DaVinci Code - the Film

[Not Afraid]

I saw a trailer for the DaVinci Code film last night and was impressed! It actually made me want to see the film - which is not often what trailers end up doing.

See the trailer here.

[Ponine]

I've been following this one since they started filming. Where they got to film, where they didnt...

I'm very curious to see how this ends up coming out on the big screen.

[Snowflake]

I have to say, I agree with you. The book tanked for me in the end, but since I've forgotten most of it now, the movie will be new again.

I've come to admire Ron Howard a great deal as a director (okay, NOT The Cat in the Hat or Grinch, those were just wrong). So I will look forward to this.

Donna

[Gemini Cricket]

I swear they should give out Oscars to the people who make trailers. They're very powerful. I have goosebumps...
I can't wait to see it. BUT if they wimp out on certain aspects of the book, I'll be quite disappointed.

Anyone see 'the codes' in the trailer? I did.

[Alex]

I was amazed at just how horrible the book is. Of course, I was familiar with this particular Catholic conspiracy theory for years before reading it (and was already familiar with the debunking of it) so I doubt I was in the appropriate mindset to be wowed by the story. I was amazed, though, by just how terribly written it is (and sampling other Dan Brown stuff I see it is common to him and not just this one).

That said, despite the hole story being hokum (and being very annoyed by the thousands of people who think it has revealed some sort of hidden truth) I think it has the potential for a wonderful movie. Combine a decent thriller with the more restrained Ron Howard we've seen over the last 7 or 8 years and I'm actually looking forward to it.

The fact that Audrey Tautou is in it and I'm sure to be there. But I'm still going to be annoyed at all the people who will react as if they're watching a documentary.

[Stan4dSteph]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

Anyone see 'the codes' in the trailer? I did.

I saw glowey letters. Is that it? I never read the book. Don't have any intention to do so, but I may see the film.

I have two questions:

1. Isn't that the mansion from Eyes Wide Shut at the beginning?
2. WTF is Paul Bettany doing to his leg at the end? Pulling out stitches?

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

(and being very annoyed by the thousands of people who think it has revealed some sort of hidden truth)

For a lot of people, this is the first time they have heard of this theory. So, yes, the story may have stunk but the theory is compelling to a lot of people who heard about it from reading the book for the first time ever.

I grew up hearing about 'Holy Blood, Holy Grail' so it wasn't a surprise to me. But we're living in a time where there's a genreation of people out there who haven't even seen the first three 'Star Wars' movies in the theater. (Wow!!) So amazing to me, but it makes sense that reviving this theory is finding a newer audience...

I'm still not sure about the movie. Hanks as Langdon... I dunno...

Originally Posted by Stan4dSteph

I saw glowey letters. Is that it?

Yep.

Originally Posted by Stan4dSteph

2. WTF is Paul Bettany doing to his leg at the end? Pulling out stitches?

Nope.
He was tightening his cilice.

cilice: n. a spiked chain worn around the upper thigh for two hours each day, except for Church feast days, Sundays, and certain times of the year. This is perhaps the most shocking of the corporal mortifications, and generally Opus Dei members are extremely hesitant to admit that they use them. It is a painful mortification which leaves small prick holes in the flesh, and makes the Opus Dei members tentative about wearing swim suits wherever non-Opus Dei members may be.

[€uroMeinke]

I enjoyed the book as a fun romp - but yeah, people who think it real are annoying - but I see it the same as those who believe in Middle Earth, Vampires,or Hogwort's School of Wizardy.

Curious to see how this plays out on the screen, Audrey Tautou is a big plus for me.

[innerSpaceman]

I just wanna see it cause they filmed a lot of it inside the Louvre.

[lizziebith]

I didn't read the book because my honey did first...and put it down with the biggest eye-roll I've ever seen him make.

And not being religious, this trailer looks like it could be fun, but a the whole premise is a tad pompous: "A secret that if revealed would devastate the very foundations of mankind????" "The biggest cover-up in human history???"

My inner anthropologist is sorely grieved.

And, (uses wayback machine to retrieve memory): someone gave me that Holy Blood Holy Grail book back during the heyday of the Xfiles, thinking I'd like it. I did not. I want those three hours back, thank you very much. A better book I found abandoned once at a Subway sandwich store: it had been annotated by a schizophrenic, and was about Mary and how she really ran things. Must go root that out. The marginalia were teh awesome. Like the time I found a book about Chinese foot-binding at the library which included a scented tissue-paper poem tucked into it written by a patron who really missed the old days. Lotus foot, indeed.

Oh, I fear I've de-railed the thread. Sorry. Carry on.