Angels & Demons

Saturday, June 6, 2009

Angels and Demons

Theatrical poster
Directed byRon Howard
Produced byBrian Grazer
John Calley
Written byNovel:
Dan Brown
Screenplay:
David Koepp
Akiva Goldsman
StarringTom Hanks
Ayelet Zurer
Ewan McGregor
Music byHans Zimmer
CinematographySalvatore Totino
Editing byDaniel P. Hanley
Mike Hill
StudioImagine Entertainment
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Sony Pictures Entertainment
Release date(s)Japan
May 7, 2009
Australia
May 14, 2009
United States
May 15, 2009
India
May 29, 2009
Running time138 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Italian
French
German
Polish
Spanish
Chinese
BudgetUS$150 million
Gross revenueUS$360,555,698[1]
Preceded byThe Da Vinci Code

Angels & Demons is a 2009 American film adaptation of Dan Brown's eponymous novel. It is the sequel to The Da Vinci Code, another Brown film adaptation, even though the novel Angels & Demons was published first and takes place before the novel The Da Vinci Code. Filming took place in Rome, Italy, and the Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, California. Tom Hanks reprises the lead role of Robert Langdon, while director Ron Howard, producer Brian Grazer, and screenwriter Akiva Goldsman also return.

[edit]Plot

Under the watchful eyes of Father Silvano Bentivoglio and Dr. Vittoria Vetra (Ayelet Zurer), the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) initiates the Large Hadron Collider and captures three vials of antimatter. Immediately afterward, someone kills Father Silvano, uses his retina to infiltrate the containment chamber, and steals one vial.

The Roman Catholic Church mourns the death of the Pope in Rome. Vatican City prepares for the College of Cardinals' papal conclave, which will select the next Pope. Until that time, Camerlengo Patrick McKenna (Ewan McGregor), a papal court official and former helicopter pilot, assumes temporary control of the Vatican. Reporters, nuns, priests, and other faithful members of the Church crowd into Saint Peter's Square, waiting for white smoke from the conclave. But the Illuminati, a 400-year old, underground secret society, kidnap the four most likely candidates before the conclave enters seclusion. The Illuminati threaten to kill one every hour, beginning at 8:00 pm, and then destroy the Vatican in a burst of light at midnight. A stolen security camera shows the missing antimatter vial, which will catastrophically explode when the vial's battery dies and the magnetic containment field fails.

The Vatican summons symbologist Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) from Harvard University and Vittoria Vetra from CERN to help them solve the Illuminati's threat, save the four preferiti, and replace the vial's batteries. Langdon listens to the Illuminati message and deduces that the fourcardinals will die at the four altars of the "Path of Illumination". However, no one knows where these altars are located. Vetra demands that Commander Richter (Stellan Skarsgård), the commandant of the Swiss Guard, to bring Father Silvano's diaries from Switzerland, hoping that they contain the name of the person with whom Silvano discussed the antimatter experiment. Langdon also demands access to the Vatican Secret Archives (something he has requested for 10 years) to see the original copy of Galileo Galilei's banned book, which may contain the locations of the four "altars of science". Using the clues from this book, Langdon, Vetra, Inspector General Ernesto Olivetti (Pierfrancesco Favino), and Lieutenant Valenti (Victor Alfieri) of the Vatican Gendarmerie Corps race to the first church, only to find the first cardinal dead, suffocated with dirt and branded with the word "Earth". They verify the second altar's location and arrive, only to witness the death of the second cardinal, his lungs lacerated and his body branded with the word "Air". While Vetra studies Silvano's diaries, Langdon and the Vatican officers locate the third church and try to save the third cardinal from burning to death, but the assassin appears and kills everyone but Langdon. The cardinal succumbs to the flames, his body branded with the word "Fire."

