The DaVinci Code (Movie)

Da Vinci Code Forum

okay, am i BLIND or has no one started a thread on this? if not, why? isn't this like one of the most awaited movies EVER. maybe that's just me. can't wait.

i saw the trailer and it looks AWESOME! loved the book. loved the trailer. better love the movie....

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1808625216/trailer

Now it has it's very own forum

The trailer looks cool. Can't wait to see it.

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I remember when they did the very first trailer of this movie (Don't know if there are more) and I was sooooooo excited to find that this was being made into a movie. Then again, I wasn't surprised, because it's a top seller, and has people talking about it, everywhere, from home, to church, to the water cooler at work. I can't wait.

I know. But when I talk to people who have read it they totally geek out over the trailer, and I want to, but can't yet. Have to get to readin'.

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Trailer looks pretty sweet.

I haven't seen the trailer yet, but I have seen some stills from filming and I think Audrey Tautau (sp?) is a great choise for Sophie Neaveau (sp?), but I still can't quite grasp Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon.

OT: You know how it says at the beggining of the book that all architecture described in the books is real? And then they go the Swiss Bank at 24 Rue St Horne (I think that's the street name, if not, then whatever it really was: <insert here> ) Well that street does exist and is in the right location as per the book, but there's no number 24 and there's no banks, it a residential area. How can you claim that all architecture and locations in the book are true and then have that one obvious discrepancy? Strange!!!

What's wrong with Hanks? I'm very excited to see Ian McKellan though. He's great, so it'll be nice to see him back, kind of been without him since LOTR.

I think that she's just saying that she doesn't envision him in that role.

Though, I have to say... Tom Hanks is one of THE BEST actors around. He can pull of any role.

I used to quite like Tom Hanks. Forrest Gump and the Green Mile are great movies, but ever since Castaway, I just can't stand him.



Is Ian McKellen playing Tebbing?

Yes he is. On reading the page on imdb, Jorgen Prochnow will be in it. This is great, I loved him in Das Boot, but he never really broeke through to super stardom. Too bad, glad to see him back though.

From IMDB.com:

Directed by
Ron Howard

Writing credits
Dan Brown (novel)
Akiva Goldsman (screenplay)

Cast
Tom Hanks .... Robert Langdon
Audrey Tautou .... Sophie Neveu
Ian McKellen .... Sir Leigh Teabing
Paul Bettany .... Silas
Jean Reno .... Bezu Fache
Etienne Chicot .... Lt. Collet
Alfred Molina .... Bishop Aringarosa
Clive Carter .... Police Captain Biggin Hill
Seth Gabel .... Cleric
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Marie-Françoise Audollent .... Sister Sandrine
Jean-Yves Berteloot .... Remy
Daisy Doidge-Hill .... Sophie Age 8
Christopher Fosh .... PC Edwards
Joe Grossi .... Church Official
Dhaffer L'Abidine .... PTS Agent
Jean-Pierre Marielle .... Jacques Sauniere
Michael Norton .... French Detective
Peter Pedrero .... Young Silas's father
Jürgen Prochnow .... André Vernet
Harry Taylor .... British Police Captain

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I thought Teabing was a big fat guy....

Paul Bettany as Silas? Interesting .......

I could see Paul Bettany playing that weirdo. he looks almost Albino-like. This should be good. And Alfred Molina is a good cast too, i can see him playing that turd.

The premiere for this flick is going to be at Cannes. I'll get my plane ticket ready.

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Ive almost finished the book, What date is the film released? i have to finish the book before i can go see it

May, I think. Still have a few months though, regardless.

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Yes, all the time. And I will never forgive you.

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You know, if you go to the Louvre now, you can buy a Da Vinci Code tour? I mean, how lame is that? If you're going to the Louvre solely to see something that's in a BOOK, that's just weird. I mean, IT'S THE LOUVRE!

That's the last thing I would do in the Louvre.

That place is gorgeous...and oh yeah, so are the paintings and the sculptures.
Funny thing though I don't remember any Da Vinci there. Must have overlooked that.

