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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