When Vernet slams the door of the armored car, we see the brass bullet casing deformed, flattened on one side. We next see the bullet casing (must be same one since Vernet has not yet fired the gun again) on some flat surface with no apparent damage. If the deformed side had been facing away from the camera, the casing would have been lying at an angle because when the door crushed in the side, it was almost half way in. No way can this be the same casing. See more...
At the reception after Langdon's speech Dan Brown can be seen amongst the guests. See more...
Directed by Ron Howard, starring Audrey Tautou, Ian McKellen, Jean Reno, Paul Bettany, Tom Hanks (add more)
Genres: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Teabing at one point makes the comment that the Bible refers to the cup used at the last supper as the Grail. The Bible does not do this. It gets no mention at all, actually. It was not for several centuries, until the romance of the Grail was written that the cup is given 'magical' powers. [Teabing refers to it as "The Holy Grail" because that's what he knows it as. He's not stating that the Bible calls it "The Holy Grail".]
After Robert knocks Vernet to the ground behind the armored car, he yells to Sophie to get in the truck. She jumps out of the back, runs around to the passenger door and gets in while Vernet is shooting at her. That door would still have been locked. When Vernet got out of his side, he couldn't have accidently hit the auto unlock because armored cars only have auto locks, no unlock. A passenger on the inside getting out or some one with a key would have had to unlock that door. [No, I used to drive an armoured car. The driver has access to a locking system, and the unit can be unlocked from inside the vehicle from a separate compartment. In my situation, the driver could unlock the rear and side doors with the push of a button, and the courier in the back could access a button to unlock the driver compartment. This was a safety issue, as if there was an accident, the driver and/or courier would need to be able to unlock the other compartment for emergency services in case the other occupant was unconscious.]
Teabing describes the Malleus Maleficarum as something which the church used (perhaps even created) as a tool to persecute women and burn them at the stake. The Malleus Maleficarum was actually banned by the church, not used by it. [The book deals with an alternate history of the Church, which has been covered up in a conspiracy covering nearly two thousand years. It's hardly unreasonable that, in that alternate history, it was indeed the Church that originally created the Malleus Maleficarum, later covering it up and officially banning it.]
Corrected by Tailkinker
If it is indeed a GPS receiver used by the police to track the couple's location and movement in the interior of The Louvre, the device would not have functioned indoors as GPS needs a line of sight to the sky. The more plausible part is when Sophie later puts the device in a bar of soap and tossed it out the window onto a passing truck, then it would receive satellite signals that the police would track it moving away. I would have agreed with the indoor scene if the device was a radio beacon, but if I remember right, even the book said it was a GPS. [There are GPS devices that will lead you right to the door you need in office buildings. Satellite radio works indoors too.]
Corrected by Rlvlk
In the Swiss bank, when Dr. Robert Langdon and Agent Sophie Neveu enter the right Fibonacci suite to get the Cryptex, the robot arm grabs the black case and REVERSES it. Then, in the next scene, when they open the lid of the case, the Cryptex's wooden case is right in its place, without any restrain or protective wrapping. [If you watch closely, when they open the bank box, you will see four stabilizing arms. One at each corner of the keystone box.]
When Dr. Robert Langdon and Agent Sophie Neveu arrive at Chateau Villette in the armored vehicle, the helicopter pan across the chateau shows the building lit up with accent lighting. When Dr. Robert Langdon answers the three questions correctly and Sir Leigh Teabing allows them entry, the chateau is dark and then the same accent lights turn on to welcome their entry. [The accent lighting might be motion sensor activated and had been triggered earlier by someone fixing something on the house and then went off. When Langdon and Neveu show up, the sensor is triggered again. Happens at my house all the time.]
Corrected by shortdanzr
At one point, Sophie gets thrown to the ground and gashes up her right knee. She's shown cleaning it on the plane later. However, for most of the movie after that, she has no injury on her knee. It doesn't show up again until toward the end. [It is possible that it had stopped bleeding (it did look very minor) and therefore, as soon as she washed the blood off, it wouldn't be nearly as noticeable.]
Corrected by shortdanzr
Just before the English policemen shoots Silas his gun is in clear view. The position of the slide of Silas gun indicates an empty gun, but the policemen still fire at Silas. [This is a character mistake, even policemen make mistakes in tense situations.]
