less than perfect adaptation

Cortez 2022-03-21 09:01:20

I've seen the movie once before, and it feels good, and I don't understand anything. After reading the original book recently, I watched the movie again, and it should be said that I have a more comprehensive understanding. In general, the adaptation of the film to the original is basically successful. After all, it is impossible to require a two-hour film to contain the details of the entire original, and it is impossible to require the film's picture language to express so many detailed psychological activities and reasoning processes.
However, there are two adaptations that are undoubtedly inappropriate, destroying the rigor and realm of the original work. First, the Pope's chamberlain took the initiative to ask the heroine to check the diary of the murdered scientist, but did not take any measures, which directly led to her exposure. Second, in the original book, the Pope's inner servant is a man who pursues and believes in. At the end, he still speaks generously after being exposed, and finally learns that he is the son of the Pope, who was produced through test-tube technology. In a sense, he was originally a product of science. , and he committed the crime of killing his father, which shook his belief in pursuit, broke his last psychological defense, and committed suicide in front of the public believers. However, I wonder if the movie took into account the factors of the Holy See in reality, and deleted such a plot and changed it to the Pope's inner servant to commit suicide directly in fear of crime, which made him a pure conspirator and destroyed the fullness of the characters to a large extent. , reducing the depth of the original work on the relationship between science and religion.
Therefore, the movie can only be given four stars, but it is still a good movie overall. I recommend everyone to watch it. It is best to watch it after reading the original book.

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Angels & Demons quotes

  • Assassin: Be careful. These are men of God.

  • Camerlengo Patrick McKenna: We are at war! We're weak when we should be strong! If science is allowed to claim the power of creation, what is left for God?