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The Da Vinci Code

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The Da Vinci Code	label	The Da Vinci Code
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The Da Vinci Code	comment	The Da Vinci Code is a 2003 thriller written by Dan Brown. It sold 80 million copies worldwide, becoming one of the bestselling novels in history. It also caused a huge controversy because of its statements about early Christianity, and was sharply criticized for that and its historical inaccuracy.The story begins with a museum curator getting killed, setting a historian framed for the murder and his newfound lady co-investigator on a puzzle quest for the Holy Grail.In 2006, a film adaptation was released, directed by Ron Howard and with an All-Star Cast including Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Ian McKellen, Paul Bettany, Alfred Molina, Jean Reno, JÃ¼rgen Prochnow and Jean-Pierre Marielle.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_12f078f3	type	Artistic License – Linguistics
The Da Vinci Code / int_12f078f3	comment	Artistic License â€“ Linguistics: Langdon claims that the name of the Holy Grail is related to the Latin word sanguis "blood", via French sangreal. This is false; the word "Grail" most likely derives from Latin crater "jar". Langdon claims that the word cross derives from Latin cruciare "to torture". Actually, it's the other way round - cruciare derives from Latin crux, which translates to - cross.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_15448489	type	Ancient Tradition
The Da Vinci Code / int_15448489	comment	Ancient Tradition: The Priory of Sion.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
The Da Vinci Code / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License â€“ Biology: In The Film of the Book, the Catholic Church's "shadow council" wants to destroy Mary Magdalene's tomb to prevent evidence of Jesus's bloodline from reaching the public. They seem to think that having access to DNA samples from Mary Magdalene's corpse would, by itself, give someone a way to prove that she and Jesus had children. Actually, it would just prove that she had children at some point (not exactly an Earth-shattering revelation). Proving that Jesus fathered her children would require a DNA sample from Jesus, too. Albinism is often linked to poor eyesight due to a lack of pigment in the eyes as a result of being melanin-deficient. Silas would most likely be a very poor candidate to be what is effectively an assassin since shooting at long distances and being able to drive at night is part of the job description.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_18e2980	type	Poirot Speak
The Da Vinci Code / int_18e2980	comment	Poirot Speak: Dan Brown's foreign language dialogue is almost unmatched in how ham-handed and unrealistic it is. Almost every bit of dialogue by a French person (and the first part of the book is set in Paris) features one or two words of French in otherwise flawless English, and it's almost always a simple, common word. In real life, people speaking a language that is foreign to them would probably lapse into their native tongue for the unfamiliar or unknown words, not "mister" and "captain".
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The Da Vinci Code / int_1a8dc238	type	Underestimating Badassery
The Da Vinci Code / int_1a8dc238	comment	Underestimating Badassery: Silas mistakes Sir Leigh Teabing for being just an old cripple, and he pays for it.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_1badfbbb	type	The Heavy
The Da Vinci Code / int_1badfbbb	comment	The Heavy: Silas is not the Big Bad, though he kicks off the plot and continues to be an antagonist throughout.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_1c6ded94	type	Wicked Cultured
The Da Vinci Code / int_1c6ded94	comment	Wicked Cultured: Primarily Leigh Teabing.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_20f689e9	type	Adaptational Villainy
The Da Vinci Code / int_20f689e9	comment	Though in the movie, due to Adaptational Villainy, it turns out that there actually is a secret faction within the Catholic Church that actively wants to find and destroy Mary Magdalene's tomb.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Da Vinci Code / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Using planks as parachutes. There's also a Chekhov's Allergy. As soon as we hear that RÃ©my has a peanut allergy he once had to have an emergency tracheotomy for, we know how he's going to die.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
The Da Vinci Code / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: "You are a ghost!" becomes this for Silas, who admits to himself "I am a ghost" at the end. "Only the worthy find the Grail" becomes this for Teabing, who gets this spat back at him by Langdon.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_2439b588	type	As the Good Book Says...
The Da Vinci Code / int_2439b588	comment	As the Good Book Says...: Silas follows SauniÃ¨re's clue to the church of Eglise de Saint-Sulpice in search of the keystone, but only finds a tablet engraved Job 38:11 ("hitherto shalt thou come, but no further").
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The Da Vinci Code / int_27af99f1	type	Raised by Grandparents
The Da Vinci Code / int_27af99f1	comment	Raised by Grandparents: After becoming an orphan, Sophie is raised by her grandfather from an early age.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
The Da Vinci Code / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: Aringarosa is Italian for "Red Herring", indicating he isn't the Big Bad.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_2f329e3c	type	Tomato in the Mirror
The Da Vinci Code / int_2f329e3c	comment	Tomato in the Mirror: Part of the quest for the Grail is to find out who Mary Magdalene and Jesus's descendants are. That way, they can be protected from whoever killed Jacques and the nun. Sophie finds out that she is one of those descendants; in the book, her brother is as well.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_2f540567	type	Pop Culture Symbology
The Da Vinci Code / int_2f540567	comment	Pop Culture Symbology: The book makes mention of Grail symbolism hidden within Disney cartoons, from Snow White to The Little Mermaid.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_3079b64	type	Author Catchphrase
The Da Vinci Code / int_3079b64	comment	Author Catchphrase: "My friends..."
