Langdon isn't contacted at the beginning in his hotel room. He's at a book signing after his speech which really throws the whole timeline off (for me) about how the story starts

The discovery of the key at Madonna of the Rocks is a joke in the movie. Like many have speculated, the anagram solving in the movie is way too convenient (not that it isn't in the book as well, but the movie makes it even worse). There was no confrontation with the guard, and the key just kind of falls out of the wall.

The "car chase scene" from the blocked off embassy to the train station is just ridiculous.

The story of why Sohpie and her grandfather weren't speaking was barely glanced over and focused mainly on a "scolding incident" from her early teen years that didnt' exist in the book. Not to mention, when they DID show the PoS having their ritual mating ceremony, Sophie just happened to walk up to a window in a building and peered in. :lol:

I may be wrong about this, but I don't remember Captian Fache being in Opus Dei in the book. He certainly is in the movie and they mention it way too much.

Only one cryptex in the movie. The riddle about the knight A. Pope interred is on the bottom of the inlaid rose.

This one was bad... Langdon and Sophie never make it to the library in the movie to study the riddle. On the way there (on a bus) they decide they don't have time to make it so Sophie convinces a random student to let Langdon use his cell phone (yes, a cell phone) to do his research. You have GOT to be kidding me.

The end of the movie at Rosslyn Chapel was completely changed from the book. In the movie, they find the previous resting place of MM's sarcophagus in a secret room in the chapel where there still remains all the documents detailing the lineage of Christ and also newspapers about the car accident that killed Sophie's family, including her brother, who never makes an apperacnce in the movie. Langdon also concludes that Saulnier wasn't Sophie's grandfather, just the grand master of the PoS that took it upon himself to raise and protect Christ's only living descendent. The whole Priory shows up at the chapel to welcome Sophie, even though I was under the impression that only the four senechaux were allowed to know the identity of the heir.

This one couldn't be helped, besides the fact that it saves precious film minutes. This King's College Religious Studies Library exists in London but doesn't have 1/10th the modern electronic research equipment described in the book and the administrators complained bitterly to the author about having become Google Central for every Holy Grail fanatic on the planet following the publication of the book. So it was better left out entirely... pending its removal from the book. The Pope-knight-Apple riddle, furthermore, could easily have been solved by such an erudite man as Langdon without the use of a 2 billion dollar computer. Lord Teabing must have discreetly rolled his eyes at that one... And the bus -double-decker, no doubt - is an improvement on the book since Temple Chapel and King's College are too close to each other to justify a subway ride.

You're right. Fache is not proven to be a member of Opus Dei, just a profoundly Catholic man who is heavily prejudiced in favour of the Church and Church members in general during his investigation. This little added detail makes him the near-villain which he appears to be in most of the book... Why assume that the public will make a difference between a devout Catholic and a member of a sinister right-wing group?

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