The Da Vinci Code

When Teabing is pointing his gun at Sophie and he wants her to open the cryptex, we see a close up of Robert Langdon who says "one moment".

He has his left hand raised.

In the next shot, when we see Langdon and Teabing, Langdon's hands are down.

In the final sequence of the movie, when Langdon is on the top of Louvre's inverted glass pyramid, the traveling movement of the camera operator and his assistant are seen by the glass reflection.

When Langdon and Neveu are on their knees at gunpoint, the position of the cryptex changes while on the floor in front of them.

At Sir Leigh Teabing's house in the morning - the time of day changes many times.

(As seen by the sky and sun rise.

) While conversing with Silas in Latin, Aringarosa calls "Paris" "Parisi".

The Latin name for Paris was Lutetia; "Parisi" was the name of its inhabitants.

When Silas has been shot, he first lies down near the wall.

In the shot with both himself and the Bishop, he is closer to the Bishop than the wall.

When Sophie poises her black pump over the pond, her shoe is already spotted with green algae.

Right after Silas turns and shoots at Aringarosa he goes up to him.

The pistol's slide is open (gun empty)/closed (gun loaded) between shots.

Then when he turns to the police, the slide is closed again.

As they are discovering Magdalena's crypt, Langdon pulls a carpet away to reveal a Fleur de lis.

As the carpet is pulled away it is quite clean, however when the camera closes in it is covered in dirt and dust.

When Sophie is talking to Langdon and they find out she really is the descendant, there is wind blowing her hair.

Every time the angle changes her hair is completely groomed again.

When Sophie is being held at knife-point by Silas, you see blood trickling from the cut the knife point makes.

When the scene shifts back, there is no blood or cut.

When it shifts again, the cut and blood are back, and she has the cut/healing wound for the rest of the film.

The bandage Sophie puts onto her leg, while riding the bus, disappears then reappears later in the movie, with no sign of the injury while it is gone.

When Langdon, Teabing and Sophie are in Teabing's house and Silas is creeping up, jumping over the wall etc; inside the house, it is obviously getting progressively lighter.

Cut to Silas outside, in the pitch black.

While in the park, Sophie flashes her badge to the junkie, and then closes it.

In the next shot, she closes the ID again.

When they are on Teabing's plane, Sophie goes back to Silas to question him.

She rips the duct tape off his mouth.

Then Langdon gets her to walk away.

Later, Sophie, Langdon, and Teabing are talking at the front of the plane, and Silas can be seen in the background, with the duct tape back on.

Neither Sophie nor Langdon had replaced the duct tape prior to leaving Silas.

When Langdon is shaving, the shaving cream on his face changes in each of the various shots.

They refer to the bishop as Your Eminence.

A Catholic bishop is Your Excellency.

An Anglican or Episcopal bishop is referred to a Your Grace.

Your Eminence is used for a Cardinal.

When the cryptex hits the floor and the vinegar vial breaks, it sprays some of its content and keeps rolling and is then manipulated by Teabing.

After Teabing is being arrested you see a close-up of the cryptex on the floor and it's lying in a very large pool of vinegar - too much content for the little vial and too much regarding the fact that some of it has already been spilled.

When Silas shoots the Bishop, there is a shot from behind Silas where he bends down.

You can see the shape of the mike battery pack under just above the rope tied around his waist to help support his robes.

Sir Leigh Teabing refers to the phenomenon of peoples' minds interpreting the same thing differently ("seeing what it wants to see") as scotoma.

In reality, it's called pareidolia.

Scotoma is the natural "blind spot" inherent the eyes of most mammals with good vision.

On the bus, the mobile phone Langdon uses to look up A.

Pope is a Sony Ericsson W850i, a model which had not debuted in the UK until well after May 2006.

The cilice that Silas is wearing is not designed to draw blood or even break the skin, as the movie leads the viewer to believe.

As Langdon enters the elevator located in the Louvre on the way to the site of Sauniere's murder, the top button on his shirt is buttoned.

When he exits the elevator, the button is undone.

