The Norman Rockwell Code

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The Norman Rockwell Code
The Norman Rockwell Code.jpg
Directed by Alfred Thomas Catalfo
Written byAlfred Thomas Catalfo
Produced byAlfred Thomas Catalfo
Marc A. Dole
Starring Mike Walsh
Danica Carlson
Alfred Thomas Catalfo
Tom Seiler
Cinematography Kristian Bernier
Edited by Brian Vawter
Release date
  • 2006 (2006)
Running time
33 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Norman Rockwell Code is a 2006 parody of the 2003 Dan Brown novel The Da Vinci Code and the 2006 film of the same name. The plot is ridiculously exaggerated in an attempt to mock the Da Vinci Code. The movie was listed on the June 2, 2006 issue of Entertainment Weekly's "The Must List." [1]

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Plot

The plot centers around the murder of the curator of the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. The police call in Professor Langford Fife (a pastiche of both Robert Langdon from the book and Barney Fife from The Andy Griffith Show ), a professor of symbology at a local community college, to help them solve the mystery. As the curator was dying, he put on a pair of rubber overalls. He held a lemon in one hand and a can of Chicken of the Sea in the other. He called the police as he was dying and told them that Mr. Fife could decode the message.

Mr. Fife meets Sopha Poisson during the course of his investigation. She informs him that the murdered curator was her grandfather. Together they work to decode a series of messages hidden in the paintings of Norman Rockwell, leading to a shocking discovery: Sopha is a mermaid. The movie ends with Mr. Fife taking her to the sea.

Cast

Production

The film was directed and produced by Alfred Thomas Catalfo, who also wrote and starred. It had a budget of approximately $5,000. As the 2006 film was at the time unreleased, Catalfo based the script on the novel under the assumption that the Howard production would closely follow the book's plot. [2] Filming began in February 2006 in Kittery and York in Maine, as well as Dover, New Hampshire, [3] [4] and wrapped on March 19 of the same year. [5]

Release

The Norman Rockwell Code was released online on May 19, 2006 in order to coincide with the film release of The Da Vinci Code. [2] It later received a screening on June 25 of the same year at the Norman Rockwell Museum. The museum had discovered the spoof via a Google alert, prompting them to request a copy of the film. [6] It would also screen at the Norman Rockwell Weekend in Kennebunk, Maine in 2008. [7]

References

  1. ↑ Catalfo's Rockwell spoof to open 'Small Town America' weekend - Fosters
  2. 1 2 Crump, Sarah (June 27, 2006). "Internet comedy melds Rockwell, 'Da Vinci'". The Plain Dealer (Newspapers.com).
  3. ↑ "N.H. filmmakers spoof 'Da Vinci Code'". Kennebec Journal (Newspapers.com). March 16, 2006.
  4. ↑ "Short film spoofs 'The Da Vinci Code'". Portland Press Herald; The Associated Press (Newspapers.com). March 17, 2006.
  5. ↑ Brown, Joel (March 23, 2006). "Bringing 'Da Vinci' down to the local level, for laughs". The Boston Globe (Newspapers.com).
  6. ↑ Cavaan, Azell Murphy (June 8, 2006). "Here comes the 'Rockwell Code'". The Republican (Newspapers.com).
  7. ↑ Burnham, Robyn (August 13, 2008). "Norman Rockwell-themed weekend ahead in Kennebunks". Journal Tribune (Newspapers.com).


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