The Da Vinci Code (film)
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The Da Vinci Code (2006) is a film directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks, which is based on the bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code (2003) by Dan Brown.
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[edit] Robert Langdon
- I'm into something here that I cannot understand.
[edit] Sophie Neveu
- We are what we protect, what we stand up for.
- It's a cryptex. Da Vinci's design. Sauniere made me one for my birthday once.
[edit] Sir Leigh Teabing
- (After landing in Kent, to local police) I have a medical appointment to go to, sir. If you wish to keep us here longer, you'll just have to shoot us. (Points at Remy) You can start with him.
- We are in the middle of a war. One that has been going on forever to protect a secret so powerful that if revealed it would devastate the very foundations of mankind.
- As long as there has been a single God, there has been killing in his name.
[edit] Others
Remy (at the hangar while police are searching plane): You know, I could run them over if you wish, sir.
[edit] Dialogue
- Sophie Neveu: Maybe there is something about this Priory of Sion.
- Robert Langdon: I hope not. Any Priory story ends in bloodshed. They were butchered by the Church. It all started over a thousand years ago when a French king conquered the holy city of Jerusalem. This crusade, one of the most massive and sweeping in history was actually orchestrated by a secret brotherhood: the Priory of Sion and their military arm, the Knights Templar.
- Sophie Neveu: But the Templars were created to protect the Holy Land.
- Robert Langdon: That was a cover to hide their true goal, according to this myth. Supposedly the invasion was to find an artefact lost since the time of Christ. An artifact, it was said, the Church would kill to possess.
- Sophie Neveu: Did they find it, this buried treasure?
- Robert Langdon: Put it this way: One day the Templars simply stopped searching. They quit the Holy Land and traveled directly to Rome. Whether they blackmailed the papacy or the Church bought their silence, no one knows. But it is a fact the papacy declared these Priory knights, these Knights Templar, of limitless power. By the 1300s, the Templars had grown too powerful. Too threatening. So the Vatican issued secret orders to be opened simultaneously all across Europe. The Pope had declared the Knights Templar Satan worshipers and said God had charged him with cleansing the earth of these heretics. The plan went off like clockwork. The Templars were all but exterminated. The date was October 13th, 1307. A Friday.
- Sophie Neveu: Friday the 13th...
- Robert Langdon: The Pope sent troops to claim the Priory's treasure but they found nothing. The few surviving Knights of the Priory had vanished and the search for their sacred artifact began again.
- Sophie Neveu: What artifact? I've never heard about any of this.
- Robert Langdon: Yes, you have. Almost everyone on earth has. You just know it as the Holy Grail.
- Sir Leigh Teabing : So Constantine may have been a lifelong Pagan but he was also a pragmatist and in 325 Anno Domini he decided to unify Rome under a single religion, Christianity.
- Robert Langdon: Christianity was on the rise, he didn't want his empire torn apart.
- Sir Leigh Teabing : And to strengthen this new Christian tradition, Constantine held a famous ecumenical gathering known as the Council of Nicaea, and at this council the many sects of Christianity debated and voted on well, everything from the acceptance and rejection of specific gospels to the date for Easter to the ministry of sacrament, and of course, the immortality of Jesus.
- Sophie Neveu: I don't follow.
- Sir Leigh Teabing : I'm told that moment in history Jesus was viewed by many of his followers as a mighty prophet, as a great and powerful man, but a man nevertheless, a mortal man.
- Sophie Neveu: Not the son of God?
- Sir Leigh Teabing : Not even his nephew twice removed.
- Robert Langdon: Constantine did not create Jesus' divinity. He simply sanctioned an already widely held idea!.
- Sir Leigh Teabing : Semantics.
- Robert Langdon: No, it's not semantics. You're interpreting facts to support your own conclusions.
- Sir Leigh Teabing : Fact: for many Christians, Jesus was mortal one day and divine the next.
- Robert Langdon: The ancient male symbol was the blade, it's a basic phallus. It's still used today on military uniforms.
- Sir Leigh Teabing: Yes, and the more penises you have, the higher your rank. Boys will be boys!
- Robert Langdon: Hey.
- Sophie Neveu: She has some things she wants to tell me. About my family.
- Robert Langdon: What will you do? The legend will be revealed when the heir reveals himself.
- Sophie Neveu: They just got the pronoun wrong. She said when Sauniere died he took the location of Mary's sarcophagus with him. So there's no way to empirically prove that I am related to her. What would you do, Robert?
- Robert Langdon: Okay, maybe there is no proof. Maybe the Grail is lost forever. But, Sophie, the only thing that matters is what you believe. History shows us Jesus was an extraordinary man, a human inspiration. That's it. That's all the evidence has ever proved. But... when I was a boy... when I was down in that well Teabing told you about, I thought I was going to die, Sophie. What I did, I prayed. I prayed to Jesus to keep me alive so I could see my parents again, so I could go to school again, so I could play with my dog. Sometimes I wonder if I wasn't alone down there. Why does it have to be human or divine? Maybe human is divine. Why couldn't Jesus have been a father and still be capable of all those miracles?
- Sophie Neveu: Like turning water into wine?
- Robert Langdon: Well, who knows? His blood is your blood. Maybe that junkie in the park will never touch a drug again. Maybe you healed my phobia with my hands.
