Dante's Code is a thriller suspense film produced by Columbia Pictures, directed by Ron Howard and co-starring Tom Hanks, Felicity Jones, Irfan Khan, and Sidds Babbitt Konudsen. The film is based on The Inferno, the fourth book in Dan Brown's Robert Langdon series, the third book in the series, called The Lost Secret, after 2006's The Da Vinci Code and 2009's Angels and The Devil. In 2013, the fourth book in the series, Hell, was published, and Sony Pictures bought the rights to make a movie and renamed Dante's Code. The film was shot on location, so it was filmed in many parts of Europe, including Istanbul, Venice, Florence, Padua, and Budapest. It also allowed the actors to actually climb the dome of St. Mark's Basilica in Venice. There's a scene in the film where Robert Langdon has a fantasy image of a city bleeding profusely, and the fake blood in the film doesn't rely entirely on digital technology, but is made by the special effects department from 9,000 liters of sugar.
The story tells that Langdon wakes up in Florence after being attacked, and due to the adverse reactions caused by the gunshot wound on his head, he has a large number of hallucinations, mainly the scene of the hell of the world, and his memories of the first 48 hours, that is, the first two days, can not be remembered at all. Then a female police officer broke into the hospital and attacked, killing Professor Langdon. In a panic, the female doctor began to take Langdon on the run while decrypting. After the doctor took him home, Langdon found a mysterious biometric fingerprint tube in his jacket pocket, and when he opened it, it turned out to be a projector, a painting of Botticelli depicting hell in Dante's Divine Comedy. Langdon took a look, hey! Isn't that what I saw in my vision? Then the two began to analyze the details in the picture. At this time, the killer female policeman came again, and not long after, the black who was of the WHO also came, and soon another female WHO official also came. Surrounded by three parties, Langdon and the female doctor began to run, running with decryption. Find a person's name, they look directly at the video of that person, he is a billionaire. He felt that the world was going to die because there were too many people. Using his money, he studied a virus that could kill more than half of the world's population.
Professor Langdon discovers that there is still an anagram in the Painting of Hell, so they write down the letters and decrypt them. At this time, the female doctor felt that it was necessary to notify the police, but Professor Langdon, as a native of the United States, felt that he still had to trust his own country, so they decided to call the Embassy of the United States. They deliberately told a real location near the hotel location just in case. Sure enough, after the phone call, the policewoman who had chased him before actually came over, and the World Health Organization also came. Professor Langdon felt that no one could trust him now. So he fled with the female doctor. On the way to escape, Professor Langdon not only constantly hallucinates, but also has a killer, and first comes to the place where the picture of hell gives clues with the female doctor. Came to a landmark tourist attraction in Florence. Professor Langdon still had no clue, but suddenly he regained a little memory, and he was stabbed in the neck before he was injured. Then an administrator came up and greeted Langdon and said he had been here last night. So Langdon asked the caretaker to take him to the showroom he had been to the night before. It was Dante's death mask that was actually missing and stolen! Langdon and they went to the surveillance together and found that the thief was none other than Professor Langdon himself and his good friend. At this time, Professor Langdon could only continue to flee. And the police in the back also came to hear the wind. There was a company that specialized in collecting money for some mysterious people, and the policewoman was their mercenary, which meant that the policewoman was not an Italian policewoman at all, and their purpose was to kill Langdon's painting of the Gate of Hell that Langdon had fingerprinted.
The policewoman failed to kill Langdon, but was killed by Langdon and the female doctor. So Langdon and the female doctor knew what they had stolen, and according to the mail code of this morning's good friend, they found another tourist attraction in Florence, and finally found Dante's death mask, and on the back of Dante's death mask, there is a large paragraph, which probably means that if you find the location of the tomb of a certain king, you can find the billionaire's super virus and save all mankind. And then came a mysterious black man from the World Health Organization, because Langdon had amnesia, and he introduced himself that in fact, this scuffle was what I let you get involved, and two days ago I went to the United States to find you, and then gave you the picture of Dante's hell. Let you decrypt it for us, because we already knew that the billionaire made the super virus, but now that he's dead, only these decryption methods can know where he put the virus. Langdon and the female doctor believed and told the black brother that we should go to Venice together, and the virus was in Venice. On the way to Venice, Professor Langdon repaired a little memory, and found that it was not this black buddy who had gone to the United States to help him two days ago, but a temperamental beauty, so he dumped the black man. Professor Langdon has finally determined where the virus is going, in Istanbul, Turkey. At this time, the blacks also came, and they could only continue to escape. There is a big reversal, and the real villain is the female doctor, and the real identity of the female doctor is the lover of the dead billionaire. But the female doctor herself did not know where the virus was really placed, and could only borrow Professor Langdon to find the virus. Now that the virus has found its true location, Professor Langdon is abandoned, and Professor Langdon is quickly caught by the Blacks without the cover of a doctor.
