As Dave read "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown, months ago, he thought to himself,
'This will never work well as a film.'
Now, as he sat watching the latest Tom Hanks blockbuster he thought,
'I was right.'
Dan Brown uses a very simple yet effective method of writing. He simply doesn't tell the reader something, then switches subjects and the reader HAS to keep reading or live forever without knowing. It reminded Dave of that old joke,
"How do you keep an idiot in suspence?"
"I'll tell you tomorrow."
When translated onto the big screen, this just makes the film somewhat jumpy. It leaves no time what so ever for the watcher to try and figure stuff out for themselves and probably lost a good deal of it's audience at various points along the way. And yet it was still big enough to get good old Tom.
Dave was, overall, enormously impressed with Dan Brown. If only he could figure out how to write a book which would cause endless amount of talk and documentries and then produce a second book, identical to the first but with a different title, which still managed to cause endless talks and documetries.
He'd be laughing all the way to the bank.
