Disney is all Coded.
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kippurbirdSo, last time, Princess Sophie suddenly realized that she might be the Holy Grail because Brown hit us on the head with a ton of foreshadowing. Like Bricks falling from a building onto innocent civilians crushing the life out of them and leaving a bloody splatter on the ground. This is Brown trying to do obvious foreshadowing. Obvious foreshadowing is something they did in Heroes. No, I'm not going to do spoilers. Last season they constantly showed us what was going to happen through the use of Issac's paintings. He painted the future. And we saw these paintings. But what we were left wondering is how the hell are we going to get there? And how are they going to stop the exploding man? We knew the end, but we didn't know the journey. Brown is trying to do that sort of thing with his Holy Grail being a person here, but in this case it doesn't work because, they're not trying to stop an event nor are they trying to find someone. They're not really. They're sort of wandering around blindly following puzzle and puzzle but they have no real "mission". If anything, Sophie should have gotten chills or... remember a bit of something her grandfather said or something inconspicuous instead of PRINCESS SOPHIE!! *GASP*
If anything, Brown should have had Sophie know that she was the Grail or of the Grail line, but not know anything else, like any of the puzzles or clues. And then she would have the personal investment of trying to get it before Silas so that it doesn't lead back to her and kill her. Langdon could still be oblivious, but some sense of urgency and distrust could be kept into the story as Sophie tries to get Langdon to do what she wants, obviously manipulating him to her own ends... whatever they might be.
Also, if you want to see cliff hangers done properly, watch Heroes. Cause DAAAAMMN!
Of course, Brown does something completely and utterly inane to prove that Sophie isn't the Holy Grail. When Teabag leaves she looks at Langdon meaningfully. And Langdon says, "The same thought crossed my mind when I realized that your grandfather was in the Priory, and you said he wanted to tell you a secret about your family. But it's impossible." Langdon paused. (and here we get the ASTOUNDING piece of proof that Sophie is not the Holy Grail) "Sauniere is not a Merovingian name."
Right because I know that if any of the Merovingian's had daughters they would marry them off into the same family and thus let them keep the same name. This entire thing is utterly ridiculous. It's been two thousand years! There should be millions of the little buggers running around by now. There's no way that the Church could have contained all of them, or the Priory. I mean, they've found genetic evidence that about fourty percent of the world's Askenizi Jews are descended from four people. And that's ninth, tenth century? Mary's sprogs had hundreds of years before the Church decided to persecute them there's no way there could only be TWO lines. There should be hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of them. Unless they were all interbreeding... or something... that actually might explain something....
Thus having successfully disproved Sophie as the Holy Grail we get to the fact that Disney was a Modern Da Vinci and apparently was also in the Priory.
Wrap your mind around that? Let us look at this. Sleeping Beauty is supposed to be a grail story for children. Because it's a hidden message or something. But usually a hidden message only does you any good if you know you're LOOKING for a message. Other wise you would pass it by. That is the point of it being HIDDEN. The children watching the movie wouldn't know it's a grail story because they know absolutely nothing about the fact that the holy grail isn't a cup but instead a woman. Why? Because they've never been told that. You can't go looking for something you didn't know existed.
Unless your an elf. Then you get a free search check if you walk within five feet of a hidden door.
Also Disney made Snow White because he needed money. He was losing money on short films. If you notice none of his other shorts included grail imagery unless you count the red in Micky's shorts. Though I suppose Brown could make the assumption that Minnie was the Grail and Micky the knight searching for her.
OH GOD I'M STARTING TO THINK LIKE HIM MAKE IT STOP!!! MAKE IT STOP!! I DON'T WANT TO WRITE STUPID CONSPIRACY NOVELS!!!
Apparently, according to Brown, the Little Mermaid "was a spellbinding tapestry of spiritual symbols so specifically goddess-related that they could not be a coincidence."
Except for the fact, you know, while Disney wanted to make the Little Mermaid he had no hand in the actual production of this version.
