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Stand up slowly, and give it to me.
„
~ Silas in the novel
Silas is the secondary antagonist in the controversial 2003 novel The Da Vinci Code and the 2006 film adaptation of the same name.
In the film, as a child, he was portrayed by Hugh Mitchell while as an adult, he is portrayed by Paul Bettany, who also portrays Bill Cox, Gangster, and Dryden Vos.
During his childhood, in Marseille, Simon was badmouthed by his father, calling him "fantasma (ghost)" due to his being albino. Simon kills his father for killing her mother. While he grew up in the streets, he began eating garbage and waste. Other pedestrians ran away from him. Simon pummels a girl for making fun of his condition, but police gave him an ultimatum to either leave Marseille or go to prison, so he moved to Toulon where he usually lived in the street. While fighting two sailors, Simon killed one, and for this, he was imprisoned in the prison in the Pyrenees in Andorra. However, he was later freed when the earthquake destroyed the prison walls. He met a Spanish bishop named Manuel Aringarosa, who named him Silas, after a person in the Bible who was the companion of Paul of Tarsus, imprisoned at Philippi and freed by an earthquake after singing. Aringarosa eventually became a bishop and the head of Opus Dei.
While chasing after Jacques Saunières in the Louvre, Silas demanded him the location of the Holy Grail, after Saunières answered him, Silas fatally shoot Saunières and left him for dead.
Silas follows the information the Priory leaders to the Church of Saint-Sulpice gave. But, he reveals that he was duped with false information, and he kills Sister Sandrine Bieil for spying on him in the church.
At London, when Silas saw the police, he ran out from safe, but later he accidentally shot Bishop Aringarosa, then Silas was shot in turn. Before dying, he said "soy un fantasma (i am a ghost)".
Other Appearances
Silas appeared in the video game adaptation of The Da Vinci Code.
Silas appeared in the critically panned 2007 spoof comedy film Epic Movie, in which he was played by Kevin Hart. In this film, he only speaks in Latin (with English subtitles).
Quotes
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Stop now. Tell me where it is.
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~ Silas' first lines
“
Is it a secret you will die for?
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~ Silas to Jacques Saunière
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As you wish.
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~ Silas to Jacques Saunière.
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Thank you.
„
~ Silas before killing Jacques Saunière.
“
Each breath you take is a sin. No shadow will be safe again. For you will be hunted by angels.
„
~ Silas to Sophie Neveu.
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Soy un fantasma...
„
~ Silas's last words.
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Trivia
In the novel, Silas' nationality is French: he tells Aringarosa that he does not speak Spanish. In the film, Silas is Spanish (presumably Basque) and speaks several lines in Spanish.
In real life Opus Dei does not include any monks or friars in their membership.
Both are abused by their mothers' abusers they later murdered
Both arrested for murders until they were freed by something else (although Michael freed himself in the remake while he was freed by a man in black in the fifth part and Silas was freed by an earthquake destroying the prison wall
Dr. Terence Wynn: Both murdered individuals via guns (although Wynn shot Jamie in the head in the producer's cut while Michael killed her via corn thresher and Silas shot Saunières)
