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

[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.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Anything that expands some of the horizons around here is, IMO, quite welcome.

Interesting point, well taken.

[communicator.livejournal.com]

I know just what you mean, and one wonders sometimes when expressing dislike of the book whether others are criticising it from completely the other side, for the opposite reasons (eg people who think it is seductive presentation of dangerous ideas).

How many subversive ideas one has gained from reading trashy books...

Still hate the damn thing though