![]() The arguments about the movie and the book that inspired it have not been going on for millennia - it only feels that way - but part of Columbia Pictures' ingenious marketing strategy has been to encourage months of debate and speculation while not allowing anyone to see the picture until the very last minute. Ron Howard's adaptation of Dan Brown's best-selling primer on how not to write an English sentence, arrives trailing more than its share of theological and historical disputation. Recent history - 'The Passion of the Christ,' 'The Chronicles of Narnia' - suggests that such controversy, especially if religion is involved, can be very good business. Credit Simon Mein/Columbia Pictures CANNES, France, May 17 - It seems you can't open a movie these days without provoking some kind of culture war skirmish, at least in the conflict-hungry media. Watch The Da Vinci Code With English SubtitlesĪudrey Tautou and Tom Hanks run through the Louvre (and toward a body) in 'The Da Vinci Code,' directed by Ron Howard and based on Dan Brown's best-selling novel.Clues left in Da Vinci paintings open a discovery of religious mystery which is covered over 2,000 years. His secret letter is sent to his granddaughter and Rober Langdon, a professional symbologist. The story begins when a manager at the Louvre museum is murdered. ![]()
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