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The Da Vinci Code / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
The Da Vinci Code / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Teabing sincerely admits that his plan was to make sure Robert wasn't hurt; Robert is his friend, and a fellow academic interested in finding the Grail. He wasn't supposed to be involved at all and wouldn't have been if not for Jacques writing down Robert's name as part of a dying message. In fact, Teabing's plan was to ensure that Silas would take the Grail from his mansion, while Teabing would clear Robert and Sophie's names with the authorities. Teabing realized, however, that he needed Robert's help to solve the clue and incapacitated Silas, and he tells Robert that they're going to solve this puzzle together.Â
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The Da Vinci Code / int_3322dd48	type	Hollywood Law
The Da Vinci Code / int_3322dd48	comment	Hollywood Law: Dan Brown seems to be under the impression that all it takes to extradite a British national from their own country is for a foreign law enforcement agencies to make a call to a local police officer. Also, he seems to think that said local police will simply detain the suspects until the foreign police arrive to make the arrests themselves. He says the French police judiciaire is the equivalent of the FBI. It's not- this refers simply to detectives. The closest France has to the FBI is the National Police, but there is no exact equivalent because of the way France's government is organized. It is not federated like the US, so there's no need for an interstate agency. The National Police takes care of civil law enforcement duties for the entire country — except in smaller towns and more remote areas, where the Gendarmerie has jurisdiction, and municipal police exist in some towns and cities — and the police judiciaire is the section of the National Police that investigates the most serious crimes such as murders. Whether this is a case of Creator Provincialism or just another case of Dan not doing the research (or both) isn't clear. Sophie tells Langdon that the police captain suspects he committed the murder and can have him detained for months. No. French law only allows someone to be detained for 24 hours, with another 24 hours allowed if approved by the local prosecutor and the police can demonstrate it's necessary. The captain would have to prove Langdon committed the murder in the face of evidence that Langdon was nowhere in the vicinity, he'd have to answer for destroying evidence when he erased Langdon's name, they'd have to prove Langdon either smuggled a gun into France or acquired one when he was already there, the list goes on. He can't charge Langdon, only the local prosecutor can do that, and he doesn't have enough evidence to make it stick. And to repeat, the prosecutor is going to be seriously pissed that he destroyed evidence by erasing part of what the victim wrote. Of course, Sophie may have simply said that to get Langdon to stop arguing and get moving.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_33f1c576	type	Not Helping Your Case
The Da Vinci Code / int_33f1c576	comment	Not Helping Your Case: Fache eventually realizes that Robert and Sophie are innocent and they really are in danger from the real killer. He tries ordering Sophie over the phone to seek refuge with Robert at the London police headquarters rather than try to save Teabing. Thing is that Fache says that Sophie and Robert need to do it to save his career rather than their own skin. Unsurprisingly, Sophie hangs up on him.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_35e6593b	type	Accidental Passenger
The Da Vinci Code / int_35e6593b	comment	Accidental Passenger: Invoked. When Sophie discovers a GPS tracker, she attaches it to a bar of soap, and throws it on to a passing truck, which is later stopped by the police.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_35f724b6	type	WhatCliffHanger
The Da Vinci Code / int_35f724b6	comment	What Cliff Hanger?: The book had a One-Paragraph Chapter in which Robert Langdon and his date see a thing inside a box. Whatever the grail was, it wasn't that thing (the thing turned out to be a cryptex, i.e., a tube that had a puzzle to be solved for it to open). In fact, done frequently in anything written by Dan Brown. It's pretty much the end of every chapter.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_362bdb30	type	Out-Gambitted
The Da Vinci Code / int_362bdb30	comment	Out-Gambitted: Langdon does this to Teabing by fooling him into thinking that he couldn't open the cryptex, not even at gunpoint. After the knight is apprehended and in custody, he realizes that Langdon figured it out and removed the secret beforehand.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_3866ab91	type	Deceased Parents Are the Best
The Da Vinci Code / int_3866ab91	comment	Deceased Parents Are the Best: Both of Sophie's parents are killed in a car accident when she was young, making her Conveniently an Orphan raised by her grandfather.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_3a1c2171	type	The Man Behind the Man
The Da Vinci Code / int_3a1c2171	comment	In the book, "The Teacher" is able to manipulate Opus Dei into helping him because he learns that the Catholic Church is about to revoke its support for the group, and he convinces Bishop Aringarosa that he'll be able to regain the Church's support if he presents them with the Sangrael Documents (the historical documents that prove that Jesus had descendants). In the movie, the plot point about Opus Dei losing its Church support never comes up, and Aringarosa is part of a secret group within the Vatican that actively wants to hide the existence of Jesus' descendants from the world—making it extra questionable that he would willingly ally with the Teacher, who wants to reveal the existence of Jesus' descendants to the world. The movie's only explanation is that the Teacher (somehow) "convinced them that [he] was an ally".
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The Da Vinci Code / int_3c598f56	type	Conflict Ball
The Da Vinci Code / int_3c598f56	comment	Conflict Ball: It's not immediately clear just what the antagonists are fighting over. Silas and the Aringarosa want to keep the secret of Mary Magdalene a secret. The Priory has kept their knowledge of Mary Magdalene secret for centuries. The conflict is over the fact that the Priory was supposed to release the secret to the public at a certain set time. The Church wants the secret kept forever. Except that the Priory was apparently never planning to, so it was All for Nothing.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
The Da Vinci Code / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: It turns out that leading a manhunt against two innocent people across international lines, and directly blocking their means of seeking legal protection or an embassy's refuge, is bad PR. Robert himself notes that he has no motive, murder weapon, or the time since his alibi was he was in his hotel room after Jacques stood him up for drinks. That's because Jacques was busy being murdered. Fache is forced to admit that he was wrong when learning from Aringosa that neither Sophie nor Robert was involved in the murders, and his priority becomes to save Robert and Sophie from the real killer. Even so, though Robert and Sophie show no hard feelings, the press certainly does. At the end, they're watching the news as a journalist asks Officer Collet if Robert and Sophie are going to pursue a lawsuit against the French police, rightly pointing out this was a gross Miscarriage of Justice by smearing two innocent people and making them France's most wanted.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_48c99e19	type	Death by Adaptation
The Da Vinci Code / int_48c99e19	comment	Death by Adaptation: Sadly, Sophie's brother really did die in the car crash during the film. In the book, it's revealed Marie faked his death, and he was raised to believe that Sophie and Jacques died with his parents.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_4aaffbd5	type	I Never Said It Was Poison
The Da Vinci Code / int_4aaffbd5	comment	I Never Said It Was Poison: Briefly played with in the movie. When Fache first brings Langdon to the Louvre (secretly suspecting him of being SauniÃ¨re's murderer), Langdon mentions that the murder took place in the Grand Gallery before Fache tells him where the body was found. Langdon, with his extensive knowledge of art, actually just recognized the Grand Gallery's distinctive parquet floor in the crime scene photograph, but he inadvertently ends up making himself look even guiltier.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_4f1f4751	type	Plot-Powered Stamina
The Da Vinci Code / int_4f1f4751	comment	Plot-Powered Stamina: Robert Langdon never sleeps or visits the bathroom in the book, until the end.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_50ca4422	type	Unresolved Sexual Tension
The Da Vinci Code / int_50ca4422	comment	Unresolved Sexual Tension: Hinted at more in the book when the two resolve to meet up again, but the movie has this too.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_52db461d	type	Significant Anagram
The Da Vinci Code / int_52db461d	comment	Significant Anagram: Leigh Teabing's surname is an anagram of Baigent, the surname of one of the authors of the "nonfiction" book The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail. The message written by SauniÃ¨re next to his body in the Louvre includes the anagrams of Leonardo da Vinci ("O, Draconian devil") and the Mona Lisa ("Oh, lame saint"). The message on the Plexiglas protecting the Mona Lisa is an anagram of Madonna of the Rocks ("So Dark the Con of Man").
