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Professor Robert Langdon is a fictional Harvard University professor of religious iconology and symbology (a fictional field related to the study of historic symbols, which is not methodologically connected to the actual discipline of Semiotics). The character was created by author Dan Brown for his novels Angels & Demons (2000), The Da Vinci Code (2003), The Lost Symbol (2009) and Inferno (2013).[1] Tom Hanks portrayed Robert Langdon in the 2006 film adaptation of The Da Vinci Code, reprised the role in the 2009 film adaptation of Angels & Demons, and will play the role again in the 2015 film adaptation of Inferno.
Robert Langdon
Robert Langdon portrayed by Tom Hanks in Angels & Demons First appearance Created by Dan Brown Angels & Demons
1 Character development 2 Storyline 2.1 Angels & Demons 2.2 The Da Vinci Code 2.3 The Lost Symbol 2.4 Inferno 3 Bibliography 4 References 5 External links
Portrayed by Tom Hanks Robert Clotworthy (video game) Information Gender Occupation Male Professor of Religious Iconology and Symbology at Harvard University Family Relatives Unnamed father (deceased) Howard Langdon (great-grandfather)
The character was created by Dan Brown as a fictional alter ego of himself or "the man he wishes he could be". Brown himself was born June 22, 1964 in Exeter, New Hampshire, and the fictional Langdon is described as having been born on June 22, also in Exeter, and attending the same school as Brown did, Phillips Exeter Academy. Initially we learn that Langdon is a successful scholar who Brown named after John Langdon,[2] a professor of typography at Drexel University who is known for his creation of ambigrams. An example of Langdon's ambigrams appeared on the cover of the first edition of Browns novel Angels & Demons, and other ambigrams featured throughout that novel were also designed by Langdon. On the acknowledgments page, Brown calls Langdon "one of the most ingenious and gifted artists alive who rose brilliantly to my impossible challenge and created the ambigrams for this novel". John Langdon also created the logo for the fictional Depository Bank of Zurich, which appears in The Da Vinci Code film. In an interview, Brown said that Joseph Campbell was an inspiration for the character of Langdon.
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His writings on semiotics, comparative religion and mythology in particular The Power of Myth and The Hero With a Thousand Faces helped inspire the framework on which I built my character Robert Langdon.... I remember admiring Campbells matter-of-fact responses and wanting my own character Langdon to project that same respectful understanding when faced with complex spiritual issues. Dan Brown, [3]
Robert Langdon, born in Exeter, New Hampshire, United States, is described as looking like "Harrison Ford in Harris tweed",[4] with his standard attire being a turtleneck, Harris Tweed jacket, khakis, and collegiate cordovan loafers, which he wears to all instances, from lectures to social events.[5] A frequently referred to accessory is his Mickey Mouse watch, a gift from his parents on his ninth birthday.[6] He drives an automatic Saab 900S.[7][8] Langdon was a diver at Phillips Exeter Academy in prep school and played water polo at Princeton University where he went for college. He suffers from claustrophobia, as he fell into a well when he was 7 years old. His father died when he was 12, and his new mentor father-figure became Peter Solomon,[9] Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.[10] Known for a brilliant problem-solving mind and his genius, Langdon has an eidetic memory. As professor at Harvard University, he teaches religious iconology and the fictional field of symbology. As a hobby it is specifically mentioned that Langdon is a great swimmer and swam laps (50) daily, a "morning ritual," at Harvard's athletic facilities (hence the lap swimming scene in the Angels and Demons movie). Langdon also mentions he was raised a Catholic, but that he will never understand God; in A&D, he mentions to Camerlengo that faith is a gift he has yet to receive. In the books, the events of TDC follow those of A&D; this was reversed in the movies, where A&D is portrayed as a sequel to the previous movie.[11]
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Inferno
In Inferno, Langdon, after awakening from a coma, discovering he has no memory of the events that led him to be in Italy, and realizing someone is out to have him killed, Langdon travels to Florence, Venice, and Istanbul with Doctor Sienna Brooks to prevent a biological attack in the form of a new strain of the Bubonic plague that is sought by a rogue former member of a shadowy consulting group called The Consortium. In the course of this, Langdon must decipher clues employing allusions to the works of Sandro Botticelli and Dante Alighieri, the writer of The Divine Comedy, and, more importantly Dante's Inferno.
Between The Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol, and Inferno, Langdon is said to have written six books: The Symbology of Secret Sects The Art of the Illuminati: Part 1 The Lost Language of Ideograms Religious Iconology
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Symbols of the Lost Sacred Feminine Christian Symbols in the Muslim World At that same point in the trilogy, Langdon is preparing the manuscript for his fifth book, to be titled Symbols of the Lost Sacred Feminine. It is later revealed in The Lost Symbol that Symbols of the Lost Sacred Feminine was published and created 'quite a scandal'.
1. ^ Associated Press (January 15, 2013). "New Dan Brown novel 'Inferno' coming in May" (http://news.yahoo.com /dan-brown-novel-inferno-coming-may-142729319.html). Yahoo!. Retrieved 2013-01-15. 2. ^ Naughton, Philippe (March 13, 2006). Dan Brown sprinkles statement with clues about next book (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article740691.ece). Times Online. Retrieved 2008-03-01. 3. ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/23/books/review/dan-brown-by-the-book.html?hpw 4. ^ "Robert Langdon Biography (Fictional Adventurer) " (http://www.infoplease.com/biography /var/robertlangdon.html). Infoplease.com. Retrieved 2013-01-10. 5. ^ TLS, p. 8 6. ^ TLS, p. 25 7. ^ A&D, p. 26 8. ^ DVC, p. 227 9. ^ TLS, p. 7 10. ^ TLS, p. 15 11. ^ Ian Freer (May 2009). "Critical Mass". Empire. pp. 6973. 12. ^ Brown, Dan (2000). Angels & Demons (http://books.google.com/?id=y3F1tAHJeuIC& dq=isbn%2Bangels+%26+demons%2Bamazon&printsec=frontcover). New York: Simon and Schuster. p. 5. ISBN 978-0-7434-1239-1. 13. ^ Brown, Dan (2000). Angels & Demons (http://books.google.com/?id=kpVvA_M2rnwC&pg=PA191&lpg=PA191& dq=langdon%2Bpath+of+illumination). New York: Simon and Schuster. pp. 19192. ISBN 978-0-7432-7771-6.
The official Robert Langdon website (http://www.robertlangdon.com/) Robert Langdon described in-depth by Dan Brown in his 21 Dec 2005 Witness Statement to London's High Court (http://www.awesomestories.com/flicks/angels-and-demons/robert-langdon-and-hisambigrams) Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert_Langdon&oldid=601138656" Categories: Fictional professors Fictional characters from New Hampshire Fictional Harvard University people Angels & Demons The Da Vinci Code The Lost Symbol Film characters Fictional characters introduced in 2000
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