Vatican Defines Proper Cinema
The Roman Catholic Church sets out principles to decide if films contain appropriate religious stances.
The Vatican lays out guidelines to define good cinema, Hollywood Reporter outlines.
This occurred two days after the Catholic Church banned the Angels & Demons production from being filmed in Roman churches.
On Monday, the Sony production team was denied entry to churches in Rome, according to TimesOnline.co.uk.
On Wednesday, a Diocese of Rome spokesman, Priest Marco Fibbi, announced that the church was on the mission of establishing principles that decide if a film contains appropriate religious attitudes, Hollywood Reporter reveals.
Dan Brown's novel, The Da Vinci Code, upset the Vatican when it proposed that Jesus married Mary Magdalene and raised a family with her, as well as suggested that the Holy Grail was the bloodline of Jesus, according to TimesOnline.co.uk.
Church officials believed Brown's Angels and Demons to be of the same caliber.
Father Fibbi stated: "Normally we read the script but this time it was not necessary. The name Dan Brown was enough. . . . It's a film that treats religious issues in a way that contrasts with common religious sentiment. We would be helping them create a work that might well be beautiful but that does not conform to our views."
The head of the Vatican's Prefecture for Economic Affairs, Archbishop Velasio De Paolis, claimed that Brown had "turned the gospels upside down to poison the faith. . . . It would be unacceptable to transform churches into film sets so that his blasphemous novels can be made into films in the name of business."