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The Da Vinci Code / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
The Da Vinci Code / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The story begins and ends with a dead body in the Louvre. The first time it's Jacques SauniÃ¨re's body. The second time it's the corpse of Mary Magdalene, whose tomb was hidden under the Louvre by the Priory of Sion.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_5552929	type	Albinos Are Freaks
The Da Vinci Code / int_5552929	comment	Albinos Are Freaks: Silas's father was an alcoholic thug who abused his son because of his appearance, forcing Silas to run away from home as a teenager and turn to crime to survive. He's not a hitman because of his albinism, but it's understandable that his treatment might lead to some unsavory career choices.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
The Da Vinci Code / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License â€“ History: The grail being of the Merovingian bloodline is portrayed as being kind of a big deal. While they were kings, aside from Clovis, most of them were little better than barbarian warlords and tended to be more incompetent than the last as time went on. Although, it should be noted that part of this negative image of incompetent kings is due to the propaganda of their successors, the Carolingians, who evicted the last Merovingian king and therefore had an interest in portraying them as lazy incompetents to justify their own power-grab. Historians are still debating the issue, but as with the other so-called "barbarian" people who founded kingdoms on the ruins of the Roman Empire, they are questioning how "barbarous" these people really were. The Priory of Scion is a real organization that actually exists...but it was founded in 1956 by a bunch of people who went as far as to plant fake evidence as to their "theory" on how Christianity is Based on a Great Big Lie. The book claims that "during three hundred years of witch hunts, the Church burned at the stake an astounding five million women". While the Witch trials of the Early New Age existed and were pretty horrible, modern, scholastic estimations range from 40,000 to 60,000 victims in Europe in total. Most of them were women but a significant number (around 20%) were men, and many were executed in Protestant countries. In the film adaptation, Langdon's lecture on symbology includes a montage contrasting a peace symbol with an illustration of Roman authorities crucifying someone upside-down, implying that one originated from the other. In fact, this is a common urban legend about the origins of the peace symbol: it actually comes from the semaphore symbols for "N" and "D", which stand for "nuclear disarmament"—because it originated as a symbol of the anti-nuclear weapons movement.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_5663a595	type	Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole
The Da Vinci Code / int_5663a595	comment	Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole: The 2006 movie has several story issues that weren't present in the book. To name a few: In the book, several characters discuss the possibility of the Church trying to hide evidence of Jesus having living descendants, but it's left ambiguous whether any of this is actually true, and the head of Opus Dei is ultimately revealed to be a pawn of "The Teacher" who just wants to keep Opus Dei afloat. In the movie, it's made explicit that there actually is a secret group within the Vatican called "The Council of Shadows" that actively wants to find and destroy Mary Magdalene's tomb, and they're particularly concerned about the possibility of someone using "DNA identification" to prove that Mary Magdalene was the mother of Jesus' children. Except...even if someone managed to get samples of Mary Magdalene's DNA from her tomb, no one could prove that Jesus fathered her children unless they also had DNA samples from Jesus himself. So what are they so afraid of? In the book, Bezu Fache is just a really persistent detective who also happens to be a devout Catholic, and he pursues Langdon for Jacques SauniÃ¨re's murder due to a simple misunderstanding. In the movie, Fache is a member of Opus Dei, and it's eventually revealed that Bishop Aringarosa is using him as a pawn to stop Langdon from exposing the truth about Jesus' bloodline (Fache suspects Langdon because Aringarosa falsely claimed that Langdon came to him in confession and admitted to being a killer). But Aringarosa has no way of knowing about SauniÃ¨re's trail of clues, which is the only reason Langdon knows the truth—so Aringarosa shouldn't have any reason to be concerned about him revealing anything. Langdon also doesnâ€™t find SauniÃ¨re's clues until after he's summoned to the Louvre...but he's only summoned to the Louvre because Fache thinks he killed SauniÃ¨re, and wants to set a trap for him. If Aringarosa was really the one who convinced Fache to pin the murder on Langdon, he'd had to have convinced him of that before Langdon even discovered the clues—in which case, he shouldn't have had any reason to frame him for murder. The movie ends with the revelation that Sophie Neveu is Jesus' only living direct descendant. As Langdon rather melodramatically phrases it: "Sophie...you are the secret!" In other words: a 2,000-year-old bloodline (descended from a couple who had multiple children) has exactly one living direct descendant. In the book, the final revelation is a lot less dramatic: Sophie and her long-lost brother (who's dead in the movie) are just two of several descendants of one of several French families who claim to trace their lineage back to Jesus and Mary Magdalene, and it's implied that Jesus and Mary Magdalene have so many descendants that being related to them isn't good for much other than bragging rights. For added head-scratching: the movie also adds the revelation that Jacques SauniÃ¨re wasn't really Sophie's grandfather, but simply adopted her to keep her safe from agents of the Church who systematically assassinate living descendants of Jesus. But if Sophie is so important to the Priory of Sion that their leader adopted her to keep her safe from the Church, then why didn't any members of the Priory ever bother to check in on her after she became estranged from her "grandfather" as an adult? If the Priory of Sion is devoted to protecting the living descendants of Jesus, you'd think they'd put a little more effort into protecting his only living descendant. If nothing else, you'd think they might have told her about her secret heritage at some point, instead of just waiting for her to coincidentally stumble upon one of their hideouts. In the book, "The Teacher" is able to manipulate Opus Dei into helping him because he learns that the Catholic Church is about to revoke its support for the group, and he convinces Bishop Aringarosa that he'll be able to regain the Church's support if he presents them with the Sangrael Documents (the historical documents that prove that Jesus had descendants). In the movie, the plot point about Opus Dei losing its Church support never comes up, and Aringarosa is part of a secret group within the Vatican that actively wants to hide the existence of Jesus' descendants from the world—making it extra questionable that he would willingly ally with the Teacher, who wants to reveal the existence of Jesus' descendants to the world. The movie's only explanation is that the Teacher (somehow) "convinced them that [he] was an ally". In the movie, "The Teacher" asks his allies in the Church for a small fortune in Vatican bearer bonds solely so they'll think that he's Only in It for the Money and won't suspect that he has his own agenda—and they give him as much money as he wants (with seemingly little hesitation), even though they don't know who he is and have little reason to trust him. In the book, Aringarosa conveniently has a large stash of Vatican bearer bonds at his disposal due to the Vatican paying him severance money after revoking their support for Opus Dei, and he agrees to pay the Teacher because he convinces him that he can help him regain the Vatican's support if he finds evidence of Jesus' bloodline.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_5785db6e	type	Driving Stick
The Da Vinci Code / int_5785db6e	comment	Driving Stick: Langdon's inability to do this briefly delays a getaway.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_5b8c285b	type	The Conspiracy
The Da Vinci Code / int_5b8c285b	comment	When Sophie and Langdon wind up on the run from the French police after being wrongfully blamed for SaniÃ¨re's murder, they're forced to seek refuge with Robert's English expatriate friend, who's one of the only people in France who Robert knows. Said friend turns out to be the mastermind behind The Conspiracy who had SauniÃ¨re murdered in the first place. Gee, who'da thunk?
