Last Saturday I and my girlfriend went to the cinema to watch the new film adaption of Dan Brown’s famous novel “Angels and Demons”. Although the film was thrilling and eventful at once, it was too long and sometimes too “modified” on the other hand. I read the book a few months ago and it is still one of my favourites. The fact that I liked the book that much was one of the reasons why I was really looking forward to watching the new film version in the cinema.
Now, after watching it I have to say that I am really disappointed of the result. I found it very disappointing to compare this new film to Dan Brown’s famous novel. The novel was not only much more interesting and thrilling than the film was, unfortunately and much more important was the fact that the film version sometimes was completely different from the great novel.
For example, there was no Leonardo Vetra in the film. The killed person in the beginning of the film was not the famous scholar and father of Vittoria Vetra; it was “just” a colleague of her whose name I cannot remember. Moreover, one of the four kidnapped and later on killed “preferred” Cardinals in the novel was Cardinal Baggia from Italy who interestingly survived the assassinator in the film and finally became pope. In the film there was also no fight in the fountain where Cardinal Baggia was rescued now. In contrast to the film, in the novel Cardinal Baggia died in a fountain and there was a fight between the assassinator and Robert Langdon, the American scholar of history who wanted to rescue the Cardinal.
All these above mentioned facts and lots of other differences made the film that uninteresting for me and I would not recommend watching the film to those who already read the novel. In conclusion, I can understand some changes of the film version in order to shorten the length, but I cannot understand why the filmmakers also changed some names of the protagonists and why they left some good thrilling scenes, especially in the end of the film.
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Last Friday I also went to the cinema to watch “Angels&Demons” and I found it an interesting and thrilling film. In contrast to you I never read the novel before, therefore I did not know about the differences until I read your Blog entry on “Angels&Demons”. As I already said I found it an interesting and thrilling film, but on the other hand I found it very easy to find out and to say who the bad guy really was. Somewhere in the middle of the film I remembered a conversation between my parents where they said that they would not have expected the end of the novel the way it was. When I saw the film and especially the “Camerlengo” I remembered the conversation and came to the conclusion that he must be the bad guy….and finally I was right. I do not know why, but it became obvious very quickly that the “Camerlengo” was at the bottom of the whole story. I think it was too obvious for a thriller and this is why I found the film still thrilling, but not that thrilling I expected before.
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