The really cool thing about rushing to read a book before the movie comes out is that you know who’s playing all the roles… but you haven’t actually seen how they play them. Tom Hanks is playing Robert Langdon. Well, when I get bored, it can be the whacky Bossom Buddies/Bachelor Party Tom Hanks. Or the exasperated, frazzled Money Pit/The ‘Burbs Tom Hanks. This is pretty handy, actually. I may go back and re-read Interview With A Vampire with Maverick from Top Gun, J.D. from Heathers, the glib thief from Ocean’s Eleven, and Mary Jane from Spider-Man.
But it’s not all fun & games. When I get a little introspective, and I worry that I might not be taking the material seriously enough to write an actual review that doesn’t just devolve into me cracking jokes & crapping on it, I can imagine the Philadelphia, dying-of-AIDS Tom Hanks. For awhile, just to remind me of how life can be both so bitter, and yet so sweet… I had Forrest Gump in there.
Tonight, as I begin Chapter 23, I plan to alternate between the weird, bearded-out Cast Away Tom, and the smug, self-confidently ascerbic Volunteers Tom…. God knows this book could use John Candy. Or at least a Wilson.
One thing’s for sure though… the mood of The Da Vinci Code sure does lighten whenever that adorable little Amelie shows up. She just makes you feel good about being you.
The quest continues. Just say “Go with God.”
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