The arguments about the movie and the book that inspired it have not been going on for millennia - it only feels that way - but part of Columbia Pictures' ingenious marketing strategy has been to encourage months of debate and speculation while not allowing anyone to see the picture until the very last minute. "The Da Vinci Code," Ron Howard's adaptation of Dan Brown's best-selling primer on how not to write an English sentence, arrives trailing more than its share of theological and historical disputation. Recent history - "The Passion of the Christ," "The Chronicles of Narnia" - suggests that such controversy, especially if religion is involved, can be very good business. CANNES, France, May 17 - It seems you can't open a movie these days without provoking some kind of culture war skirmish, at least in the conflict-hungry media.
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