Last week I finished reading the Da Vinci code. I was immediately drawn into to and finished within days. It was so epic, a thriller from start to end.
The ending… my god. I was CRYING when Sophie reunited with her family. I didn’t even see it coming and it was WHOLESOME AF!
Coming to the movie… I know, bad idea.
As a reader I have always been curious how my imagination compared to a movie.
So i love reading and watching movies of the books.
Books are far superior in every sense.
What PISSED me of about this movie was the ending!
Why the fuck will you change the ending of the book!? It doesn’t make any sense!? It was perfect the way it was! The movie directors had the perfect script!
Why change the ending!?? URGHH!
Apart from the horrific ending the director did their best to recreate the book. They were parallel to the book for sometime but like always the movie takes tangent in a completely different way.
I’m genuinely pissed at the ending! SMH
by mystic_nid
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I haven’t read/seen the DaVinci Code in many years, so I say this more as a general thought than specific to this exact book/movie, but they probably wanted to end it in a way that left the door open for a sequel. I don’t remember if there was a sequel, I think there was a prequel for sure, but that would be my best guess for why they changed it.
This book gets shit on so much, but, I’ll defend it til I die. I love it. I have read it twice, once as a 15 year old and then again at 23. It’s an amazingly fun page turner, with a cool premise. It’s not a literary masterpiece, but, it’s also not the steaming pile of shit half of the internet says it is.
Absolutely hated the book.
Like the flashbacks depicting the leader of Opus Dei’s ominous-laden doom-laden meeting in Rome that his sect will fall apart in 6 months from some interminable secret, only for it to later to be revealed to be a meeting about funding being cut off. Now, you can have a character get partial information and grab the wrong end of the stick, but you can’t have the narration explicitly state information to the reader that’s a recounting of past events designed expressly to mean one thing, and then later on go “oh, those events actually meant this”. That’s not a twist, that’s just a lie.
Or the spectacularly ingenious scene where they evade the police there to meet their private jet as it lands. The police bustle onto the jet as it comes to a stop and find them… gone, with it being repeatedly said how there was no time for anyone to get off the plane in the time from taxiing off the runway to the hangar. Then the big reveal is there was time, they just did it really really fast.
Only other book of his I read was *Digital Fortres*s which was an order of magnitude worse. Aside from having prose and a plot seemingly aimed at people with the intellect of children, it has disturbing rants about “civil rights fanatics” and how good guy NSA manages to tie them in knots while they carry out mass surveillance and extra-judicial killings.
OK, obligatory link to “Don’t make fun of renowned Dan Brown”:
[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/10049454/Dont-make-fun-of-renowned-Dan-Brown.html](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/10049454/Dont-make-fun-of-renowned-Dan-Brown.html)
Uncharitable, but funny.
Tbh I liked angels and demons, the one before it more.
Digital fortress and deception point are pretty good and different from the robert Langdon ones.
Katherine Neville’s The Eight is what you wish The Da Vinci Code was.