Friday, May 19, 2006

Ok...now, I have no plans to see "The Da Vinci Code"

Nor have I read the bestselling book. So I have no opinion on either, though it seems that the critics have a few problems with the movie, according to the Fresh Report from Rotten Tomatoes.

But...you're telling me that both the book and the movie contain a character named "Sir Leigh Teabing?"

"Sir Leigh Teabing?"

No come on, seriously.

"Sir Leigh Teabing?"

That's not a name, that's a degenerative illness.

"Sir Leigh Teabing," for god's sake...

"Sir Leigh Teabing."

I may not be able to get to sleep tonight...

7 comments:

jeopardygirl said...

Dude, you can't seriously reject reading a book or watching a movie based on a character's NAME. If that were the case, no one would ever read Charles Dickens.

It's a gripping story (even if Dan Brown's prose is uncomfortably stiff in parts), and I hope the movie will be half-decent.

jeopardygirl said...

okay, read the reviews...how disappointing they couldn't make it an exciting picture. The book's still fun, though.

Bill said...

Actually, the name is a tribute to the two writers - Richard Leigh and Michael Baigent (of which Teabing is an anagram) - who wrote Holy Blood, Holy Grail, a highly speculative religious conspiracy tract, from which Code swiped rather liberally . . .

jeopardygirl said...

Aren't they the ones who sued Dan Brown, on the grounds that he had not given them proper credit or something? (And yet, he mentions their book in a couple of places as an historical text)

Bill said...

Yes, the lawsuit was for "breach of copyright and ideas," but reportedly there's also a lawsuit for plagiarism in the works by the author of a book entitled The Da Vinci Legacy. Salon has much of the story about Brown's use of this material .

Julia said...

I think I paid $5 bucks for a cup of SirLeighTeabing at Starbucks (when I was drunk)

Anonymous said...

And here I was supposing it was just an inside joke/tribute to the Lady Bing Trophy for gentlemanlike behavior in the National Hockey League.

Alan Coil