After escaping, Langdon convinces two police officers to race with him to the last church of the "Water" altar, but the assassin murders them and drops the fourth cardinal into the Fountain of the Four Rivers. However, Langdon saves the cardinal, who tells him the location of the Illuminati's lair: Castel Sant'Angelo. When Lagdon and Vetra arrive, they are confronted by the assassin, who spares their lives since they are not armed and he has not been paid to kill them. He reveals that his contractors were from the Catholic Church. The assassin escapes and finds a vehicle containing his payment, but is killed by a car bomb upon igniting the engine. Langdon and Vetra discover that the final victim of the plot will be Camerlengo McKenna. After arriving at the Vatican via a secret passage, they and some Swiss Guards enter the Camerlengo's office and find him in the floor branded with the Vatican's symbol on his chest and Commander Richter near him with a gun. The Guards promptly kill Richter to save the camerlengo. During the confusion, the dying commander gives Langdon a key to his office. Then the camerlengo, Langdon, Vetra, and the Swiss Guards discover the location of the stolen antimatter vial. By the time they find it, the battery is about to expire, the deadly explosion just minutes away. The camerlengo seizes the vial and uses a helicopter to fly above the Vatican. He then activates the autopilot and escapes with a parachute. After several seconds, the bomb explodes and the camerlengo lands, now considered a hero by the crowd and even as the best candidate to be the new Pope by the College of Cardinals. Meanwhile, Langdon and Vetra use Richter's key to watch a security video showing that the mastermind behind the murders of the original Pope and the preferiti and the antimatter robbery, in fact, is the camerlengo and not the Illuminati. While Richter tries to arrest McKenna, the priest brands himself with a seal that resembles Saint Peter's upside-down crucifixion and accuses the commander being a member of the Illuminati. Langdon shows the video to the College. After the camerlengo realizes his plot has been uncovered, he immolates himself with oil from one of the 99 holy lamps inside St. Peter's Basilica.

The Vatican announces that the camerlengo died due to internal wounds suffered during his landing and has been canonized. The College designate the surviving preferiti cardinal as the new Pope, and he gives Langdon Galileo's book as a gesture of gratitude.

[edit]Cast

See also: List of characters in Angels & Demons

[edit]Production

[edit]Development

In 2003, Sony acquired the film rights to Angels & Demons (2000) along with The Da Vinci Code (2003) in a deal with author Dan Brown. In May 2006, following the film release of the 2006 film adaptation of The Da Vinci Code, Sony hired screenwriter Akiva Goldsman, who wrote the film adaptation of The Da Vinci Code, to adapt Angels & Demons.[2] Filming was originally to begin in February 2008 for a December 2008 release,[3] but because of the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, production was pushed back for a May 15, 2009 release.[4] David Koepp rewrote the script before shooting began.[5]

Director Ron Howard chose to treat Angels & Demons as a sequel to the previous film, rather than a prequel, since many had read the novel after The Da Vinci Code. He liked the idea that Langdon had been through one adventure and become a more confident character.[6] Howard was also more comfortable taking liberties in adapting the story because the novel is less popular than The Da Vinci Code.[7] Producer Brian Grazer said they were too "reverential" when adapting The Da Vinci Code, which resulted in it being "a little long and stagey". This time, "Langdon doesn't stop and give a speech. When he speaks, he's in motion."[8] Howard concurred "it's very much about modernity clashing with antiquity and technology vs. faith, so these themes, these ideas are much more active whereas the other one lived so much in the past. The tones are just innately so different between the two stories."[7]

The filmmakers reduced the part of the story that occurs at CERN to being a short introductory sequence, and Langdon does not visit CERN at all. Also, the way in which antimatter is produced was changed due to advice offered by the scientists at CERN. According to these scientists, the technique described by Dan Brown in his book would have required two billion years to produce the necessary amount of antimatter. In the film the newly developed Large Hadron Collider (first run on September 10, 2008, i.e., it did not exist when Dan Brown wrote his book) is used to create the antimatter.

McGregor's character was changed from Italian to Northern Irish, to accommodate the Scottish actor.[6]

[edit]Filming

Shooting began on June 4, 2008 in Rome under the fake working title "Obelisk".[9] The filmmakers scheduled three weeks of exterior location filming because of a predicted 2008 Screen Actors Guild strike on June 30. The rest of the film would be shot at Sony Pictures Studios in Los Angeles, California, to allow for this halt.[10] Roman Catholic Church officials found The Da Vinci Code offensive and forbade filming in their churches, so these scenes were shot at Sony.[9] The Caserta Palace doubled for the inside of the Vatican,[9] and the Biblioteca Angelicawas used for the Vatican Library.[11] Filming took place at the University of California, Los Angeles in July.[12] Sony and Imagine Entertainment organized an eco-friendly shoot, selecting when to shoot locations based on how much time and fuel it would save, using cargo containers to support set walls or greenscreens, as well as storing props for future productions or donating them to charity.[13]

