The Da Vinci Code

I haven't gotten through the movie yet (we started watching it but it was getting too late at night). But, from what I saw of it, it's not even close to being as good as the book.
Tom Hanks was a bad choice for the lead role.

I loved the book! I almost fell asleep during the movie. It just seemed to go on and on and on and on....

I kept thinking it was over but noooooo, it just kept going and going!

I think it may have seemed like the longest movie I ever ever seen.

i totally agree with u.. The book was so good..it was really difficult to represent the whole book in a 2 hour movie..

I love all Dan Brown books, especially the prequel Angels and Demons and The DaVinci Code!!!! I also think the movie was no where near as good as the book.

i read the book as well as i watched the movie.the movie was not that much interesting as the book.i thought it might be because that i read the book first.but after hearing from so many people having the same opinion like me i think there is some flaw in the making of the movie.Most of the movie based on the novel tend to be less interesting than the book.

it was nice and the novel was fantastic.

I have not seen the movie .But the book is damme cool .

Well, i have seen promos of movie, it is also look cool but i am not sure may be my other friends judge this one very well .

i agree with your thought..the first version of the movie is no where near the book..of course the extended version released in november is better and more comprehensive but it still is too haphazrd as compared to the book..also for all of you i am jotting down a full list of differences between the book and the movie..enjoyyyyyyyyyy.......

1.In the film, Langdon received the photograph of Saunière's corpse after giving a symbology lecture in a university, while he is autographing his books. In the novel, he is contacted after he returned to his hotel. Several of the points made by Langdon in the lecture regarding symbolism (as seen in the film) are referenced elsewhere in the novel.

2.In the film, Langdon is more moderate in his views of the Roman Catholic Church than he is in the novel. In the novel, he agrees with Teabing on just about every accusation Teabing levels at the Roman Catholic Church and gives a "soft nod of concurrence". At one point in the film, Langdon accuses Teabing of distorting facts to fit his theories. Langdon is also much more skeptical about the existence of the Priory of Sion in the film than he is in the novel.

3.The film makes no verbal reference to the Divine Proportion, however, during a sequence in which Langdon cuts his face shaving, the pattern of the blood droplet in the sink vaguely resembles the shape of the Greek letter Phi. Also, the Bank of Zürich's emblem closely resembles a Phi.

4.In the film, Sophie found the hidden message near the Mona Lisa written at the bottom right of the painting. In the novel, it is written on the plexiglass guard shielding the painting, making it appear as if it were written directly across the Mona Lisa's face.

5.In the film, Langdon deciphered the anagram, "So Dark The Con of Man," written near the Mona Lisa with the help of Sophie a few minutes after they found it, while, in the novel, Sophie deciphered it when Langdon couldn't.

6.In the novel, bank manager and friend of Jacques Saunière André Vernet turns against Langdon and Sophie because he has been waiting 20 years for somebody to return for the contents of the safe and believes they may have killed Saunière to access his valuables. In the film, Vernet's selfish interest in the contents are insinuated while, in the novel, a fuller explanation is given of his dedication to protect Saunière's interests as his client and friend.

7.In the film, Sophie's relationship to Saunière is not revealed to Vernet until he holds Langdon and Sophie at gunpoint. In the novel, she notifies Vernet that she is Saunière's granddaughter when they are in the bank.

8.In the film, Fache meets Vernet in the hospital and tells him to turn on the homing device for the armored car, while, in the novel, Vernet does so without informing Fache so that his bank's reputation would not be compromised.

9.The answer to Teabing's second question at the Château Villette gate is changed in the film. In the film, the question is put to Langdon whether he wants milk or lemon with his tea, and Langdon responds that it depends on the type of tea they are having. In the novel, he is given the choice of milk or sugar, and he hesitates before realizing that the correct answer is actually lemon and that the tea should be Earl Grey. In the film, when he is already in Teabing's residence he is offered this tea and asks for lemon to go with it.

10.No mention is ever made in the film of the surveillance equipment in the loft at the top of the barn at Teabing's manor, nor of the miniature knight in Saunière's office in which a bug had been placed although there is a glimpse in the film of the knight. Rémy Legaludec's criminal record is scrutinized by the police showing that he was kicked out of college for rewiring phone lines to obtain free service. This ties him into the plot as a surveillance expert. In the novel, the French police uncover Teabing's central role in bringing about the actions against the Priory of Sion.

11.In the film, there is no second cryptex inside the first as there is in the novel, and, in the film, the solution to the cryptex is the same as that for the second cryptex in the novel.

12.In the film, Silas, Bishop Aringarosa, Leigh Teabing, Rémy, Opus Dei, and the Council of Shadows all either know about or are responsible for the murders while, in the novel, only Silas, Leigh Teabing, and Rémy are responsible for them.

13.In the novel, after their escape with Teabing and the keystone, Rémy drops Silas off at the London headquarters for Opus Dei, which is found at 5 Orme Court in Westminster. In the film, Rémy takes Silas to a non-descript "Opus Dei house".

14.In the film, Langdon does not carefully hide the cryptex under a couch to prevent Teabing from discovering it prematurely the way he does in the novel.

15.In the novel, Robert and Sophie go to a library in London to discover the relevance of "A. Pope" while, in the film, they borrow someone's mobile phone (which had a web browser) on a city bus, after they realize it will take too long to get to the library.


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I have never read Da Vinci Code but i have seen preview of the movie and it looks really great.but i dont believe in all those things he wrote.

I watched the movie based on that novel,
There is my opinion:
I think only that its 2000 year old story and now any one can only guess what was the reality, so we have to leave these things as they are and concentrate only on the sole of jesus's talks.