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When it comes to Dan Brown, almost everyone knows "The Da Vinci Code", a film based on his original book released in 2006, with a global box office of 757 million US dollars, ranking second that year, and its wonderful conspiracy theories set off a Dan Brown boom.
Immediately after that, his other work, Angels and Demons, was also adapted to the big screen, and although the results were not as good as "The Da Vinci Code", it once again pushed Dan Brown to the peak of suspense and conspiracy theory themes.
Both works feature the semiotician Robert Langdon, who has achieved success in history, philosophy, religion, semiotics, etc., and has been involved in various dark forces, using his knowledge to solve mysteries and save the world.
The Lost Secret Is written after the first two works, but it tells the story of Langdon's youth. This time, Peacock won the adaptation rights, with "Da Vinci Code" director Ron Howard as executive producer, and the director of the third season of "Black Mirror" and the director of "Circular Story" co-directed. The series is still in production, which has triggered a wave of discussion, and it is very explosive.
The book's complex semiotic knowledge and fascinating suspense decryption are enjoyed by readers, and they are also obstacles to film and television adaptations, can this drama version deliver satisfactory answers?
The opening quickly and succinctly throws out the introduction to the show: In 1991, a confidential document was hidden in the CIA director's safe, involving an ancient portal and an unknown location.
The timeline is stretched to the present, and the male protagonist Langdon receives a call from his mentor Peter, but it is a stranger who calls himself Peter's assistant and asks him to attend a party at the Washington Capitol.
However, after arriving, he found that the meeting did not exist, but instead entered a puzzle himself.
Shockingly, there was a severed hand in the middle of the hall. Based on the three symbols on the severed hand and the ring he was wearing, he quickly recognized it as Peter's hand.
CIA agents also arrived at the scene, and it seems that this is no ordinary kidnapping.
The mysterious man calls Langdon again, saying that his mentor is in "Araf" (the chaotic zone between heaven and hell) and that it is up to him to decide where to go. The Mysterious Man asks him to find and open the portal.
Thus began a series of thrilling puzzle games.
Following clues left in the hall, he first found the Masonic Reflection Room in the basement warehouse of the Capitol, which contained a stone block and a Leviathan cross sign hidden at the bottom of the bowl. The stone block is missing a part, and the puzzle cannot be solved.
The mysterious man seemed to know his every move and demanded that he act alone to find the missing top stone.
Halfway through the mentor's daughter appeared, she brought Langdon an envelope painted with a Leviathan cross, but the letter was written in encrypted Hebrew, and they needed more information to understand.
The CIA side also launched an investigation into Peter because his son, who had worked for the CIA, had died three years earlier in a Turkish prison with Masonic symbols painted on the walls. Peter's disappearance is closely linked to Freemasonry and may also be closely related to the death of his son.
It can be found that Dan Brown is still the same Dan Brown, famous cities, mysterious organizations, serial murders, symbolic codes, which he arranges and combines, once again completing a fascinating and bizarre story.
The elements that appeal in The Da Vinci Code are almost all found and corresponded to in The Lost Symbol, Paris becomes Washington, the Louvre becomes the National Museum of the United States, the heroine Sofie becomes Catherine, the French Judicial Police becomes the CIA, the Hermitage of Mount Gao becomes a Freemason... Dan Brown fans can be immersed again and relive the suspenseful story.
However, the theme of changing the soup without changing the medicine is somewhat aesthetically tired, and the opening of the drama version only follows the narrative mode of the original work, and the complex decryption journey led by a missing case is slightly mediocre. "The Da Vinci Code" is in front, the opening process is very concise, and the heroine floats into the exquisite darkness of Chen Cang, and the film version and the drama version are high and low.
The drama version benefits from both length and limitations, and wants to show the semiotics in the original book as detailed as possible, so the opening chapter reveals the hidden beliefs and symbols behind it, although it is promoting the plot, but it is more than the point of dropping the book bag, especially the domestic audience is relatively indifferent to the American totem itself, so many semiotic displays are really difficult to make people feel fun.
Of course, the drama version also has a lot of looks. The original book itself has many characters, complex clues, the theme has also risen to the height of human survival or destruction, the drama version has made a relative trade-off, only from the current 2 episodes, the plot development is very compact, the character appearance is not complicated, even if there are 3 timelines (1991, three years ago, now), still close to the main line to advance, the audience can quickly enter the plot effortlessly.
Another bold treatment is that the first episode puts the villain in front of the audience, which seems to weaken the suspense, but it is another means of increasing suspense, and the audience can't help but ask "Who is this person, what is the purpose, is he the ultimate boss?" ”
The suspense atmosphere is very full, the mysterious phone call begins, the audience follows the protagonist into a bottomless innings, and the detailed grass snake gray line makes people have a great desire to explore, and want to see the truth with the protagonist. If you love the suspense color type, you can completely enter the pit.