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...Probably not. But this is the name of the game in the Browniverse: at its most basic level the Brownian fantasy is that coincidences aren't just chance, and things are not just things: they mean something. Brown's hero, Robert Langdon, is after all a symbologist (following a branch of human intellectual inquiry that - it cannot be stated enough times - doesn't exist, at Harvard or anywhere else). Beneath his learned, oddly asexual caress, objects come to life and become symbols. A V isn't just a V, it's a chalice, a symbol of the eternal feminine. Chaos...
...Beach scenes in a religious thriller? Not quite. World-renowned symbologist Robert Langdon (Hanks) is taking a 5 a.m. water workout in the Harvard swimming pool when a papal emissary shows up to inform him that someone has kidnapped four prominent Cardinals, all in line to be the next Pope, and threatened to murder them and, that very night, blow up St. Peter's Square with a vial of antimatter stolen from a Geneva research lab. In Rome by sundown, Langdon finds adversaries in a stern Cardinal (Armin Mueller-Stahl) and the head of the Vatican's Swiss Guards (Stellan...
MONA MIA A Harvard symbologist uncovered an anagram scrawled in invisible ink across the painting's face, which led to the discovery of a secret society whose sole mission was to guard the ... Wait, did we see that in a movie...
...script is doggedly faithful to Brown's plot: Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon (Hanks) is paired with pert police detective Sophie Neveu (Audrey Tautou), and against Silas, the albino hit man from Opus Dei, as they race from Paris and environs to London and environs in the company of crippled scholar Leigh Teabing (Ian McKellen) to discover the meaning and whereabouts of the Holy Grail, a central artifact in Christian mythology. We eventually learn that, unawares, our hero and heroine have attracted the attention of rival gangs of learned loonies, latest in a millennial line of combatants over the central tenet...
After reading “The Da Vinci Code,” I discovered that Brown, a former English teacher, is a creature of habit. There are no surprises—just more of the same winning formula. Replace the scientist with a stolid Harvard symbologist, the analyst with a sassy cop, and the executive branch with the Catholic Church. Then include some car chases, narrow escapes, and the requisite sexual tension—and voil?...