Not that really stops Brown from making such assumptions. Or Assertions.
Then Teabag comes back in and says that Robert has been lying to him.
Thus we end another chapter before Kippur runs off to go to work.
If anything, Brown should have had Sophie know that she was the Grail or of the Grail line, but not know anything else, like any of the puzzles or clues. And then she would have the personal investment of trying to get it before Silas so that it doesn't lead back to her and kill her. Langdon could still be oblivious, but some sense of urgency and distrust could be kept into the story as Sophie tries to get Langdon to do what she wants, obviously manipulating him to her own ends... whatever they might be.
Also, if you want to see cliff hangers done properly, watch Heroes. Cause DAAAAMMN!
Of course, Brown does something completely and utterly inane to prove that Sophie isn't the Holy Grail. When Teabag leaves she looks at Langdon meaningfully. And Langdon says, "The same thought crossed my mind when I realized that your grandfather was in the Priory, and you said he wanted to tell you a secret about your family. But it's impossible." Langdon paused. (and here we get the ASTOUNDING piece of proof that Sophie is not the Holy Grail) "Sauniere is not a Merovingian name."
Right because I know that if any of the Merovingian's had daughters they would marry them off into the same family and thus let them keep the same name. This entire thing is utterly ridiculous. It's been two thousand years! There should be millions of the little buggers running around by now. There's no way that the Church could have contained all of them, or the Priory. I mean, they've found genetic evidence that about fourty percent of the world's Askenizi Jews are descended from four people. And that's ninth, tenth century? Mary's sprogs had hundreds of years before the Church decided to persecute them there's no way there could only be TWO lines. There should be hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of them. Unless they were all interbreeding... or something... that actually might explain something....
Thus having successfully disproved Sophie as the Holy Grail we get to the fact that Disney was a Modern Da Vinci and apparently was also in the Priory.
Most of Disney's hidden messages dealt with religion, pagan myth and stories of the subjugated goddess. It was no mistake that Disney retold tales like Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and Snow White - all which dealt with the incarceration of the sacred feminine. Nor did one need a background in symbolism to understand that Snow White - a princess who fell from grace after partaking of a poisoned apple - was a clear allusion to the downfall of Eve in the Garden of Eden. Or that Sleeping Beauty's Princess Aurora - code-named "Rose" and hidden deep in the forest to protect her from the clutches of an evil witch - was the grail story for children.
Wrap your mind around that? Let us look at this. Sleeping Beauty is supposed to be a grail story for children. Because it's a hidden message or something. But usually a hidden message only does you any good if you know you're LOOKING for a message. Other wise you would pass it by. That is the point of it being HIDDEN. The children watching the movie wouldn't know it's a grail story because they know absolutely nothing about the fact that the holy grail isn't a cup but instead a woman. Why? Because they've never been told that. You can't go looking for something you didn't know existed.
Unless your an elf. Then you get a free search check if you walk within five feet of a hidden door.
Also Disney made Snow White because he needed money. He was losing money on short films. If you notice none of his other shorts included grail imagery unless you count the red in Micky's shorts. Though I suppose Brown could make the assumption that Minnie was the Grail and Micky the knight searching for her.
OH GOD I'M STARTING TO THINK LIKE HIM MAKE IT STOP!!! MAKE IT STOP!! I DON'T WANT TO WRITE STUPID CONSPIRACY NOVELS!!!
Apparently, according to Brown, the Little Mermaid "was a spellbinding tapestry of spiritual symbols so specifically goddess-related that they could not be a coincidence."
Except for the fact, you know, while Disney wanted to make the Little Mermaid he had no hand in the actual production of this version.
Not that really stops Brown from making such assumptions. Or Assertions.
Then Teabag comes back in and says that Robert has been lying to him.
Thus we end another chapter before Kippur runs off to go to work.
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Date: 2007-10-09 03:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-09 04:24 pm (UTC)Heh.
