[furius.livejournal.com]

Looking at the cast, I suspect that the movie's going to be better, at least, more coherent than the book.

Can you just *see* the psychological depth in that passage? :D

[applegnat.livejournal.com]

I knew I should have drafted an open letter to him also. I just ranted at length about this book (a lot more than it deserves, I know) at my RL blog, here.

[aervir.livejournal.com]

Another great oh-so-original casting choice. Maybe they just had a look at the slightly unflattering photo in his IMDB profile and thought: "Hey, the poor guy does actually look a bit pigmentally challenged. Let's take him." I think he deserves better roles, but perhaps he needs the money just as urgently as Ian McKellen... *sigh*

[rcfinch.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. I wasn't going to see this, because I hate the book so much. But now I'll have to. Paul Bettany *and* Ian McKellen...

[snowgrouse.livejournal.com]

I've been avoiding the book like the plague. I heard the makers of The Holy Blood And The Holy Grail are going to sue, thank fuck. My mum was gushing all over about it and I basically had to scream in her face that OMG IT IS NOTHING FECKING NEW AND BADLY PUT TOGETHER TO AMUSE THE MASSES IN CHRISTIAN CULTURES OMG OMG READ SOME FECKING COMPARATIVE RELIGION augh.

Too many good actors. Ow. Ow. I wish for some random insane crossover with Who since I heard a rumour about Eccles being in it...

[terri-osborne.livejournal.com]

Actually, Bettany's perfect for Silas. Mel Smith (the Albino from The Princess Bride) was who I pictured while suffering through the novel, but Bettany works.

The book: interesting premise, but dead dreadful execution. The line-by-line writing was just excruciating. However, not unlike Harry Potter, I really can't totally despise a novel that makes it into the public consciousness in America like that has, and doesn't demonise things that may not be in the belief system of the theocracy here. Anything that expands some of the horizons around here is, IMO, quite welcome.

[executrix.livejournal.com]

that barren and forsaken suzerain between Spain and France, shivering in his stone cell,

Well, it's HARD to heat a stone cell that's large enough to hold an entire suzerainty as well as yer Killer Albino Monk.

[emeraldsedai.livejournal.com]

I can't bring myself to read the book--the occasional highlighting of a ripe line like the one you've quoted reminds me that Dan Brown's prose has the same effect on me as reality TV: it just makes me cringe, and I need those muscles for other things.

But I'd see Paul Bettany OR Alfred Molina OR Ian McKellan in just about anything. All three of them in the same movie, however bad? I guess I'll be there.

*sigh*

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

"Andorra, he thought feeling his muscles tighten.

Hmph, I was expecting some of teh hot s3x after this line, probably involving pulsating manhood, etcetera, etcetera. That's it, I'm definitely not ever reading this book.

That's made my morning, that has. Ah, Andorra! Why did I ever leave?

So is the sequel called "Longing for WolverhamptonAndorra"?