Did The Da Vinci Code Film Stay True to the Book?

[siddharth]

What's the use of banning a movie that has been running for a week, and for two weeks around the world.

Politics my friend, Politics. (poli- many, tics- bloodsuckers)

 

[neutrino]

Politics my friend, Politics. (poli- many, tics- bloodsuckers)

Apart from the "pirates" who's going to gain from this ban?

 

[Monique]

Very good movie, mainly because I didn't have high expectations of it. I jumped out of my chair twice and found the story catching. Although the part that 'everyone should believe what they want' broke down the conclusion of the story, which I thought was typical.

I didn't understand the part where the butler and the monk were stuck in the car and the lord and the couple were researching a church and all of a sudden the monk appeared out of nowhere. Did he escape by himself from the car or did the butler let him loose? And why did the butler then hold a gun to Hanks?

And why did they give the monk (the albino person) blue lenses. To make the eyes look normal? The lenses actually made him look extra creepy.

 

[neutrino]

I didn't understand the part where the butler and the monk were stuck in the church and the lord and the couple were researching a church and all of a sudden the monk appeared out of nowhere. Did he escape by himself from the car or did the butler let him loose? And why did the butler then hold a gun to Hanks?

If I remember the story correctly, the butler let's Silas loose from the back of the limousine(?).Teabing's the one who employs him, althuogh he doesn't reveal himself. I could be wrong.

 

[Monique]

Not at all, but I knew that Alexander Pope attended Newton's funeral.

From IMDB.com
"Factual errors: Alexander Pope never delivered a eulogy or did anything for Sir Isaac Newton's funereal. He did at one point write a poem about him."

 

[Gokul43201]

I too thought Pope was at Newton's funeral. Maybe it was a subconscious connection from the epitaph...

 

[neutrino]

Now they've started banning the film in neighbouring states, too. :grumpy: I was under the false impression that they had released it last weekend, but actually they were about to do that tomorrow.

 

[arildno]

From IMDB.com
"Factual errors: Alexander Pope never delivered a eulogy or did anything for Sir Isaac Newton's funereal. He did at one point write a poem about him."

I never said he held a eulogy. I said he attended the funeral, as just about anyone of importance in Britain did at the time.

 

[Plastic Photon]

After the two year hiatus from cinemas...

IT was very good. THough, I found Opus Dei's dependence on cell phones very humorous: speaking via modern technologies in a dead language, does it get any better?