Hi HistoryGirl

It's interesting that you should say this because Ron Howard said, in an interview, that they intended to use the book as a base but to adapt it for the film. Then they found out that that was unnecessary and they decided to film as close to the novel as possible.

And Dan Brown said that if you have read the book and seen the film it will really seem like the same story.

I purposefully did not read the book before I saw the movie. Not knowing the book, I had a few problems with the story line.

It was not easily discernable why the Lourve curator wanted to contact Robert Langdon in the first place. Since he had not yet been killed and since he a not yet left any cryptic messages, why was he planning to meet with a cryptologist? If he sent Mr. Landon an email requesting to meet him, why not simply tell Robert in the email all of the information that he needed to know? Or was he afraid email was not secure enough to send the information -- OK, so send it in code and let Robert figure it out.

Naw PDM they totally left out key points like at the end when she was suppose to meet her grandma after she relized thats who her G pa saw in the book ... another thing was there wasnt that much violence not that i mind them adding that but it was a little weird like the dude beatin the xxxx out of the plane control man lol i was totally surprised last night now dont get me wrong it was a nice movie if i wouldnt have the book i wouldnt have noticed ..well of course i wouldnt have lol

Hi R2.

I hope you're reading that book right now!

Another less than positive review:

Thou Shalt Not Like It

'Dan Brown's novel seemed tailor-made for the movies, and fans have longed to see it on the big screen. Be careful what you wish for.'

By David Ansen
Newsweek
May 29, 2006 issue -

'The Roman Catholic Church can rest easy. Ron Howard and screenwriter Akiva Goldsman struggle mightily to cram as much as possible of Dan Brown's labyrinthine thriller into a 2-hour, 28-minute running time, resulting in a movie both overstuffed and underwhelming.

'This film is not likely to topple Christianity as we know it, though it could do serious damage to Audrey Tautou's hopes of a Hollywood career.'

Full item here:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12892029/site/newsweek/

My son has just seen the film.
His verdict?

It's good.
It's very good!
Go and see it!

R2 - The curator contacted Langdon because he knew that the other 3 people who kept the secret had all just been murdered, and that he was next. He also knew that his "grand-daughter" would have to be involved and she had not returned his phone call. Basically he contacted Langdon to help Sophie decipher the code, knowing that together this combination of people ( Langdon and Sophie) were the only ones that would have all the answers.

I think that Mr.Browns' book ,fiction or not,is very disrespectful to the Christians and God fearing people in the world today.Yes,I know that people have a mind to think for themselves,but the media always portrays something bad in the good.The is no indication in the Bible that Jesus and Mary had any kind of relationship other than him being the SOn of God and her knowing that following him in his teachings and her learning what God is saying through his son.I'm quite sure that all of us has ran across a few scriptures in our lifetime and we all have heard the story of Jesus' birth-death.We've seen the movies and there were no kind of evidence that Jeus had a husband/wife realtionship with Mary Madgelene.I have read the stories on this abomination of a book and movie.I can't believe Mr.Brown took that approach about our Savior.Everybody is saying that the movie is fiction but there is a difference from writing a book about fairies,mermaids,unicorns, and leprechans and writing a book about Our lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

It is not shown in the movie why he contacted Langdon, even if it says why in the book. Sauniere had been thretened not to reveal the secret that the Prieure was going to reveal at the begining of the millenium. He was threten by the church with the death of his niece (who is realy his niece in the book) so he decided not to do anything. He contacted Langdon because of the book he was writing in which there were presented facts about the grail and the sacred female. He wanted to convince him not to publish the book. That's why Leigh Teabing used Silas to kill those four... he wanted the secret to be revealed as said and found out they were not going to.
Why all of these were not showed in the movie... i don't know...

I haven't seen the movie yet, but I was the book got me hooked. I couldn't put it down. Everything in the book seems all so real to me. Could any of the info in there be true at all? Especially the paintings. they were so fascinating and the crytology? super awesome!! i'm going to see the movie on friday. i hope it matches up to the book!