OT da Vinci code

Last night I went to see this movie. I found it a great thriller and wonder what the fuss is about.
There are a few bishops who made it clear "if the Vatican finds out what we do, we will be excommunicated". Surely that clears the church.

I found the end a little disappointing, but then how else could it end? The very end I thought great visual moviemaking.

My reason for sending this message is: did I find an error, or did I misunderstand?

After a while Tom Hanks comes in the possession of a beautiful box in which is a gadget which is covered with moveable rings containing letters. The letters have to be placed in a specific order (the da Vinci code) and it will open, revealing a map which shows where Mary Magdalen is supposedly buried. This box was made by Leonardo da Vinci. If the wrong message is entered the map will be destroyed.

Ajo Wissink...

There is no mistake, Leo. The poem containing the riddle about the
apple was written by Saunières who also made the cryptex. Maybe that
was not clear in the movie.

Tom Hanks, (with supposedly, incredible visual memory) has been to the memorial of Sir Isaac Newton on which spheres/planets are shown. He realises that one sphere connected to Sir Isaac Newton is missing-----an apple (remember gravity?). He makes that gadget read apple and it opens.

If we take the movie serious, surely Leonardo da Vinci would not/could not have associated an apple with Sir Isaac Newton?

fairthorne...

for Da Vinci, more coming in everyday

Suggets you submit your find asap

there is an entry about the apple:

quote from site:

Factual error: When Langdon finally succeeds in cracking the code to open
the "cryptex", he explains to Sophie that the code-word devised by Isaac
Newton could only be "apple", since it had been thanks to an apple that he
had discovered that which "had annoyed the Church so much, the Law of
Gravity". As far as we know, the Catholic Church had no objection to the Law
of Gravity and Newton was living in a Protestant country anyway. Besides,
the story about the apple was corroborated by Newton himself, that is true,
but its notoriety, a typical "science fairy-tale" is rather recent. The word
seems to have been chosen here because it's the only thing that most people
know now about Newton (including Dan Brown, apparently).

cheers

Simon

(personally I found the book made Jeffrey Archer read like a Booker prize
winner)

Denis Beauregard...

If the movie was serious, it would be apple in latin, not in
English...

Renia...

Well spotted. I didn't spot it when I read the book, which I thoroughly
enjoyed as a fictional thriller. Haven't seen the film yet, but I intend
to, even though I can't stand Tom Hanks.

John Brandon...

Yep, and that raggedy hairdo doesn't improve him any ...

With best wishes
Leo van de Pas
Canberra, Australia

Blu_Kngt...

Who says it's supposed to be taken seriously? Go watch it and have
some fun. What was it that W.C Fields said once? Hmmm....