Tom Hanks and Ayelet Zurer outside the Pantheon

Howard hated that the Writers Guild strike forced him to shoot the film during summer, where crowds gathered to watch the filming of scenes, and some would even sing the Happy Days theme at him. Regardless, he felt the quick shoot allowed him to refine the naturalism he had employed on his previous film Frost/Nixon, often using handheld cameras to lend an additional energy to the scenes. Hanks interrupted filming of one scene in order to help Australian bride, Natalia Dearnley, get through the crowds to her wedding on time; Zurer recalled the bride told Hanks "Your hair is much better right now." McGregor said the Pope's funeral was the dullest sequence to film, as they were just walking across staircases. Then, "Someone started singing 'Bohemian Rhapsody' [and] it became the funeral theme tune."[6]

When recreating the interior of St. Peter's Basilica, production designer Allan Cameron and visual effects supervisor Angus Bickerton recognized the 80 feet tall soundstages were only half the size of the real church. They rebuilt the area around and the crypts beneath St. Peter's baldachin, including the bottoms of the columns and Saint Peter's statue, and surrounded it with a 360 degree greenscreen so the rest could be built digitally. Cameron had twenty crew members photograph as much as they could inside the Sistine Chapel, and had artists sketch, photograph and enlarge recreations of the paintings and mosaics from the photographs. Cameron chose to present the Sistine Chapel as it was before it was cleaned up, because he preferred the contrast the smoky, muted colors would present with the cardinals. Although the chapel was built to full size, the Sala Regia was made smaller to fit inside the stage.[14]

The Saint Peter's Square and the Piazza Navona sets were built on the same backlot; after completion of scenes at the former, six weeks were spent converting the set, knocking down the Basilica side and excavating 3 1/2 feet of tarmac to build the fountain. As there had been filming at the real Piazza Navona, the transition between it and the replica had to be seamless. To present the Santa Maria del Popolo undergoing renovation, a police station in Rome opposite the real church was used for the exterior; the scaffolding would hide that it was not the church. Cameron built the interior of Santa Maria del Popolo on the same set as the recreated Santa Maria della Vittoria to save money; the scaffolding also disguised this. The film's version of Santa Maria della Vittoria was larger than the real one, so it would accommodate the cranes used to film the scene. To film the Pantheon's interior, two aediculae and the tomb of Raphaelwere rebuilt to scale at a height of 30 feet, while the rest was greenscreen. Because of the building's symmetrical layout, the filmmakers were able to shoot the whole scene over two days and redress the real side to pretend it was another.[14] The second unit took photographs of the Large Hadron Collider and pasted these in scenes set at CERN.[15]

[edit]Music

Hans Zimmer returned to compose the score for the sequel. He chose to develop the "Chevaliers de Sangreal" track from the end of The Da Vinci Code as Langdon's main theme in the film.[16] The soundtrack also features violinist Joshua Bell. The soundtrack was released on May 12 of 2009. The tracks included in the soundtrack go as follows:

  • 160 BPM
  • God Particle
  • Air
  • Fire
  • Black Smoke
  • Science and Religion
  • Immolation
  • Election by Adoration
  • 503
  • H2O (Bonus Track)

[edit]Character changes

Many characters have been changed for the film. These include:

  • Vittoria Vetra's father, Leonardo Vetra, is replaced with a research partner named Silvano, who writes the journals and is murdered for his projects.
  • The novel's Italian camerlengo, Carlo Ventresca, becomes the film's Northern Irish camerlengo, Patrick McKenna.
  • The Swiss Guard commander, Commander Olivetti, becomes Commander Richter. Olivetti becomes the head of the Vatican police.
  • The assassin, an Arabic man who hates the Catholic Church, is replaced with a Westerner named Mr. Gray.
  • Captain Rocher does not appear in the film. Instead, his role near the book's climax is played by a bishop.
  • Cardinal Mortati, who oversees the conclave, is renamed Cardinal Strauss.
  • Gunther Glick and Chinita Macri do not appear in the film. Instead, numerous reporters from different countries perform reporting roles.
  • Maximilian Kohler, director of CERN, does not appear in the film. Instead, his role in the beginning is played by a Vatican police representative, and his role near the end is played by Commander Richter.

