The Da Vinci Code
The Da Vinci Code is a 2006 mystery thriller film directed by Ron Howard, written by Akiva Goldsman, and based on Dan Brown's 2003 novel of the same name. The first in the Robert Langdon film series, the film stars Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Ian McKellen, Alfred Molina, Jürgen Prochnow, Jean Reno, and Paul Bettany. In the film, Robert Langdon, a professor of religious symbology from Harvard University, is the prime suspect in the grisly and unusual murder of Louvre curator Jacques Saunière. On the body, the police find a disconcerting cipher and start an investigation. Langdon escapes with the assistance of police cryptologist Sophie Neveu, and they begin a quest for the legendary Holy Grail. Sir Leigh Teabing, a noted British Grail historian, tells them that the actual Holy Grail is explicitly encoded in Leonardo da Vinci's wall painting The Last Supper. Also searching for the Grail is a secret cabal within Opus Dei, an actual prelature of the Holy See, who wish to keep the true Grail a secret to prevent the destruction of Christianity.
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| Running time | 149 minutes
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| Country | United States
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| Language | English
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| Budget | $125 million
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| Box office | $760 million
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Robert Langdon: My grandfather gave me a wagon.
- There is a gargoyle spied by Sophie inside Rosslyn Chapel that is modeled after Ron Howard's face.
- In the novel, Dan Brown claims that the Disney film The Little Mermaid (1989) gave its heroine Ariel red hair, as a reference to paganism and a symbolic grail story. This is inaccurate. Ariel, in fact, had red hair to distinguish her from Madison in the film Splash (1984) (the first collaboration between director Ron Howard and Tom Hanks).
- There are 16 deaths in the theatrical version of the film (not including historical flashbacks): 3 are stabbed, 5 shot, 2 die of a broken neck, 1 is incinerated, 3 are killed in a car accident, 1 dies after head was bashed, and 1 unknowingly drank alcohol containing traces of peanuts to which he was severely allergic.
- The statue of Janus in Teabing's library foreshadows Teabing being two-faced, betraying Langdon and Neveu for his own ends.
- Danish actor Thure Lindhardt had booked his first Hollywood movie part as Silas the Albino and for a long time, he was clearly the running favorite until, ultimately, he was discounted on the grounds that he "looked too young" and director Ron Howard decided on Paul Bettany. However, Lindhardt later got a significant supporting role in the following Dan Brown adaptation, Angels & Demons (2009).
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