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| Year: | 2009 |
| Rating: | 6.7(59906) |
| Listed in: | Mystery, Thriller |
| Directed by: | Ron Howard |
| Actors: | Tom Hanks Ewan McGregor Stellan Skarsgård Pierfrancesco Favino Nikolaj Lie Kaas Ayelet Zurer |
| "They Have Come For Their Revenge" | |
Cast
| Directed by | |
|---|---|
| Ron Howard | |
| Actors | |
| Tom Hanks | as Robert Langdon |
| Ewan McGregor | as Camerlengo Patrick McKenna |
| Stellan Skarsgård | as Commander Richter |
| Pierfrancesco Favino | as Inspector Olivetti |
| Nikolaj Lie Kaas | as Assassin |
| Armin Mueller-Stahl | as Cardinal Strauss |
| Thure Lindhardt | as Chartrand |
| David Pasquesi | as Claudio Vincenzi |
| Cosimo Fusco | as Father Simeon |
| Victor Alfieri | as Lieutenant Valenti |
| Franklin Amobi | as Cardinal Lamasse |
| Curt Lowens | as Cardinal Ebner |
| Bob Yerkes | as Cardinal Guidera |
| Marc Fiorini | as Cardinal Baggia |
| Carmen Argenziano | as Silvano Bentivoglio |
| Howard Mungo | as Cardinal Yoruba |
| Rance Howard | as Cardinal Beck |
| Steve Franken | as Cardinal Colbert |
| Gino Conforti | as Cardinal Pugini |
| Elya Baskin | as Cardinal Petrov |
| Richard Rosetti | as Conclave Cardinal |
| Silvano Marchetto | as Conclave Cardinal |
| Thomas Morris | as Urs Weber |
| Jonas Fisch | as Adrian Bachman |
| August Fredrik | as Swiss Guardsman |
| Ben Bela Böhm | as Swiss Guardsman |
| Paul Schmitz | as Swiss Guardsman |
| Jeffrey Boehm | as Swiss Guard Blue |
| Xavier J. Nathan | as Philippe |
| Steve Kehela | as American Reporter |
| Fritz Michel | as French Reporter |
| Pascal Petardi | as Italian Reporter |
| Kristof Konrad | as Polish Reporter |
| Ed Francis Martin | as South American Reporter |
| Endre Hules | as CERN Scientist |
| Norbert Weisser | as CERN Scientist |
| Raffi Di Blasio | as Protester |
| Todd Schneider | as Carabinieri |
| Roberto Donati | as Carabinieri |
| Rocco Passafaro | as Carabinieri |
| Emanuele Secci | as Carabinieri |
| James Ritz | as Tourist |
| Felipe Torres Urso | as Tourist |
| Jose Acevedo | as Italian Police |
| Roy Allen III | as Cardinal |
| Tibor Ambra | as Carabinieri Captain |
| Atreyu | as Priest |
| John Bailey | as Swiss Guard Blue |
| Jerred Berg | as Stem Cell Protestor #2 |
| Anthony Bonaventura | as Vatican Police |
| Michael Patrick Breen | as Ukrainian General |
| Aidan Bristow | as Conclave Priest #1 |
| Misha Bugaev | as CNN Reporter |
| Christopher Casa | as Tourist |
| Patrick Casa | as Choirboy/Tourist |
| Pasquale Cassalia | as Rai Reporter |
| Farouk Chakwa | as Carabinieri |
| Bacha Chilaia | as Carabinieri Sergeant |
| Jason Ciok | as Matthew Choir Boy |
| Jimmy Clabots | as Vatican Choir Member |
| Austin Michael Coleman | as Young Funeral Mourner |
| Skoti Collins | as British Camerman |
| John Giovanni Corda | as Cardinal |
| Robert Corvin | as U.S. Army General |
| Luca Costa | as Fireman |
| John Dardenne | as Swiss Guard Multicolor |
| Shervin Davatgar | as Arab Reporter |
| Vincent De Paul | as Vatican Pall Bearer |
| Calvin Dean | as Choir Member #1 |
| David Dedinsky | as Vatican Cardinal |
| Norman Deesing | as Italian Mourner |
| Brant Dorman | as Swiss Guard Blue |
| Allen Dula | as Vatican Police Officer |
| Matthew Earnest | as Italian Mourner |
| Peter Ettinger | as Tourist With Backpack |
| Jonn Faircrest | as Papal Photographer |
| Les Feltmate | as Priest |
| Victor Fischbarg | as Vatican Choir Member |
| David Frank Fletcher Jr. | as Protestor #3 |
| Harrison Freed | as Tourist |
| Aaron Denius Garcia | as Carabinieri |
| Justin Giddings | as Vatican Choir Member |
| Alan Gray | as Greek Patriarch Priest |
| Roger Groh | as Good Bishop |
| Andrew Hamilton | as Swiss Gaurd Multicolored |
| Andy Scott Harris | as Vatican Choirboy |
| Martin William Harris | as Irish Reporter |
| Charlie Heydt | as Swiss Guard |
| David Hill | as Pantheon Tourist |
| Kei Hirayama | as Scientist |
| Brett Hunt | as Vatican Priest |
| Marco Infante | as Italian Mourner |
| Christopher Karl Johnson | as Cardinal |
| Dave Johnson | as Press Photographer |
| Michael Laren | as Vatican Choir Singer |
| Robert W. Laur | as Vatican Choir Singer |
| Waymond Lee | as Vatican Square Tourist |
| David Michael Lewin | as Mourner |
| Maynor Lopez | as Carabinieri |
| Jon Lucero | as Vatican Police Officer |
| Eder López | as Italian Citizen |
| Les Mahoney | as Hip Priest |
| Gary Mandarino | as Mourner |
| Albert Marrero Jr. | as News Camerman |
| Stephen Marrero | as Priest |
| William Myers | as Photographer |
| Justin Orton | as Tourist |
| Dale Pavinski | as Carabinieri Captain |
| David Pearl | as Priest |
| David Pryor | as Mourner |
| Paul Richard | as Swissguard #4 |
| Louis Riviere | as Carabinieri |
| Jarrod W. Robbins | as Swiss Guardsman |
| Bertrand Roberson Jr. | as Tourist |
| John Robert | as Tourist with Hat |