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The Da Vinci Code / int_5d6f4033	type	Agonizing Stomach Wound
The Da Vinci Code / int_5d6f4033	comment	Agonizing Stomach Wound: The book begins with one of these: Silas opts to shoot Jacques Sauniere in the gut and leave him to it, trusting that being trapped behind Louvre's active security gates will make it impossible for Sauniere to reveal anything to anyone before he dies. However, Sauniere is able to get around this through inventive use of his own blood.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_5e260ea6	type	Conveniently an Orphan
The Da Vinci Code / int_5e260ea6	comment	Conveniently an Orphan: Sophie. Becomes a plot point later on. Silas became an orphan after killing his abusive father.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_7225232	type	Self-Punishment Over Failure
The Da Vinci Code / int_7225232	comment	Self-Punishment Over Failure: Silas routinely flogs himself and wears a painful cilice each time he pursues a lead to the Holy Grail only to encounter a dead end. Guided by his Teacher (Rector), Silas has killed Jacques Sauniere at the Louvre and the Mother Superior at Saint Sulpice, yet came away with no further clue.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_733e007a	type	Unwitting Pawn
The Da Vinci Code / int_733e007a	comment	Unwitting Pawn: Teabing was using Silas, Remy, and Aringarosa to secure the Grail. Aringosa realizes it and confesses to the police
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The Da Vinci Code / int_746793a6	type	Clue of Few Words
The Da Vinci Code / int_746793a6	comment	Clue of Few Words: When museum curator Jacques Sauniere is found murdered in the Louvre, detectives find him lying naked and supine in The Vitruvian Pose. He'd also scribed "O draconian devil" and "Oh lame saint" in his blood on the parquet floor. Cryptologist Robert Langdon deduces the phrases are anagrams for "Leonardo da Vinci" and "the Mona Lisa," where a further clue can be found.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_780a078e	type	Self-Made Orphan
The Da Vinci Code / int_780a078e	comment	Silas became an orphan after killing his abusive father.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_7f933d43	type	Claustrophobia
The Da Vinci Code / int_7f933d43	comment	Claustrophobia: Langdon. He is in every book.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_8288929a	type	Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves
The Da Vinci Code / int_8288929a	comment	Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: Remy Legaludec. If it weren't for that allergy, he could have gotten away with it all.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_83918a88	type	Artistic License – Art
The Da Vinci Code / int_83918a88	comment	Artistic License â€“ Art: Sophie puts a GPS tracker on a bar of soap from the Louvre and throws it out the window onto a passing truck. The bathrooms in that part of the Louvre have no windows and don't use bar soap. "Madonna of the Rocks" hangs in the Grand Gallery, not the Salle des Etats. The painting directly across from the The Mona Lisa" is Caliari's "The Wedding Feast at Cana." This painting is an enormous 32 feet (9.9 meters) wide. Even if "Virgin of the Rocks" did hang opposite the "Mona Lisa," it's 6.5 feet (1.99 meters) tall, too tall for Sophie to see over. The painting's ornate wooden frame is also too heavy for an average person to lift unassisted. A big deal is made over the Last Supper and how Leonardo painted a woman among the apostles. Leonardo actually used to blur the line between men and women and painted a lot of people to look androgynous. Also, John is often depicted with long hair and no beard even in other works. Finally, since Mary Magdalene wasn't a persona non grata in Christianity as the movie claims, there would be no reason to hide her from paintings and in fact she was depicted in many religious paintings in the renaissance. The small stone pyramid under the inverted glass pyramid in the Louvre underground mall is just a modern architectural installation, and it is not the tip of a larger, buried pyramid containing the tomb of Mary Magdalene. There are photos of the stone pyramid temporarily removed for maintenance, and even in its regular position it's pretty obvious it's not connected to anything below the floor level. The idea that the title "Mona Lisa" was meant as an anagram of "Amon L'Isa" makes little sense, as in Italy the painting is known as La Gioconda. There is no evidence that Leonardo himself ever called it that, much less intended a hidden message.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_8605f0c0	type	Promoted to Love Interest
The Da Vinci Code / int_8605f0c0	comment	Promoted to Love Interest: Inverted. Langdon and Sophie have some sexual/romantic tension in the book, and it ends with them kissing and agreeing to meet up again for a date. In the movie, these are removed, with the kiss being changed to one on the forehead.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_87a42873	type	Ancient Order of Protectors
The Da Vinci Code / int_87a42873	comment	Ancient Order of Protectors: The Priory of Sion guards the Holy Grail.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_895ec17	type	Only in It for the Money
The Da Vinci Code / int_895ec17	comment	Only in It for the Money: Remy makes it clear that he only serves Teabing because he's getting paid to. He seemingly betrays Teabing for a large sum of cash before it's revealed that it was an act orchestrated by Teabing himself.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_8a8f37f9	type	Artistic License â€“ Law Enforcement
The Da Vinci Code / int_8a8f37f9	comment	Artistic License â€“ Law Enforcement: Discussed several times. Dan Brown seems to be under the impression that all it takes to extradite a British national from their own country is for a foreign law enforcement agencies to make a call to a local police officer. Also, he seems to think that said local police will simply detain the suspects until the foreign police arrive to make the arrests themselves. He says the French police judiciaire is the equivalent of the FBI. It's not- this refers simply to detectives. The closest France has to the FBI is the National Police, but there is no exact equivalent because of the way France's government is organized. It is not federated like the US, so there's no need for an interstate agency. The National Police takes care of civil law enforcement duties for the entire country — except in smaller towns and more remote areas, where the Gendarmerie has jurisdiction, and municipal police exist in some towns and cities — and the police judiciaire is the section of the National Police that investigates the most serious crimes such as murders. Whether this is a case of Creator Provincialism or just another case of Dan not doing the research (or both) isn't clear. Sophie tells Langdon that the police captain suspects he committed the murder and can have him detained for months. No. French law only allows someone to be detained for 24 hours, with another 24 hours allowed if approved by the local prosecutor and the police can demonstrate it's necessary. The captain would have to prove Langdon committed the murder in the face of evidence that Langdon was nowhere in the vicinity, he'd have to answer for destroying evidence when he erased Langdon's name, they'd have to prove Langdon either smuggled a gun into France or acquired one when he was already there, the list goes on. He can't charge Langdon, only the local prosecutor can do that, and he doesn't have enough evidence to make it stick. And to repeat, the prosecutor is going to be seriously pissed that he destroyed evidence by erasing part of what the victim wrote. Of course, Sophie may have simply said that to get Langdon to stop arguing and get moving.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_8b38b6b9	type	Anywhere but Their Lips
The Da Vinci Code / int_8b38b6b9	comment	Anywhere but Their Lips: In the movie, Langdon kisses Sophie on the forehead at the end.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_8b5df221	type	Surprise Car Crash
The Da Vinci Code / int_8b5df221	comment	Surprise Car Crash: Detective Sophie Neveu became an orphan in a head-on collision. In a childhood memory flashback, Sophie remembers being in the back seat of a sedan, with both parents turned to dote upon her; they never saw the tractor-trailer that came looming into the windshield.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Da Vinci Code / int_8e5c862	comment	Ancient Conspiracy: Subverted. It turns out to be the work of a lone nutjob with an agenda. All the power players seemingly acting in concert against our heroes turn out to be un-associated individuals merely acting on poor information. Though in the movie, due to Adaptational Villainy, it turns out that there actually is a secret faction within the Catholic Church that actively wants to find and destroy Mary Magdalene's tomb.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_8f1bb87c	type	Deliberately Painful Clothing
The Da Vinci Code / int_8f1bb87c	comment	Deliberately Painful Clothing: Silas wears a spiked chain around his right thigh. Teabing uses this to incapacitate Silas when the latter tries stealing the cryptex.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Da Vinci Code / int_9245d989	comment	Sinister Minister: Bishop Aringarosa in The Film of the Book, due to Adaptational Villainy, along with his co-conspirators within the Catholic Church.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_9591377d	type	Heel Realization
The Da Vinci Code / int_9591377d	comment	Heel Realization: Silas has one when he shoots Bishop Aringosa by accident: "I am a ghost."
