Da Vinci Code (film)

Da Vinci Code ( The Da Vinci Code ) is an American police film of Ron Howard, adapted novel éponyme (Da Vinci Code) of American Dan Brown and composes the second shutter of the cinematographic trilogy of Robert Langdon .

The film left Wednesday May 17th 2006 in France and made the very same day the opening of the Cannes festival. The world exit took place the May 19th 2006.

The rights of the book were bought 6 million dollars by Sony Pictures to make the adaptation of it. Dan Brown had previously refused an offer of Joel Surnow, which wanted to use the screen of the novel to make some one season of the series 24 hours stopwatch .

Distribution

Equip

It is the producer Brian Grazer who was chosen by Sony for the production of this film.

The scenario of film is written for the big screen by Akiva Goldsman, celebrates author of successful films like I, Robot or a man of exception , for which he already worked with Ron Howard.

The music is composed by Hans Zimmer, which had just completed the composition of the last Batman ( Batman Begins , Batman the beginning with the Quebec) but also of Pirates off the Caribbean 2: Dead Man' S Chest (Pirate of the Caribbean 2: the secrecy of the trunk cursed in France). At the beginning, Howard had appointed his/her collaborator of long time, James Horner, but as he worked on the New World ( The New World ) of Terrence Malick left in 2005, he could not undertake the music of another work. As for film of Howard for the next book of Dan Brown.

Places of turning

The French ministry of the Culture accepted that turning proceeds of night inside the Louvre, where the catches of sights began the June 30th 2005 to be completed the October 19th 2005 in England. Last turning to have taken place in Louvre went up with 2002, for the film Innocents - The Dreamers of Bernardo Bertolucci, primarily to remake celebrates it race in the corridors of the museum of Bande to share , of Jean-Luc Godard. In addition, the authorization to film inside the Parisian church Saint-Sulpice was not required: the interior of the church and the hotel room were reconstituted and turned in studio with London.

Anecdotes

According to the declarations of Ron Howard and Brian Grazer with the weekly magazine Newsweek left the December 26th 2005, Jacques Chirac met Ron Howard and its producer in December 2004. He would have proposed his assistance to them in order to resolve possible administrative worries and to obtain the authorizations necessary to the production of film. The French President would have also suggested the recruiting of the best friend of his daughter Claude Chirac in the casting of film (it would be about Sophie Marceau) and the increase in the seal of the actor Jean Reno. What the actor contradicted thereafter: “The President of the Republic has other fish to fry to deal with my seals. ”

These assertions were contradicted by the Elysium in the number of the Monde of the December 30th 2005: the meeting took place well, but there was no incentive to recruit an actress or to increase Jean Reno, the presidential press service with the Monde affirmed.

it can also see Ron Howard at the beginning of film, in the scene where Langdon signs autographs.

Reactions

Religions

At the beginning of May 2006, with the approach of the exit of film in France, of catholic associations begin a campaign against film, in particular by sticking wall cupboards on the posters in the rues.
Although religious leaders condemn film, the Churches condemn any boycotting and any action against this film:
" The role of the Church in this business is to give elements of comprehension and analysis. We disapprove any violent action which would aim at preventing projections or people to go there. It is only one film, there are more serious things which occur in the monde" said Jean-Michel di Falco, the President of the Council for the communication of the Conference of the Bishops of France.
More astonishing, in Azerbaïdjan, of the Moslem political officials decided against this film. In the same way, in Thailand, country with Buddhist majority, the National Commission of censure recommended to remove the ten minutes which are important for the comprehension of film. Sony Pictures disputed this decision. Finally, a compromise was found with resulting from the negotiations. No part of film was censured but an indication, whereby the film was built starting from purely fictitious facts, is posted in a quite visible way before the credits of the beginning of film.

Cannes festival

The film accepted an icy reception following its projection at the time of the opening of the Cannes festival by the few 2.000 journalist presents. There was some laughter at the time of the critical or poignant moments and some whistles at the end of film. On the other hand the spectators not journalists are more enthusiastic.

Criticisms

Criticisms of journalists give an negative opinion of film. But in spite of this apparent unit, the opinions are very moderate. They go from missed film (a Nanar) to film just insipid and too faithful to the novel.
Aux the United States, criticisms are generally a little more benevolent and greet action film and of suspense.

  • “the adaptation of Ron Howard turns to the nanar mown” for Libération

  • “In spite of an end academic and talkative, Howard signs a honourable film, sometimes spectacular” for Parisian the
  • “It should be said that the realizer Ron Howard does not do anything, or almost, to charm the spectators, being satisfied with the strict minimum behind the camera, i.e. licked an enough packing, which makes illusion but remains insipid, and of which the only trademarks are the supported sound effects and the ceaseless music” for MCinéma.com
  • “ Da Vinci codes falls under the pépère kind adaptations copied on the novel which suffer from an absence of glance - and audacity - on behalf of a scenario writer undoubtedly too respectful of material of origin” for aVoir-aLire.com
  • “the actors very bad and are concerned at all with what arrives, and the film is soft as one chews certainly” for Chronic' art
  • “ Da Vinci Code is very bad cinema. Everyone will be appropriate about it” for Fluctuat.net
  • “a film " lourd" and " sinistre" ” for Le Figaro
  • “ Da Vinci Code is Graal of the estival blockbusters, it is a crépitant thriller and rapid which is quite as smart and irresistible that the bestseller discussed of Dan Brown” for Lou Lumenick of the New York Post (approximate translation)
  • “By an effect of contraction inherent in the adaptation, the mixture of the kinds between " polar" and esotericism, which gave a certain effectiveness to the novel in spite of its large strings, sinks here in a style Large-Puppet which lends to smiling. These two hours thirty of hunting for Graal appear quite long” for Arnaud Schwartz, in Cannes of the daily newspaper the Cross
  • “a reading of plane become a good film of plane” for Eleanor Ringel Gillespie of the Atlanta Newspaper-Constitution (approximate translation)
  • “research on the divinity of Jesus and on the search of Graal must be left with the Monty Python” for A.O. Scott of the NewYork Times (approximate translation)

Success

At the time of its exit, the public abounded in the cinemas of the whole world, generating more than 217 million $ only with the the United States. It adds up of them 540 in the remainder of planet, giving a total of 754 million dollars, one of largest successes in the industry of the cinéma.
In France, they are 4189465 spectators who were to see film, in spite of a poignant criticism of the magazines, as during its projection to the Cannes festival.

References

  • “'' The “Codes” Breakers ''”, by Devin Gordon, Newsweek Dec. 26,2005 - Jan 2,2006 exit
  • “'' Da Vinci Code '': the Elysium contradicts any interference”, by Gregoire Allix and Beatrice Gurrey, Le Monde of December 30th, 2005
  • " The enigma sacrée" of Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln

External bonds

  • Critical Official site
  • of film on the site of the catholic Youth movement of France
  • To decode “'' Da Vinci Code ''”
  • Hotel of Louvre (official site)

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