Corrected entry: Teabing describes the Malleus Maleficarum as something which the church used (perhaps even created) as a tool to persecute women and burn them at the stake. The Malleus Maleficarum was actually banned by the church, not used by it.
Tailkinker
4th Jan 2008
The Da Vinci Code (2006)
13th Jun 2006
The Da Vinci Code (2006)
Corrected entry: The story of this movie is inspired by a book called "Holy Blood, Holy Grail", by three writers called Leigh, Baigent and Lincoln. Notice that one of the characters in the movie has Leigh for a first name, and Teabing, an anagram for Baigent, for a surname.
Correction: Actually, in a recent court case, Brown argued successfully that the earlier book did not inspire his tale when the authors of the prior work attempted to sue him. He claims to have become aware of the other book during the writing of "The Da Vinci Code", and the character name is an obvious nod to those writers, but it was not the source of inspiration.
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Correction: The book deals with an alternate history of the Church, which has been covered up in a conspiracy covering nearly two thousand years. It's hardly unreasonable that, in that alternate history, it was indeed the Church that originally created the Malleus Maleficarum, later covering it up and officially banning it.
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