The head of the company on the other side, at this time, found that things were a bit strange, so he watched the network video of the customer asking them to play to the world at midnight, and their customer was the billionaire, and the billionaire introduced that the population was too inflated, and the earth could not carry so many people, and then introduced the power of the virus. At this time, knowing the seriousness of the problem, he directly did not do this single business, and in turn helped Professor Langdon to quack the black man.
The head of the company also told the whole truth. Professor Langdon was shot at first, but two days ago, the head of the World Satellite Television Organization, The Temperament beauty, went to the United States to find Professor Langdon and told Professor Langdon that there was an accident, there was a virus, but the location of the virus needed to be decrypted, because the person who hid the virus, that is, the billionaire, died at the beginning of the movie. So Professor Langdon came to Florence. At this time, the female doctor is also a customer of the security company, asking the security company to help her, and Professor Langdon to help her find the location of the virus instead of helping the World Health Organization find the location of the virus. Here you will wonder why the female doctor is the lover of the billionaire but does not know the location of the virus, because the billionaire feels that the fewer people know the better, but in case of their own accidents, a complex symbolic clue is left for the female doctor. Professor Langdon, who had come to Florence, had just finished stealing Dante's death mask when he was kidnapped by someone from the security company and given a shot in the neck that could cause hallucinations and amnesia. This goes back to the beginning of the film where Professor Langdon is confused and led by the nose of the female doctor. So he directed himself to kill Langdon, in order to make Langdon believe in the female doctor.
Led by Sims, Langdon meets Elizabeth, and finally, All of Langdon's lost memories are restored. He remembered the cause of the incident: a few days earlier, Elizabeth had found Langdon, whom she had not seen in more than a decade, and asked for his help. The two also had dinner together, after which Langdon was snatched away by the mysterious man. It was Sims who snatched Langdon, and the plan was actually directed by Sienna. After Zorrist's death, Sienna found Sims and wanted to find out where the virus was hiding, so they approached Langdon, a symbol expert who was good at solving puzzles. At this point, everything was clear, and Langdon and the others went to The Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, where Langdon found the place where the virus was hiding: the Istanbul Underground Palace. In the end, Elizabeth found the bag first. After a desperate battle, Elizabeth finally blocked the virus, and while winning a great victory, she also suffered heavy losses: Sims was seriously injured by the attack of Sienna's accomplices, and eventually died in the underground palace, saving the world.
The most definite feature of the film "Dante's Code" is that it tends to the same style, blending elements of deciphering semiotics, suspenseful homicide reasoning, religious history, historical monument exploration and so on. These elements are the characteristics of the film, and the audience watches this kind of film and enjoys not only the thrill of reasoning that explores the mystery and reveals, but also the cognitive pleasure of religion, history, literature, and semiotics. This kind of knowledge learning in the movie is an important reason why this movie is sought after. The film's narrative rhythm, soundtrack and already profound theme made me as an audience member truly participate in the decryption of Professor Langdon's tense nerves, truly empathize with the professor, every turn is very surprising, every time life and death are closed, clenched fists, and finally the truth surfaces, and the professor and the professor resolve the religious story, which is really ups and downs. Some people say that the story routine, the twist is unexpected, may have different personal tastes, but I am a dirt dog I love to watch. I think Dante's Code is undoubtedly the climax of the series, with thrilling puzzles and a thrilling action-adventure epic. And the audience will once again follow in Langdon's footsteps, decoding the puzzle with him and experiencing this more thrilling adventure to solve the puzzle.