Recently I caught “The Da Vinci Code” on DVD at last, followed up immediately by seeing “Angels & Demons” in the movie theater. Having seen “National Treasure” (both of them) earlier, the similarities were striking. I suppose you could call “The Da Vinci Code” the Catholic version of “National Treasure”, or “National Treasure” the American version of “The Da Vinci Code”.
Maybe expand the franchise to include a communist version, the “Vladimir Ilyich Code”. Putin has been murdered, and to solve the crime, the Moscow Militia calls in veteran Kremlinologist – but non-communist – Richard London. If anyone can get to the bottom of this crime, it’s him! No one knows more obscure communist mythology, trivia, and minutiae than this man – even veteran Politburo members can’t remember half the stuff this man has forgotten! Plied with vintage Stolichnaya and some rare Lenin pamphlets, he agrees to take the case.
He starts in Moscow, but wait – he has to borrow Lenin’s embalmed body to find a crucial clue…
Which leads him to St. Petersburg, formerly Leningrad, where some Rasputin-oriented clue leads him to….
Sverdlovsk, formerly Ekaterinburg, where the Romanovs were murdered by Ermakov and his henchmen, which leads him to…
London! To Karl Marx’s grave, and the tombstone provides the obscure and counterintuitive hint to another clue in…
Beijing! It turns out something to do with Chairman Mao – oops, can we borrow his embalmed corpse for a bit? – will lead us closer to the answer, in…
Hanoi! Something Ho Chi Minh wrote way back when, before he died in 1969, will tell us to go to…
Paris! Where he helped form the French Communist Party in 1920, but wait, his clue leads us back to….
Moscow! And the killer is….
Beautiful,Downtown Burbank?
ReplyDeleteOMG, it's like reading the book all over again -- only the places and names have changed!!
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