Moreover, the movie faded into obscurity almost immediately, despite the global success of Brown’s novel. Throwing enough big names into the production and hoping it all came together in the end definitely got them their money’s worth (the movie grossed well over half a billion dollars), but critics weren’t particularly kind to it. The producers of The Da Vinci Code seemingly approached the adaptation under the impression that altering even one word of the dizzyingly popular source novel would jeopardize the film’s box office receipts. But Goldsman’s script slavishly preserves Brown’s source material to the point of crafting a mystery thriller overstuffed with stretches of pseudo-historical exposition that are exciting to read in a beach novel but make for an interminably dull movie. Directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Ron Howard from a screenplay by blockbuster veteran Akiva Goldsman, the movie seemed like a recipe for a surefire hit.
Released 15 years ago this month, the 2006 film adaptation of The Da Vinci Code is brimming with talent, including an all-star cast featuring Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Sir Ian McKellen, Paul Bettany, and Alfred Molina. To give you an idea of its pop culture saturation, the only book that outsold it in 2003 was the fifth Harry Potter novel. Selling over 80 million copies translated into dozens of different languages, the book was almost impossible to avoid. *Lots of English people do drink coffee, many preferring it to tea and we don't usually make coffee in a microwave.The Da Vinci Code, the bestselling treasure-hunting mystery thriller by Dan Brown, was a legitimate phenomenon. * MI5 are responsible for national security and are unlikely to be interested in murderers *The 'London Police' are know as The Metropolitan Police Some notes for American authors who don't get out much. This is possibly the worst portrayal of an English man since Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins. I must give a mention to the English knight character, Sir Leigh Teabing. Well with this book the reader is under water watching the legs. You know what they say about the graceful swan gliding across a lake. These devices often feel forced and contrived, as does much of the plot. On a couple of occasions the main character is made to flash back to a Harvard lecture room purely to lighten the explanation about some symbol or other. The nature of the means that it's weighed down by large amounts of exposition, though to Dan Brown's credit he does work hard to break it up and mix it with the action. This makes for an easy read and a good page turner. Most chapters begin by reminding you where you were the last time you met these characters before resolving the cliff-hanger and moving you on to another one. The chapters switch the action between the good guys, bad guys and the cops, with almost every one ending on a cliff-hanger. The chapters are short, usually no more than four pages, the shortest one being only half a page.
If you're trying to write a commercial thriller then there are one or two lessons this book can teach. From a literature point of view this book has erm. Add a religious conspiracy theory, blur fact and fiction - making sure its controversial - and you've got yourself a best seller.įrom a marketing point of view this book has everything. Just take some formula plot ideas and thin characters.
'''The Da Vinci Code''' gives hope to mediocre writers everywhere.
0 kommentar(er)