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The Da Vinci Code / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Da Vinci Code / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: When Teabing's butler Remy betrays Teabing to free Silas, he reveals that he's secretly in league with "The Teacher". When Silas asks if Remy is the Teacher, he replies, "No. But like you, I serve him." This is an early clue that Teabing is the Teacher.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
The Da Vinci Code / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: In the book, which happens after Angels & Demons (contrary to the movie), some things that happened in Angels and Demons (a year ago now In-Universe) are mentioned in passing: At the beginning, when Langdon is awoken by an unexpected phone call in the middle of the night, he remembers the same thing happened a year ago. When the phone call comes, Langdon is reminiscing about Vittoria Vetra, whom he met in Rome last year. Just like last year, Langdon remarks that he's often contacted by conspiracy theorist because of his work, but that it's gotten a lot worse last year since he was in the news after the events in Angels and Demons. When Langdon notes that a certain poem is in iambic pentameter, he remembers he saw the same kind of poems last year in the Vatican.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_9f00986d	type	Gut Punch
The Da Vinci Code / int_9f00986d	comment	Gut Punch: Book only. Sophie finds out that her grandmother and brother are alive, and she reunites with them more than a decade later. Everybody Cries as it turns out Marie knew the whole time that Sophie was alive, but was scared for her on hearing in the news that Jacques was dead.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_9f74002a	type	Feminist Fantasy
The Da Vinci Code / int_9f74002a	comment	There's the whole the goddess thing, which implies that all pagan religions worshipped female deities in a similar way and that it made them more egalitarian as a society. Here Brown seems to be under the impression that "paganism" was a sort of unified, global religion with different localizations instead of an umbrella term used by early Christians to label just all non-Christian beliefs they found.note Had theyâ€™d been that unified, they probably would have been better able to resist the Christian takeover. The idea that pagan religions had a stronger female presence than patristic Christianity is true in several ways, but the social role of goddesses and women varied wildly through time and place, and even the most liberated pagan societies like the Celtic or the Germanic ones were far from being a straight Feminist Fantasy. The fact that Brown chose Classical goddesses to make this point is even more ludicrous, as Greek and Roman societies were strongly male-dominated despite their impressive abundance of female deities.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_a1d70162	type	I Just Shot Marvin in the Face
The Da Vinci Code / int_a1d70162	comment	I Just Shot Marvin in the Face: During his frantic escape from the police in the film, Silas forgets to check his target and shoots Aringarosa. It isn't fatal, but the distraction makes sure Silas doesn't escape.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_a27c0c2c	type	Artistic License â€“ Religion
The Da Vinci Code / int_a27c0c2c	comment	Artistic License â€“ Religion: Much is made of the Holy Grail legend's significance to Christianity, even though the Holy Grail isn't actually mentioned in any canonical Christian text. The Grail legend wasn't spawned until the 12th century, and it's solely the product of Arthurian literature. This is why the Grail doesn't appear in Leonardo's The Last Supper (not to mention that Leonardo, being Italian, wouldn't have had much reason to paint a Macguffin from a French/British chivalric romance in one of his biblical scenes). There's the whole the goddess thing, which implies that all pagan religions worshipped female deities in a similar way and that it made them more egalitarian as a society. Here Brown seems to be under the impression that "paganism" was a sort of unified, global religion with different localizations instead of an umbrella term used by early Christians to label just all non-Christian beliefs they found.note Had theyâ€™d been that unified, they probably would have been better able to resist the Christian takeover. The idea that pagan religions had a stronger female presence than patristic Christianity is true in several ways, but the social role of goddesses and women varied wildly through time and place, and even the most liberated pagan societies like the Celtic or the Germanic ones were far from being a straight Feminist Fantasy. The fact that Brown chose Classical goddesses to make this point is even more ludicrous, as Greek and Roman societies were strongly male-dominated despite their impressive abundance of female deities. It is also made apparent that pagan societies with a stronger female presence were more peaceful in contrast to the imperialistic, tyrannical Roman Christianity. While it is true that pagan religions weren't generally interested in converting or pursuing other cults (introductions of new gods in other territories rarely led to the displacement of native beliefs, but rather to coexistence, syncretism or even outright equation - see interpretatio graeca as an example), the claim that they were more socially peaceful than Christianity is wrong at a fundamental level. Romans, Greeks, Celts, Mesopotamians and Levantines (including the ancient Canaanite religion that became Judaism) all had warrior deities, which often dominated their pantheons and cultures, and some of them featured brutal practices like human sacrifice and ritual mutilation. In contrast, Christians weren't interested in war as a concept, among other things because their religion pandered to the humblest, least possibly warlike segment of the society, and this was such an oddity at the time that it became a source of misunderstanding even among their own sects. In the novel, Silas longs for a life of solitude and quiet study as an Opus Dei monk. In real life, Opus Dei has no religious orders, precisely because it urges followers to sanctify everyday pursuits such as family and career, not retreat from the world. In addition, the self-flagellation that Silas partakes in is optional in real-life Opus Dei and isn't required to be as extreme as whipping (a cold shower would be fine). The discussion of how Christianity views Mary Magdalene is completely wrong. Mary Magdalene is considered by Christians and theologians as one of the most important figures in Jesus' life and viewed in some denominations as the apostle to the apostles. There is a misconception of her as a prostitute because she was conflated with another Mary but even so she is known mainly as a close companion of Jesus, as a witness to his burial and crucifixion and as the first witness to his resurrection. As such, she wouldn't be besmirched by the church nor would any depiction of her in art be seen as rebellious or unsanctioned (see artistic license Art above) The book's claim that the Biblical canon was decreed by Emperor Constantine at the Council of Nicaea is likewise complete bogus.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_a414c3f0	type	One-Hit Kill
The Da Vinci Code / int_a414c3f0	comment	One-Hit Kill: Silas killing Sister Sandrine with a stone slab to the head. Also Killed Mid-Sentence.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_a7189582	type	Parallel Porn Titles
The Da Vinci Code / int_a7189582	comment	Parallel Porn Titles: The Da Vinci Load. Currently on the second installment. The Da Vinci Co-Ed is another one.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_a754fa9a	type	Instant Death Bullet
The Da Vinci Code / int_a754fa9a	comment	Instant Death Bullet: Averted. Getting shot in the stomach leaves SauniÃ¨re enough time (and strength) to move about the gallery some more before dying.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_a86069f	type	Alternate History
