Can someone tell me what the plot is for the Da Vinci code?

Question

I really wanted to see this movie, but I never got my hands on it. I want to know the charactor Ian Mckellen plays and I want to know whether it's scary or boring or great and so on!

Answer 1

Dan 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. 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. 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. Needing help, Sophie calls on Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks), a leading symbologist from the United States. 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. In their search, Sophie and Robert happen upon evidence that could lead to the final resting place of the Holy Grail, while members of the priory and an underground Catholic society known as Opus Dei give chase, determined to prevent them from sharing their greatest secrets with the world. Also starring Ian McKellen, Jean Reno, and Alfred Molina, The Da Vinci Code was shot on location in France and the United Kingdom; the Louvre allowed the producers to film at the famous museum, but scenes taking place at Westminster Abbey had to filmed elsewhere when church officials declined permission. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Review
A book that should have been a movie in the first place, Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code was the best seller of the decade when a film adaptation hit screens in 2006. The premise, whether or not you've read the book, sounds like the recipe for a guaranteed great suspense thriller: large-scale cover-ups, precious artifacts, an albino monk from a Catholic sect who self flagellates, and Tom Hanks donning the strangest haircut of his career. Where could they go wrong? In quite a few places, apparently, but The Da Vinci Code is still an enjoyable movie. When the pace gets going and the intrigue builds up, the film flies on its own momentum...and we'd expect nothing less from Ron Howard. Unfortunately, the screenplay was adapted by Akiva Goldsman who was responsible for such ugly book-to-screen transitions as I, Robot and Practical Magic. Goldsman succumbs to the most common screenwriter's pitfall in adapting a book, by including extraneous information, alternate timelines, and far-abreast side stories with no time to make them into something entertaining or useful to the audience. Unless he was operating from the assumption that every viewer of the film had read the book, the chintzy-looking fuzzy-screen flashbacks don't provide useful backstory but instead just muck up the pace and weaken the film's focus. A more dramatic and sweeping take on the thrill-ride would have tightened up all of these problems: a musical or visual refrain used whenever the heroic cryptologists examine a new riddle, or even a stronger concentration on the cabalist mazes would have lent the movie the excitement and captivation its premise deserved. As it stands, The Da Vinci Code is a good movie whose only tragedy is that it could have been great. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide

Cast

* Tom Hanks - Robert Langdon
* Audrey Tautou - Sophie Neveu
* Ian McKellen - Sir Leigh Teabing
* Alfred Molina - Bishop Aringarosa
* Jürgen Prochnow - Vernet


Paul Bettany - Silas; Jean Reno - Captain Bezu Fache; Jean-Yves Berteloot - Remy Jean; Etienne Chicot - Lieutenant Collet; Jean-Pierre Marielle - Jacques Saunière; Marie-Francoise Audollent - Sister Sandrine; Rita Davies - Elegant Woman at Rosslyn; Francesco Carnelutti - Prefect; Seth Gabel - Michael; Fausto Maria Sciarappa - Youngest Church Official; Denis Podalydès - Controller; Harry Taylor - British Police Captain; Clive Carter - Biggin Hill Police Captain; Garance Mazureck - Sophie at 13 Years; Daisy Doidge-Hill - Sophie at 8 Years; Lilli-Ella Kelleher - Sophie at 3 Years; Crisian Emanuel - Sophie's Mother; Charlotte Graham - Mary Magdalene; Xavier De Guillebon - Junkie; Tonio Descanvelle - Bank Guard; David Bark-Jones - Hawker Pilot; Serretta Wilson - American Woman; Eglantine Rembauville - Student; Dan Tondowski - Student; Aewia Huillet - Student; Roland John-Leopoldie - Student; David Saracino - DCPJ Agent; Lionel Guy-Bremond - Officer Ledoux; Yves Aubert - Louvre Computer Cop; Rachael Black - Policewoman; Dez Drummond - London Police; Mark Roper - London Policeman; Brock Little - American Embassy Cop; Matthew Butler - Westminster Cop; Roland Menou - DCPJ Technician; Tina Maskell - Silas' Mother; Peter Pedrero - Silas' Father; Sam Mancuso - Pope; André Lillis - Pope; Mario Vernazza - Young Constantine; Agathe Natanson - Ritual Priestess; Daz Parker - Peasant Mother; Andrew Robb - Peasant Father; Tom Barker - Peasant Boy; Maggie McEwan - Peasant Girl; Michael Bertenshaw - Priest; Sarah Wildor - Priestess; David Bertrand - French Newscaster

Answer 2

When respected American religious symbology expert Dr. Robert Langdon is summoned to the Louvre by the French version of the FBI, led by Captain Bezu Fache, he soon discovered that he is the #1 suspect for the murder of a historian Langdon had been scheduled to meet with.. Assisted by a French cryptographer and government agent named Sophie, Langdon is challenged to decipher a chain of cryptic codes and puzzles, all the while trying to stay ahead of Fache's lawmen in a chase through the Louvre, and out into the Parisian cityscape, and finally across the channel to England. Can Langdon and Sophie decipher the nature of a secret dating back to Leonardo Da Vinci and earlier before those responsible for the historian's murder add them to their hit list..?
imdb gave this movie 6.5\10
so its kind of avg thriller but certainly not a family movie

Answer 3

ok ian m. plays a grail reasercher he knows everything about it and wants it bad but he's friends with the main character (tom hanks) it starts out with a group called opus dei who are trying to destroy the grail and will kill to do it it. a curator is murdered and his granddaughter and tom are trying to solve the clues the grandfather left for them most excellent book and the movie is pretty close to that rent it it's worth the 4 bucks

Answer 4

The plot, like that of all hollywood blockbusting manipulating films is to make as much dosh from the public as possible ... !

Bonne Année !

PS - don't bother with the film, it's really a waste of time ... and money, of course ! I really wish I'd saved both of mine ...

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Answer 5

neither scary nor boring...

some might tell you that this movie is simply a 'conspiracy theory', others might say it's purpose is to undermine the christian faith.. others will state that it's based on historical truth and secret documents.. blah! if you know what i mean..

Answer 6

In my opinion the movie was great. Its about the bloodline of Jesus Christ and how the church is hiding it and trying to destroy evidence of it.

Answer 7

it all about the holy grail, it a good film but i would read the book, the film is no where near as good as the book is.