Hanks to star in Da Vinci Code, I wish they would have picked Noah Wyle

[Melodybe]

I love Tom Hanks, but he is horribly miscast in the Da Vinci Code. When I read the book I pictured Noah Wyle, who definitely has that scholarly look to him.

Anyway casting is a hobby of mine and I was just curious to see what others here had to say about my pick.

[roguevalley]

1. I agree though I would have *LOVED* to have seen George Clooney.

[Melodybe]

8. I love Clooney too but he also doesn't look like a professor to me

Harrison Ford was a great choice for Indie cause he could pull of the professor look.

Hanks is a very intelligent and talented person, but not professor material.

[agingdem]

10. Hanks is too old and Wylie is too young...

I was thinking Clooney, too.

[SmokingJacket]

2. Everything Hanks is in is spoiled.

It becomes a "Tom Hanks" movie. He's talented, but overexposed.

Haven't liked him since Bosom Buddies.

[Melodybe]

9. I agree, I can't watch movies with him anymore because

I can not divorce Tom Hanks the movie star from his characters.

He is spoiled.

[cynthia]

3. forgive my ignorance

what has Noah Wyle been in recently?

[Melodybe]

6. He's still on ER, but he is a very talented and descent guy

I just think that Hanks is all wrong for the part. Wyle looks like a professor, Hanks doesn't.

[Ilsa]

7. Just ER and an adventure movie whose name escapes me.

Maybe it is a made for tv movie.

Wylie was in a pretty good one about five-six years ago with Blythe Danner as the mother and it had to do with grown children returning home for Thanksgiving.

He also played the founder of Apple in a TNT movie about Bill Gates and the others who started computer businesses in the late 70's.

I've appreciated his talent as an actor in everything I've seen him in. I feel engaged by his characters. Hanks can't always do that for me.

[xultar]

13. Scenes of the Crime...a good movie by the way, he plays a bad guy

when I saw that I thought what if Noah played Neo in The Matrix...

Things to make you go hummmm.

[CornField]

17. The Librarian (the action flick)

I think this will be on TBS (or TNN... it was one of those "T" stations) in early December. My 12-year-old is excited about it because the previews remind her of Indiana Jones.

[7th_Sephiroth]

4. wasent Wyle

in picket fences

[Ilsa]

5. I don't like Hanks either for this role.

He seems too much like "the common man". Wylie is a good choice, espcially now that he's a little older.

[AgadorSparticus]

11. i can see ewen mcgregor in that role nicely too. nt

[autorank]

12. The book's bull shit. Read "Foucault's Pendulum" by Eco

Da Vinci code gets Gnosticism all wrong, I mean completely wrong. The Gnostics were snuffed out by the institutional wing of the Jesus movement which insisted on a structure and consistent myth. The basis of the Da Vinci code is hashed over "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" fantasies. Europeans read these stories as a naughty pleasure. The real message of Gnosticism was not a 'blood line' for future rulers; it was a direct knowledge of the mystical force of the universe and self motivation and reliance for spiritual experience.

Foucault's Pendulum is a brilliant exposition and commentary on similar themes. It is also, unlike Da Vinci Code, truly great literature.

[glitch]

14. Thank you for that tip. I meant to read it years ago and never got around

to it. Maybe I will this time.

[autorank]

16. You will not be disappointed. It's wonderful...fun too!

[Melodybe]

18. Is there a link between the Knights Templar and the gnostics

that I am un aware of?

I don't equate the two.

If you want good Gnostic fiction try Phillip K Dick's Valis.

[autorank]

25. Yes, in the "Grail" community there is. I just focused on the

Da Vinci pieces in the book, to be honest, which were quite good. If you like this sort of stuff there is a really fun read by Lawrence Durrell called Monsieur. It covers Knights Templar, Gnostics, the final stand of the Templars at that place, where ever it is in Southern France.

If you want a US version of arcana, check out this incredibly obscure but compelling pamphlet:

The Historical Destiny of the United States: The Mystery of the American Money (1932), Emmet Fox (DeVorss & Co, Marina del Rey CA). May be at Unity Church book stores. This spells out the symbolism on our currency and is a fun follow up to National Treasure.

I'm now officially appalled at the crap I read! *Thanks* for the Valis book (Phillip K. Dick is a prophet: How about The Impostor...yikes.) I'll give it a shot.

[jayctravis]

20. I thought that too...

THE DAVINCI CODE was FOUCAULT'S PENDULUM "lite".

DaVinci was a quick entertaining read though, Foucault took me nearly a year to get completely through.

[CornField]

15. I thought they had already cast Russell Crowe?

What happened to that? I'd much rather see Crowe than Hanks playing the part of Langdon.

[Melodybe]

19. Crowe would be better than Hanks for sure

Wyle is my pick, He is 35, it's easier to make and actor look older than younger.

[jayctravis]

21. I was picturing Matthew McConaghey (n/t)

[MissMarple]

22. Bingo. He would do quite well. So... um...intense, quirky yet believable

[Contrary1]

23. Robert Downey Jr...

if he can stay clean.

[MissMarple]

24. Except, I keep seeing him with Cybil Shepard.

[devilgrrl]

26. Kevin Spacey - KEVIN SPACEY!!!!!

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