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Angels & Demons: Fact or Fiction?
Jessica Pulliam
Issue date: 5/20/09 Section: Features
Angels and Demons, a thriller that captivated many readers, opened on the big screen this past Friday night. After pulling in 46 million, it rested at the top of the box office -- its nearest competitor, Star Trek, was 3 million behind.
Tom Hanks once again plays the role of Robert Langdon, a Harvard symbologist that gets a visit from a Vatican City representative to help them uncover the truth about an ancient brotherhood, the Illuminati. Langdon uncovers a bomb (antimatter) intended to destroy the Vatican City, while he frantically tries to prevent the deaths of four scientists. Along with the help of Vittoria Vetra, a scientist at CERN where the bomb was made, Langdon races around the city to find the path of illumination to stop the killings and also to find the bomb in time.
The movie is full of twists and turns that for a while keep the audience on the edge of their seat. After about an hour into the movie the audience is left feeling confused and overwhelmed by the quantity of information thrown at them in such a short amount of time. The movie does not portray Langdon's thought process accurately. He sometimes comes up with the answer before he even reads the clue. The lines in the movie are short and choppy, making the acting seem forced. The audience would have had to read the book to be able to fully understand everything that was going on in the movie.
The book on the other hand is a great piece of literature. Dan Brown takes the time to explain to the reader all of the history of the Illuminati in a set length that is much better associated with the amount of information provided. The book may seem like a daunting 710 pages, but most readers find that when they first pick up the book they just cannot seem to stop reading. By the end of the book, it feels to the reader as if he or she personally knows Robert Langdon and Vittoria Vetra. The adventure they set off on is full of many twists and turns that will leave the reader hanging on to every word.
Tom Hanks once again plays the role of Robert Langdon, a Harvard symbologist that gets a visit from a Vatican City representative to help them uncover the truth about an ancient brotherhood, the Illuminati. Langdon uncovers a bomb (antimatter) intended to destroy the Vatican City, while he frantically tries to prevent the deaths of four scientists. Along with the help of Vittoria Vetra, a scientist at CERN where the bomb was made, Langdon races around the city to find the path of illumination to stop the killings and also to find the bomb in time.
The movie is full of twists and turns that for a while keep the audience on the edge of their seat. After about an hour into the movie the audience is left feeling confused and overwhelmed by the quantity of information thrown at them in such a short amount of time. The movie does not portray Langdon's thought process accurately. He sometimes comes up with the answer before he even reads the clue. The lines in the movie are short and choppy, making the acting seem forced. The audience would have had to read the book to be able to fully understand everything that was going on in the movie.
The book on the other hand is a great piece of literature. Dan Brown takes the time to explain to the reader all of the history of the Illuminati in a set length that is much better associated with the amount of information provided. The book may seem like a daunting 710 pages, but most readers find that when they first pick up the book they just cannot seem to stop reading. By the end of the book, it feels to the reader as if he or she personally knows Robert Langdon and Vittoria Vetra. The adventure they set off on is full of many twists and turns that will leave the reader hanging on to every word.
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Krissy
posted 5/20/09 @ 3:28 PM EST
awesome article!
Azahar
posted 5/23/09 @ 6:34 PM EST
wow... nice info. i`m looking forward to read other article.
JJ
posted 5/26/09 @ 12:31 PM EST
decent
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