THE DA VINCI CODE MOVIE

In the book, ' The Teacher' is able to manipulate Opus Dei into helping him because he learns that the Catholic Church is about to revoke its support for the group, and he convinces Bishop Aringarosa that he'll be able to regain the Church's support if he presents them with the Sangrael Documents (the historical documents that prove that Jesus had descendants).

If nothing else, you'd think they might have told her about her secret heritage at some point, instead of just waiting for her to coincidentally stumble upon one of their hideouts.

But if Sophie is so important to the Priory of Sion that their leader adopted her to keep her safe from the Church, then why didn't any members of the Priory ever bother to check in on her after she became estranged from her 'grandfather' as an adult? If the Priory of Sion is devoted to protecting the living descendants of Jesus, you'd think they'd put a little more effort into protecting his only living descendant.

THE DA VINCI CODE MOVIE

For added head-scratching: the movie also adds the revelation that Jacques SauniГЁre wasn't really Sophie's grandfather, but simply adopted her to keep her safe from agents of the Church who systematically assassinate living descendants of Jesus.In the book, the final revelation is a lot less dramatic: Sophie and her long-lost brother (who's dead in the movie) are just two of several descendants of one of several French families who claim to trace their lineage back to Jesus and Mary Magdalene, and it's implied that Jesus and Mary Magdalene have so many descendants that being related to them isn't good for much other than bragging rights. As Langdon rather melodramatically phrases it: 'Sophie.you are the secret!' In other words: a 2,000-year-old bloodline (descended from a couple who had multiple children) has exactly one living direct descendant. The movie ends with the revelation that Sophie Neveu is Jesus' only living direct descendant.But Langdon doesn't find SauniГЁre's trail of clues until after Fache summons him to the Louvre-so Aringarosa shouldn't have any reason to be concerned about him finding out about the conspiracy. If Aringarosa was really the one who convinced Fache to pin the murder on Langdon, he'd have to have called him (at most) within a few hours of SauniГЁre's death. But as the movie clearly shows: Fache already suspected Langdon of murdering SauniГЁre on the night of the murder, when he discovered that SauniГЁre wrote his name on the floor of the Louvre. In the movie, Fache is a member of Opus Dei, and it's ultimately revealed that Bishop Aringarosa is using him as a pawn to stop Langdon from exposing the truth about Jesus' bloodline (Fache suspects Langdon because Aringarosa falsely claimed that Langdon came to him in confession and admitted to being a killer). In the book, Bezu Fache is just a really persistent detective who also happens to be a devout Catholic, and he tries to arrest Langdon because he genuinely believes that he murdered Jacques SauniГЁre.Except.even if someone managed to get samples of Mary Magdalene's DNA from her tomb, no one could prove that Jesus fathered her children unless they also had DNA samples from Jesus himself. In the movie, it's made explicit that there actually is a secret group within the Vatican called 'The Council of Shadows' that actively wants to find and destroy Mary Magdalene's tomb, and they're particularly concerned about the possibility of someone using 'DNA identification' to prove that Mary Magdalene was the mother of Jesus' children. In the book, several characters discuss the possibility of the Church trying to hide evidence of Jesus having living descendants, but it's left ambiguous whether any of this is actually true, and the head of Opus Dei is ultimately revealed to be a pawn of ' The Teacher' who just wants to keep Opus Dei afloat.

Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole: The 2006 movie has several story issues that weren't present in the book.

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