Robert Langdon
Professor Robert Langdon is one of Dan Brown created, fictional professor at Harvard University. There he teaches religious iconology and symbology ( a fictional field of research with regard to the study of historic symbols). Robert Langdon is a protagonist in four of Dan Brown's novels: Angels & Demons, The Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol and Dan Brown's newest work Inferno. In the films of the thriller The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons ( filmed under the name Da Vinci Code ), he is played by Tom Hanks. In the video game The Da Vinci Code, it is spoken by Robert Clotworthy.
Emergence of the figure
The figure " Robert Langdon " was written by Dan Brown as a fictional alter-ego, or as " the man who he wants to be " ( " the man he wishes he could be" of ) created. Just like Dan Brown Robert Langdon was born on June 22, 1964 in Exeter, New Hampshire. In addition, Langdon said to have visited just like Brown's Phillips Exeter Academy. Robert Langdon should be named after the American graphic designer, Ambigrammkünstler, painter and writer John Langdon. Just like this Langdon is fascinated by ambigrams: Already on the title page, the first edition of Brown's novel " Angels & Demons " contains ambigrams and also throughout the book also appear repeatedly on ambigrams, which are interpreted by Langdon. John Langdon created the logo for the fictional Custodian of Zurich, in the film "The Da Vinci Code" occurred.
Description
Physically
Robert Langdon ( born: 1964 ) in the 2013 released thriller " Inferno" 49 years old, about 1.80 meters tall and has an impressive bass voice. In college he was a competitive swimmer and is thus fairly well trained.
Personality
He has amazing encyclopedic and academic knowledge in the areas of mysticism, occult societies and art history. Symbols and ambigrams are also part of his area of expertise such as Dante Alighieri's book, The Divine Comedy. The books also have eidetic memory is addressed. He always wears a clock with a picture of Mickey Mouse. This reminds him frequently to laugh and not take life so seriously the university. She helps him always in situations where its strong claustrophobia, which was created when he was in a well, into which he had fallen, was stuck one day it causes problems.
Bibliography
In the books of Robert Langdon, he is said to have written six books about his art, the symbolism, rotate:
- The symbolism of the secret sects
- The Art of the Illuminati: Part 1
- The Lost Language of Ideograms
- Religious iconology
- Symbols of the lost sacred feminine
- Christian Symbols in the Muslim world
Appearance outside the works of Dan Brown
- In the movies ( The Da Vinci Code - The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons ) by Ron Howard, the figure is just like in the books by Dan Brown, the main character.
- Quotes from Robert Langdon for newspaper articles ( for example, " google is not a synonym for research " )
- In guidebooks, referring to Dan Brown's works (eg )
- Comments on Robert Langdon's conclusions