| Franklin Ruehl | as Mourner |
| Dylan Saccoccio | as Carabinieri |
| Frank Scozzari | as Vatican Police Officer |
| Eric Shackelford | as Vatican Gypsy |
| Arne Starr | as Vatican Priest |
| Matthew Thane | as Italian Visitor |
| Nico Toffoli | as Carabieniere Riot |
| James Tumminia | as Vatican Priest |
| Ryan Van de Kamp Buchanan | as The Swiss Guard |
| Ernie Ventry | as Gypsy in Square |
| Shannon Watson | as Swiss Guard |
| Jon Morgan Woodward | as The American with the Sign |
| Allan Wessel Yates | as Swiss Guard |
| Actresses | |
| Ayelet Zurer | as Vittoria Vetra |
| Ursula Brooks | as British Reporter |
| Rashmi | as British Reporter |
| Yan Cui | as Chinese Reporter |
| Maria Cristina Heller | as Italian Reporter |
| Yesenia Adame | as Mexican Reporter |
| Masasa Moyo | as South African Reporter |
| Cheryl Howard | as CERN Scientist |
| Shelby Zemanek | as Little Girl in Square |
| Vanna Salviati | as Protester |
| Anna Katarina | as Docent |
| Ava Allan | as Tourist |
| Christine Ames | as Vatican Nun |
| Carina Aviles | as Reporter |
| Sally Berman | as Vatican Square Singer |
| Yuki Bird | as Scientist |
| Laura Mary Clarke | as Vatican Mourner |
| Tammy Colbert | as Vatican Square Gypsy |
| Gina D'Acciaro | as Vatican Square Singer |
| Blake Dawson | as Italian Girl |
| Lea Deesing | as Italian Mourner |
| Angelique Deuitch | as Tourist |
| Liz Duran | as Vatican Mouner |
| Amanda Jane Fleming | as Tourist |
| Nancy Guerriero | as Vatican Nun |
| Andrea Kelley | as Italian Teen |
| Sophiah Koikas | as Tourist |
| Adrian Lee | as Vatican Square Soloist |
| Julie Mabry | as Protester in Vatican |
| Sandra McCurdy | as Italian Tourist |
| Elsa Morales Myers | as Tourist |
| Amelia Pawlak | as Italian Mourner/Nun |
| Kelly Ryan | as Protestor #4 |
| GJ Tiari | as The Cryer |
Movie info
| Languages: | English, Italian, Latin, French, Swiss German, German, Spanish |
| Filming dates: | 5 June 2008 - July 2008 |
| Budget: | USD 150,000,000 |
| Gross: |
USA - 87,524,618 USD (24 May 2009) UK - 6,054,627 GBP (17 May 2009) Argentina - 869,349 ARS (19 May 2009) Germany - 42,382,372 USD (21 June 2009) Japan - 681,782,300 JPY (18 May 2009) Philippines - 88,155,021 PHP (24 May 2009) |
| Plot: | After the death of the Pope, the conclave has gathered in a locked room to choose his successor among four cardinals named "preferitti". However the quartet is abducted by the Illuminati, a secret brotherhood that was supposed extinct. The symbologist, Robert Langdon, and the scientist, Vittoria Vetra, who had her powerful and dangerous prototype of antimatter research stolen, are invited by the Vatican police to help them in their investigation. They are received by the receptive Camerlengo, Patrick McKenna, and by the reluctant Commander Richter. They are informed that the Illuminati have promised to kill each cardinal every hour from 8:00 PM and then explode the Vatican City with the antimatter. Robert and Vittoria have a few hours to unravel the clues and discover where the lethal weapon might be hidden. |
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"Gregorian Chant: Requiem Aeternam-Introitus (VI)" from "Liturgia Defunctorum, Missae Pro Defunctis" Traditional Performed by Schola of the Hofburgkapelle, Vienna Hubert Dopf S.J. Courtesy of Decca Music Group Limited Under license from Universal Music Enterprises "Introitus" from "Lux Aeterna" Written by Morten Lauridsen |
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Fact errors: Historically, the Illuminati was a post-Enlightenment sect started in Bavaria in 1776 by Adam Weishupt, 200 years after Galileo. All secret societies were banned in Bavaria by Karl Theodor in 1784. Conspiriology abounds with theories about their survival, hence the frequent use of the word "Illuminati" to refer to any sinister conspiratorial group. Fact errors: The equipment needed to store antimatter, and the quantity produced, is inconsistent with reality. Also, the Large Hadron Collider is not a particularly important instrument in antimatter research, and antimatter research is not an important part of the LHC's goals. However it is established in dialogue immediately that the antimatter-production experiment is an unauthorized piece of research well outside of the LHC's actual mission, and that the few researchers "in on it" are creating an exceptional new method for producing large quantities of antimatter. While this is not realistic, it's deliberate and established in the movie's fictional world. Fact errors: The movie falsely states that Priests cannot truly be elected as the Pope. However, they can be elevated to the rank of Bishop, and can therefore take office. Furthermore, every unmarried, male Catholic layman can be elected as the Pope and would then be promoted to the rank of Priest and Bishop consecutively. Continuity: When they are arriving at the church to save the first cardinal at 8:00 PM the sun is much too high in the sky for that time of day, especially when contrasted with the lighting as they exit the church later. Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: After the Cardinals elect the new Pope and the crowd in St. Peter's Square sees the white smoke, the camera tilts down from the microwave dish on a TV truck, to the reporter below. The microwave dish is a fake as it lacks a feedhorn. Revealing mistakes: When Langdon is trapped in the oxygen-depleted vault in the Vatican Archive, he tries to break a glass wall by shooting at it. The resultant impacts show the glass to be laminated safety glass. When the glass finally breaks under the weight of a cabinet it shatters into thousands of small pieces - showing that the glass is toughened safety glass. Fact errors: The Camerlengo is always a Cardinal and not just a priest like Father McKenna. He is part of the College of Cardinals and the conclave. Furthermore, the Camerlengo does serve as acting head of State of the Vatican City but is not responsible for the government of the Roman Catholic Church itself. FAIR: SPOILER: When one of the Preferiti is burned in the church, Rober Langdon releases the chain on his left arm, and the cardinal falls into the flames, suspended by his right arm only. However, soon we see him again, behind the Assassin, and he is again suspended by both arms. In fact Langdon never completely released the Cardinal's arm: we see the chain snag again before Langdon is forced to take cover from the gunfire. FAIR: SPOILER: When Vittoria tries to change the battery on the bomb she says that batteries lose charge when they are cold. This is accurate: the chemical reactions in a battery are slower at low temperatures, and at particularly low temperatures, the electrolyte may freeze, causing the battery to completely fail. Clearly the fictional high-capacity battery in their fictional antimatter containment device is particularly sensitive to temperature drops. At high temperatures, a rechargeable battery's working lifetime may be reduced, meaning it has to be replaced sooner, but this would not adversely affect its capacity in the short term. Fact errors: The sealed chambers in the Vatican Archives are said to be at a "partial vacuum", i.e. low air pressure. This is standard procedure for scientific laboratories or other locations where the goal is to stop contaminants getting out, because the low pressure ensures a constant flow of air into the room rather than back out of it. However in an archive, this would constantly draw in outside air and contaminants through any imperfect seals or the use of doorways. Real archives have a high-pressure atmosphere instead, which ensures a constant flow of air out and therefore keeps contaminants from entering. It's possible to have a low-oxygen atmosphere that still has a higher pressure than normal air. FAIR: The screen showing the Antimatter Canister has a number "0086" in the top left. Although this may suggest that the corresponding camera has a registered location and would be easy to find, the number may also simply refer to the camera itself. Because the camera sends its signal wireless, it is unlikely that the number is assigned to a specific place. FAIR: Throughout, Langdon is asking which way a statue points. Even as a Professor of Symbology, he would have to ask because the orientation of church buildings varied throughout the times. In early times many church entrances faced East while this changed during the Medieval Era and from that time the apse was commonly placed towards East. So Langdon was not able to know the direction of the statues for sure. Also he has just got off an 8 hour flight and is in a strange city, it is likely that he is disorientated. Fact errors: SPOILER: Right after the white smoke comes out of the chimney, a reporter is announcing who the newly-elected Pope is. However, that announcement ("Habemus Papam") is not made publicly until the Pope is ready to appear on the balcony. FAIR: SPOILER: The Canon Rules (until recently) did not allow for someone with seizures to be a priest. The Church believed the person with epilepsy to be possessed by the devil. Therefore, the Pope would not have been publicly taking anti-seizure medicine. However, the movie establishes that the Pope kept his illness a secret from all but his closest confidants (the given reason is not "Canon Rules", but there's no reason to suppose that this was not also the case). FAIR: When Langdon and the rest first enter the Vatican Archives you see the lights go off as they are shutting off power in an attempt to locate the bomb, but as they go through the reading room the screens on the computers are still on. However, lights and mains outlets are often wired on to separate grids and it is probable that the Swiss guard