[edit]Differences between book and film

  • The funeral of the Pope is an original addition to the movie, as in the novel, the Pope is already buried and conclave is about to commence.
  • In the novel, Langdon goes to Geneva after receiving a phone call from CERN. In the film, a representative of the Vatican Police visits him in Harvard, and tells him everything there.
  • Vittoria is working on the antimatter at the beginning of the film with Silvano and a whole team, while in the novel, she returns to CERN after her father's murder. Also, only she and her father worked on the antimatter project.
  • The Corps of Gendarmerie of Vatican City does not appear in the novel; the Swiss Guard handles all matters.
  • The antimatter journals are sent over to the Vatican in the film, but Commander Richter confiscates them; this is how he learns of the truth.
  • Vittoria is able to restore the antimatter canister's battery in the film by doing a few simple defusing processes to the canister as long as there is at least five minutes of time left. In the novel, she must fly the canister back to CERN to recharge it, so the canister is much more dangerous in the novel. However, in the movie she decides not to replace the battery since cold temperature in the Necropolis would be depleting the batteries faster; removing and replacing with new ones might not have been possible because the charge would not hold for sufficient time to replace the battery.
  • In the novel, while confronting the assassin at the 3rd Altar of Science, Langdon survives by hiding under a stone tomb and is later found by police when his watch alarm goes off. In the film he hides down a grate in the church floor until the police and firefighters hear him banging.
  • The Diagramma book written by Galileo Galilei during his house arrest is presented in the film as a simple booklet, while it is in folios in the novel. Hence, Vittoria permanently destroys it when she rips page five off in the film.
  • Vittoria is not kidnapped during the Santa Maria della Vittoria incident; at that time, she is working on reading the antimatter journals.
  • Langdon and Vittoria do not kill the assassin together. He is promised a reward for his actions but is blown up when a car bomb explodes in the car he was supposed to make his getaway in the film.
  • The last brand in the novel is the Illuminati Diamond, which is a combination of "Earth", "Air", "Fire", and "Water" in the shape of an ambigram diamond. In the film, however, it is two keys crossed with each other, not even an ambigram. According to Langdon, its upside-down image is a reference to St. Peter's upside-down crucifixion.
  • In the film, Langdon does not accompany the camerlengo in the helicopter, and thus does not injure himself in the Tiber River.
  • In the film, Langdon and Vittoria discover the truth about the camerlengo in Commander Richter's office, as the Pope's seizures required security cameras to watch him. In the novel, Köhler gives him a small camera to watch the scene, while in the film, Richter gives him the key to the camera screen in his office.
  • The truth about the Pope fathering the camerlengo is not mentioned in the film, although the camerlengo states the Pope adopted him. The only reason given for the camerlengo murdering him is that the Pope became too open to science, which the camerlengo was uncomfortable with, as he believed religion alone should dictate morality, let alone the Creation.
  • The camerlengo immolates himself in the novel on the roof of St. Peter's, and dies calmly. In the film, he immolates himself using one of the ninety-nine oil lamps' oil as fuel, and the sanctuary lamp's flame as fire, and dies screaming.
  • Cardinal Baggia, the fourth preferiti, survives his drowning in the film, as the assassin left Piazza Navona right away. Langdon manages to use the bubble-producing hose to save him, and manages to get bystanders to help rescue him. Baggia then informs Langdon that the four preferiti were imprisoned in Castel Sant'Angelo. As anticipated, he becomes Pope in the end, and Cardinal Strauss succeeds McKenna as the camerlengo instead. In the novel, Baggia also dies, and Mortati, despite his status as elector, becomes pontiff.
  • The package loaned indefinitely to Langdon is not the last brand, but the Diagramma book written by Galileo Galilei.
  • The love thread between Langdon and Vittoria in the book is not depicted in the film
  • While the book Angels and Demons is a prequel to the Da Vinci Code, the movie is a sequel.
  • The assassin gets inputs through internet in the film
  • In the novel, Langdon goes alone to the archives the second time while looking for Bernini's statues. In the film, he is accompanied by a swiss guard
  • The tourist guide in the Pantheon (novel) is replaced by a female guide

[edit]Reception

[edit]Catholic controversy

CBS News interviewed a priest working in Santa Susanna, who stated the Church did not want their churches to be associated with scenes of murder. A tour guide also stated most priests do not object to tourists who visit out of interest after reading the book, a trend which will continue after people see the film. "I think they are aware that it's, you know, a work of fiction and that it's bringing people into their churches."[17] Grazer deemed it odd that although The Da Vinci Code was a more controversial novel, they had more freedom shooting its film adaptation in London and France.[8] Italian authorities hoped the filmmakers corrected the location errors in the novel, to limit the amount of explaining they will have to do for confused tourists.[9]

