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| "The Da Vinci Code",a major hollywood
production starring Tom Hanks, is set for release this Friday. (file
photo) | BEIJING, May 15
(Xinhuanet) -- The best-selling phenomenon "The Da Vinci Code" ,a major
hollywood production starring Tom Hanks, is set for release this
Friday.
The movies is based on Dan Brown's novel of
Catholic Church intrique and Christian mystery, which has sold more than 40
million copies since 2003.
Controversies surrounding the novel intensifies with
the movie's arrival.
Cheryl DelVisco of Louisville said she's looking
forward to the movie after enjoying the book.
But DelVisco, a Catholic, wrestled with some of the
book's claims. Some are even boycotting.
Brown claims in his novel that Jesus and Mary
Magdalene were the married founders of a royal dynasty and that no one
considered Jesus divine until the fourth-century Roman Emperor Constantine
forced the idea on people in collusion with the Catholic Church.
Movie director Ron Howard wrote in The Los
Angeles Times: "It's not theology. It's not history." Enditem
(Agencies)
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