Angels and Demons
I am still excited about my birthday as i was when i was on my first birthday! It seems that i invited all my relatives to join my bday bash when i was just one! I am your total social media person :)This year, my hubby and me planned a sneak lunch and movie when the kids were at school. (Angels and Demons is a A-rated movie, i told myself to erase the itty bitty guilt i was feeling)
The show was at 10AM. We reached the theater before the clean-up crew and got ourselves the gold class tickets. (Treat for the birthday baby!) Reclining comfortably on the leather, gazing at the huge screen with extremely good sound quality, hand-in-hand with an attentive hubby, without the tension of the mid-of-the-movie-bathroom-breaks, i even loved the damn commercials. (Yeah, we rarely get to go to the theater for the movies)
Anyway, the movie Angels and Demons was bright (unlike the Da Vinci Code), fast-paced and i think, did justice to the book. Tom Hanks is a Symbologist who is summoned when there is a threat on the Vatican city by the Antimatter and the “Illuminati” claim responsibility for it. Robert Langdon has to again understand the set of clues, help the Swiss Guard find the maniac who also plans to kill all the four Preferiti (the cardinals who are most likely to be the next Pope) in the name of the Illuminati by branding them with an ambigram {Ambigrams are a form of word play in which the words are written in such a way that they can be read in more than one way, similar to the one above} representing the four primordial elements (Earth, Air, Fire and Water) and also find the AntiMatter which would destroy the city. The movie too picks up pace right from the start and though the movie has been modified from the book, the story is still as captivating. Tom Hanks looks and accomplishes the part of an aging professor with flair and Obi-Wan (as we chellama call Ewan McGregor) came off great as the Carmelango. Vittoria is the bright scientist who helped create the AntiMatter and was a vivacious personality in the book. Somehow, she didnt seem to be such a big deal in the movie. Tons of information about the Conclave, the nuances of the statues, the history of the Illuminati and their followers were lost, but thats movies for you! But, it was really nice to “see” the churchs, chapels, and the Angels that Dan Brown so nicely draws in your mind.
I loved the book but liked the movie too.
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