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Men have died to protect it. You've read the book now don’t see the movie. That’s the message from the Church about the upcoming film of the spectacularly successful novel -- the Da Vinci code. It is a message that has been hidden for centuries. Hidden because the Church says it's wrong -- in fact close to blasphemous. And he's doing everything it can to suppress it. The book, which is sold more than 30 million copies worldwide, purports to tell the story of how Jesus actually had a child with Mary Magdalene, the fallen woman he has saved, and how the Church and its adherents have done everything including murder to conceal that alleged fact.
No matter what you believe. The Catholic Church believes the book is so dangerous that discharge the senior Cardinal to refute it and now faced with a prospect of a major movie starring Tom Hanks, Catholic groups have been pressuring the producers to change the plot, particularly the bit about the member of the conservative and secretive of Catholic sect, Opus Dei, who is the villain of the piece.''The only impression some people get of the Opus Dei or of Catholicism will be this very off the wall idea of a strange Machiavellian, dark set of people who are spending their entire lives wondering around ancient cathedrals murdering people -- which is obviously very far from the truth.'' Even the Protestants Churches join the fight, the producers wanted to shoot some crucial scenes here Westminster Abbey, the Abbey said ''No, thanks. That’s ok, though.'' Britain has plenty of big old churches.
Welcome to Lincoln Cathedral where the Church trust took a broader view. "It is nonsense, though. It is a good yarn, but historically it is nonsense.'' The film crew vans parked outside of Cathedral are proof, critics say, that Lincoln Cathedral has sold its soul to the devil. ''I don’t think it so at all. The decision was never taken on the basis of the money.'' Instead, the Cathedral says it allowed filming on the theory that any movie would stimulate religious discussion is a good thing. In the end, though, the intrigue in the book they have nothing on the intrigue behind the making of the movie.
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