The Da Vinci Code

[seinfeldrules]

I hear they are making a movie based on the book. Anybody have any information on it, I really dont know where to look...

 

[Incitatus]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0382625/

there you go

great casting imo

 

[jondy]

Yea, casting looks spot on. Didn't enjoy the book so much tho', great storyline, interesting factual background but the writing was so-so and the twist at the end took the piss.

 

[baxter]

Just finished reading the book. The story was a bit iffy but the facts in it were an eye opener. I'm not too sure it will translate into a great movie but the casting looks pretty good.

 

[Incitatus]

hmm you guys do realise that there are vey few 'facts' in the book that are actually factual.

 

[baxter]

You are probably right but it does say at the beginning of the book

" All descriptions of artwork,architecture,documents and secret rituals in this novel are accurate"

Just how accurate is questionable.

 

[StardogChampion]

You are probably right but it does say at the beginning of the book

" All descriptions of artwork,architecture,documents and secret rituals in this novel are accurate"

Just how accurate is questionable.

Remember it's fiction. There was a TV show with the guy that does those restoration programs, and plays Baldrick in Black Adder. He went through all the main points of the book (priory of sion etc) and found loads of them to be fake. Yes, the artwork, architecture, and secret rituals are real. You can see the PoS ritual being carried out in the movie Eyes Wide Shut with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman.

Societies like the PoS probably do exist, but the real PoS was a hoax.

Tom Hanks is a very bad choice IMO. I was imagining someone like Harrison Ford or aGeorge Stobbart (Broken Sword games) type guy.

 

[Direwolf]

In the book they actually compare Langdon to Harrison Ford..I'd say thats pretty clear myself.
Any a lot of nitpickers of the book miss the point. The basis, ie all the factualy trivia, are all real. The book takes these and supposes a rather wild theory (which is what makes it fun) about what all those things could add up to. Brown didn't just pull this stuff out of thin air, its things that have been proposed before, whether credibly or not. He just takes what he thought was the best concept and ran for it.
He never actually says that his take or anyone's in the book is authorative, in fact he seems to often go out of his way to mark them as possibilities and not truths.

 

[jimbo118]

pretty predictable cast imo audrey is great and all but woulda liked to see some unknowns tbh plus the whole world has read the book so does anyone really care?

 

[jimbo118]

You are probably right but it does say at the beginning of the book

" All descriptions of artwork,architecture,documents and secret rituals in this novel are accurate"

Just how accurate is questionable.

he says that in all his books,its just bs,i study religious history as part of my histroy course and all my lecturers said his book is bs

 

[baxter]

From what you guys say the out look for this movie is pretty grim..

 

[StardogChampion]

In the book they actually compare Langdon to Harrison Ford..I'd say thats pretty clear myself.

Where does it say that?

 

[A True Canadian]

Wasn't "National Treasure" the Americanized version of this book?

 

[kmack]

I woulda preferred Harrison Ford (though he'd be a little too tough for the character), Great book, and I'm hoping it's a great movie too!

 

[Direwolf]

Where does it say that?

I don't have a copy of the book hanging around to check, but I'm pretty sure its right at the beginning when they describe him. I seem to remember its the bit when hes in his hotel room at the beginning, but I wouldn't quote me on that.
National Treasure used the same kind of stlye (historical intrigue mixed with action), but it doesn't actually have anything to do with either the books or Brown.

 

[DeusExMachina]

Yeah its in the beginning.

Movie should be good.

 

[kmack]

You are probably right but it does say at the beginning of the book

" All descriptions of artwork,architecture,documents and secret rituals in this novel are accurate"

Just how accurate is questionable.

you can look at any of the pictures or places he describes and they are accurate. The documents exist and their are records of the rituals.

 

[jondy]

the whole world has read the book so does anyone really care?

Lord of the Rings?

 

[jimbo118]

Lord of the Rings?

yeah i guess but the book was 'meh' for me anyway(da vinci code i mean)

 

[AmishSlayer]

Da Vinci Code had a very good conspiracy-theory type background to it, but the plot itself wasn't as good as Angels & Demons. So far I like Angels & Demons the best from Dan Brown.

C'mon...sure Harrison Ford was described in the book...but a professor-by-day ancient secret/treasure hunter by night...that sounds a little too familiar from Harrison Ford...oh wait...Indiana Jones. Robert Langdon is pretty much a more intellectual version of Indiana Jones minus the whip