Da Vinci Code

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Da Vinci Code
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About the novel

• The Da Vinci Code is a mystery-detective fiction
  novel written by the American author Dan Brown in
  2003. It follows the enterprises of the
  symbologis Robert Langdon as he investigates a
  murder in the Louvre Museum in Paris and
  discovers a battle between thePriority of Sion
  and Opus Dei about a possible marriage between
  Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene, from whom Jesus
  might have had a son.
• The title of the novel refers to the fact that a
  murdered man is found in the the Louvre, naked
  and lying like the Vitruvian Man inLeonardo da
  Vincis famous drawing, with a crypted message
  written beside his body and a pentacle drawn on
  his stomach in his own blood.

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The plot

• The symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent
  late-night phone call while he is in Paris on
  business the elderly curator of the Louvre has
  been murdered inside the museum. Near the body,
  police have found a cipher alluding to a riddle,
  which Robert manages to solve. The riddle leads
  to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da
  Vinci disguised by the painter

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• Langdon meets a talented French cryptologist,
  Sophie Neveu, and learns the late curator was
  involved in the Priory of Sionan actual secret
  society whose members included Sir Isaac Newton,
  Botticelli, Victor Hugo, and Da Vinci,etc. The
  Louvre curator has sacrificed his life to protect
  the Priory's most sacred secret the location of
  a greatly important religious relic, hidden for
  centuries.

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• Langdon and Neveu are engaged in a series of
  races throughParis, London, and face relentless
  adventure, in the end Sophie is discovered to be
  the last living heir of Magdalene and Jesus
  child.

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The worth of the novel

• The novel arose the public imagination and
  interest regarding the Holy Grail legend and
  Magdalene's role in the history of Christianity.
• The book has been denounced by many Christian
  people as a dishonest attack on the Roman
  Catholic Church.
• It has also been criticized for being
  historically and scientifically inaccurate,
• Brown's novel t is a worldwide bestseller that
  had 60.5 million copies in print by May 2006 and
  that has been translated into 44 languages.
• It combines the detective, thriller, and fiction
  genres.
• It is the second book by Brown including the
  character Robert Langdon (the first was his novel
  Angels Demons, written in 2000).

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Some shots taken by the film

• The film was likewise successful but it did not
  follow the plot accurately and it is general
  opinion that it is not as goog as the novel

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