Who're the angels? Who're the demons?

Professor Robert Landon is back in the game. After the super success hit movie The Da Vinci Code, teacher-turn-author Dan Brown’s second best seller Angels And Demons was also made into a movie.




Did I say “teacher-turn-author”? Yes, I did. Just like J.K. Rowling, Dan Brown was also a teacher before he started his writing career. Not many teachers could make it, though. With heavy workload, teaching might suffocate you and strangle your creativity. Obviously, Dan Brown got out of this dilemma and hit it big. So damn big. J.k. might’ve given him some “ounces” of inspiration, eh?

With the huge success of The Da Vinci Code, this movie does attract much attention. It’s a hard one, pretty difficult to understand some of the contents. There’s quite a lot of vocab(with some Italian words), historic incidents you need to figure out before you can digest this mystery-thriller.



Let’s check out some of the vocab you may be interested in, maybe. But let’s take a look anyway. At least this is the way I learn to pick up some new English vocab. You might wanna try it.



1. Preferiti, Italian, it means someone chosen to be the candidate for succeeding the late pope. In this movie, there are four “preferiti”, who have been kidnapped and killed one after another.

One is burned by fire; one is thrown into water and drowned but saved, one’s lungs are punctured and he dies publicly.

2. Illuminati, Italian, the enlightened ones. In Buddhism, there

are those monks who are enlightened, they are like the high priests in a Christian church.

3. CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. This is where the story begins. With the murder of physicist Leonardo Vetra, found out by her hot and beautiful daughter Vittoria Vetra, Leonardo’s eye has been dislodged, you know, a tragic disaster brought by the sophisticated ‘retinal scan’. For sure this is the last thing I’d want for a million years.

4. Conclave, or The Papal Conclave, a very secret meeting-place, it’s where the next new pope is elected.

5. Camerlengo, Italian for chamberlain( plural camerlenghi); the Pope’s ‘blue-eyed boy’, like the number one steward of the Roman Catholic church, in charge of the fiscal administration of the church. In other words, he takes good care of the Church’s money. The papal ‘money man’, huh? Ha ha. In this movie, the camerlengo was played by Scottish actor Ewan McGregor. Luckily, we don’t have to suffer from his ‘accent’ anymore. Remember Transpotting? Americans need the English subtitle too when they watch the cult movie. I got the DVD, without the English sub , you might wanna change a movie or ‘some’.



Wow! I think I’d better call a day here. After, we’re talking about a movie. Ok…Question: Who are the angels? Who are the demons.

Illuminati is formed by a group of scientists, mathematicians, physicists and people like this, the highly-educated and enlightened people, the men of science.



It reminds me of scientology. Tom Cruise is a believer. Might as well call him the spokesperson. When he was younger, he couldn’t read so well and effectively. He got this thing called dyslexia. The former premier of Singapore Mr. Lee Guan You got it too. But after having become a scientologist, Tom Cruise can now read a movie script so damn fast. Looks like he got eagle’s eyes now. Ha! So, when he met David Beckham and his wife Victoria, he couldn’t stop spreading the gospel to that lovely celeb couple. Turns out, they might wanna shun Mr. Cruise.





Ok, back to the movie. Problem is, Illuminati has been hunt down, persecuted and even killed by the Catholic church for centuries. So, today, they’ve invented this super weapon, called antimatter, like a nuclear bomb or something, maybe even more powerful than the N bomb; and Illuminati is gonna use it(antimatter), to destroy the Vatican city.



Holy mama! Sounds damn scary, doesn’t it? Can you imagine if the city were destroyed, how cataclysmic would it be? Somewhat like 2012, huh? End of the world, maybe? But in every Hollywood movie, there’s gotta be a hero who saves the day. The symbologist professor Robert Landon, played by Tom Hanks? No, he’s not getting any younger. Plus, he can’t a helicopter. Who’s the savior then? The camerlengo, chamberlain of the holy Roman Catholic church, the one father who cuts the ring of the fisherman in two once the pope dies, Patrick, our once-transpotting man Ewan McGregor.



Patrick was once a pilot. He’s the man. So, when they find the bomb, the antimatter, Patrick grabs it and gets himself in a chopper. And he flies himself right up into the dark sky. Up and up, higher and higher till he’s like a million miles of f the surface of the earth. Ok, time’s up! Antimatter is in action for the very first time. Bang! Father Patrick’s doomed, huh? You’re wrong. He is Ron Howard’s ‘blue-eyed boy’ as well. He jumps out, with a parachute. And the Vatican city? Gets messed up? Yeah, a little, somewhat like a storm in a tea cup. That’s all. Anyway, the city is still the city. Nothing can touch it. No worries. It’s still safe and sound.



It’s funny. When a man of science at CERN is murdered, they don’t wanna call the police. Instead, they invite a symbologist to do the job. In Malaysia, when some things happen, some up-to-no-good things, we don’t wanna turn to the ‘polis’ for help either. We prefer a man named Michael Chong. Ha, ha. He might as well be the Malaysian Robert Landon, eh?



