'The Da Vinci Code' is definitely one of the most expected movies of this year and the box office collection of this past weekend proves that. Before I start to write about the movie, let me make one thing clear, I am one of those biased viewers, who loved the book and went into the movie hall with a preconceived notion that a movie can never do justice to the book. All the Harry Potter movies so far have taught me this lesson.
First things first, my favorite actor Tom Hanks plays the role of ‘Robert Langdon’, the protagonist of the book. To be honest, I definitely had few doubts whether he’ll suit the role. But he has once again proved that any role is just a piece of cake for him. I read a few reviews that mentioned Tom Hanks looked completely lost in this character. I agree, this role is not really a challenging one and it definitely did not require an actor of Tom Hank’s genre to perform this. But I completely disagree that he was a misfit for the role. Even though there was not much scope to perform, he definitely did full justice to the role given to him.
Coming to the movie itself, it definitely succeeded in capturing the key aspects of the book. But what it lacked most was a racy screenplay. I guess the director just focused on how to plug in major events of the book and failed completely in adapting the style with which the various events were linked. This definitely made the movie seem like a drag for sometime. The biggest success of the book was that it never lost its vivacious narration, not even for a little while. On the other hand, the churches, the museum and some beautiful locations were well pictured and was a treat to the eyes. Also, contrary to popular opinion, I felt Audrey Tautou was cute and was a perfect fit for the role.
As I have mentioned in one of my previous posts, though ‘The Da Vinci Code’ is the most popular book of Dan Brown, his ‘Angels & Demons’ is my favorite book till date. It was far more superior in terms of story narration and turn of events. There is already news that it may soon be made as a movie and released as a sequel to ‘The Da Vinci Code’. That’ll definitely be something to look forward too.
3 Comments:
Sesh, that's right...it was definitely worth the money.
well, the problem with this movie, especially for viewers who have read the book, was that, we knew the answers to all the puzzles and in turn, those moments on screen were very boring.. the director should have given some thought abt it as a large part of movie was about solving some puzzles.. the movie was all right, definitley not worth the hype and money.. just watching it on dvd would suffice..
Hi Mahesh,
U r right. Since the viewers who already read the book knew the answers to the puzzles, it was kind of boring. But the movie has to adapt the sequences in the book and so I don't think the director had much choice abt that. One thing is sure, he definitely cud have presented them more interestingly and which was totally lacking in the film.
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