Matt Lauer: How much of this is based on reality in terms of things that actually occurred?ĭan Brown: Absolutely all of it. All of that is … all that is fiction, of course, is that there's a Harvard symbologist named Robert Langdon, and all of his action is fictionalized. All of the architecture, the art, the secret rituals, the history, all of that is true, the Gnostic gospels. Martin Savidge: When we talk about da Vinci and your book, how much is true and how much is fabricated in your storyline?ĭan Brown: 99 percent of it is true. In the early publicity for the novel, Dan Brown made repeated assertions that, while the novel is a work of fiction, the historical information in it is all accurate and well-researched. The TFP acronym in the banner stands for the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property.īrown prefaces his novel with a page titled "Fact" asserting that certain elements in the novel are true in reality, and a page at his website repeats these ideas and others.
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The US Federal Court Judge dismissed the case for lacking any basis in precedent.Ī woman protesting against The Da Vinci Code film outside a movie theater in Culver City, California. In 2007 Jack Dunn, the author of The Vatican Boys (1997) filed a lawsuit against Dan Brown, claiming that Brown copied the structure of his book in The Da Vinci Code. Brown was cleared of these copyright infringement charges in a 2006 trial.
Ĭharges of copyright infringement were also leveled by the novelist Lewis Perdue and by the authors of the 1982 book The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, which puts forward the hypothesis that the historical Jesus married Mary Magdalene, and that their children or their descendants emigrated to what is now southern France, and married into families that became the Merovingian dynasty, whose claim to the throne of France is championed today by the Priory of Sion. Additional criticisms were directed toward the book's inaccurate descriptions of European art, history, architecture, and geography. Many of the complaints centered on the book's speculations and misrepresentations of core aspects of Christianity and the history of the Catholic Church.
The Da Vinci Code, a popular suspense novel by Dan Brown, generated criticism and controversy after its publication in 2003. Controversy surrounding The Da Vinci Code
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