The Da Vinci Code / int_a86069f	comment	Alternate History: A minor case. A major plot point in the book involves Opus Dei losing the support of the Catholic Church and becoming an independent religious organization. This never happened in reality: Opus Dei is still an officially sanctioned institution of the Catholic Church today. It's also mentioned a few times that Opus Dei bailed out the Vatican Bank when they declared bankruptcy in 1982, which similarly never happened.note This appears to be based on the 1982 Banco Ambrosiano scandal, in which the Italian private banking firm Banco Ambrosiano (a longtime financial partner of the Vatican) collapsed shortly after being accused of numerous misdeeds by the Italian government, ultimately leading to the apparent suicide of its chairman Roberto Calvi. The scandal cost the Vatican Bank a great deal of money, but there's no evidence that the Vatican Bank itself was ever in serious danger of bankruptcy, and certainly no evidence that Opus Dei financially bailed it out.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_a8a5e4ed	type	Christianity Is Catholic
The Da Vinci Code / int_a8a5e4ed	comment	Christianity is Catholic: Very much at play in the movie, in which no mention is made of the fact that the Temple Church, Westminster Abbey and Rosslyn Chapel are all Anglican places of worship (specifically, Church of England for the first two and Scottish Episcopal Church in the case of Rosslyn). Also, anything to do with the Council of Nicaea would implicate the Ethiopian and Orthodox Churches as was strong in the Eastern Roman Empire and a coverup would require cooperation or common goals of each denomination.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_a9722494	type	Trend Covers
The Da Vinci Code / int_a9722494	comment	Trend Covers: Many, many historical/religious/conspiracy thriller novels got similar covers after this one's success.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_aed65980	type	All for Nothing
The Da Vinci Code / int_aed65980	comment	Except that the Priory was apparently never planning to, so it was All for Nothing.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_b23e7ba9	comment	Real Is Brown: The flashbacks are set in a grayish tone.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_b2e94341	comment	The Priory of Scion is a real organization that actually exists...but it was founded in 1956 by a bunch of people who went as far as to plant fake evidence as to their "theory" on how Christianity is Based on a Great Big Lie.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: In the book at least, Aringosa had no idea what "Teacher", aka a disguised Teabing, was planning. He had been led to believe that "Teacher" would help him find the Grail. When the cops inform him that Silas is connected to the murder of a nun, it doesn't take long for Aringosa to put two and two together, go Oh, Crap!, and confess everything.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_b4ab30ef	comment	Weaponized Allergy: RÃ©my is disposed of with some peanut dust in his wine, triggering his allergy.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_b5f5824e	comment	Linked List Clue Methodology: Invoked by SauniÃ¨re who set up a treasure hunt for Robert and Sophie. The stages are: the message next to his body in the Louvre, the message on the Plexiglas protecting the Mona Lisa, the key hidden behind the Madonna of the Rocks, the cryptex found in a safe deposit box of the Depository Bank of Zurich, the smaller cryptex and the message found inside the first one, and the message inside the smaller cryptex, which finally hints to where the Holy Grail is hidden.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_b6cebad3	comment	Double Standard: Teabing and the Priory's grievance with the Church is centuries of persecution and deceit. This ignores the fact that those things are also found (in sometimes greater and sometimes lesser degrees) among some non-Catholic Christians, religions besides Christianity, and non-religious people, ideologies and institutions. In fact, in the book, Sophie's grandmother Marie says that the Priory has no plan to discredit the church.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_b9123661	type	Welcomed to the Masquerade
The Da Vinci Code / int_b9123661	comment	Welcomed to the Masquerade: The film adaptation has cryptologist Robert Langdon unearth ancient genealogy research that detective Sophie Neveu is a descendant of Jesus Christ, and is under the protection of the Priory of Sion, which is the 21st-century form of the Knights Templar.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_b97c2cfb	comment	Maybe Ever After: Robert Really Gets Around, and he spent more time running from the law with Sophie rather than getting to know her. With that said, he develops a Rescue Romance since she spends her screentime protecting him and clearing his name. Sophie becomes attracted to his chivalry and dedication to finding out who killed Jacques, and why. At the end of the book at least, they agree to meet up in Florence where he'll be giving a lecture at a conference.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_b9af5ef3	comment	In The Film of the Book, the Catholic Church's "shadow council" wants to destroy Mary Magdalene's tomb to prevent evidence of Jesus's bloodline from reaching the public. They seem to think that having access to DNA samples from Mary Magdalene's corpse would, by itself, give someone a way to prove that she and Jesus had children. Actually, it would just prove that she had children at some point (not exactly an Earth-shattering revelation). Proving that Jesus fathered her children would require a DNA sample from Jesus, too.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_bbd8d3f4	comment	Adventurer Archaeologist: Sort of; Adventurer Symbologist (a made-up discipline) in this case.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_bbfaa837	type	Knight Templar
The Da Vinci Code / int_bbfaa837	comment	Knight Templar: The original Knights Templar figure heavily in the Ancient Conspiracy Alternate History of the book. Ironically, practically all the antagonists of the book also follow this trope, being extremely moral Anti-Villains, Well-Intentioned Extremists, or just badly misinformed. This is most evident in the Teacher, Sir Leigh Teabing, a Knight of the British Empire who also sees himself as furthering the good works of the original Knights Templar. Silas also insists that he's doing God's will.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_c4942576	type	Cunning Linguist
The Da Vinci Code / int_c4942576	comment	Cunning Linguist: Averted, especially in the movie, in which it's more than obvious that Langdon (as well as Tom Hanks who portrays him) knows absolutely nothing about French and can only react to familiar phrases (such as his own name); at other times, he just looks at Sophie expectantly. How he managed to become a world-renowned expert in symbols while only knowing English is anyone's guess.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_c59cfa2e	comment	Felony Misdemeanor: Sophie stops talking to her grandfather, her sole surviving relative and the man who raised her for ten years. Why? She walked in on him having sex. Granted, it was under unusual circumstances, but her reaction of horror and disgust, and the fact that she hates him for ten years (until he dies and she finds out more about the circumstances) seems quite unreasonable. She is not even portrayed as devoutly religious, which would make her reaction make a little more sense; the narrative just takes for granted that that is a reasonable cause for complete estrangement.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Leigh Teabing's name is derived from Richard Leigh and Michael Baigent (whose last name is rearranged into Teabing), who co-wrote the "nonfiction" book The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail. (Third co-author, Henry Lincoln, was left out.)
