Toward the end of the movie “The Da Vinci Code,” the main character, Robert Langdon, tells his sleuthing partner, Sophie Neveu: “You are the last living descendent of Jesus Christ.”
That line, meant to be the dramatic apex of the film, drew laughs from many of the approximately 900 journalists who viewed the film’s first press screening May 16 at the Cannes Film Festival.
The derisive laughter, along with widely critical comments from reporters afterward, summed up the Cannes press reaction to the much-heralded launch of the movie. When the credits ran, silence and a few whistles drove home the response.
The movie sticks to most of the book’s controversial religious elements…
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Mike:
Not quite the last decendent. If she were to marry and have kiddies, the line would continue no? Matrilineal lineage qua expression of feminism or is Brown still patriarchial in his thinking?
xavier
You’re a true capitalist. You’re already looking ahead to the sequel!