I can't say I was blown away by The Da Vinci Code - as is often the case, the book was far superior. Many verbal exchanges between characters in many scenes are extended. The additional scenes include, among others, Sophie threatening to deface 'The Madonna of the rocks' to aid her and Langdon's escape from the Louvre, flashbacks of Silas killing the other Senechaux, Silas' escape from Prison, Collet discovering the surveillance room, Fache debriefing and apologizing to Langdon and Sophie, and a scene is which Sophie and Langdon discuss religion during the flight sequence. Alternate Versions An extended version is available on DVD and is 26 minutes longer.
Although extremely unlikely after 2,000 years, if it were discovered that Christ had married and had children it wouldn't have any effect on the Faith. Goofs (at around 1h 12 mins) Teabing says that knowledge that Christ was human would bring down the Church by proving that 'the greatest story ever told is a lie.' However the Church has always held that Christ is simultaneously fully human and fully divine.įurther, the Bible nowhere says that Christ was not married, it only doesn't say that he was. In their search, Sophie and Robert happen upon evidence that could lead to the final resting place of the Holy.|.
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. Needing help, Sophie calls on Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks), a leading symbolized from the United States. 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. 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. Anyway, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the book's publication, Doubleday has decided to give away copies of the bestseller through March 24, making the book available as a free download on multiple ebook platforms: Amazon, Apple iBookstore, Barnes & Noble, Google, Sony Reader, and Kobo.ĭan 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.