{"id":109,"date":"2006-05-20T03:15:56","date_gmt":"2006-05-20T03:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.akumaprime.com\/?p=109"},"modified":"2014-09-30T22:08:45","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T22:08:45","slug":"a-critique-of-the-davinci-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/akumaprime.com\/?p=109","title":{"rendered":"The DaVinci Code: Movie and Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I held off on a criticism of the Retardedly popular book until I could see it&#8217;s more visual incarnation. That&#8217;s taken care of so&#8230; here goes!<br \/>\n<strong>SPOILERS AHEAD!!! DO NOT READ ON IF YOU HAVEN&#8217;T SEEN THE MOVIE\/READ THE BOOK!!! SPOILERS AHEAD!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Over all the book and movie were good, but they both shared one thing that drove me Nuts. Teabing, or whatever, the old guess-he&#8217;s-the-baddie-early-on guy, kills his partner, and reunites with our heroes. Rather than say, &#8221; OMG guys I totally escaped and we, like, gotta hurry and get out of here and like, open this cryptex and stuff&#8221; he admits his villainy and relies on their need for Truth to bring them to his side&#8230; This makes him suddenly stupid, which he wasn&#8217;t for the rest of the book. He relies on wits and treachery the Whole book to exact his plan, but suddenly he decides to just tell the Truth? That&#8217;s some old TV Batman villain bullshit, and it&#8217;s inexcusable.<\/p>\n<p>Of course the movie was shitty compared to the book, leaving out details and adding things in for the sake of time. But it got it&#8217;s message across.<\/p>\n<p>As a side note: I&#8217;m Really happy there was no &#8220;This is a work of fiction&#8221; message preluding the picture. That is just useless. Must we then add that to Every movie we see? blah blah blah, etc etc etc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I held off on a criticism of the Retardedly popular book until I could see it&#8217;s more visual incarnation. That&#8217;s taken care of so&#8230; here goes! SPOILERS AHEAD!!! DO NOT READ ON IF YOU HAVEN&#8217;T SEEN THE MOVIE\/READ THE BOOK!!! SPOILERS AHEAD!!! Over all the book and movie were good, but they both shared one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-life-is-like","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/akumaprime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/akumaprime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/akumaprime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akumaprime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akumaprime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/akumaprime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/akumaprime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akumaprime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akumaprime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}