However, Brown’s main attacks on Christianity remain.Īn Opus Dei monk and a group of Roman Catholic bishops are the villains of the plot. There are four or five one-line jokes, a couple of which drew modest titters from the 50 or so people at the cinema showing that I attended.įilm director Howard has removed many of author Dan Brown’s historical blunders and some of his offensive theological howlers, such as his calling the Shekinah glory a female deity, and Brown’s blasphemy that God’s name, Jehovah, was a combination of the masculine Jah and the feminine name for Eve, Havah. I can’t imagine it attracting a cult following, because I can’t imagine anyone wanting to see it a second time, and virtually none of the dialogue is worth remembering or repeating. The 2hr 22min film is quite violent, with about a dozen murders or deaths graphically depicted, and is very gloomy-up to 80% of it takes place at night, in darkened rooms, or in the dark interiors of the Louvre and of various churches or cathedrals. Calling him ‘Da Vinci’ all the time, is like calling St Francis of Assisi just ‘Of Assisi’. ‘Da Vinci’ means ‘of Vinci’, which was Leonardo’s birthplace. 6 Film director Ron Howard does not picture this piece of gross historic bunkum and wishful thinking.īy the way, the name of the artist that painted The Last Supper was Leonardo. No wonder the Cannes audience booed and hissed.Īccording to the book, this same tomb also contains ‘four huge chests that each required six men to carry’, allegedly containing ‘thousands of pages of unaltered pre-Constantine documents, written by the early followers of Jesus, revering him as a wholly human teacher and prophet’. Nevertheless, the film shows a ‘cutaway’ sequence, supposedly of a large crypt containing Mary’s tomb, beneath the floor. In the closing sequence, hero Langdon kneels to worship the bones of Mary Magdalene, but how on earth could her tomb be buried underneath the glass pyramid structure, in the floor of the Louvre? Neither the film nor the book explains this. However, there is not enough time to make all this clear in the first few minutes of film.
4 The book explains that this is heroine Sophie’s favourite sketch by Leonardo, and that her dead grandfather arranged his body in this way, as he was dying, to catch her attention. At the beginning, the curator of the Louvre, after being shot, takes off his clothes and arranges his body on the floor in the posture of Leonardo Da Vinci’s famous sketch, The Vitruvian Man. In particular, the opening and closing sequences, which supposedly set the scene and supply the finale for what the yarn is all about, are not at all clear. In my opinion, viewers who have not read the book would find parts of the film hard to follow. Meanwhile, he and Tautou (who plays the heroine) barely hit it off.’ 3 Hanks (who plays the hero) delivers a few solemn speeches meant to deflect criticism. … The movie is so nervous about offending anyone that it’ hardly any fun.
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This Code isn’t all it’ cracked up to be. 1 Nor was I.Īt the premiere movie showing, on, at the 59 th Cannes Film Festival, ‘one scene from the film, meant to be serious, elicited prolonged laughter from the audience’, and at the end ‘there was no applause, only a few catcalls and hisses.’ 2Īnother critic wrote: ‘The religious sect that recently advised parishioners to “fast unto death” to protest The Da Vinci Code can start eating again. By Russell Grigg Published: 2 June 2006 (GMT+10)Ĭritics have not been impressed with the movie version of Dan Brown’s novel, The Da Vinci Code.