were only cutting power to the lighting grids, as their goal was simply to kill the lighting around the bomb. Continuity: SPOILER: The Galileo's booklet Langdon is examining in the Archives is called "Diagramma Veritatis" at the beginning but "Diagramma Della Verita" at the end, when Cardinal Straus is offering it to him. FAIR: The Camerlengo refers to having grown up as a Catholic in "Ulster". Ulster is a province which spans both Northern Ireland (six counties) and the Republic of Ireland (3 counties). While its true many unionists (primarily Protestants) refer to Northern Ireland as Ulster, most Catholics local to Ulster would refer to Northern Ireland as the "North of Ireland", particularly the very religious ones. It is likely from his description that the Camerlengo was born in a county of Ulster located within the Republic of Ireland. GEOG: Early in the movie, the Globe of Science and Innovation at CERN and behind the Alps are seen, however it is not realistic, at all. It is mentioned that they are at ATLAS experimental area, which is in Prevessin, and it is impossible to see the globe from that place. If they are at the main site of CERN, then the Alps cannot be behind the globe. FAIR: Langdon is swimming in the pool at 5:00am US (East Coast) time (11:00am Rome time), and arrives in Rome at 6:30pm local time. A commercial flight takes about 8.5 hours, so making both the transfer to/from the airports, passing customs and immigration, and getting properly dressed within 7.5 hours seems highly unlikely. However, the movie does not show the kind of aircraft Langdon used to get from the US to Europe. The book explains that he was traveling in an aircraft much faster than a commercial airplane. CHAR: When Langdon finds the last brand, he accidentally refers to the other brands as "anagrams" instead of "ambigrams". Fact errors: SPOILER: The dove atop the obelisk in Piazza Navona is not flying as shown in the movie but is perched with its wings folded. Continuity: SPOILER: The timer on the antimatter bomb shows just over a third full, but the time they said they have left is 7 minutes, and later "a little over 5 minutes". But when the bomb threat was made, they had about 4 hours before the bomb would explode. According to the timer they would have had only about 15 minutes before the bomb exploded, however this doesn't add up to the time they used to find the bomb. FAIR: SPOILER: Helicopters take-off by means of collective pitch on the left hand side of the pilot, not using both the collective as well as the cyclic pitch. Here the padre is pulling the cyclic pitch which enables the chopper to move back, not upwards. However, this can be explained by the fact that by pulling the cyclic pitch will allow the helicopter to rise more quickly, used along with the collective to increase torque. Continuity: SPOILER: When the antimatter "bomb" exploded in the helicopter, the the shock-wave blasted off part of the roof inside St. Peter's Basilica (Right on top of altar). At the end of the movie when Camerlengo burns himself near the altar, there were no remnants of debris and the candles were still burning. GEOG: The Assassin was provided with a bail-out car, supposedly to be located on Via Giulia. The vehicle was actually parked on Borgo Sant'Angelo along the Passetto between the Vatican and Castel Sant'Angelo, which could also be seen. FAIR: The search pattern that the Swiss Guard are using when they turn off the lights one section at a time is indeed not the most efficient; switching off half of the remaining lights at a time would be faster. However, it would also tip off the unknown kidnapper(s) - after the second time of the lights going on or off they'd probably disable the camera. By searching one-at-a-time, it is ensured that when the light in the camera room goes off, the Swiss Guard know exactly where the camera is. CHAR: When viewing the footage sent by the kidnapper for the second time Langdon asks to pause it. After thinking for a while he says "Is there any more?" but he knows there is because he has already seen the footage once. Fact errors: SPOILER: Flying the canister into the air will only increase the effect of the explosion. This is why nuclear weapons are designed to air-burst instead of ground-burst, because in the latter case, the earth will absorb much of the energy. A 5kt air-burst would cause much more damage than what is depicted on the screen; in addition to the kinetic shock wave, there would have been a tremendous release of thermal energy and wave of heat that would, at the very least, have given everyone in the scene third-degree burns (if not worse, such as vaporizing them outright). People would have been blinded and things on the ground would have burst into flames. The antimatter device depicted in the film is, effectively, a small nuclear weapon, deriving its energy