Angels & Demons (2009)

[MrBiddle]

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I heard it will be set for release on 2009? How true is the rumor?

Anyway my dream cast would be:

Langdon - Tom Hanks
Vittoria - Emmanuelle Beart or Monica Bellucci
KohlerÂ* - Willem Dafoe
Olivetti - Ben Kingsley
Carmelegno Carlo Ventresca - Adrien Brody
Hassassin - Gary Oldman

and people whom I feel should direct:

Bryan Singer (The Usual Suspects)
Christopher Nolan (Memento, Insomnia)
David Fincher (The Game, Se7en)
Bill Paxton (watch FRAILTY, the man can direct better than he acts )

[MrBiddle]

my thoughts are I found Angels and Demons to be a perfectly riveting experience. A book with a heightened degree of suspense and intrigue and more importantly, spirituality. It will have you rooting for the need of God and might influence you in behaving towards Science as if it were a body of knowledge that can only go to far onward with frivolity and the marred reduction of the wonders of the Higher Power to mere mathematical equations. Langdon fights obstacles while solving puzzles, holding his breath in mid-air while Mickey Mouse mocks him, recounting ancient art and history opposite the strong-willed Vittoria Vetra, brave but a woman with scruples she and Langdon find chemistry and romance in ANGELS AND DEMONS. Watch out for humorous exchange and quips such as the tranquil "Piranha" breathing, Catholic nutrinos and Yoga master Houdini. Carmelegno Ventresca is a man with conviction and is distinguished, serene and pious but watch out for his character arc at the end of the journey. Opposite him is Maxmilian Kohler, the director determined to defend CERN, a man of arrogance and self-righteousness. Join Langdon as he encounters a deadly assassin, hides from gunfire inside a tomb, fights him underwater, climbs caves and creeps into castles, and prior to that the discovery of grotesque yet mesmerizing and hypnotic methods of murder and execution and one very breath taking sequence from above in a scene towards the end.
Dan Brown performs better sleight of hand in ANGELS AND DEMONS, believe me it IS a better twist than that of "The Teacher" in The Da Vinci Code... It is foreshadowed decisively so there are no artificial contrivances. You would immediately be disappointed when you are made to think that the sleazy and proud character is the villain behind it but in the end lies a more disturbing twist to the puzzle, and collateral damage of revelations that are pay-offs of the story's central theme from the opposition to the idea that science is a miracle or to a certain portion of the book where a character wishes for "No more deaths." Angels and Demons is blockbuster perfection indeed per one of the critiques printed about the novel. It will incline you towards determination to fulfill tasks of greater importance and urgence, to embrace if any a higher degree of spirituality and of course ideals of noble things to be done, be it from the twisted villain or from the old Cardinals... and don't forget a little bit of romance. Much more profoundly may authors like Ludlum or Clancy write, but Brown is one of those scribes who is able to weave entertaining yarn, fast and easy to comprehend, and entertaining at that despite some pomp or subpar prose that his critics may negate him for.
Angels and Demons. Try it.

[lindsay]

yep, i agree this is one good read.....hopefully the movie will stay true to the book and will be make better than DVC.....

[miss tapya]

ahuh..morag mas nice ata ni ah!

[MrBiddle]

i hope mas ma involve pud si Mickey Mouse, even in the movie hehehe

[diem]

I agree with most of your cast choices but...

bro-- Gary Oldman as the Hassassin...?! The Hassassin was a dark man... sort of a "negative ego" to the Albino Priest of the Da Vinci Code...

I suggest Djimoun Hounsou of The Island and Gladiator fame...

[iamdede]

one thing for sure.. rake in na sad si dan brown ani.. heheh

[zengatsu]

yep i think mas nindot ni cya kung sa movie kung i compare sa DVC.. mao gani ni nga book ang akong gi wish sa una nga isalida.. dili ang DVC.. may nalang matinood na.. hehehe

[MrBiddle]

I agree with most of your cast choices but...

bro-- Gary Oldman as the Hassassin...?! The Hassassin was a dark man... sort of a "negative ego" to the Albino Priest of the Da Vinci Code...

I suggest Djimoun Hounsou of The Island and Gladiator fame...

Well, Teabing was a short and pot-bellied man in the book....

Maldito man gud kaayo si Gary Oldman if he wills it.

Pwedi sad for the Hassassin - Benicio Del Toro

[MrBiddle]

angayan si Gabriel Byrne as Rocher, I guess.... but I guess many of the actors who are cast here who happen to be American need to be able to speak in a different accent....