As Langdon and gifted French cryptologist Sophie Neveu sort through the bizarre riddles, they are stunned to discover a trail of clues hidden in the works of Leonardo da Vinci-clues visible for all to see and yet ingeniously disguised by the painter.Įven more startling, the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion-a secret society whose members included Sir Isaac Newton, Victor Hugo, and Da Vinci-and he guarded a breathtaking historical secret. The elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum, his body covered in baffling symbols. While in Paris, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is awakened by a phone call in the dead of the night. Robert and Sophie end up on a kind of scavenger hunt from Paris to London, and are tracked by Fache and aided by Robert's colleague, Sir Teabing ( Ian McKellen), who claims to be thrilled to be on a "grail quest." The mystery involves a Catholic Church's cover-up - for thousands of years - concerning Jesus and Mary Magdalene.Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read "Symbols," says the doctor early on, "are a language that can help us understand our past." The film reveals various characters' pasts, including the murderer's (a self-flagellating albino Opus Dei monk named Silas ), Sophie's, Langdon's, and significant events in history.
Along with the victim's granddaughter, cryptologist Sophie ( Audrey Tautou), Langdon tries to decipher the message, which begins with the victim's arranging of his own body to approximate Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man. Fache ( Jean Reno) to consult on a murder case, the scholar is briefly flattered, then daunted when he learns he is a suspect, owing to a note left by the victim. Robert Langdon ( Tom Hanks) is called by Parisian policeman Capt. In THE DA VINCI CODE, world-renowned symbologist Dr.
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