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The Da Vinci Code / int_d129e13e	comment	"Eureka!" Moment: Saturated with them—the final one is unseen but heavily implied.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_d13a03f0	comment	Everybody Cries: In the book, Sophie, her grandmother and brother engage in a Tears of Joy sobfest when they reunite. To well up the tears, her brother reveals that Marie said that Sophie and Jacques died in the crash.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: How Teabing manages to get past the British police, who are looking for him and the fugitives he's harboring: sheer balls.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_d62dd556	comment	The Chessmaster: Teabing is revealed to be either controlling all the important characters or at least planning around their actions.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_d68c925d	type	Creator Provincialism
The Da Vinci Code / int_d68c925d	comment	He says the French police judiciaire is the equivalent of the FBI. It's not- this refers simply to detectives. The closest France has to the FBI is the National Police, but there is no exact equivalent because of the way France's government is organized. It is not federated like the US, so there's no need for an interstate agency. The National Police takes care of civil law enforcement duties for the entire country — except in smaller towns and more remote areas, where the Gendarmerie has jurisdiction, and municipal police exist in some towns and cities — and the police judiciaire is the section of the National Police that investigates the most serious crimes such as murders. Whether this is a case of Creator Provincialism or just another case of Dan not doing the research (or both) isn't clear.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Da Vinci Code / int_d8573ef9	comment	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Teabing makes full use of his privileges as one of the Queen's knights to help Langdon out. It's also this and his metal crutches that let him smuggle a gun through security checkpoints.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_da1c8191	type	Writers Cannot Do Math
The Da Vinci Code / int_da1c8191	comment	Writers Cannot Do Math: When at the Depository Bank of Zurich, Sophie realizes that cracking a 10-digit code will take the DCPJ's computers "months" to crack. However, even a computer in the early 2000s could test millions of passwords per second. Even if the password is protected with a technique like key stretching, a computer cluster with each core testing a few thousand passwords per second would still crack the key in a very short time.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
The Da Vinci Code / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: As in all Dan Brown books, but literally in this case: "Aringarosa" is Italian for... you guessed it.(it actually means pink herring, but red herring is Aringarossa so it only lacks an s)
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The Da Vinci Code / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
The Da Vinci Code / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: The plot hinges on some very unlikely coincidences that none of the characters seem to regard as particularly unlikely. To name a few: The plot is kicked off by SauniÃ¨re leaving a message on the floor of the Louvre for his estranged granddaughter shortly before he dies from a gunshot wound; even though he gives no indication that it was intended for her (other than the initials "P.S.", which could mean any number of things), she still ends up seeing it because she happens to be a cryptographer for the French police. Even though the French police have numerous cryptographers, and SauniÃ¨re couldn't possibly have known which one of them would have seen his message. note Not to mention: he had no reason to believe that the police would show the message to a cryptographer in the first place, since they wouldn't have had any way of knowing that the message was a code. And cryptographers working in law enforcement don't generally spend a lot of time decoding messages from murder victims, since they're usually employed to, y'know...decode messages from criminals. When Sophie and Langdon wind up on the run from the French police after being wrongfully blamed for SaniÃ¨re's murder, they're forced to seek refuge with Robert's English expatriate friend, who's one of the only people in France who Robert knows. Said friend turns out to be the mastermind behind The Conspiracy who had SauniÃ¨re murdered in the first place. Gee, who'da thunk?
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The Da Vinci Code / int_de416844	type	Fantastic Catholicism
The Da Vinci Code / int_de416844	comment	Fantastic Catholicism: "Fantastic" is being nice, considering that a quite few of the more outlandish elements are simply the result of getting basic facts wrong. The Ancient Conspiracy that is the centerpiece of the plot, for example, is the result of taking a well-known hoax seriously. Then there's the legend of the holy grail itself, which is rooted in Medieval knightly romances.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_e23fac54	type	Invisible Writing
The Da Vinci Code / int_e23fac54	comment	Invisible Writing: Mortally wounded curator Jacques Sauniere leaves an important clue scrawled on the Louvre's parquet floor, that can only be seen under ultraviolet light. "O Draconian Devil / Oh Lame Saint." It was made not to implicate his killer, but rather to indicate his killer's objective. He puts Langdon's name under that, not to say Langdon did it but that he could help.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_e3ae83cf	type	One Password Attempt Ever
The Da Vinci Code / int_e3ae83cf	comment	One Password Attempt Ever: When Sophie and Langdon try to access a special ATM, the machine tells them to be extra careful because not only will it eat their card if they get the password wrong after one attempt, but the entire machine will shut down.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_e4c0b2b6	type	Primal Scene
The Da Vinci Code / int_e4c0b2b6	comment	Primal Scene: Sophie's falling-out with her grandfather is over this; when she was younger, she caught him in the middle of a sex ritual.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_e6a901a3	type	Meaningful Rename
The Da Vinci Code / int_e6a901a3	comment	Meaningful Rename: "Silas" isn't actually Silas's birth name. He discarded the name that his parents gave him, and was later rechristened "Silas" by Bishop Aringarosa because the circumstances of his escape from prison match those of Silas, the apostle Paul's accomplice in the Book of Acts.note Which makes the fact that Silas was played by actor Paul Bettany in the film adaptation a somewhat too on-the-nose coincidence.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_ec7da60a	type	Beethoven Was an Alien Spy