Mona Lisa surrounded by glass and guards...now that is something to see.

yeah, i remember expecting to see something SOMEWHAT large, but the mona lisa is kinda small. I was surprised. It was still AWESOME, and I got some good pics (after wrestling with some tourists to get their BIG HEADS out of my SHOTS!) and i love that place. it is absolutely B-E-A-UUUUTIFUL!

has anyone heard of an read the asti spumente code? ... i got it and will read it when i finish angels and demons

OOPS, i remember in italy the guards were practically wrestling us to the floor when we busted out our cameras. but at the louvre? man, i took a poop load of pics there. I remember taking pics of the mona lisa with and without flash. I remember the flash reflecting on the glass, so i turned it off, then without it it was too dark, so i had to play with the shutter speed and aperture... so HAHAHA french guards let me get away with murder........

I saw another preview on the Today show the other day. Why does Tom Hanks have to have scrubby long hair in this movie? They always make intellectuals look scrubby, like just b/c they're smart, they don't care about their appearance. It looks like Audrey Tautou is gonna be a GREAT Sophie Neveau. can't wait.

Do you think there's going to be a bunch of hard-core catholics protesting when this thing opens? Probably. But why? IT'S A WORK OF FICTION! no one's saying it's TOTALLY AND COMPLETELY TRUE. Do you think the protesting will make a dent?

Dude, Catholics protested 'Dogma' without seeing it first. I think a bus full of churchy blue hairs will have no trouble picketing a theater or two on their way to bingo.

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NO ! Heck ! Say it isn't so!

Bingo is GAMBLING! and GAMBLING is SIN!!!

Say it ISN'T so!!!! Say it isn't so!!!

OK look at the beginning of of your "DaVinci" book ... almost on the first page it says that the book is for real ... but i know, and can semi prove it that its a total crock, untrue, a work of fiction, some book stores are so dumb, they put it under history

The Hylarious thang about this all....is the "Conspiracy theorists" who watch the "Conspirators" know that the "Conspirators" believe this whole Holy Blood Holy Grail bullcrap is TRUE!!! And former "Conspirators" laugh at these "Conspirators," and mock them to their graves....because they are freaking idiots! And the "Conspiracy Theorists" are right on the mark!

What utter irony! Shoot me now! I cannot handle the utter hilarity of it all!

The thing is brown had the ordacity to talk about Conspiracy in his books

Yes, and claim the bullcrap the "Conspirators" believe in is true!!!

The man should be sued for every penny he makes on that trash!!! !

It appears he is by the writers of holy blood % holy grail

I know!!!

It's hylarious!!!

The utter irony! Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, I cannot walk or talk!!!

Shoot me now!!!

The disclaimer in the novel says something like:
"All descriptions of artwork, architecture, documents, and secret rituals in this novel are accurate."

it doesn't say the theory or the following story is true. Everyone is taking THAT to be true.

I saw a few documentaries about groups who believe Mary is the Holy Grail. It's pretty interesting.

I tend to lean toward it's a giant glowing box that melts Nazi faces like at the end of Raiders.

Yeah, that's the ticket.

I just love it how it's easier for some to lean toward one extreme since it's in the bible than to even regard a different extreme because it's not in the bible. "Turned water into milk? That's crap! It's wine you turd!"

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This Davinci sitiation is pure comedy! Absolute pure comedy.

RARARARARARARARAR!!!!

I don't think it's true. I just think it's an interesting theory that COULD be true. Regardless, Brown wrote a fiction book BASED on a theory. People are being too sensitive about it.

haha, a friend of mine who made me read Angels and Demons way back when said he was reading it for the 2nd time when his grandmother (hardcore irish catholic) found it and threw it out b/c it was sacrilegious. At that point my mom (also catholic, not as crazy) said, BUY IT, we're reading it.

what do you think was in that box then HECK? I think that 2 thousand years of decay ... the smell would have killed the nazi's alone

Have you even finished reading it yet? Are you on the 3rd chapter now?

I saw previews for this little tragedy last Saturday eve at the theatah.

