Angels and Demons : First Look
They did it to The DaVinci Code. Now they are doing it to Angels and Demons, Dan Brown’s preceding novel to DaVinci Code, which actually had readers jumping to his earlier works. And Angels and Demons become much bigger than it was thanks to DaVinci.
So will Angels and Demons be better than what they managed to do in DaVinci? The trailer sure looks like all screws are tight in place. Personally though I love The DaVinci Code (the book) than Angels and Demons.
Here’s the trailer
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I was about to send you link Oz only to realise you were faster than me. Good one!. Overly anticipating this one.
Same here, Oz always beats us to it! From the trailer it looks like it might work this time.
hey Oz..
did u check this one one out…from the maker of
The pursuit of Happyness
http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/seven-pounds/trailer
Yep that was good one too!
My opinion on this is that Dan Brown’s books (save for maybe Deception Point to some extent) have a huge documentary feel to them. That’s because he stresses more on the ideological part on it rather than the story itself. So, any exercise at adapting them into movies will end up short of expectation.
It happened with Da Vinci code and I won’t be surprised if the same happens with Angels and Demons as well.
Interesting POV Narcissist. I’ve never seen his work in that sense. But then I haven’t read his works after A&D and DC
i think digital fortress could’ve made for a very good techie-thriller, but unfortunately it’s too done to death.. i’d be interested in deception point being optioned though.. not everyday you get to see thrillers in the arctic
angels and demons is a personal favourite
i hope it doesnt disappoint….
Taking The Narcissist’s point a little further, Dan Brown realized after that ideological ride that he needs to add some commercial factor too in the story – and he ends up making it too filmy. I see this problem in works of both Dan Brown and Chetan Bhagat, although they write books on entirely different subject matters. While Dan Brown’s work still ranks a few notches higher as compared to Bhagat’s pedestrian-chhap novels (save for Five Point Someone). I loved The Da Vinci Code till all was ideological, but the filmy twists spoiled the story for me. The film degraded it even more. Haven’t read ‘Angels and Demons’ after Digital Fortress made me completely lose my faith in this writer.
@ narcissist
It will take an avg person about a day and a half, without breaks, to read angels and demons or the da vinci code, and the movie was 2 1/2 hrs long,so when you squeeze an 18 wheeler semi in a garage next to an household, it sure is gonna damage somehting, depending on individual toughness. I think Dan Brown is as story oriented as his research into history, symbols and signs. Otherwise he wouldn’t be stressing on 24 hr timeline to discuss symbols while pushing characters into their destinations.
@Jateen
My point was that 80% of the content in his books is covered up by his research and the story gets only the rest. Anything that’s filmworthy should have it the other way round. When this kind of a book is adapted into a movie, a lot of the research stuff has to be omitted from the final product due to a paucity of time, which causes the film to have some gaping holes and leaves an uninitiated viweer with a lot of questions. Anyone who hadn’t read Da Vinci code and had seen the movie would’ve come out of the theatre with a sureshot “What the fuck just happened there?” kind of an expression.
As for the logic of the time taken to read the book and the actuall length of the movie, I would like to name a few adaptations which did not compromise on the overall feel of the book in spite of being compressed into a much shorter narrative. Do The Godfather, Carlito’s Way and The 39 Steps ring any bell?
@Tejas:
I had mentioned the same similarity between Dan Brown and Chetan Bhagat in comment # 10 here.
http://passionforcinema.com/hello-review-bhagwan-ke-liye-mujhe-chhod-do/
Believe me, I didn’t plagiarize it from there!!
@Tejas
Do you have any proof that you didn’t? Pay me royalty or else I’ll sue you all the way to oblivion. ;)
Well i think Angels and Demons could be better adapted to the screen than DVC. The Da Vinci Crock, had actually more of exposition than real action and drama, and it was totally lost on screen. While Angels and Demons, does have a lot of exposition and stuff, there is enough masala in it to be placed on screen, for eg the scenes where the Vatican priests are killed in different ways.
Anyway for me, while i liked DVC and Angels & Demons, by the time i started reading other Dan Brown novels, i could make out the whole story, within 10 pages.
It is as clear for sure that the person who is killed in page 1 of the book, will be the key factor later.
There will be a nasty assassin on the loose.
The hero is handsome, intelligent, witty, and the heroine is witty, intelligent and beautiful. And yes the romantic stuff in his books is too cheesy.
And whatever R&D, Dan Brown does, he surely missed that out for Digital Fortress, being a techie myself, Digital Fortress had way too many tech bloopers. Also i just could not take it, that the supposedly beautiful and intelligent heroine, could not deduce a simple logic, and what was that Shakti Kapoor kinda character in that book, i did not understand.
And oh yes, the culprit will always be the guy whom you least suspect.
speaking of trailers here you go check out the worst fucking hindi trailer i have ever seen
yes karz was better
http://www.in.com/videos/watchvideo-aashayein-trailor-2024353.html
its aashayein btw
actually vivek, I liked it except for the voiceover thing that kept popping in between…
@Ratnakar,
cudnt agree with you more. the “research” of Dan Brown is a pathetic joke. Deception point was horrible as a science fiction and Da Vinci Code funda was practically copied from Holy Blood Holy Grail and then cast into his good old template( introductory murder,conspiracy, assassin on the loose, the leading geek-yet-attractive-guy and geek-yet-attractive-girl rubbish) with a dash of action and cheesy melodrama. Its really funny to see how unimaginative an author can be. I read Da Vinci Code out of curiosity for its huge popularity but cudnt finish A&D and DP. It felt like reading drafts of DVC. Still I would say DVC was enjoyable considering the very unusual plot but the most important reason is that i read it before DP & A&D. If you read any one them,its dejavu for the rest.