![]() This is a high-brow score for a film with a high-brow concept. Zimmer’s intent here, though, is not to elicit feelings of fear or dread, but feelings of uncertainty, discovery, wonderment, and above all intelligence. In many ways, Zimmer’s The Da Vinci Code is a re-working of the heavy string stylings he previously incorporated into scores such as Hannibal and The Ring, albeit with a slightly more spiritual flavour this time around. It’s just that, based on his recent musical choices (Cinderella Man, The Missing, A Beautiful Mind), Howard seemed to have found his comfortable collaborators of choice, having only worked with one other composer (Randy Edelman on Ed TV) in the preceding decade. This is not to say that Zimmer can’t score intelligent, thought-provoking mystery/thrillers, because he can, and Zimmer has worked with Howard before, on Backdraft back in 1991. ![]() Ron Howard’s usual collaborators are James Horner and Thomas Newman, both of whose musical styles would seem to suit the nature of the film perfectly. The choice of Hans Zimmer as the composer of The Da Vinci code was an unexpected one. Teaming up with Saunière’s granddaughter Sophie Neveu (Audrey Tautou), a French government cryptographer, Langdon quickly finds himself searching for both Saunière’s murderer, and the reason he was killed – all the while trying to stay one step ahead of dogged detective Bezu Fache (Jean Reno), who thinks Langdon is the murderer, and a shadowy albino monk named Silas (Paul Bettany) who, for reasons unclear, wants Langdon dead… The film also stars Ian McKellen, Alfred Molina and Jürgen Prochnow, and is set for world-wide release on. The film stars Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon, a Professor of Religious Symbology at Harvard University, who becomes involved in a dangerous mystery when Jacques Saunière, the renowned curator of the Louvre in Paris, is found dead in the Denon Wing of the museum, naked and posed like Leonardo Da Vinci’s famous drawing the Vitruvian Man, with a cryptic message written beside his body and a Pentagram drawn on his stomach in his own blood. I personally enjoyed it immensely.ĭirector Ron Howard’s film is no less controversial, having already been denounced by religious folk as soundly as the book was, despite no-one having actually seen it yet. Critics have denounced it as a work of poorly-written fiction whose subject matter is tantamount to blasphemy admirers of Brown’s work have lauded it as an enjoyable work in its own right, which as well as being a thrilling page-turner, highlights a number of important questions which scholars of world history have been asking for many years. The book, which offers controversial theories about subjects as wide ranging as the life of Jesus Christ, the nature of the Holy Grail, corruption within the Catholic church, the roles of several Masonic orders, and the legacy of artists and scholars such as Isaac Newton, Claude Debussy, Victor Hugo, and Da Vinci himself, has sold more than 40 millions copies world-wide, making it one of the most successful books of the 21st century. It’s not often that a work of fiction generates such a frenzy of attention that the Vatican itself is compelled to comment on its contents, but that’s what happened in the aftermath of the release of Dan Brown’s novel The Da Vinci Code in 2003.
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