I was covering my eyes and screaming out in utter agony when my buddy kept saying over and over...

"It's only a movie. It's only a movie. It's only a movie. It's only a movie."

Dude, I am still on Angels & Demons. Not even half way through that.

You still need to borrow "Rule by Secrecy" by Jim Marrs.

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Dude, I don't wear an aluminum hat, I wear a hat made of lead...it keeps out the electromagnetic pulses from turning me back into Jason Bourne/nikiTa.

Dude, it's heavy though, it's heavy on the head.

niKita, I was talking to illuminate, you responded before I could.

It's ok, Heck! It's all good...

Just a little FYI for ya and a comment on Jimmy Bob's book in relation to experience and the topics at hand.

that's right, you're on Angels and Demons... HURRY UP FOO! What's rule by secrecy? I still wanna get the DaVinci CodeX

The other one is that conspiracy book I have, some far out stuff.

The CodeX will rulle you!

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Is Jim related to Texe Marrs?
I have read his stuff...and I looked at Jim's information...pretty much they all say the same thing...

that link in the NWO thread here that I listed by Fritz...S? ...
we corresponded by email in the mid 90's and he used much of what I knew in his updated information...I believe that man wrote the original data in 1992...
anyway...they all pretty much say the same stuff, and they are all are pretty much right on...

except for...the Alien crap...that's a bunch of BS

I also would recommend Cathy O'Brien's book Trance Formation of America. They have a web site too. www.trance-formation.com
She was under mind control too, but was another "model."
She reveals ALOT about NWO, the Roman Catholic church, and the current political leaders. It will blow your mind. But beware it is graphic and it is horrific.
I will be picking up her latest book: Denied for Reasond of National Security this weekend. I special ordered it 6 weeks ago.

It basically details how she got out...and I will be comparing my life to hers. It also describes how she confronted Congress and how the government has held her daughter hostage in a mental institution in Tennesee...sad stuff.
She is on the lam most of the time...but I am right in their faces....MUAHAHAAHAHA!!

Sounds like a good one, thanks for the link.

Marrs did kind of jump the shark with the whole aliens creating humanity and what not. It's interesting stuff, but a wee bit of a stretch. I did enjoy the rest. Nothing groundbreaking, but a good read.

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Heck you have like 90 conspiracy theory books. The only one I ever wanted to borrow was that People's history of the U.S. (not that it's the same thing). But hey, i'm open to whatever... except alien stuff. I just roll my eyes at that.

I don't have 90, I only have that Marrs one, come on now. I do have literature on my computer I can print up...

People's History Of The United States will kick you in the junk.

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I'll read it. Hook it up.

Don't mean to barge in here folks, but hey, Heck!

Have you read the 2nd People's History of the United States by Zinn? Voices of a People's History of the United States.

Basically it's an update or whathaveyou, but it's just as thick and just as long to get through...but perhaps, not as long for me got get through as Angels and Demons was for me to "get through."

So, I bought Cathy O'Brien's latest today, Denied Access For Reasons of National Security. I will share a couple of excerpts for you....but basically the following stuff rehashes what I have already stated in this Davinci forum....

Cathy: People seem to be aware of the Masonic connection," I commented.

"We should be careful with that," Mark warned. "Most Masons don't even know what is going on until they get up in the organization."

"Like 33rd degree?" I asked, not really understanding the levels of Free Masonry I was exposed to throughout my MK-Ultra victimization. "Byrd <Robert Byrd www.byrd.senate.gov/ who was Cathy's "handler.> "Byrd was 33rd degree. So was Robert Reagan."

"Even that isn't so black and white," Mark warned. "Byrd climbed his way up, and Reagan was given an honorary degree through the global elite. Either way, the 33rd degree is granted as an honor rather than earned."

"What about Traficant?" I asked. "I know he is a Mason, only he's connected into the Order of the Rose Branch. <The creeps who also believe in all the "Holy Grail Holy Blood crap"...Rosicrucians...Rosy Cross...are other names> And he's not even a Jesuit that I know of. What about VanderJagt and Ford <President Ford>? They were part of my grandpa's Masonic Blue Lodge in Michigan that launched me into MK Ultra. I'm not really sure where the Order of the Rose and Free Masonry converge. Especially since the Catholics pretend to oppose Masons.".

