da vinci code author brown crossword clue

There were a couple of cinematic motifs which I quite liked, though unfortunately they become almost affectations as they are used so much:įlashbacks. Oh, and the bit where they borrow some guy’s 3G mobile phone on the bus in order to conduct some scholarly research en route to the next car chase-was just awful. Yes, yes, yes, I hear you: it’s only a story, but my point is that the film points up the unlikelyness of the story more than does the book. It just doesn’t hold up very well.įor example, one of the main plot points is the existance of a secret society (the Priory of Sion) which has managed to stay secret despite that it a) has been around since the dawn of forever, b) seems to include just about every famous person from the last 1000 years, c) guards a secret which could Rock Christianity to Its Very Foundations™ and d) protects that secret with the equivalent of a treasure hunt with some bad poetry (in English, conveniently) and cryptic clues. The story is revealed for what it is: a crossword-puzzler’s secret wank fantasy, where the future of Western Civilization hinges on the hero’s ability to do anagrams. It is such blatent tosh when one sees it being played out with real live people on the big screen, and apparently with a straight face. Really it’s a pretty faithful adaptation of a book which had lots of interesting ideas, and a brilliant hook of a story, and was told in barely adequate prose (with hideously creaky dialogue).Īs it is so faithful, and also because it condenses a novel-sized story into a 2 hour film, the film really lays bare the shortcomings of the plot. The story is very daft, but… I quite enjoyed the whole experience. My fellow viewers reckoned that the dialogue was hideously creaky (though I didn’t notice so much). Not exactly an acting masterclass, except in adequately ambling through a mediocre film. A competently put together film (as you’d expect from Ron Howard), with adequate performances (as you’d expect from Tom Hanks).

Da vinci code author brown crossword clue