The Da Vinci Code / int_ec7da60a	comment	Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: Da Vinci was part of an ancient group that knew the secret of Jesus and communicated it through secret messages in The Last Supper.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_eeb4a5eb	type	Anti-Climax
The Da Vinci Code / int_eeb4a5eb	comment	Anti-Climax: Book only. Robert and Sophie were running under the assumption that the Priory would eventually reveal the Grail and the proof that Jesus married Mary Magdalene and had children. Marie is amused when Robert asks if the Priory is going ahead with this plan. She says, on the contrary, the Priory is dedicated to keeping the real Grail a secret. History has taught them that the Grail motivates people the most when they don't know what it is, so they can be their best selves.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_efc1d647	type	Never a Self-Made Woman
The Da Vinci Code / int_efc1d647	comment	Never a Self-Made Woman: A very good example of it, at that.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_f178203a	comment	In the book, Bezu Fache is just a really persistent detective who also happens to be a devout Catholic, and he pursues Langdon for Jacques SauniÃ¨re's murder due to a simple misunderstanding. In the movie, Fache is a member of Opus Dei, and it's eventually revealed that Bishop Aringarosa is using him as a pawn to stop Langdon from exposing the truth about Jesus' bloodline (Fache suspects Langdon because Aringarosa falsely claimed that Langdon came to him in confession and admitted to being a killer). But Aringarosa has no way of knowing about SauniÃ¨re's trail of clues, which is the only reason Langdon knows the truth—so Aringarosa shouldn't have any reason to be concerned about him revealing anything. Langdon also doesnâ€™t find SauniÃ¨re's clues until after he's summoned to the Louvre...but he's only summoned to the Louvre because Fache thinks he killed SauniÃ¨re, and wants to set a trap for him. If Aringarosa was really the one who convinced Fache to pin the murder on Langdon, he'd had to have convinced him of that before Langdon even discovered the clues—in which case, he shouldn't have had any reason to frame him for murder.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_f4992ba	comment	Desperate Object Catch: Langdon throws the cryptex to distract the villain, who tries and fails to catch it.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_f8351d7b	comment	Self-Destructing Security: The cryptex protects its contents with a five-letter combination lock. Attempting to force the cryptex open will break the vial of vinegar inside, which would dissolve the papyrus along with its message before it could be read. As a result, only the right password will grant access to the message, since it'd be pretty difficult to brute force when there are ~12 million possibilities.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_fc07e468	comment	Puzzle Box: Cryptologist Robert Langdon comes into possession of a brass cryptex with five dials. Each dial has the complete English alphabet, making almost 11.9 million combinations. The one clue to the correct combination reads "In London lies a knight a Pope interred. His labor's fruit a Holy wrath incurred. You seek the orb that ought be on his tomb. It speaks of rosy flesh and seeded womb." Despite being at gunpoint, Langdon deduces the correct sequence: (a-p-p-l-e), which unlocks the crytpex.
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The Da Vinci Code / int_fd4f8299	comment	Well-Intentioned Extremist: Silas, again. Also Leigh Teabing.
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The Da Vinci Code	hasFeature	Holy Hitman / int_518b056d
The Da Vinci Code	hasFeature	I Ate WHAT?! / int_518b056d
The Da Vinci Code	hasFeature	Inspector Javert / int_518b056d
The Da Vinci Code	hasFeature	Instant Waking Skills / int_518b056d
The Da Vinci Code	hasFeature	Invisible Writing / int_518b056d
The Da Vinci Code	hasFeature	Last-Minute Hookup / int_518b056d
The Da Vinci Code	hasFeature	Lawyer-Friendly Cameo / int_518b056d
The Da Vinci Code	hasFeature	Light Is Not Good / int_518b056d
The Da Vinci Code	hasFeature	Living on Borrowed Time / int_518b056d
The Da Vinci Code	hasFeature	MacGuffin-Person Reveal / int_518b056d
The Da Vinci Code	hasFeature	Male Frontal Nudity / int_518b056d
The Da Vinci Code	hasFeature	Medal of Dishonor / int_518b056d
The Da Vinci Code	hasFeature	Missing Episode / int_518b056d
The Da Vinci Code	hasFeature	Mysterious Employer / int_518b056d
The Da Vinci Code	hasFeature	No Hugging, No Kissing / int_518b056d
The Da Vinci Code	hasFeature	No Such Thing as Bad Publicity / int_518b056d
The Da Vinci Code	hasFeature	Old Money / int_518b056d
The Da Vinci Code	hasFeature	One Password Attempt Ever / int_518b056d
The Da Vinci Code	hasFeature	Only Smart People May Pass / int_518b056d
The Da Vinci Code	hasFeature	Opinion Myopia / int_518b056d
The Da Vinci Code	hasFeature	Pink Girl, Blue Boy / int_518b056d
The Da Vinci Code	hasFeature	Plot Allergy / int_518b056d
The Da Vinci Code	hasFeature	Plot-Powered Stamina / int_518b056d
The Da Vinci Code	hasFeature	Poirot Speak / int_518b056d
The Da Vinci Code	hasFeature	Pop Culture Symbology / int_518b056d
The Da Vinci Code	hasFeature	Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure / int_518b056d
The Da Vinci Code	hasFeature	Primal Scene / int_518b056d
The Da Vinci Code	hasFeature	Puzzle Box / int_518b056d
The Da Vinci Code	hasFeature	Quintessential British Gentleman / int_518b056d
The Da Vinci Code	hasFeature	Real Is Brown / int_518b056d
The Da Vinci Code	hasFeature	Really Royalty Reveal / int_518b056d
The Da Vinci Code	hasFeature	Self-Destructing Security / int_518b056d
The Da Vinci Code	hasFeature	Self-Punishment Over Failure / int_518b056d
The Da Vinci Code	hasFeature	Sequel First / int_518b056d
The Da Vinci Code	hasFeature	Shoddy Knockoff Product / int_518b056d
The Da Vinci Code	hasFeature	Spexico / int_518b056d
The Da Vinci Code	hasFeature	Suspicious Spending / int_518b056d
The Da Vinci Code	hasFeature	Swiss Bank Account / int_518b056d
The Da Vinci Code	hasFeature	The Film of the Book / int_518b056d
The Da Vinci Code	hasFeature	The Password Is Always "Swordfish" / int_518b056d
The Da Vinci Code	hasFeature	The Penance / int_518b056d
The Da Vinci Code	hasFeature	The Red Stapler / int_518b056d
The Da Vinci Code	hasFeature	13 Is Unlucky / int_518b056d
The Da Vinci Code	hasFeature	Toros y Flamenco / int_518b056d
The Da Vinci Code	hasFeature	Tourist Bump / int_518b056d
The Da Vinci Code	hasFeature	Unfit for Greatness / int_518b056d
The Da Vinci Code	hasFeature	Weaponized Allergy / int_518b056d
The Da Vinci Code	hasFeature	What Cliff Hanger? / int_518b056d
The Da Vinci Code	hasFeature	Where It All Began / int_518b056d
The Da Vinci Code	hasFeature	Wild Goose Chase / int_518b056d
The Da Vinci Code	hasFeature	Wolverine Publicity / int_518b056d
The Da Vinci Code	hasFeature	Writer on Board / int_518b056d

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