The Da Vinci Code (2006) on Netflix
PG-1320062h 29mMysteryThriller
Louvre curator Jacques Saunière is found dead, posed like the Vitruvian Man. Symbologist Robert Langdon becomes the prime suspect, and police cryptographer Sophie Neveu helps him flee.
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Plot summary
Robert Langdon, a Harvard professor of religious symbology, is in Paris for a lecture when police captain Bezu Fache brings him to the Louvre. Curator Jacques Saunière has been murdered, his body arranged like the Vitruvian Man, and a message written in symbols is visible only under ultraviolet light. Cryptographer Sophie Neveu, Saunière's granddaughter, warns Langdon that Fache planted a tracker on him and means to pin the killing on him. She helps him slip away, and the two search the museum's galleries for clues hidden in Leonardo da Vinci's works, which point to the murdered man's role as head of the Priory of Sion. Elsewhere, Silas, an albino monk acting for a figure called the Teacher, is hunting the keystone that would reveal the Holy Grail.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Da Vinci Code (2006)
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- Thailand's censorship committee first ruled that the film could be shown only with its last 10 minutes cut and some subtitles changed, but after Sony Pictures appealed and said it would pull the film, the panel voted 6-5 to allow it uncut with a disclaimer saying it was a work of fiction.
- Lincoln Cathedral reportedly received £100,000 in exchange for the right to film there, and the bell that strikes its hours was silent for the first time since World War II during the shoot. Outside, protesters were led by a 61-year-old woman who spent 12 hours praying on her knees against what she saw as blasphemous use of a holy place.
- Denied a location permit for Saint-Sulpice, the production had the entire scene re-created virtually by post-production company Rainmaker U.K.; the set had been only partially built and its coordinates were centimetres out from what the compositors expected, making the process extremely difficult.
- The biggest cinema in the Faroe Islands, Havnar Bio, boycotted the film, which also blocked the smaller cinemas that rely on it for second-hand films; its CEO said he feared losing the operating license if it exhibited blasphemy in the cinema. A private initiative arranged a screening anyway.
- For the murdered curator, David White of prosthetics company Altered States FX was tasked with creating a naked photorealistic silicone body, and lighting effects were used to obscure its genitalia - a technique also used on television programmes such as NCIS.
- Bill Paxton was director Ron Howard's first choice for the role of Robert Langdon, but had to decline because he was beginning filming for the television series Big Love.
- Howard approached Ricky Gervais for the role of the butler Remy Jean, but Gervais turned it down out of fear that he would ruin the film.
- In Jordan, authorities banned the film, claiming it “tarnishes the memory of Christian and Islamic figures and contradicts the truth as written in the Bible and the Quran about Jesus”.
