As an addendum to my recent essay on the 'Seek the Codes' cipher in the movie trailer for The Da Vinci Code, there has been an update to the Cryptophile website (which appears to be a 'viral marketing' outlet for the movie). A coded message is within the last update, a cipher based as capital letters, which says "Did you seek the dials". This seems to refer to the different versions of the cryptex image which appear on the movie trailer page of the DVC movie website. Each of the different sized movies has a different word revealed on the cryptex - grail, cross, blade and lisas. Whether these form an anagram, or are keywords to something else, I'm not sure yet.
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Seeking the dials meaning
My friends and I have been following the Cryptophile website for some time; after Sony Registered it. It is a very clever marketing strategy; undoubtedly a big improvement from an ingenious book marketing plan. We are stuck at the dials too. We got stuck there weeks ago...we figured out that the dials were significant almost immediately but not much else since then. The Lisas is certainly an anagram for Silas from the book. I think that is a distracter from the larger truth; that all the letters combined are an anagram for some word or phrase.
Not so sure
Hiya,
I'm not so sure that's it will be an anagram. The cipher words are very DVC specific, making it extremely difficult to construct (or reverse construct as it were) a relevant phrase. The exception of course would be if they create some coded phrase which is pretty lame, but used to gain access to a further part of the puzzle. For an idea of the Cryptophile's ability with creating legible phrases from anagrams, see what they've come up with so far:
Fail a heist = Thief Alias
Fair 'n truest me = True First Name
Expand that to the four specific dial codes, and I doubt they could come up with a reasonable phrase. I could be proved wrong though, that's just my personal opinion. I think the code words will be used in some other way.
Peace and Respect
Greg
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Some phrases from the trailer
Hi Greg -
I would like to get your take on an aspect of the movie trailer not related to the very interesting Cryptophile quest.
At a certain point the voiceover says: "We are in the middle of a war, one that's been going on forever. To protect a secret so powerful, that if revealed - it would devastate the very foundations of mankind." And calls it, "the greatest conspiracy of all time."
Those are undeniably some highly superlative terms. Sure, they've been proven to be excellent salesmen in the past, and can mean merely another successful Madison Avenue promo here. But could their appearance possibly also indicate that the makers of this film believe the Holy Grail to be something "more" than mere proof of the lineage of Jesus, as Brown appears to have claimed in the book?
Consider - the conspiracy to hide that lineage has not been "going on forever", but for less than two thousand years. And its revelation today would not "shake the very foundations of mankind", but at the most rattle a few score millions of what devout Catholics and Fundamentalists are left, a scant percentile of the world's population and certainly not all of mankind. And surely bigger conspiracies have been afoot before, hinted at in many mystical sources and listed by Robert. A. Wilson for one.
I feel that what they're saying in the trailer is somehow too big to be just another ticket-selling stunt. A secret as powerful as they claim would go beyond the Holy Blood theory. I just wanted to throw this thougt out there, to see if it's plausible to view this trailer as perhaps another bit of "proof" as to the Greater nature of the Grail.
Thanks for all enlightening work you're doing on this,
Sol
Hmmmm
Hi Sol,
As much as I'd love them to move the 'Holy Grail' secret into a new space, separate to Brown's treatment, I don't believe they will. They have to stay fairly true to Brown's ideas, considering the possibility of sequel movies (once Brown starts writing again) - so if they expand on such a central idea, it may screw up any possibilities beyond that.
I think it's just marketing hype, crossed with a little bit of Western civlisation/Christianity-centred thinking. They just don't have our imagination as to what could constitute the greatest conspiracy of all time...
;)
Peace and Respect
Greg
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Good answer
Hehe, I like your take on our Western centrist thinking. People from the far East have a really hard time understanding that one, and put it down as another big indication of white man's arrogance. The strongest kid on the block is still the one making the rules, I guess.
You're right of course, the movie guys have to stay within Brown's boundaries, if they want to rake in sequel cash too. What I wrote was mostly wishful thinking on my part. But the theory of the Collective Subconscious does hold that if some Big Secret is just "dying to get out," people will inadvertently incorporate their take on it into whatever they do. That's why I thought that somebody may possibly be trying to hint at something here, even if they hadn't meant to.
Best wishes,
Sol