Ok, there’s too much to say about this motion picture. You may wanna collect the DVD and watch it like a thousand times. Go ahead. Buy it. And…Ok, that’s all for today’s sharing. May be talking about some history with you guys next time. Some history that once upon a time happened in China. See ya.


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It's not the end of the world!

Hi, everybody, all the movie bugs in the world, how’re you doing? I’m from PJ, Malaysia , a guy who loves watching movies a lot, and enjoys collecting DVDs. As a matter of fact, I’ve picked up a lot of conversational English by watching quite some English-language movies throughout the years.


Once I read it in a news paper, there was this guy who was trying to popularize the way of learning English by watching movies on DVD. So he set up some sort of a center, somewhere in KL, and he kick-started the “movement”. But I haven’t heard from him for so long now. Guess he couldn’t make it.

It’s all right. Let’s do this here. Let’s watch some DVD movies together and share some views. It can be Chinese or English movies. Japanese, Korean? Okay, too. But I know neither of the two languages. So, for the time being, let’s focus on Chinese and English movies.

For a freaking long time, I haven’t touched any DVD. Work thing, you know? Now I’m gonna be watching some movies, and writing a little something about what I think of the moves I’ve seen. And some history stuff. No matter where you are from, local or overseas, you’re welcome to share what you have to say and…Shed some light. Yeehaw!

This is a big blockbuster, a really terrifying disaster movie that might have once made you stop breathing and scared the hell out of you. Some of them so-called prophets say the end of the world is nearing. How near? Very! Just less than 2 years from now.

2012! This is the year. Freeze…and hold your breath for a couple of seconds! Are you freaking kidding me? I mean, many of us haven’t really enjoyed the world yet. And it’s coming to an end soon? What would you do if the end of the world came in less than two years?

Some, maybe lots of us would be lost at sea. What? Cat’s got your tongue? Now you don’t even know how to express yourself, huh?

With global warming getting worse, the sea levels near many coastal cities around the world are rising one bit in a year. These cities, like New York, Shanghai, Tokyo, Hong Kong and stuff, are facing a catastrophic chain of natural disasters. In 2012, all these horrific Mayan calendar predictions are happening.

Grounds are beginning to crack. Wow! I mean, how could them Hollywood special effects guys make the scenes look so real? The supermarket is torn in two. No worries, nobody gets hurt just yet.

What next? California is going down. Hey, this time, it’s not New York, eh? And houses are coming apart. Streets are being split up by the earth crust displacement. Jackson, played by this handsome dude John Cusack, who also recently starred in Shanghai with Gong li and Chow Yun Fatt, is a struggling novelist, now running for his life with his ex-wife and their son and daughter, Noah and Lily, in a private plane flown by an amateur pilot .

Where to? The promised land? Hell, no. It’s the middle kingdom, China.

Cos amidst all these end-of-the-world catastrophes, the life-saving arks are in Tibet, China. Johnson has to get his family to China. Since when China has become the “savior”, huh? One thing for sure, year 2012.

As I know, when movie fans in China saw the scene that people’s liberation army showed up and saved the day. They felt extremely good about it. Some said Hollywood was trying to kiss China’s ass. Thing is, for the sake of money, they could be major ass kissers. Ha ha.

Oops, sorry my bad. Tell you what, the huge plane that takes those surviving people to China was made in Russia. Is this an act of ass kissing, too? Maybe not, huh.

And once again, look at those arks, matter of fact, they’re spaceships. So magnificently designed and grandly built, the three of them can accommodate thousand of people. And, you know what? The president of the United States Thomas Wilson, played by Danny Glover , a black American president, future megatrend, eh? But now, America already got Barrack Obama. Yes, president Wilson has decided to stay back in Washington DC, facing his fate when the natural disasters are looming large. He perished in the end. Touching and empowering enough? Yes, it is.

Disaster movies are always selling, like hot cakes. The previous one, we got The Day After Tomorrow, directed by the same guy Roland Emmerich, both of these two raked in super big bucks.

And with some tears… check out the little girl Lily, Jackson’s daughter, her real name is Lily too; when tears come rolling out of her beady eyes, how could you resist that? How could you not cry with her? I would. And I did.

Relax, guys. Year 2012 is definitely not the end of the world. It’s the beginning of another ancient Mayan way of counting the running of their calendar circle. It’s gonna be a brand new start.

I mean, why worry? With China rising and around, it could be the savior of the world. Ha ha. Plus, the second coming of Christ has not yet come.

So, relax, and live it up.

What a kid!

What a kid! How can you not envy this little man?! At the age of 5, he gets to kiss such a hottie. Can't blame him.Some guy's just as lucky as he can get. Yeehaw.What a kid!

Hi DVD fans

Hi, everybody, all the DVD fans and movie bugs. How do you do? I've just started my blog here. I'm from PJ, Malaysia. I'm a Chinese dude. Gonna talk to you guys around the world soon.Cheerio and...Adios. Chiao. See ya. Zai jian. Sayonara. Jumpa lagi...y'all.