Guest Author - Lisa Shea
I saw this movie only days after it came out, because it's a book and movie I have endless debates about. As you might imagine, there were numerous errors in the movie!
First, Sophie (a cop) decides to race Langdon to the US Embassy because there he will be "safe from arrest". That is NOT how an embassy works, and in fact it says that right in your passport paperwork. If you are in trouble in a country, they have all rights to arrest you! The embassy will not hide you from the police.
Next, a key part of the movie involves a papyrus secret that is sealed in a container of vinegar. They claim that if the vinegar touches the papyrus, the papyrus will dissolve and become unreadable. Not true! Vinegar doesn't do ANYTHING at all to papyrus. It would just be wet - but still readable.
Near the end of the movie, Langdon goes on and on about Sophie being the ONLY surviving descendant of Jesus. Jesus lived 2,000 years ago. This would imply that every single child only had 1 child - or that the enemy forces somehow had killed EVERY other child except 1 lone child in each generation. Since Langdon only learned about Sophie that very day, how could he instantly extrapolate that all other kids had been slain?
Teabing somehow manages to get a gun into Westminster. In the book the excuse was that it was hidden in his wheelchair and therefore avoided the metal detectors. In the movie he's not in a wheelchair ...
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