Louvre to allow Da Vinci filming

[emad]

Amelia Gentleman in Paris
Saturday January 22, 2005
The Guardian

The Louvre authorities have abandoned their objections to scenes for the film version of the thriller The Da Vinci Code being shot in the museum.

Hitherto they have displayed haughty disdain towards both the book and the surge in visitors it has prompted.

Having sold more than 10m copies internationally, including 500,000 in the French translation, Dan Brown's mystical novel has created a tourist industry in its own right.

Hundreds of Da Vinci Code pilgrims visit the museum every week, primarily to gaze at the spot of parquet where the naked body of the Louvre's elderly curator is discovered in the book's opening pages.

http://film.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/Guardian/0,4029,1396117,00.html

[mr blur]

1. Boy, that was one badly-written book, just awful.

So I guess it'll make an awful film too.

[RC]

2. I beg to differ.

I don't usually read fiction, but I had trouble putting that book down.

[Cleita]

6. He has mastered the keep them at the edge of their seats

technique, however, that's about it. His writing is really bad.

[elehhhhna]

4. Give it an "A" for Atrocious.

LOL poor writing. Plagiarism involved as well, I hear.

[Deja Q]

3. What the halliburton is a 'Da Vinci pilgrim'? A new brand of rice pilaf?

Look out Uncle Ben! :wow:

[Cleita]

5. What a waste of film.

The book was a waste of paper.