When Fache visits Andre Vernet in the hospital, he calls him Vernet Andre at the beginning of his interrogation - putting his last name first.

Then he doesn't speak his name again.

The English subtitles has Fache start into his interrogation using Andre Vernet's name (used correctly this time) later on in the discussion - not at the beginning.

When Langdon, Teabing and Sophie are exiting the car to the church in London, the reflection of the jimmy jib operator is clearly seen on the cars windshield In the scene where Leigh Teabing is holding the gun to Sophie's head in Westminster Cathederal, the hammer is cocked.

But when Sophie picks up the gun after Teabing drops it to try to catch the cryptex, the hammer is down (yet no shot was fired).

When flying in the private jet and taking a call from Silas, the Bishop Aringarosa is using a cellular (GSM) phone.

At this height, confirmed by a shot through the window revealing the clouds canopy below, it is impossible to get mobile network coverage.

The film suggests that Sophie Niveau is descended from Christ and that this can be proven by comparing her DNA to that of the body of Mary Magdalene.

Even if this were done and a DNA match confirmed it would only prove she was related to Mary Magdalene not Christ.

When Langdon follows the rose line to the Louvre, he transposes the 2nd and 3rd lines of the verse telling of the grail's final resting place.

When Robert and Sophie jump into the armored vehicle and drive off the rear doors are open.

The camera shows Vernet on the ground watching the van drive off with the doors now closed.

When Sophie and Robert are in the bank, and they are entering the 10 digit code, instead of 10 beeps being heard, only 9 are.

Teabing says that Constantine converted to Christianity on his deathbed.

While it is true that Constantine became a follower of Christianity much earlier, it wasn't until he knew he was dying that he was baptized by the Arian priest Usebius.

This was in accordance with the custom that a person was not baptized until old age in order to absolve them from as many sins as possible.

Constantine died a few days after his baptism.

This would technically make Teabing's remark true by today's standards, which call for converts to be baptized into the church.

In today's world, Constantine was not a true Christian until he was baptized.

A mistake occurring in both the book and the movie, Robert Langdon identifies the 5 pointed star on Sauniere's chest as a "pentacle".

It is, in fact, a pentagram.

The star is only called a pentacle if it is surrounded by a circle (a "penta-" "-cle").

Aringarosa is shot by Silas on a lane way which has a gradient.

A camera angle shows an aerial view of the body.

A pool of blood appears to surround the upper body and an area above his head.

This could only happen if it could flow uphill.

However, as is clear from earlier close-ups, this is not a pool of blood but his cape.

As Langdon and Sophie walk away from the Roselyn chapel in discussion there is a distinctive 1960s light blue Morris Minor Traveller and another small car in the background.

The cars then change to a black Range Rover Discovery and Rover 75 in the next take from roughly the same point.

A few moments later a wide shot of the church shows just two cars in the grounds.

When the plane takes off from Paris, it is pitch dark and clearly night time.

When it lands in London just an hour away on similar longitude, it is broad daylight and (from the London street scenes) clearly well into daytime.

Vinegar or scientifically known as acetic acid is a weak acid and thus unable to dissolve a sturdy material such as papyrus.

Even a strong acid, like hydrochloride acid, will takes hours to dissolve papyrus.

So actually they can just force open the cryptex and the vinegar-soaked papyrus would still be intact and readable.

Near the end of the movie Langdon cuts his chin while shaving, causing a big drop of blood to drop into the sink, but from then on his face is not cut at all.

When the plane is taxiing on the ground in England, from the view in the cockpit it is clear that the taxiway ahead dead ends in a field with woods to the right.

From the outside view the plan is shown going straight through the intersection past the signalman, then turning right into a hangar.

The cryptex was said to be made by 'Leonardo da Vinci', and the clue to open it refers to Issac Newton's grave.

Da Vinci (1452-1519) died 124 years before Newton (1643-1727) was even born, however Robert Langdon says that the cryptex was only designed by da Vinci, not made by him.

In the novel, Sophie states that this cryptex was built by her grandfather.

The Dome of the Rock is in the background as Mary Magdalene is leaving Jerusalem.