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Date: 2007-10-09 03:59 pm (UTC)Oh, please. You think a little problem like Uncle Walt being dead for over 15 years is going to stop The Conspiracy? Not that he's dead dead. Just hook a few wires from his brain in the cryo chamber to a big enough computer system [1] and he can still give WDC its marching orders.
[1] Say, Wikipedia's servers. A grand source of misinformation parading as a supposedly "free" system of information that "anyone" can revise. Assuming by "anyone", you mean [DELETED BY THE ORDER OF HOMELAND SECURITY]
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Date: 2007-10-09 04:25 pm (UTC)Got to fix that.
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Date: 2007-10-09 05:38 pm (UTC)With many creative endeavors like books and movies and television shows, you can figure things out if you know what to look for. And then it's just riding along for the journey, which you can't really predict, which has all those twists and turns. For example, it's been known for a while now that the actor who plays Takezo Kensei will also be playing a big bad villain named Kane, who is a thousand years old. Unless viewers didn't know this at all, they can figure out that perhaps Kensei and Kane are the same person, and perhaps the Kensei of legend is not really David Anders' character, but perhaps actually Hiro Nakamura himself, altering the past in one of those damn time loops that made Terminator 2 so mind-breakingly confusing. And then we're back in speculation territory (because I have no idea if Hiro is actually Kensei or not).
The point is, Heroes tells us what's going to happen (example: the sad sad fate of Noah Bennett, aka HRG). They don't tell us exactly when it will happen or what will happen along the way. That's the fun part. And that's what makes the show unique.
And then there are just those plotlines that smack you down right out of nowhere, like the Doctor Who thing with Captain Jack and the Face of Boe.
Okay, I'll stop now.
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Date: 2007-10-09 05:58 pm (UTC)But anyway. Yes, knowing the outcome but not knowing how it happens is a wonderful mystery. Because then you start going over every action and deed that people do wondering if this is what causes the end. The did a fantastic job with that last season when we were constantly left guessing who was the exploding man. Sylar or Peter.
As for the Face of Boa/Captain Jack thing, from what I've read that's not an actual plot line so much as a well wouldn't that be an interesting thing if it happened. And it leaves the fans to speculate...well how did he end up a head in a jar? If that's even him.
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Date: 2007-10-09 06:00 pm (UTC)Seriously, I thought it was actually known.
Okay, spoiler warnings next time!
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Date: 2007-10-09 06:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-09 06:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-09 06:44 pm (UTC)Capital-B Bricks? Dan Brown goes around dropping Eragon and Eldest on people's heads? DO NOT WANT. *cowers*
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Date: 2007-10-10 08:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-09 06:52 pm (UTC)Why yes, my brain IS full of Disney trivia/propaganda.
Even if the stories WERE about the grail, that doesn't mean that Disney intended them that way. They are, after all, really old fairy tales that he simply adapted. Besides that, how was the poisoned apple a "fall from grace" for dear old Snow White? Sure, she passed out and they put her in a glass coffin, but what does that have to do with Eve? I suppose one could argue that any time a woman eats an apple and there are bad results, it's a reference to Eve, but bzuh? And what does Eve have to do with Brown's vision of the goddess...or Mary Magdeline, more like, since he's a flighty bastard and can't decide what he's talking about.
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Date: 2007-10-10 01:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-09 08:31 pm (UTC)Hey, come to think about it, I might actually be good at this. Think I can teach symbology in whatever-it-is Langdon’s university?
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Date: 2007-10-11 12:37 am (UTC)Seeing as how there isn't an actual symbology department at Langdon's university.... Sure.
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Date: 2007-10-10 12:40 am (UTC)You want to know something sad? Dan Brown's researcher is an alumnus of my college. I feel bad for him. Surely, he thought he had a honey of a job - do the research for a best selling author! It'd be something I'd like to do. Except that his research ends up going into a book that's little more than a waste of tree pulp and ink, which in turn reflects badly on him. Poor fellow.
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Date: 2007-10-11 12:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-12 03:25 am (UTC)