from mass-energy conversions, just as nuclear weapons do, and it will generate the same explosive effects as a nuclear weapon (since the explosive effect is the result of the amount of energy released and is not tied to the specific nature of the weapon). The explosion depicted is simply too small, even for a weak nuclear device. Fact errors: SPOILER: In the book, it is specified that the canister contains 0.25 grams of antimatter, which means that if containment fails, 0.5 grams of mass will be converted into energy (0.25 grams of antimatter, plus an equivalent amount of regular matter), which will yield an explosion of 10.7kt, which is just a bit smaller than the Hiroshima bomb. It is possible, however, that the movie deliberately halved the yield of the device (however, even at 5kt, the device would do far more damage than what is depicted). CHAR: When Langdon is in the Vatican library he passes the book he is reading over to the guard and asks him to look for any reference to fire. The guard glances at the book and mentions the word "seraphim". Directly above this is a far stronger reference to fire, "del fuoco", which actually is Italian for fire. PLOT: SPOILER: When the container of antimatter is found deep underground, it is discovered that the temperature is very cold, apparently leaving less battery time to work with. Not unless the area is air conditioned, the deep underground area where the container is located, would be a much more temperate climate temperature wise due to the thermal properties of the surrounding earth and architecture. Fact errors: SPOILER: When Vittoria and the Camerlengo open the tomb of the deceased Pope the body is in a single casket. In reality, the Pope's casket is placed in an outer casket which is then sealed within a lead container. FAIR: Langdon was told there is a "Vatican jet standing by", but when they are arriving to the Vatican they are in a helicopter, not a jet. However, the helicopter was simply a transfer from the airport to Vatican, as a jet cannot be landed there; neither can a helicopter fly from US to Italy. BOOM: In their first visit to the Vatican Archives, Robert and Vittoria are sitting the table across from one another. When Vittoria asks Robert "Do you need help with Latin?" the shadow of the boom mic is seen moving on Roberts face. Fact errors: The term "preferiti" is incorrect and, though it's an Italian word, it would never be used in such a context. The correct expression is "papabili", which means "apt and likely to be chosen as Pope". Furthermore, this expression "papabile" has later come to signify any person likely to be chosen : for example, if a football team owner wants to choose a new trainer the press always talks of a small group of "papabili" would-be trainers. Fact errors: The Pope Secretary is never a Camerlengo. Pope John Paul II's secretary Father Stanislaw Dziwisz wasn't but it was Cardinal Eduardo Martinez Somalo at the time of the latest conclave. Now the current Cardinal Camerlengo is Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone and the secretary of Pope Benedict, Father Georg Gaenswein has of course nothing to do with this title. Fact errors: In the film Cardinal Strauss is referred to as the Great Elector, even if such a title doesn't exist in the hierarchy of the Catholic Church (though in the past it was a title which belonged to German Princes) . Nonetheless his role seems to be that of the Cardinale Decano, or Senior Cardinal (in the latest Conclave this title was held by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger). The Cardinale Decano can be elected as Pope like any other Cardinal: there is no need of a special permission or authorization like in the film. However it is highly unlikely that this Cardinal is elected Pope, with the notable exception of the latest Conclave in April 2005, where the Cardinals chose just the Decano, Joseph Ratzinger, to be the future Pope, Benedict XVI. Continuity: SPOILER: Near the end of the movie when the explosion occurs, everyone and everything is scattered around, but when Camerello lands and everyone runs toward him the police officers all have their hats on untouched. CHAR: The Oxygen Monitor in the Library Vault has bilingual signage and a bilingual error message. However, the labels at the side of the Oxygen-Level Graphic are only in Italian. CHAR: Langdon states that, after the death of the Pope and before his successor is chosen, the Camerlengo becomes Head of the Holy See. While the Camerlengo does in fact become acting head of state of Vatican City, leadership of the Church is taken up by the College of Cardinals. Revealing mistakes: Bernini's Ecstasy of St Teresa in Santa Maria della Vittoria is obviously a fake. The real statue lacks a base and it appears that the figural group of St Teresa and the Angel float above the altar in the