"Catholics oppose Masons the same way they oppose satanism," Mark observed. "The faction of Catholics you were exposed to need the negatives to create a need for their solutions and visa versa."

Talking about it seemed to be clarifying the confusion. "The Mormons I knew were exactly the same way! The only secret society I know of spanned Mormons, Catholics, CIA, Jesuits, and Masons was the Order of the Rose."

"That would be your answer then."

"But people only have a point of reference for Masons," I complained. "Or for the Illuminati, which I never even heard discussed around D.C. How will people know what I am talking about when I say 'Order of the Rose.'"

"People absolutely must expand their knowledge." Mark pointed out. They need to think out-of-the box."

"The TV box?"

"No," Mark chuckled. "Well, yes, that too. I was referring to the box social engineering has locked them into. In order for them to effectively combat the invisible menace that has permeated society, they need to learn to recognize it. Labels don't get it. Even as we are speaking, you are qualifying 'Catholics' and the 'Catholics you were exposed to.' People want to point at one certain group because they've become lazy in their thinking. To realize it is more than just one group, and that the individuals comprising the groups have various levels of knowledge are all on their own learning path and may expand out of their current Need to Know, takes a bit more thought than some people can think to give."
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This one is interesting and sad and funny all in the same bunch:

"A wealth of pertinent information could come to light if only Jr. <George W. Bush> were deprogrammed and could think to tell what he knows!"

Do you think the Catholics will protest? perhaps they will protest because they know the book is a complete lie, there is no proof that it is true - its what it is a conspircy

flying Panda

If I were a Catholic, I would protest.

Not on the streets or anything...but perhaps in discussion boards.

I'm a catholic. And I don't and won't protest. Because I realize that this is not true, nor did Brown SAY it was true. It's a book of fiction based on real THEORIES. Just b/c people are catholic doesn't mean they're all close-minded catholics.

Before the nose starts looking like a twisted twig...
I was speaking for myself, IF I were a Catholic.

This is one reason I should not speak in hypotheticals.

I heard that Dan Brown spent much time every morning wearing gravity boots and hanging upside down in preparation for the writing of this book everyday.

This explains everything

It comes out May 12th I think.
Sometime in May anyway.

I'll wait for the video, I think

I mean, I don't even believe in God and enjoy a good chuckle at different theories regarding Jesus and his followers, but the book and the story were just plain and simply bad...

They screened this for the Cannes film festival and I heard that everyone was all "ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" about it.

we'll see this weekend I guess. I don't care, I'm still excited to see how it translates from the book to the big screen.

Not overly well, apparently - the book was a cracking read, a real page-turner - but they movie's been panned for being long and slow and dull.

Couldn't be more boring than the bible though. Nor less factual.

Interesting way of putting it.

I think Ron Howard might have let the running time get away from him... I hear it's about 2 1/2 hours.

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I havent yet heard a good reveiw of the film ... im going to see it just to have my own opinion of it

I've heard so-so reviews, few people said it was just 'good', nothing great. I'll be seeing it tonight, don't know what to expect.

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Wee, we expect a full report, Heck!

Yes'mam I'll try to get on this weekend, going out of town. Hope it's good...

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I want to see it... but we're waiting for it to die down a bit.

The lady is buying tickets online right now, going this evening, going to be a mess, but I like movie premieres.

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should we get dressed up all formal and bring our own paparazzi. hahaha "WHO FORGET THE RED CARPET!? THE PRICE IS SOMEONE'S HEAD!"

Totally. I'll bring the camera and shout your name so people think you're famous.

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YESSSS!
(Kirk Gibson fist pump)

Wouldnt that be cool, to have people (people you ask to) follow you around with a camera and see what happens with the public ... maybe your get a gather ing of people thinking "whos that ... must be famous" and then there start following lol