Eventually they got to, “Snake has to escape an incoming tidal wave in a canyon by surfing his way out on a surf board while sporting a bullet in one leg….AND, while doing so, chases the bad guy’s car and leaps from the surf board onto the hood.”

Then, being incredibly drunk, they grabbed a kitchen knife, slashed their hands open and swore a blood oath that they would make a movie with that scene and find a way to sneak it past Hollywood.

Makes me wonder if that’s what Dan Brown did. “Alright, thish is vat I’m gonna do [hiccup]….I want thish scene where the pope steals a parischuch and jumps oush of a heli-thing rocketing skyshward with a tishing nuke in it.”

The ONLY way you could get to that scene is if the entire book was written around it.

(Note: Apparently, in the above, he can’t pronouce “out” while drunk, but can pronounce “rocketing.”)

[glances at watch] Damnit, my beer is at least 3 hours away.

I can see that. It is definitely a movie that prides itself on its ability to take “standard” ways of life and turn them inside out and then shake them.

Oh, and don’t forget the best part of it all: turning to Our Hero and delivering the line, “It wasn’t supposed to happen this way.”

Those Popes, they are always using the same tired old line on you.

Gods, it actually makes me want to go reread that part.

How many Popes actually know how to fly a helicopter, anyway?

I think they were angrily excited by the challenges to their heteronormative values (possible masks for other possible values?), but I take pride in not knowing for sure.

And thanks for the compliment–you’re looking well yourself, and it’s been good to see you *twice* this year, and it’s only May!

Hell, I don’t think we even got that out of control with the Tavern.

I will so pay to see that on the big screen.

Damn Popes. Always being shifty.

I’m deathly curious: were they angry at what was happening in the movie, or excited by it?

Either way, I’m not sure those guys are the best yardstick for modern sexual politics, but I will happily confess I say that in part because I really love the movie and would rather not hear that it gets anyone’s rocks off, thus, that if it does get anyone’s rocks off it also happens that those people are kind of f’ed up.

(Also, it is so good to have seen you lately – you’re looking fabulous!)

And I totally giggle about it.

How this fits into sexual politics, I would
hazard to guess, but it’s a fun story, yes?

KKess.

PS please ask R. how that Oresteia’s coming.

It was a fun read when I was stuck in the airport.

What I find interesting about the DaVinci Code is, well, if you wanted to topple the Catholic Church, really knck it’s legs out from under it, how would you do it? Press conference with alarming revelations? Naaa, even if they were true, nobody watches press conferences or the news anymore. Write a book damning them? Naaa, nobody really reads. Get rich and famous and rip the Pope’s picture in half? Nope, nobody cares all that much what famous people do either.

What does mainstream America (forget the rest of the world for this argument) pay attention to? A damn fine action movie. Blow some shit up. If you could work an almost true rant into an action movie, a good one, with some big Hollywood actor….you might not topple them, but they’ll take a hit.

And wholesome apple pie Tom Hanks?

The book is ingenious….or might be, if that was his intention. I don’t know if it was or not, but that’s definately one way to read it.

And that makes me giggle. You know, that whole hippie, “fight the power”, let’s burn some old white men thing.