Cornaro Chapel. The arrow is also pointing in a different direction to that in the actual sculpture (where it points directly at St Teresa's heart after the transverberation). GEOG: Early in the film, Langdon can be seen swimming in a pool purported on the graphic early in the scene as being at "Harvard University - Cambridge, Mass." The pool has Harvard athletic banners, but is neither the older pool in Cambridge (the "MAC") nor the newer pool, across the Charles in Boston (the Blodgett Pool). In addition, at 5:30am when he's swimming, both pools have an active collection of swimmers. PLOT: When Langdon is saved by a fireman after the firefight in the church, the fireman directly starts to speak English although Langdon hasn't said a word. How does the fireman knows he isn't Italian? SYNC: The car the assassin drives, a Volkswagen, makes a beeping sound when he remotely unlocks it. Volkswagens do not make this kind of sound. FAIR: SPOILER: In the final scene, the Pope is dressed with vestments in a room with a balcony where he proceeded to face the crowds (presumably the central loggia of St. Peter's). In reality, the Pope dresses with vestments by himself, in a room in the Sistine Chapel, and the Central Loggia is a fairly far from the Sistine Chapel, and not in the same place as what is shown in the film. However, the chaos they just experienced might allow some bending of the rules. CHAR: SPOILER: When the kidnapper is speaking to Langdon and Vetra after they find the church of the Illuminati, he goes to pick up his bags from under the table. As he does this Langdon shines his torch under the table so the kidnapper can see, then immediately points it at the ground again once the kidnapper has his bags. Continuity: SPOILER: The dead pope in the beginning of the movie was "Pius XVI" as we saw the Ring of the Fisherman that was destroyed by Camerlengo McKenna bears his name. At the end of the movie, when Cardinal Baggia was elected the new pope and Vittoria said that he chose the papal name "Luke", the camera zoomed in to the new Ring of the Fisherman. However it's clearly shown that the inscription on the ring reads "Pius XVI". It's the same ring which belongs to the dead pope that was destroyed in the beginning of the movie. CHAR: In the beginning of the movie, we saw the Ring of the Fisherman of the dead pope, inscribed with his name: "PIUS XVI". However, the inscription should be done in Latin style, which uses "V" instead of "U". Thus the correct inscription should read "PIVS XVI". The Latin style of writing is evident in the Ring of the Fisherman worn by real-life Pope Benedict XVI, which is inscribed "BENEDICTVS XVI". CHAR: SPOILER: The Camerlengo's chest was branded with an image of crossed keys with the loops in lower position and the tips in upper position. When Langdon saw it, he said that it was "crossed keys but they are upside down". Langdon must have thought it upside down because he compared it to the crossed keys in Vatican's coat of arms, such as the one printed on Vincenzi's bag when Langdon met him at Harvard's swimming pool, which pictures the crossed key with the loops in upper position and the tips in lower position. However the real coat of arms of Vatican and all of derivative symbols for various Vatican organizations feature the crossed keys in position exactly like the one on the chest of the branded Camerlengo. It's in fact the crossed keys in the logo on Vincenzi's bag that is upside down. CHAR: SPOILER: When Vittoria said that the new pope chose the name Luke, Langdon said that "there has been many (popes who are named) Marks and Johns, but never a Luke." Of all the 265 popes in Roman Catholic Church, there are indeed 25 popes with the name John, but actually only 1 named Mark, that is Pope Marcus (reigned for just 9 months in 336 AD). The name Luke in Latin is Lucas and Langdon is correct, there has been no pope named Lucas. CHAR: When searching for sculpture associated with air in St. Peter's Square, Langdon spotted the West Ponente marker on the ground and said that it could be considered a sculpture since it is a bas-relief. A bas-relief is a relief where the image is projecting out from a flat surface. The image of West Ponente marker is not projecting out, rather it was carved into a flat surface. The correct term for this type of sculpture is sunken-relief or intaglio. CHAR: Inside the Vatican vault before the power is cut Chartrand struggles to breathe, Langdon suggests that because he is a smoker he cannot handle the lower oxygen levels. In fact smokers have a better tolerance to low oxygen levels than non-smokers. CHAR: In The Da Vinci Code (2006), Robert Langdon states that papyrus can only be dissolved by vinegar. Now he states that Galileo's text was written on papyrus so it could be easily destroyed by throwing it into a barrel of water, not vinegar. FAIR: The kidnapper's accent changes throughout the film; when we first hear his voice on the video recording he has an Italian accent, and later on in the movie switches between American and Russian. However, this makes sense for a "chameleon" who is adept at disguises. Revealing mistakes: During the scene when Langdon and Vittoria are reading the Latin excerpts, the Latin was in perfect punctuation. However, in ancient Rome, Latin was written without punctuation (i.e. no spaces, commas, periods) or capital letters. Crew: (At 26:20) The camera begins a circular move around Ewan MacGregor's character's office. As it passes between him and a window, the light dims on the back of his neck because the cameraman is now in the way. Continuity: Langdon and the Inspector General find the first murdered cardinal at just a minute or two past eight, the time the murder is supposed to have taken place. But the murderer has already escaped the basement, and the body shows obvious signs of death having taken place long before. GEOG: When the actors enter the church of Santa Maria del Popolo, they entered a different church across from the actual Santa Maria del Popolo. Revealing mistakes: When the characters are in the Necropolis you can see their breath. The Necropolis is temperature/humidity controlled to protect the site. It is quite humid, but not cold. You would not be able to see one's breath. CHAR: In the final scene the new Pope is preparing to step out onto the Loggia to be presented to the assembled crowd. He is wearing a mitre (headress) and a mozzetta (an elbow length cape), which is incorrect ceremonial dress for a pope or bishop. CHAR: As Langdon enters the Vatican Archives for the second time, Chartrand refers to Olivetti as "Commander Olivetti," even though he was introduced as "Captain Olivetti" earlier in the movie and Richter is supposed to be the commander of the Swiss Guard. SYNC: SPOILER: When Langdon is reviewing the security camera feed in the Pope's office, the feed comes from digital cameras coming directly to the monitor. When he rewinds the feed, the sound of a VCR rewinding is made. As it's a digital feed on a computer, there should be no sound at all. Continuity: When Langdon and his guard are trapped in the Archive, the Guard initially grabs a trolley stacked with books, and runs the trolley at the glass wall. One shot shows a book starting to falling off the trolley, but the subsequent shot has the book back on the top of the trolley, secure. Fact errors: When the Cardinals are locked in the Sistine Chapel to vote for the new Pope, there is sunlight streaming into the room. In reality, sunlight is never allowed in the room and it is in fact kept in extremely low light as bright light would degrade the frescoes. |
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[from trailer] Robert Langdon: The Illuminati did not become violent until the 17th Century. Their name means 'The Enlightened Ones'. They were physicists, mathematicians, astronomers. In the 1500's they started meeting in secret, because they were concerned about the church's inaccurate teachings. They were dedicated to scientific truth. And the Vatican didn't like that. So the church began to, how did you say it? Oh, hunt them down and kill them. [from trailer] Vittoria Vetra: [points to computer diagram of the antimatter device] the antimatter is suspended, there, in an airtight nano-composite shell with electromagnets on each end. But if it were to fall out of suspension, and come into contact with matter, say with the bottom of the canister, the two opposing forces would annihilate one another. Violently. [from trailer] Richter: You said they'd be killed publicly. Robert Langdon: Yes, revenge. For La Purga. Richter: La Purga? Robert Langdon: Oh geez, you guys don't even read your own history do you? 1668, the church kidnapped four Illuminati scientists and branded each one of them on the chest with the symbol of the cross. To 'purge' them of their sins and they executed them, threw their bodies in the street as a warning to others to stop questioning church ruling on scientific matters. They radicalized them. The Purga created a darker, more violent Illuminati, one bent on... on retribution. [from trailer] Robert Langdon: I need access to the Vatican Archives. Richter: Access to the Archives is only by written decree by the Holy Father. Robert Langdon: Fellas, you called me. Robert Langdon: It scares the hell out of me. Cardinal Strauss: When you write about us, and you will, do so gently. Cardinal Baggia: May god forgive you for what you've done... Assassin: Father, if God has issues, they won't be with what I've done. They will be with what I'm about to do. Inspector Olivetti: [on hearing Langdon's description of Pius IX's "Great Castration" of Vatican City's male statues] Are you anti-Catholic Mr. Langdon? Robert