William A. Donohue, president of the Catholic League, has not called for a boycott, but has requested that Catholics inform others about alleged anti-Catholic sentiments in the story. "My goal... is to give the public a big FYI: Enjoy the movie, but know that it is a fable. It is based on malicious myths, intentionally advanced by Brown-Howard." A Sony executive responded they were disappointed Donohue had not created attention for the film closer to its release date.[18] Howard criticized Donohue for prejudging the film, responding it could not be called anti-Catholic since Langdon protects the church, and because of its depiction of priests who support science.[19]

Rajan Zed felt Angels & Demons would bring confusion and create stereotypes in the minds of some audiences. He added that the filmmakers should have handled the subject more sensitively as cinema is a very powerful medium.[20] In India, parts of the movie were censored following complaints from local Christian communities.[21]

The official Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano has called the film "harmless entertainment", giving it a positive review and acknowledging "The theme is always the same: a sect versus the church, [but] this time, the church is on the side of the good guys."[22][23] Beforehand, it had stated it would not approve the film, while La Stampa reported the Vatican would boycott it. However, it also quoted Archbishop Velasio De Paolis as saying a boycott would probably just have the "boomerang effect" of drawing more attention to Angels & Demons and make it more popular.[24]

[edit]Conspiracy Theorists

Mark Dice, a political activist and author organized a nation wide disruption of the film's premier from inside theaters and believes that Dan Brown's book, and Angels & Demons the film were designed to cover up the actual existence of the Illuminati secret society which Dice believes continues to operate as an international mafia.[1][2]

[edit]Banned in Samoa

In Samoa, the film was banned by principal film censor Lei'ataua Olo'apu. Olo'apu stated that he was banning the film because it was "critical of the Catholic Church" and so as to "avoid any religious discrimination by other denominations and faiths against the church". The Samoa Observer remarked that Olo'apu himself is Catholic.[25] Samoan society is, in the words of the British Broadcasting Corporation, "deeply conservative and devoutly Christian".[26] The Censorship Board had previously banned the film The Da Vinci Code[27], as well as Milk for being "contradictory to Christian beliefs".[28]

[edit]Critical reception

The film has received mixed reviews from critics and fans. Rotten Tomatoes reported that 36% of critics gave the film positive reviews based on 222 reviews, with an average score of 5.1 out of 10.[29] Among Rotten Tomatoes' "Top Critics" demographic, which consists of popular and notable critics from the top newspapers, websites, television, and radio programs, the film holds an overall positive-leaning approval rating of 32% based on 34 reviews.[30] At another review aggretator, Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 top reviews from mainstream critics, the film received an average score of 48, based on 36 reviews, with the highest score a 75 from Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun Times.[31]

Richard Corliss of Time magazine gave the film a positive review stating that "Angels & Demons has elemental satisfactions in its blend of movie genre that could appeal to wide segments of the audience."[32] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times awarded the film with 3 stars praising Howard's direction as an "even-handed job of balancing the scales" and claiming "[the film] promises to entertain".[33] The Christian Science Monitor gave the film a positive review claiming the movie is "an OK action film".[34] Peter Travers of Rolling Stone gave the film a 2.5/4 stars claiming "the movie can be enjoyed for the hell-raising hooey it is".[35] Joe Morgenstern of The Wall Street Journal gave the movie a mixed review claiming the film "manages to keep you partially engaged even at its most esoteric or absurd."[36]

Neil Smith from Total Film originally have the film 4 out of 5 stars, saying: "some of the author's crazier embellishments are jettisoned in a film that atones for The Da Vinci Code's cardinal sin — thou shalt not bore."[37] Kim Newman awarded it 2 out of 4 stars, stating: "every supporting character acts like an unhelpful idiot to keep the plot stirring, while yet again a seemingly all-powerful conspiracy seems to consist of two whole evil guys".[38] Mark Kermode called it "the stupidest movie ever made" and went on to expand that "the thing it has over The Da Vinci Code - The Da Vinci Code was people running into rooms, standing still, pointing, and explaining the plot. Now they point and explain the plot while they're running."[39]

[edit]Box office

Angels & Demons grossed $46 million worldwide in its opening weekend, including $48 million in the United States and Canada and became the #1 movie in the world for that week. Overseas Angels & Demons maintained the #1 position for the second weekend as well even with the release of Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian which opened at #2. The Da Vinci Code had opened domestically to $77.1 million, but the sequel's opening met Columbia Pictures' $40–50 million prediction, since the film's source material was not as popular as its predecessor's. The film has grossed more than $360 million worldwide so far, making it the largest grossing film of 2009 so far. [40]

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