Adapting The Da Vinci Code

If you try and adapt The Da Vinci Code into a movie, you will run into many problems. You will have to keep the heart-pounding action while having the suspense that makes the book so great. One of the scenes that you must keep in order to make the movie great is the killing of Jacques Sauniere. In this scene a mystery man is inside of the Louvre Museum in Paris trying to find Jacques. Little do people know that Jacques is one of the last protectors of a very important secret. Jacques is shot by the mystery man and is left to die. He has no escape and nobody to tell his secret. So he decides to leave a series of clues so that his secret is not lost forever. This is an important scene because its the beggining of the book and it sets the stage for the rest of the book. If the beginning is bad then people will assume that the whole book is going to be bad. This is also the beginning of the main storyline. In this scene Jacques leaves clues for Sophie and Robert so they can keep his secret safe. Another scene you would have to have in the movie is when Robert and Sophie try to escape the Louvre Museum.  This is important because this is the beginning of Sophie and Robert's friensdship. They have to work together to unlock the secret behind the the clues and escape the Louvre. The reason thst they have to escape the Louvre is Robert is the prime suspect of the mureder of Jacques. Sophie is a cryptologist with the french polica and believe Robert is innocent. The last scene that the must put into the movie is when they find out the Theabing is the Teacher. Throughout the book Teabing had been helping Robert and Sophie search for the Grail. Nobody whould have thought that Teabing would betray Robert and Sophie like that. It was completely unexpected.

Two things that you could cut from the movie are the two minor characters, Remy and the Bishop. You wouldnt need Remy because all he does is help Teabing get around and eventually gets murdered. In the book he helps Silas escape from Robert and Sophie but eventually Silas and Remy both get murdered. You wouldnt need the Bishop because he doesnt do anything until the end of the book. All he does it murder Remy and take orders from the Teacher (Teabing).