- Sophie Neveu: And maybe you're a knight on a Grail quest.
[They both laugh]
- Robert Langdon: Well, here's the question: A living descendent of Jesus Christ - would she destroy faith? Or would she renew it? So again I say, what matters is what you believe.
- Sophie Neveu: Thank you. For bringing me here. For letting him choose you, Sir Robert.
[They both laugh]
- Robert Langdon: You take care.
- Sophie Neveu: Yes.
[They hug, Robert kisses Sophie on the forehead and they both walk away from each other]
- Sophie Neveu: Hey. [Sophie walks up to a nearby pond, sticks out a foot to see if she can walk on it and fails] Nope. Maybe I'll do better with the wine.
- Robert Langdon: [Robert smiles] Godspeed.
- Bezu: Did you approve? (about the Louvre Pyramid)
- Robert: Yes, your pyramid is magnificent.
- Bezu: (grunt) A scar on the face of Paris.
- Leigh:(After being called to the kitchen by Remy) Sometimes I wonder who is serving whom? I'll be right there, Remy. Can I bring you anything when I come?
- Remy: Only freedom from oppression, sir.
- Robert: The keystone is well hidden.
- Leigh: Extremely well hidden, I hope!
- Robert: Actually that depends on how often you dust under your couch.
- Silas: Stand up slowly, and give it to me.
- Leigh: Standing is difficult for me.
- Silas: Precisely. I would prefer nobody attempt any quick moves.
- Robert: Who is that? What... happened?
- Leigh: You were rescued by a knight brandishing an Excalibur made by Acme Orthopaedic.
- Operator: Will you accept charges for a collect call from Robert Langdon?
- Jonas: Uh... sure, okay.
- Robert: (on the phone) Jonas?
- Jonas: Robert? You wake me up and you charge me for it?
- Pilot: Sir, my humble apologies, but my diplomatic flight allowance provides only for you and your manservant. I cannot take your guests.
- Leigh: Richard, two thousand pounds sterling and that loaded gun say you can take my guests. And that unfortunate fellow in the back. [Silas]
- Robert: Leigh, you lie entirely too well.
- Leigh: Oxford Theatre Club. They still talk of my Julius Caesar. I'm certain nobody has ever performed the first scene of Act Three with more dedication.
- Robert: I thought Caesar was dead in that scene.
- Leigh: Yes, but my toga tore open when I fell, and I had to lie on stage for half an hour with my todger hanging out. Even so, I never moved a muscle. I was brilliant, I tell you.
- Sophie: Leigh, I was serious about the French police finding your plane before we return.
- Leigh: Yes, imagine their surprise if they board and find Remy.
- Sophie: Leigh, you transported a bound hostage across international borders. This is serious.
- Leigh: So are my lawyers.
- Robert: But you tied him[Silas] up and flew him to London!
- Leigh: Your honour, forgive an eccentric old knight his foolish prejudice for the British court system. I realize I should have called the French authorities, but I'm a snob and I do not trust those laissez-faire French to prosecute properly. This man almost murdered me. Yes, I made a rash decision forcing my manservant to help me bring him to England, but I was under great stress. Mea culpa. Mea culpa.
- Robert: Coming from you, Leigh, that just might fly.
- Robert: Leigh, I should turn myself in and sort this out legally. Leave you all out of it.
- Leigh: Oh, heavens, Robert! Do you really think they're going to let the rest of us go? I just transported you illegally. Miss Neveu assisted in your escape from the Louvre, and we have a man tied up in the back of the plane. Really now! We're all in this together.
- Simon Edwards: I'm afraid your arrival has taken us a bit off guard, sir.
- Leigh: I know. I'm off my schedule, I am. Between you and me, the new medication gives me the tinkles. Thought I'd come over for a tune-up.
- Police Inspector: I am here at the orders of the French Judicial police. They claim you are transporting fugitives from the law on this plane.
- Leigh: Is this one of those hidden camera programmes? Jolly good!
- Police Inspector: This is serious, sir. The French police claim that you also may have a hostage onboard.
- Remy: I feel like a hostage working for Sir Leigh, but he assures me that I am free to go.
- Leigh: Inspector, I'm afraid I don't have time to indulge in your games. I'm late, and I'm leaving. If it is important for you to stop me, then you'll just have to shoot me.
- Police Inspector:(draws gun) Stop! I will fire!
- Leigh: Go ahead. My lawyers will fricassee your testicles for breakfast. And if you dare board my plane without a warrant, your spleen will follow.
- Leigh: On the verge of unlocking one of history's greatest secrets, and he troubles himself with a woman who has proven herself unworthy of the quest.
[edit] White cryptex riddle
In London lies a knight a Pope interred.
His labor's fruit a Holy wrath incurred.
You seek the orb that ought be on his tomb.
It speaks of Rosy flesh and seeded womb.
[edit] Black cryptex riddle
The Holy Grail 'neath ancient Roslin waits.
The blade and chalice guarding o'er Her gates.
Adorned in masters' loving art, She lies.
She rests at last beneath the starry skies.
[edit] Tag lines
- Seek The Truth
- Seek the truth, seek the codes.
- So Dark The Con of Man
