They say The da Vinci Code has sold more copies than any book since the Bible. Good thing it has a different ending. Dan Brown"s novel is utterly preposterous; Ron Howard"s movie is preposterously entertaining. Both contain accusations against the Catholic Church và its order of Opus Dei that would be scandalous if anyone of sound mind could possibly entertain them. I know there are people who believe Brown"s fantasies about the Holy Grail, the descendants of Jesus, the Knights Templar, Opus Dei and the true story of Mary Magdalene. This has the advantage of distracting them from the theory that the Pentagon was not hit by an airplane.
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Let us begin, then, by agreeing that The domain authority Vinci Code is a work of fiction. Và that since everyone has read the novel, I need only give away one secret -- that the movie follows the book religiously. While the book is a potboiler written with little grace and style, it does supply an intriguing plot. Luckily, Ron Howard is a better filmmaker than Dan Brown is a novelist; he follows Brown"s formula (exotic location, startling revelation, desperate chase scene, repeat as needed) & elevates it into a superior entertainment, with Tom Hanks as a theo-intellectual Indiana Jones.
Hanks stars as Robert Langdon, a Harvard symbologist in Paris for a lecture when Inspector Fache (Jean Reno) informs him of the murder of museum curator Jacques Sauniere (Jean-Pierre Marielle). This poor man has been shot & will die late at night inside the Louvre; his wounds, although mortal, fortunately leave him time enough to conceal a safe deposit key, strip himself, cover his toàn thân with symbols written in his own blood, arrange his body in a pose and within a design by da Vinci, & write out, also in blood, an encrypted message, a scrambled numerical sequence & a footnote khổng lồ Sophie Neveu (Audrey Tautou), the pretty French policewoman whom he raised after the death of her parents. Most people are content with a dying word or two; Jacques leaves us with a film treatment.
Having read the novel, we know what happens then. Sophie warns Robert he is in danger from Fache, & they elude capture in the Louvre & set off on a quest that leads them lớn the vault of a private bank, to lớn the French villa of Sir Leigh Teabing (Ian Mc
Kellen), khổng lồ the Temple Church in London, khổng lồ an isolated Templar church in the British countryside, to lớn a hidden crypt và then back khổng lồ the Louvre again. The police, both French & British, are one step behind them all of this time, but Sophie và Robert are facile, inventive và daring. Also, perhaps, they have God on their side.
This series of chases, discoveries và escapes is intercut with another story, involving an albino named Silas (Paul Bettany), who works under the command of the Teacher, a mysterious figure at the center of a conspiracy to lớn conceal the location of the Holy Grail, what it really is, & what that implies. The conspiracy involves members of Opus Dei, a society of Catholics who in real life (I learn from a recent issue of the Spectator) are rather conventionally devout & prayerful. Although the movie describes their practices as "maso-chastity," not all of them are chaste & hardly any practice self-flagellation. In the months ahead, I would advise Opus Dei khổng lồ carefully scrutinize membership applications.
Opus Dei works within but not with the church, which also harbors a secret cell of cardinals who are in on the conspiracy (the pope và most other Catholics apparently don"t have backstage passes).
These men keep a secret that, if known, could destroy the church. That"s why they keep it. If I were their adviser, I would point out that by preserving the secret, they preserve the threat to the church, và the wisest strategy would have been to destroy the secret, say, 1,000 years ago.
But one of the fascinations of the Catholic Church is that it is the oldest continuously surviving organization in the world, & that"s why movies like "The domain authority Vinci Code" are more fascinating than thrillers about religions founded, for example, by a science-fiction tác giả in the 1950s. All of the places in "The da Vinci Code" really exist, though the last time I visited the Temple Church I was disappointed to lớn find it closed for "repairs." A likely story.
Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou và Jean Reno vày a good job of not overplaying their roles, & Sir Ian Mc
Kellen overplays his in just the right way, making Sir Leigh into a fanatic whose study just happens to contain all the materials for an audio-visual presentation that briefs his visitors on the secrets of domain authority Vinci"s "The Last Supper" and other matters. Apparently he keeps in close cảm ứng with other initiates. On the one hand, we have a conspiracy that lasts 2,000 years and threatens the very foundations of Christianity, and on the other hand a network of rich dilettantes who resemble a theological branch of the Baker Street Irregulars.
Yes, the plot is absurd, but then most movie plots are absurd. That"s what we pay to lớn see. What Ron Howard brings lớn the material is tone and style, và an aura of mystery that is undeniable. He begins right at the top; Columbia Pictures hình ảnh falls into shadow as Hans Zimmer"s music sounds simultaneously liturgical và ominous. The murder scene in the Louvre is creepy in a ritualistic way, & it"s clever the way Langdon is able to look at letters, numbers & symbols & mentally rearrange them khổng lồ yield their secrets. He"s lượt thích the Flora Cross character in "Bee Season," who used kabbalistic magic to lớn visualize spelling words floating before her in the air.
The movie works; it"s involving, intriguing và constantly seems on the edge of startling revelations. After it"s over & we"re back on the street, we wonder why this crucial secret needed to be protected by the equivalent of a brain-twister puzzle crossed with a scavenger hunt. The trail that Robert and Sophie follow is so difficult & convoluted that it seems impossible that anyone, including them, could ever follow it. The secret needs khổng lồ be protected up lớn a point; beyond that it is absolutely lost, & the whole point of protecting it is beside the point. Here"s another question: Considering where the trail begins, isn"t it sort of curious where it leads? Still, as T.S. Eliot wrote, "In my beginning is my end." Maybe he was on to something.
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism.
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