Angels and Demons: Book vs. Film
My wife and I finally made it for our first movie date for this year. Last Sunday, we watched the movie Angels and Demons, the movie adaptation of Dan Brown’s novel of the same title. While there was not much hype about the movie, I was really excited to watch this so as to see how the movie creators were able to put into action what I had read from the book. My wife didn’t read the novel yet so the movie isn’t that a big deal for her.
While the opening of the movie is that of the death of the Pope in the Vatican City, we were then brought to CERN research facility in Geneva, Switzerland where a physicist succeded in creating the antimatter.
In the next scene, we were presented with the main character, Harvard scholar Robert Langdon being summoned by a Vatican Police to go to Vatican City to investigate a long-extinct secret society called the Illuminati. A murder of a physicist at CERN research facility had just taken place and the disappearance of four Preferiti (cardinals who would likely to succeed the Pope), all of these incident pointed to the said secret society as responsible of doing such.
Robert Langdon also discovered that the antimatter is being stolen by the Illuminati and hidden somewhere within the Vatican City to threaten and blackmail the Roman Catholic Church.
Robert Langdon is partnered with Vittoria Vetra, the beautiful Italian daughter of the murdered physicist. Together, they set off on a wild hunt through antique cathedrals, perilous catacombs, ancient crypts, and even the most sacred vault in the world, in an attempt to decipher markers and codes which could possibly be the Vatican’s last hope of survival.
My wife Jovy while falling in line for the single screening of the movie Angels and Demons
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