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Has made "nonsense" films: Tom Hanks at the Cannes Film Festival in May
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Tom Hanks played the scientist Robert Langdon three times in the series The Da Vinci Code.
Today, the 65-year-old looks amused at the films: "'The Da Vinci Code' was nonsense," he told the New York Times.
The films were based on the bestselling books by American author Dan Brown.
The books sold millions of copies worldwide.
But the plot apparently did not convince Hanks.
The films are nothing more than "magnificent scavenger hunts," which have as little to do with history as James Bond has with espionage.
"We offered distraction, nothing else."
There's nothing wrong with good commerce, says Hanks.
But: "By the third film at the latest, we proved that it wasn't such good commerce."
The first part »›The Da Vinci Code‹ – Da Vinci Code« was released in 2006 and achieved record results despite bad reviews.
The second part »Illuminati« was also a success - but the third part »Inferno« could not keep up.
Hanks has fond memories of the film shoot itself.
In an interview, he raves about a party at the Louvre Museum in Paris: »We shot in the Louvre at night.
I changed my pants in front of the Mona Lisa!
They brought me a birthday cake to the Grand Salon!
Who has the opportunity to experience something like that?”
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