Angels & Demons | Movie Reaction
Added 2025-09-30 19:00:14 +0000 UTCThanks Lee-anne!
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AGAIN, SPOILER! The man who dies in the beginning is not just Vittoria's lab partner, but her adoptive father which gives her an emotional connection to the Camerlengo who was adopted and raised by the late Pope - so the betrayal hits doubly hard. In the novel, Robert and Vittoria don't meet in the Vatican, but at C.E.R.N. in Geneva where the director of C.E.R.N. asks Robert for help with the symbols, so when they get to the Vatican, they are not welcome to get involved at all. Cardinal Baggia doesn't get rescued from the fountain in the novel, instead Cardinal Mortati becomes Pope. In the novel, Vittoria gets abducted by the killer who's planning on r*ping and k*lling her and Robert has to follow the trail to Castel Sant'Angelo by himself to rescue her (because Baggia couldn't tell him where to go anymore). Vittoria ends up killing the killer who has a more fleshed-out story overall (and is a seriously f-ed up mofo who hates the catholic church and actually believes he is working for the Illuminati). Robert gets on the Helicopter along with the Camerlengo, almost dies in the jump, and it takes just a lot longer to get to the truth. And then there's the major plot twist that they completely disregarded in the film: The Carmerlengo killed the Pope because he'd found out that the Pope had fathered a child and thus broken his sacred oath. (This "betrayal" completely sends him for a spin and he literally loses his mind and starts to hallucinate god ordering him to do all the things he did). But it turns out that he himself is the Pope's kid through artificial insemination, because both his parents wanted a child but weren't going to do the deed. So he essentially killed his own Dad for nothing and involved the anti-matter and C.E.R.N. only because he wanted the people to turn back to religion and turn away from science and technology by blaming the Illuminati who don't exist anymore. Both Vittoria and the Carmerlengo were done real dirty in the film, but it's still an enjoyable watch, no doubt about it.
Annie
2025-10-14 22:03:57 +0000 UTCOkay, I'll try to answer your questions at the end, obv. major spoilers for the book. :D In the novels, Angels and Demons happens before the Da Vinci Code which actually references it a couple of times, but overall it doesn't really matter because they're mostly separate stories. Like the first film, this one strays pretty far from the novel , probably because it would be impossible to put everything in one film. I'll put some of the major differences in a comment below, so if you don't want to be spoiled, don't read :D
Annie
2025-10-14 22:01:05 +0000 UTC
