![]() ![]() But I'll tell ya, I read the book and there were parts of the movie I still found confusing. There's a lot going on here and a lot that needs to be translated to the screen. Unfortunately, for a movie with so much publicity, so much promise and so much hype surrounding it, Da Vinci is fairly disappointing. Nevertheless, I went into the movie with a fairly open mind and really wanting to like this movie. I have to admit I went into The Da Vinci Code fully knowing the negative buzz that has suddenly surrounded the movie in the last 24 hours following its screening at Cannes. If revealed this secret will shake the very foundation upon which Christianity and Catholicism have been built. With the help of Sophie Neveu (Audrey Tautou), Langdon manages to elude the police and begins to follow a series of hidden codes and puzzles that lead him to an ancient secret that a mysterious society has been hiding for more than 2000 years. In the movie, Tom Hanks plays Robert Langdon, an American professor trapped in Paris after he is considered the prime suspect in the murder of a prominent French curator and historian. Brown a multi-millionaire and at the same time, angered Christians and Catholics around the world. The Da Vinci Code is the controversial movie directed by Ron Howard and based on the best-selling Dan Brown novel that has made Mr. He was an artist but also possessed the inquisitiveness of a scientist. Although he refused to eat meat he drew pictures of corpses. His love of nature, however, was tempered by witnessing murder in churches and public hangings. He overcame the stigma of the former, but the latter, Brown writes that Da Vinci was a “flamboyant homosexual” and fought “a perpetual state of sin against God” despite the public success of his life in historical terms while unproven, it haunted him forever. He also had two great strikes against him: he was illegitimate and also accused of sodomy. He sometime was unable to complete paintings because of attention problems he would lose business opportunities, as with the Sistine chapel that finally Michaelangelo painted, whom he met late in life and resented. He never stopped experimenting, which unfortunately doomed some of his paintings to premature decay due to unstable primers. According to legend he had such physical strength, could bend horseshoes with his hands, and it is well-known that he wrote his notebooks in script which was backwards. He was practical, and apparently charismatic, and brilliant enough to produce works beyond anything seen before. ![]() Da Vinci himself was a intellectual paradox: he exerted a curiosity about practical and mechanical things, how they worked, and his artistic thoughts derived from the practical. As Bach and Mozart produced the finest music in the styles of their times, Da Vinci was a member of secret orders, most notably the Priory of Sion, a secret fraternal organization founded in 1099. ![]() ![]() While we think that the Renaissance Era was a peaceful time of painting flowers, and a free atmosphere in which creative genius flourished, it was this period of time that brought turbulent years which gave birth to the rebirth of civilization. Born illegitimately in Tuscany in 1452, Leonardo da Vinci took advantage of his considerable artistic and mechanical talents to break free of class constraints and achieve lasting recognition. Leonardo Da Vinci the man, certainly fits our idea of a man of all seasons who lived by no code other than his own. ![]()
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