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The DVD extras on a film as popular as The Da Vinci Code should be plentiful, and this version doesn’t skimp. With over 90 minutes of special features, including ten behind-the-scenes featurettes, there’s a lot here to explore beyond the film itself. The question is, is there anything new here that we haven’t heard before, in all the hype, pseudo-documentaries, and controversy surrounding the movie, to make it worthwhile? For most viewers, the answer will be "yes." Essentially, if you like the movie, if you enjoyed the book, you will get a lot out of them.
Just as the movie is intended to make the book come to life, the DVD extras should make the film come to life by pointing the audience into the world of the filmmakers, connecting the dots between print and film, and for the most part they do just that. The extras here range from the typical look behind-the-scenes to more in-depth features on the supporting characters, the locations, and the Mona Lisa herself. "First Day on the Set with Ron Howard" features the director gushing about the opportunity to film in the Louvre and work with Tom Hanks again (the two worked together before on Splash and Apollo 13). It’s a short piece that doesn’t reveal much beyond making an attempt to share Howard’s excitement (with the "Gee, I really loved working with him/her on this project" that you hear in every such featurette), but viewers might enjoy seeing how the stage was set up in the famous museum, down to the spike tape on the floor showing actors where to hit their marks. The Filmmaking Experience, Parts 1 and 2 further explores the creative and technical aspects of the filmmaking process. A Conversation with Dan Brown starts out feeling like a puff-piece (the man who wrote this book got started at age 5 with a story called The Giraffe, The Pig, and the Pants on Fire. "It was a thriller," he says.) and unfortunately it doesn’t go very deep into much of anything of interest. But on the other hand, this isn’t 60 Minutes here; it’s intended to give viewers a better sense of the man behind the franchise, which it does. Much of the footage from this interview is sprinkled throughout some of the other featurettes. Meanwhile, the character behind the franchise, Robert Langdon, is examined in his own featurette, as is Sophie Neveu. The cool thing here is getting under the skin of the actors to see how they approached the characters, knowing that most of the movie-going public already has formed their own ideas about the characters from the book.
The most interesting extras are the featurettes that focus on the history behind the mystery. Or is it the mystery behind the history? Either way, the first one on the Mona Lisa, and the second featurette on the many codes and symbols that are hidden throughout the movie balance out the remainder of the extras nicely by demonstrating the sense of intrigue, mystery, and game-playing adventure that made The Da Vinci Code so popular in the first place. --Daniel Vancini
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| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Ron Howard |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 19 May, 2006 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Sony Pictures |
| MPAA RATING: | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
| FEATURES: | AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Action / Adventure, Feature Film-action/Adventure, Gift Set, Movie |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 2 |
| UPC: | 043396163157 |
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Customer Reviews of The Da Vinci Code (Special Edition Giftset)
Love the passion... Love the passion of all the Dan Brown frenzy! Went to see the movie and loved, loved, loved it:) Already a great fan of Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou, it was a great movie to see. It is long but once you get hooked into it, you re in for a great ride. Dont get discouraged by bad reviews. Go and see it, and make up your own mind. Have fun!
Plagerism as High Art
The authors of the 1982 book "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail" lost a lawsuit in England (January 07)in which they tried to show that their thesis--that Jesus impregnated his wife Mary; that she traveled to France and bore His child; that the Knights Templar kept this birth a secret and protected--as long as they could--the successive progeny of the holy bloodline. The latest issue in this direct lineage HBHG authors claim, is a Jewish man, Thomas Plantard de Saint-Clair, living in Paris and now in his 30's.
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>Oddly enough, that is the same plotline of the DaVinci Code with the huge difference being that its latest Christ child is a woman, Sophie. By sheer coincidence, no doubt, the father of the HBHG child looks exactly like the actor who lays the same role in the movie. Having won this suit proves that God once again has chosen the Hollywood crowd.
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>For all its protestations of neutrality, DaVinci is a sharp uppercut to the Catholic Church, and more specifically to Opus Dei, one of its most embedded secret societies. This malevolent organization is not comprised of religious stalwarts, but cynical businessmen and a lunatic albino monk who will (as the Catholic Church has for Centuries) murder in the name of God.
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>DaVinci is not anti-God. Sophie performs several miracles, proving to the viewer that she is indeed the Chosen One. Of course the theology of this film is as convoluted as the series of clues left by a dying guardian of the Holy Grail--the secret of the living heir to Jesus Christ. There is no real connection among the series of clues that are evocatively strung together, all pointing to--and concealing--the great secret. The secret has been hidden for 20 Centuries, but Tom Hanks manages--with Ms Christ--to solve it in a few days.
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>However, the movie is deeply anti Christian--at least the orthodox version surviving today. Jesus cannot have married, Christians believe, and he certainly cannot have sullied himself with sexual intercourse--a form of original sin. Christians have not yet, in 2000 years, figured out whether or not Jesus was fully human or fully divine--or some intermediate species. But if he was born without an Earthly father's genetic contribution, he would have lacked 24 essential chromosomes. If these were somehow contributed by God, it would seem likely that they would stand out even to this day, to DNA testing. So far, none of his claimed off-spring have volunteered.
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Da Vinci Code Movie
The movie is great. Some critics complained that it followed the book too much - that's a good thing!