Da Vinci Code Cast

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Da Vinci Code Cast 4,2/5 584 reviews
Dan Brown's controversial best-selling novel about a powerful secret that's been kept under wraps for thousands of years comes to the screen in this suspense thriller from director Ron Howard. The stately silence of Paris' Louvre museum is broken when one of the gallery's leading curators is found dead on the grounds, with strange symbols carved into his body and left around the spot where he died. Hoping to learn the significance of the symbols, police bring in Sophie Neveu (Audrey Tautou), a gifted cryptographer who is also the victim's granddaughter. Needing help, Sophie calls on Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks), a leading symbologist from the United States. As Sophie and Robert dig deeper into the case, they discover the victim's involvement in the Priory of Sion, a secret society whose members have been privy to forbidden knowledge dating back to the birth of Christianity. In their search, Sophie and Robert happen upon evidence that could lead to the final resting place of the Holy Grail, while members of the priory and an underground Catholic society known as Opus Dei give chase, determined to prevent them from sharing their greatest secrets with the world. Also starring Ian McKellen, Jean Reno, and Alfred Molina, The Da Vinci Code was shot on location in France and the United Kingdom; the Louvre allowed the producers to film at the famous museum, but scenes taking place at Westminster Abbey had to filmed elsewhere when church officials declined permission.
Flight of the Innocent Members of the Clergy Murder Investigations Obsessive Quests Priceless Artifacts and Prized Objects Religious Zealotry
Christianity, scholar, secret-society, cover-up, painting, Vatican
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Ron Howard and Akiva Goldsman's reverent adaptation of Dan Brown's best-seller accomplishes the remarkable feat of transforming a book whose big type and little chapters seem more suited to a beach read than a densely researched historical mystery into a film, one that feels in fact longer than the LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy. Denounced by the Vatican as an affront to the faithful by virtue of a plot predicated on the notion that generations of ravening zealots in clerical clothing have conspired to conceal the faith-shattering fact that Jesus and Mary Magdalene married and had a child, the book's manifest liabilities — ludicrous cliff-hanger plotting, windy exposition, 'characters' with no distinguishing characteristics beyond their twee names — are painfully magnified on film. In the first of many contrivances with no real-world counterpart, reluctant celebrity Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks, afflicted by a hairpiece more diabolical than any conspiracy), a Harvard professor staying at the Hotel Ritz Paris while promoting his newly published book of religious symbology. Microsoft office word 2007 portable free download windows 7. He is approached by the French police for help in interpreting the number sequences, signs and cryptic writing found on and around the corpse of respected museum curator Jacques Sauniere (Jean-Pierre Marielle), murdered and left ritually mutilated in the Louvre. The 'request' is actually a trap laid by relentless inspector Bezu Fache (Jean Reno), who has reason to believe Langdon killed Sauniere, but before Langdon even realizes he's in danger, fetching police cryptographer Sophie Neveu (Audrey Tautou), who just happens to be Sauniere's estranged granddaughter, comes to his rescue. Sophie, Robert and Robert's old friend Sir Leigh Teabing (Ian McKellen), a fabulously wealthy amateur historian, pursue a fiendishly tricky trail of encrypted clues to the secret that cost Sauniere his life and could, as is said portentously and often, rock the Church of Rome to its foundations. They are in turn pursued by a murderous albino (Paul Bettany) who answers to Bishop Aringarosa (Alfred Molina), of shadowy Catholic sect Opus Dei, whose benevolent name — Latin for 'God's work' — belies its dark purpose. The busy plot is further encrusted with historical and personal flashbacks, the reading of doggerel, tours of churches and mini-lectures on the Templar knights, pagan sex rituals, the Council of Nicaea, Sir Isaac Newton, the holy grail and the works of Leonardo, referred to throughout as 'Da Vinci' by precisely the sort of people who should know better. Only McKellan seems to understand the profound silliness of the film in which he finds himself, and he camps it up accordingly; the rest of the cast soldiers grimly through this preposterous, 148-minute marathon looking increasingly — and understandably — exhausted.

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