Wat is the Da Vinci Code? Is it true wat Dan Brown has predicted?

Answer 1

It is a Novel, a work of fiction, newsflash, so is Star Wars and every James Bond novel/movie!

Answer 2

While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. Solving the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci…clues visible for all to see…and yet ingeniously disguised by the painter.

Langdon joins forces with a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, and learns the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion—an actual secret society whose members included Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo, and Da Vinci, among others. The Louvre curator has sacrificed his life to protect the Priory's most sacred trust: the location of a vastly important religious relic, hidden for centuries.

In a breathless race through Paris, London, and beyond, Langdon and Neveu match wits with a faceless powerbroker who appears to work for Opus Dei—a clandestine, Vatican-sanctioned Catholic sect believed to have long plotted to seize the Priory's secret. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle in time, the Priory's secret—and a stunning historical truth—will be lost forever.

so,this is the meaning-DA VINCI CODE..The unravelling of the code.

"The Da Vinci Code is a novel and therefore a work of fiction. While the book's characters and their actions are obviously not real, the artwork, architecture, documents, and secret rituals depicted in this novel all exist (for example, Leonardo Da Vinci's paintings, the Gnostic Gospels, Hieros Gamos, etc.). These real elements are interpreted and debated by fictional characters."said by brown himself.

Answer 3

No - Dan Brown gets a LOT of minor, easy-to-check details wrong, so one would have to be gullible to accept that such a demonstrably shoddy researcher would get major, important facts correct.

Most importantly, the Priory of Sion did not exist between the Crusades and the 1950s, when it was 'revived' by a French fraudster, contrary to the 'fact' he states on page one. The documents he refers to, discovered in the French National Library, were not verified by historians as Brown lies, but proved to be forgeries. There are no monks in Opus Dei, they do not segregate men from women in their offices, it is not a 'personal prelature of the pope', and they do not flagellate.

There is no such thing as a 'diplomatic flying allowance', no metal detectors in Westminster Abbey, and no such job description as a 'British Royal Historian'. There are not 'just a few' knights buried in London but thousands, and cars cannot park on Horse Guards Parade. The beardless figure in The Last Supper is not a woman, but John, who was younger than the other apostles.

And as for Jesus marrying 'because he was Jewish and there was a social convention that Jews wed' - when did Jesus ever follow social convention? Would you trust a man who got all this, and more, wrong to get right that Christ married and had a family?

Answer 4

In Dan Brown's novel, The Da Vinci Code, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to the Louvre, where the curator has just been found murdered. Unbeknownst to Langdon, he is a prime suspect in the man's death. The body of the curator has been left in the position of Leonardo Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man, and a coded message is left next to his body. In a quest to discover the murderer before he himself is arrested for the crime, Langdon races to decode a series of cryptic symbols relating to Leonardo's artwork. He uncovers the key to one of the greatest mysteries of all time – including the possible location of the Holy Grail.

Included in the discoveries Langdon makes are the curator's membership in the Priory of Sion, and the involvement of Opus Dei, a Roman Catholic organization made up of clergy and lay members trying to encourage Catholic teachings. Brown contends that the organizations, documents, rituals, artwork and architecture in the novel all exist. No one has proven the existence of the Priory of Sion as described in the book. The book provoked an uproar in the Christian community with some critics calling the work heretical and anti-Christian. Others applaud the controversy as having awakened a new interest in Christianity.

The book is filled with coded messages, anagrams and ambigrams, and number puzzles. Readers were invited to solve a puzzle found in four codes in the book; the winner would receive a trip to Paris. Thousands of readers broke the code, which had to do with longitude and latitude readings that pinpointed CIA headquarters in Virginia. It is also the location of a sculpture called Kryptos, which Dan Brown will write about in his next book.

Director Ron Howard has made the book into a film starring Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou. The film is due to be released in May 2006.

i dont think so

Answer 5

It's a made up story--i.e., a fictional novel, out of which Dan Brown is making a fortune, because he has allowed people to wonder about whether or not this all might be true or not.
To my way of thinking, while it may be good business for him, it is not not ethical behavior towards his readers. Dan Brown is a FICTION writer. Nothing more.

Answer 6

The "Da Vinci Code" is a novel. A very good and exciting one, but nothing more.
Even though it was inspired by and based on real things and happenings, the rest is romantic speculation.
If you believe this, maybe I can interest you in some (swamp) land in Florida?

Answer 7

A Work OF FICTION, is how it is labled, so it is a work of fiction as far as we know.
At the time of Davincci and others the Catholic church was practicing some very weird things such as murder and burning witches so people were angry at them. See what happens when one group begins to beleive they are "chosen' and more holy than another? Murder, famine, strife, and death. Always remember you know not who goes to heavan and who does not, so you better be humble daily about it.
We are ALL sinners, therefore noone is more holy than another but people can aspire to be good, but when they get a big head about it, then, bad stuff happens IE: deadliest sin : PRIDE>

Answer 8

Frankly speaking, it's just the novel of Dan Brown that earned its popularity due to his "creative" (but I say destructive) imagination, combing facts and fiction.

Historically speaking, there are A LOT of flaws in his story if you would compare it in the real history of Christianity. The timeline itself is much flawed, let alone the people involved.

Answer 9

The novel,The Davinci Code, is a clever work of fiction interwoven with some historical facts.It is a good read and should be approached as such.

Answer 10

It's a novel, with about the same historical and religious significance as Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.