Langdon: No. I'm anti-vandalism. Cardinal Strauss: Religion is flawed because man is flawed. [the bomb that threatens to destroy St.Peter's is set to go off at midnight. The Camerlengo is discussing evacuation with his security chief] Camerlengo Patrick McKenna: If we are still in peril at 11.15, remove the cardinals, but in a dignified manner. I want peoples' last memory of this church to be of them walking out with their heads held high, not of some old men sneaking out the back door. Robert Langdon: You will counsel him wisely. Cardinal Strauss: I am an old man. I will counsel him briefly. Camerlengo Patrick McKenna: Christianity's most sacred codices are in that archive. Given your recent entanglement with the church, there is a question I'd like to ask you first, here, in the office of His Holiness. [Walks towards Robert Langdon] . Do you believe in God, sir? Robert Langdon: Father, I simply believe that religion... Camerlengo Patrick McKenna: I did not ask if you believe what man says about God. I asked if you believe in God. Robert Langdon: I'm an academic. My mind tells me I will never understand God. Camerlengo Patrick McKenna: And your heart? Robert Langdon: Tells me I'm not meant to. Faith is a gift that I have yet to receive. Camerlengo Patrick McKenna: Open the doors, and tell the world the truth. Camerlengo Patrick McKenna: Have you come to make a martyr out of me? Camerlengo Patrick McKenna: Our church is at war. We are under attack from an old enemy. The Illuminati. They have struck us from within and threatening us all with destruction from their new god Science. Robert Langdon: [after suggesting a policeman not to bring him back to Vatican, but to let him save the last cardinal; the policeman turns to his colleague to confer] By all means, let's talk it over! Camerlengo Patrick McKenna: [after breaking into Conclave and announcing that church is at war]... but science and religion are not enemies! There are simply some things that science is just too young to understand. So the church pleads: "stop", "slow down", "think", "wait"... and for this - they call us backward. But who is more ignorant: the man who cannot define lightning, or the man who does not respect its natural awesome power? Inspector Olivetti: The Camerlengo is unavailable. He is seeking counsel. Robert Langdon: From whom? Inspector Olivetti: From God. Camerlengo Patrick McKenna: Would it surprise you to find those clothes suit you? Robert Langdon: It would surprise the hell out of me. Chartrand: The Catholic Church is not a corporation! It's a beacon! A source of inspiration for a billion lost and frightened souls! Robert Langdon: Sure, I get that. It's also a bank. [first lines] Narrator: The Ring of the Fisherman, which bears the official papal seal, must be destroyed immediately following the Pope's death. The papal apartment is then sealed for nine days of mourning, a period known as "Sede Vacante", the time of the empty throne. Lieutenant Valenti: [after dry commentary on 17th century pope's actions] Are you... anti-Catholic, professor? Robert Langdon: No, I'm anti-vandalism. Assassin: [on video] We will destroy your four pillars. We will brand your Preferiti and sacrifice them on the altars of science, then bring your church down upon you. Vatican City will be consumed by light, a shining star at the end of the path of illumination. Vittoria Vetra: You know, the worst thing we thought would happen was that our work would fall into the hands of the energy companies. We thought we could change the world. So naive. Robert Langdon: No no, not naive. Innocent maybe, but that's not a crime. Vittoria Vetra: I'm not so sure. Robert Langdon: Go back to work. Change the world. Cardinal Strauss: [emphatically] Man is flawed, always. Even this one. [last lines] Cardinal Strauss: Mr. Langdon, thanks be to God for sending someone to protect His church. Robert Langdon: I don't believe He sent me, father. Cardinal Strauss: Oh my son, of course He did... Camerlengo Patrick McKenna: Their faith will not protect them from an explosion. Cardinal Strauss: We are all bound for heaven eventually, are we not? Camerlengo Patrick McKenna: Spoken like one who has enjoyed the blessings of a long and full life. Inspector Olivetti: Where did you get that paper? Vittoria Vetra: We borrowed it. Inspector Olivetti: Are you insane? Robert Langdon: [reading paper with magnifier] "From Santi's earthly tomb with demon's hole. Cross Rome mystic elements unfold. The path of light is laid, the sacred test. Let angels guide thee on they lofty quest." Inspector Olivetti: You removed a document from the Vatican Archives? Robert Langdon: [points at Vittoria] She did. Robert Langdon: Do you smoke? Chartrand: A little bit. Robert Langdon: Then you better sit down before you keel over. |
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