ANGELS & DEMONS::Which Side are You?
A follow up movie to the 2006 controversial film The Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons is the first adventure of symbolist Robert Langdon so this story is a prequel to the The Da Vinci Code.
A substance called antimatter which can erase the entire vatican in the world map was stolen at CERN. At Vatican, the pope died and a conclave is on going for the replacement of His Holiness. Four of the favorites to be elected to papacy are missing. The ancient group called 'Illuminati' seem to take its revenge to the church. Four cardinals to be castrated 4 hours before midnight each on four different locations across Rome following the path of Illumination, a sacred lair of the greatest minds in science who were once doomed by the catholic church as enemies. Symbolist Robert Langdon has to take on the clues hidden in the manuscript of Galileo as well as to the architectures to get into those churches to save the cardinals and eventually save the entire city from oblivion.
The movie is not faithful to the book. I read the book four times and i could safely say that there are some discrepancies in the movie version. Although i would understand that there are some cinematic license that would make the movie separate from its book , i could not take as to why some important facts and characters were thrown away just to save time in the movie version.
I still think the illuminati diamond idea is far better than the cross upside down as the fifth symbol. And whatever happen to the important character in the movie who was the instrument for the disclosure of the camerlengo as the brain of all the chaos? Koohler, the director was removed for some dumb reason, and oh, where's my favorite character, the witty BBC reporter Gunther Glick who in the book was everywhere and became an instrument for camerlengo Carlo to broadcast to the world and displayed his drama that God spoke to him as to where the canister was placed. And what a shame to have an elected pope not in the conclave in the first place. LOL.
If you find the movie Da Vinci Code so slow that it would take you to sleep with its long narrative, by far stretch Angels and Demons is faster with beautiful sequences and locations that give you an up tempo , but the narrative is still there. Imagine people on the run against the clock, still has the time to discuss the passages of the book or the architectures they passed by, although you could not blame it because they need it for the audience to understand the clues as well. For those who have not read the book, and are not into crazy conspiracies and religion versus science, its easy to get lost. Aint it cousin Debi?
For all its worth, those who love the book should at least try to get a peek to this movie version to see how Ron Howard made the movie version horrible at some point.
A follow up movie to the 2006 controversial film The Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons is the first adventure of symbolist Robert Langdon so this story is a prequel to the The Da Vinci Code.
A substance called antimatter which can erase the entire vatican in the world map was stolen at CERN. At Vatican, the pope died and a conclave is on going for the replacement of His Holiness. Four of the favorites to be elected to papacy are missing. The ancient group called 'Illuminati' seem to take its revenge to the church. Four cardinals to be castrated 4 hours before midnight each on four different locations across Rome following the path of Illumination, a sacred lair of the greatest minds in science who were once doomed by the catholic church as enemies. Symbolist Robert Langdon has to take on the clues hidden in the manuscript of Galileo as well as to the architectures to get into those churches to save the cardinals and eventually save the entire city from oblivion.
The movie is not faithful to the book. I read the book four times and i could safely say that there are some discrepancies in the movie version. Although i would understand that there are some cinematic license that would make the movie separate from its book , i could not take as to why some important facts and characters were thrown away just to save time in the movie version.
I still think the illuminati diamond idea is far better than the cross upside down as the fifth symbol. And whatever happen to the important character in the movie who was the instrument for the disclosure of the camerlengo as the brain of all the chaos? Koohler, the director was removed for some dumb reason, and oh, where's my favorite character, the witty BBC reporter Gunther Glick who in the book was everywhere and became an instrument for camerlengo Carlo to broadcast to the world and displayed his drama that God spoke to him as to where the canister was placed. And what a shame to have an elected pope not in the conclave in the first place. LOL.
If you find the movie Da Vinci Code so slow that it would take you to sleep with its long narrative, by far stretch Angels and Demons is faster with beautiful sequences and locations that give you an up tempo , but the narrative is still there. Imagine people on the run against the clock, still has the time to discuss the passages of the book or the architectures they passed by, although you could not blame it because they need it for the audience to understand the clues as well. For those who have not read the book, and are not into crazy conspiracies and religion versus science, its easy to get lost. Aint it cousin Debi?
For all its worth, those who love the book should at least try to get a peek to this movie version to see how Ron Howard made the movie version horrible at some point.
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