The Dome of the Rock was built in the 7th century AD, about 600 years later.

In the first meeting among Neveu, Langdon, and Teabing at Teabing's mansion, the chess set on the table is incorrectly set up with the white King and Queen on the wrong squares.

As Robert and Sophie travel in the back of the armored van to Leigh Teabing's residence, they hold hands in an attempt to calm Robert due to his claustrophobia.

As they hold hands, an intermittent yellow light from an external source (supposedly street lamps) is seen.

It would be impossible to see any such light from within the back of an armored van.

It has also been revealed that they are traveling along a secluded country track with no street lighting.

When Teabing explained the situation of Rome at the time of Emperor Constantine to Sophie, he mentioned that "Three centuries earlier, a young Jew name Jesus had come along, preaching love and a single God.

" This statement is false, Jesus did not preach a single God.

Jesus did his ministry only among the Jews in Israel, who already believe in a single God.

It was Jesus' apostles, Peter and Paul, who later came to Rome and preached Jesus' gospel and a single God to the Romans who still worshiped many gods.

Teabing says that Jesus Christ was regarded as a human prophet until Constantine's party narrowly voted to deify Jesus in 323.

In fact, Jesus Christ had been regarded as God in human form in most Christian documents since AD 95 and possibly early as AD 40.

Around 300 a "heresy" was proposed to downgrade Jesus to a mere human prophet, but this new idea was voted down in a landslide in 323 in favor of the original concept of Jesus as God.

This council was simply telling everyone what most already believed.

Teabing claims that the Last Supper is celebrated in the Bible as the moment of the Holy Grail's arrival.

However, the Holy Grail is never even mentioned in the Bible.

Langdon and others continually refer to 'Leonardo da Vinci' as "Da Vinci".

However, "da Vinci" refers to his city of origin, and is not technically a surname.

Historians and art aficionados always refer to him as Leonardo.

When Langdon tells Sophie about The Holy Grail, he says the story started "more than a thousand years ago", with a crusade that was started to capture Jerusalem.

The crusade he is referring to, was commanded by Godfroi Du Bouillion in 1099, so it won't be "more than a thousand years ago" until the year 2100.

- PLOTThe cut of the initial sequence of the movie (intercuts between the Louvre murder and Langdon's lecture), as well as the fact that the police officers come for Langdon during his post-lecture signing of books, create a major continuity lapse in the police' reasoning that Langdon is suspect.

How could he commit a murder in Louvre (which can be easily timed due to the victim activating the alarm) while giving a lecture to thousand people? (In the book, he is visited by police several hours after the lecture, which would then allow him enough time to possibly commit the crime, as he is suspected.

) Fache says Aringarosa broke his vows by disclosing Langdon's alleged murderous nature and intent.

But a murder detective would certainly know that clergy & doctors are required to disclose all information that can save human lives, and betraying a serial murderer's confession qualifies.

When Robert and Sophie go to the Roslin church and go down to the lower chamber, Mary's Sarcophagus was supposed to have been there at one time, yet it would have been impossible to get the huge Sarcophagus down there through the narrow passage, unless the church was built around it.

If that is true, then how was the Sarcophagus removed from the cellar of the church? In Langdon's opening presentation on symbology, he shows a series of slides of modern symbols and their ancient origins.

The CND "peace sign" logo is shown followed by an inverted crucifix.

In fact the CND logo was created in the 1950s in Britain, by superimposing the two semaphore symbols for "N" and "D", to stand for "nuclear disarmament".

The false "broken cross" history of the symbol was invented in the 1970s in the United States - suggesting Langdon didn't do his research properly.

However, Langdon's presentation doesn't just speak of the intended meaning of symbols, but also of the (often presumptuous) interpretation of them, making the CND slide particularly relevant.

Alexander Pope never delivered a eulogy or did anything for Sir Isaac Newton's funeral.

However, he did at one point write a poem about him.

Sophie presses the tracking device he's found in his pocket into a (white) bar of soap he's taken from the toilets and throws it out of the window into the back of a truck.

