![]() ![]() My husband also asked me if I was having fun watching this scene, considering how many times I had to pause the movie and yell at the screen. It was fun to see a young man teach Langdon something for once!.You would think a professor and professional mansplainer like Robert Langdon would know the difference. when it’s better to try searching in library databases. I have to teach students this all the time, and go through examples of when it’s a good strategy to try search engines vs. Google) are not the same things as library databases. I appreciate the focus in this scene is on keywords and how they’re critical to research success.Is Chelsea Library a real library in London? (I looked that up and yes: It’s a library in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, and it’s located at Chelsea Old Town Hall, London, King’s Road.).(If there are any London dwellers reading this blog post, please leave a comment and let me know if this is realistic or not!) There’s no other library closer than a half-hour bus ride away? That seems unlikely to me in a city like London.Who says things like “Compounding keywords” or “It’s your basic linguistic coincidence”? Oh, that’s right, NO ONE.My random thoughts after watching this scene: That provides a clue to Langdon, and they’re off and running to the next locale. See, keywords keep coming up with the writings of some bloke named Alexander Pope. The young man glances at the screen, and says: Langdon seems confused by the search results. You don’t need capital letters when you type in keywords. “In London lies a knight a Pope interred.” Compounding keywords: London, knight, pope, grail. Next, Langdon pulls up a search engine called - a search engine is NOT the same thing as a database, y’all!!!, and yes, I yelled this at the screen - and narrates what he is thinking and typing in: Langdon: Let’s see if we can access the database on this. She then flirts with the young man, and Robert borrows the cell phone. I had to groan aloud at this one and roll my eyes. ![]() Neveu looks around the bus and spots a young man with a cell phone. If we’re going to help Leigh, that’s too long. Langdon: We’re at least a half hour to Chelsea Library. Having nothing to mansplain about, Robert complains about the wait. Langdon then says these magical words:Īnd… then the film slows down as they find themselves sitting on a bus. □ )Īt 1 hour and 40 minutes into the 2 1/2 hour-long film, Langdon and Neveu are in London on the quest to find the Holy Grail. ![]() All for the love of reel librarians! I often watch bad movies so you do not have to. (And then I got cranky, because it meant I had to pause what I was doing and ACTUALLY start paying attention to the movie. I had honestly forgotten about the story’s library research scene until I rewatched it. But when I put it down, I thought, ‘What a load of… potential codswallop.'” From The Guardian, 2005 Clever Dan Brown twisted my mind convincingly. “While I was reading the book, I believed it entirely. I had read the book when it came out - a fact my loving spouse does not let me forget - and I chuckled at how McKellen described the experience of reading it: “The Da Vinci Code (2006) Official Trailer 1 – Tom Hanks Movie” uploaded by Movieclips Classic Trailers, Standard YouTube Licenseīoth the book and the movie caused lots of controversy and were banned in several countries for its depiction of the Catholic Church and various conspiracy theories (see my 2017 post about banned reel librarian movies). ![]()
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