Sister Mary Michael is the representative of the resistance to The Da Vinci Code. For a long time, her whereabouts occupied the newspaper: when the film crew filmed the location in New Zealand, she practiced prayer in the location; Tom Hanks and her party arrived in Lincolnshire, England, and she took another 200 people to protest. Before the film was unveiled in Cannes, the nun knelt under a wooden cross on the red carpet and bowed her head and read the rosary. The nun's gesture reflects the church's nervousness about The Da Vinci Code, but the film director Ron Howard thinks that the protest is not as fierce as expected: "In Lincolnshire, a lady in nun's dress and a young man did drive her here to protest. Later 198 people came and they were waiting for Tom Hanks to sign for them. "
The movie The Da Vinci Code is not to appease the protesters, but to please people who love this book. No novel has been adapted into a movie like The Da Vinci Code. Its intensive and tortuous exploration process is not driven by language, but by pictures: the Vitruwe model of the Louvre curator is in a pool of naked blood; Clever; On the streets of Paris; An albino ascetic who flogged himself in front of the shrine ... Although the characters in the novel are vague, dan brown thought about who to play when he wrote it: robert langdon, a cryptographer, is "Harrison Ford in a Scottish skirt", and the screenwriter also made it clear that French detective Fassi was tailor-made for Jean Reno. It's Hollywood's choice for Tom Hanks to replace Harrison Ford-he's so smart. Has any movie ever failed? "Hanks's wisdom can't be faked. A good actor plays everything well, except the feeling of still thinking, even if he doesn't think deeply. " Film screenwriter Goldman said. Hanks is really suitable to play the role of the man who often bows his head and says nothing. The key is that his box office is guaranteed. The heroine in "Angels Love Beauty" was given to audrey tautou, an authentic Frenchman, thus avoiding the nationality dispute of the actress in "Memoirs of a Geisha". Jean Reno naturally took it on himself, and The Da Vinci Code became a reconciliation between Americans and French after the tension of "9. 1 1".
It is said that French President Jacques Chirac once received the director and his party and offered to help open the door of the Louvre, but at the same time hinted that he hoped that the heroine would be played by his daughter's close friend, and then Jean Reno, the French national treasure, would be paid more. Fortunately, Ron Howard, the director of "Main Melody" who won two Oscars, has a wide network of contacts and entered the Louvre without the presence of the President. They encountered many difficulties, such as there was no blood on the floor, the famous paintings could not be directly illuminated, and the Mona Lisa could not directly write the password. In the end, the Mona Lisa in the movie is a replica. These difficulties are nothing compared with what happened at Westminster Abbey in London. They were not allowed to enter the church at all, but took some exterior photos on the street outside the door. Finally, these photos were treated as modern traffic and medieval worshippers overlapping in front of the cathedral, which was quite historical, but the next shots were taken in Lincoln Church. Despite the difficulties, the film also showed an uncompromising attitude of ignoring the protest: "Only a fool would adopt this story on the one hand and try to delete the wonderful parts on the other. We made this film because we like this novel. " (Director's Language)
The boycott before the film was released was a continuation of the novel boycott. The story told by dan brown is a very popular and inflammatory conspiracy theory: Jesus is not a god, but an ordinary man. He married Mary Magdalene and gave birth to a daughter, whose lineage remains in Europe today. This greatly stimulated Roman Catholics. Before the film was released, the Vatican's second-in-command once again called for a boycott of The Da Vinci Code, which is a "wrong, slanderous, insulting and antichrist book". Opus Dei, portrayed as bloodthirsty, and NBC Radio jointly screened a documentary "Deciphering Jesus", which claimed to accurately and clearly explain the real experience of Jesus himself and his disciples. Christian groups in Denmark, Japan, India and Singapore boycotted movies in different ways, including protests, hunger strikes and speeches. Their fear of subverting Christ is more secular, with the widespread spread of movies. However, these actions not only strengthen people's curiosity about movies, but also show only one thing: this Hollywood blockbuster has been successfully exported again.
Everything became alarmist after the film was released. "Roman Catholicism can rest easy." The film review of Newsweek said: "This long and plain film has not subverted people's traditional understanding of Christianity at all, it will only subvert audrey tautou's ambition to enter Hollywood." When novels sell well, people only regard dan brown's narrative skills and plain language as secondary contradictions. As soon as the film came out, the small flaws in the plot arrangement of the novel and the poor technique of the film were magnified. Dan brown's cleverness lies in the interlocking process of exploration and the organic combination of religion, history, art, astronomy and geography. Reading can let you know where the meridian of the earth was before Greenwich. The number of female bees divided by the number of male bees in any hive in the world will be equal to a number, but the film obliterates all this, leaving behind a "fake" Rolex and a bird that was frightened by the church and could save lives. These arrangements are stiff and outdated. The film also tries to finish the story of the novel for 20 hours in 2 hours. A large number of flashbacks are futile religious science popularization work, which makes the film appear crowded and cramped, like a cloth bag stuffed too full. According to Newsweek, the most fatal thing is that this film lacks humanity. Clever as Tom Hanks's Langdon, an esoteric symbologist, can't breathe. He has no other personality characteristics except his childhood memories, and his only function is a living database. Besides, he talks too much, and unlocking secrets is like a superman, so much so that it is like a joke. Thinking hard about the scene with the rose password box in his hand, what an epoch-making moment it was. The secret of 2000, countless murders, is coming out. But Langdon stood in front of the "Virgin of the Rock" and applied what he had learned. As soon as the small universe broke out, he came up with the password: Apple. This is not an advertisement for Apple, is it? Audrey tautou also lacks the beauty and agility that angels love beauty. As a descendant of Jesus, she is mediocre and preoccupied. What's more, it's a pity that she didn't develop a relationship with a cryptographer. Detective Jean Reno fell into the trap of a bad guy and almost forgot him. The only lovely character in the film is Ray Tibin, a religious fanatic played by Ian McKellen?.
Speaking of the character "Lei Tibin", his setting is related to the copyright lawsuit of The Da Vinci Code. The novel tells the secret of the Holy Grail through the mouth of Ray Tibin, and this is exactly what the Holy Grail of the Holy Blood is accused of plagiarism. However, Richard Ray, one of the authors of the latter novel, joked that dan brown's setting of the character "Ray" was a direct quotation, not plagiarism. Both novels were published by Random House. The lawsuit made the Holy Grail of the Holy Blood sell 7,000 copies a week, and The Da Vinci Code returned to the list, both inside and outside. The lawsuit started just before the film was released, and it looked like a propaganda conspiracy between Random House and Sony Pictures. Ian McClellan, who plays Ray Tibbin, said, "If your movie can appear on the news at 2 1 every night, what reason is there to doubt the box office of this movie?"
The novel The Da Vinci Code can also worry religious people, but the film suddenly draws attention away: it doesn't matter what the shocking secret is, and the film turns into a treasure hunt for beautiful women and heroes by telling the outline of the story. It's a religious version of National Treasure, a low-profile version of The Name of the Rose, and a European version of The Bible The Code Wars ... just another genre film made in Hollywood. A few people with international consciousness think that we lack Christian tradition and it is a blind joke to follow the Da Vinci Code. The film gives a compelling reason: We don't care about Jesus, but also care about Tom Hanks. Hollywood is good at making such an expressive shell, and everything stuffed in it can be sold all over the world. One day, our relics and the list of gods can also be stuffed in, without fear of blasphemy or violation, because The Da Vinci Code has proved that once put in the shell of such movies, nothing needs to be taken seriously.