The Louvre toilets are supplied with large lemon-shaped (and lemon-scented.

and lemon-colored) soaps fixed to metal rods over the sinks.

The Louvre toilets do not have windows at all.

When Langdon and Sophie go into Westminster Abbey there are crowds of people, with police behind barriers and watching filming.

'Leonardo da Vinci''s The Last Supper is referred to as a fresco.

Leonardo painted The Last Supper on DRY and not wet plaster, so it is not a true fresco.

Because a fresco cannot be modified as the artist works, Leonardo instead chose to seal the stone wall with a layer of pitch, gesso and mastic, then paint onto it with tempera.

Because it is not a true fresco, it cannot be moved easily, and this fact has caused it much deterioration and damages over the years.

Furthermore, as it has received so much restoration, it is impossible to read as much into the detail of the painting as the narrative implies, as the level of detail concerned is more restoration than Da Vinci's original.

When Teabing kills Remy, he steals his phone and dials 911 for emergency response.

However, the emergency response number in the UK is 999.

One of the key "facts" used to justify the alternative interpretation of the Holy Grail is that there are no cups or glasses on the table in 'Leonardo da Vinci''s Last Supper.

In actual fact there is one immediately next to Jesus' left hand, which can be seen in high definition reproductions of the original.

Neveu is said to be the *only* living descendant from Christ and the Merovingian Royal Family.

However, 'Prince Charles' (qv), 'Juan Carlos de Borbón' (qv), 'Kronprinsessan Victoria' (qv) and virtually all other living royal family members of Europe, are almost certainly descendants of of the Merovingians, and therefore according to the movie, descendants of Christ.

Ian McKellen's character, Leigh Teabing, is a knowledgeable historian, yet he incorrectly refers to dates twice.

The incidents occurring within minutes of each other.

The first time he says "305 anno domini" and minutes later "501 anno domini.

" "Anno Domini" (in the year of our Lord) should precede the year.

"Anno domini 305.

" The Rosslyn Chapel where the Priori filed in, the keyhole is empty, note the light streaming through it.

The next scene is the door being shut and the key is already in the lock.

When the Police cars arrive to meet the aircraft in the hangar, you can see various skid marks from previous takes.

When Fache shows Langdon the hidden writings with the UV lamp, there are only the Fibonacci's suite and the Latin quote.

Later in the bathroom, Sophie Neveu tells him Fache erased the last line which was "P.

find Robert Langdon" and shows him a picture with the complete message.

Later, when they both come back to the murder's scene, Neveu and Langdon are trying to decipher the hidden message using the UV lamp.

For a short moment, over Langdon's shoulder we are able to see the line Fache has supposedly erased.

I won't bother addressing the nonsense about religion. For me, the book, itself was very entertaining.

Interested in the hype surrounding this for a long time I finally got to see the film tonight, it happening to be buried somewhere amongst UK Channel 5's usual shedload of brain numbing adverts. For films like this that require some thinking I find these many interruptions more than a distraction and almost a hindrance to acceptance of either film or advert.

If you fall under the bracket of 'Curious'...then this is the film for you.

There are few movies or books that are as controversial as this one, and this one doesn't even have nudity or much swearing in it. Dan Brown did a wonderful job weaving a fictional story with historical facts to tell the story of The Da Vinci Code.

This movie completely offended me. it was interesting, but none of this is true.

It was a great movie, but I just keep replaying in my head a picture of Ian McKellen pointing to a painting created 1500 years after Jesus's birth and saying "this is the evidence" of the entire movie's premise. I was baffled.

Being such a huge admirer of the book and having heard so many negative comments regarding the film, my expectations of this movie were low. Howard tries to do right by the book but he seems to have lost track of the fact that for a story to work, it needs a heart.

I recently read the book and then watched the movie. I've always felt that movies can hardly accommodate all that a book has to offer.

Giving what is arguably the most outstanding performance of his very distinguished career, Tom Hanks proves once again what a gifted actor of stunning proportions he truly is. He succeeds in bring depth and passion to the one dimensional Langdon character in the book and sets the screen afire with a searing performance that will be studied in acting classes and amaze audience for generations to come.