In the scene where Langdon throws the cryptex into the air, Teabing throws his two walking sticks quite high stumbling to catch it. But we never hear either of the sticks hit the floor. [Filmmakers are not obligated to use every sound you would hear in real life. It is no more a mistake than the fact that everything is moving much slower than it would in real life in that scene. It is a stylistic choice.]
People who've actually been to Rosslyn (the correct spelling, though it is in the village of Roslin) Chapel will be amused to see in the movie that Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou were somehow able to bypass the many security guards, the gift shop, tea room, museum and admissions desk to get into Rosslyn, and also that they did so via a door that is always locked beyond two stout gates. No one ever enters Rosslyn the way they did. [That's because, in the world of the film, the gift shop etc. don't exist the way they do in reality, and in the film's world it is possible to enter the chapel the way they did. People forget that The Da Vinci Code was never anything other than a work of fiction and having a location not match its real life counterpart can hardly be classed as a mistake.]
When Leigh, Sophie, and Robert take the flight from France to England, the setting changes from late night to midday almost. Due to the time change when flying to England from France, it would be approximately the same time in England when they arrived as when they left France, not midday. [They were not originally heading for England, although I forget for the moment where they were heading, but it was a while into the flight before they realised that they needed to go to England, thus accounting for the time difference.]
I believe the cars everyone is riding in in France should be driving on the right but they appear to be driving on the left. [The only time they drive on the left is when they are fleeing the police, and when they are on a one-way road, otherwise they are driving on the right. Also, Teabing's Land Rover that they escape in has the steering wheel on the right, but it is because it is a British market vehicle. Even in countries with traffic patterns on the right, it is possible to drive a right hand drive vehicle. We have quite a few British and Japanese market vehicles here in Canada.]
Silas is an albino, and since albinos don't have pigment to color his skin and eyes, he should have red eyes. In the film, he has grayish blue eyes. [First of all, only true Albinos have pink eyes, because the iris has no color and the blood vessels discolor the eyes, however, a person can appear to be completely Albino and still have tint to their eyes and eye color can easily be disguised by coloured lenses.]
The story of this movie is inspired by a book called "Holy Blood, Holy Grail", by three writers called Leigh, Baigent and Lincoln. Notice that one of the characters in the movie has Leigh for a first name, and Teabing, an anagram for Baigent, for a surname. [Actually, in a recent court case, Brown argued successfully that the earlier book did not inspire his tale when the authors of the prior work attempted to sue him. He claims to have become aware of the other book during the writing of "The Da Vinci Code", and the character name is an obvious nod to those writers, but it was not the source of inspiration.]
Corrected by Tailkinker
In one of the last scenes, after Sophie has met the Guardians, she meets Langdon to say goodbye to him. She has a dark smudge on her throat that disappears halfway through the conversation, only to reappear after she hugs him. [The smudge on Sophie's throat is a scab from where Silas held the knife to her throat in Westminster Abbey. It doesn't disappear during the last conversation, but Sophie's hair changes position and sometimes the scab is covered and other times it's uncovered.]
In the scene in the Louvre, Neveu gives Langdon a paper with a "three-digit code" written on it. When he enters it into his cell phone, you can hear that he only pushes two buttons. [This is not true, he does enter three digits, it's just that the first two are the same number, so they have the same tone when pressed, and it sounds like he only hits two, but if you look/listen closely he does enter three.]
Temple Church always has someone on duty if it's open to the public, so where was he? It's not like a normal church which people can just walk into - the Temple itself is a private enclave of London. [This error claim is a little unfair as in the book the trio do have a lengthy talk with the character on duty. However since his involvement was unnecessary to the plot and would have added more time to an already long film his omission can be justified since so few moviegoers would have even heard of Temple Church never mind knowing its operational protocols.]
About a minute away for the ending, there is a shot of Langdon standing in the glass floor (which is filmed from the underground bottom of the glass pyramid in the museum). You can see the reflection of the camera and cameraman in the glass pyramid, going left to right. [No, that's Langdon's reflection.]
When Robert, Leigh and Sophie first enter Temple church, in the top left hand corner you can see the black curtain they put up outside the window to keep excess light out. The window in question is actually ornately stained - it appears black in the film. [It will appear black if there is a black curtain behind it, no matter what color it is.]
When the police arrive in London, the sirens that are dubbed over are American "Howler" sirens instead of the English "Two Tone" sirens. [British emergency services have been using American-style sirens (and nothing else) for at least a decade.]
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