In May 2006, The Independent reported that Ruth Kelly, a senior British Government Minister, had been scrutinized about her membership in Opus Dei during her early years as an Education Secretary. These claims in the book and by the author, combined with the presentation of religious ideas that some Christians regard as offensive, led to a great deal of controversy and debate, which found its way into political discourse in the media. Obviously, there are-Robert Langdon is fictional, but all of the art, architecture, secret rituals, secret societies, all of that is historical fact. 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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A woman protesting against The Da Vinci Code film outside a movie theater in Culver City, California.
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