Angels & Demons is the movie I’m looking forward to the most this year. Although The Da Vinci Code movie was a disappointment, I admit this might be due to the fact I watched it in a park on a huge screen with bad sound through some old speakers (this is the place to watch for 2009′s edition all ye Brusselites). Friends talking about Dan Brown‘s success with TDVC eventually lead me to reading bestseller. Jesus’s offspring is a good read but it was the other book that convinced me. I’m actually glad they had a tryout with TDVC because this time they will get the movie totally right. I mean, that statue half angel half demon in the trailer scared the living crap out of me.
Audrey Toutou not being in this second movie is a bummer. I’ve seen the trailer for her newest movie due April this year and she is incredible. Let’s see what Ayelet Zurer has in store. For thos who haven’t read the book the choice of Ewan McGregor should indicate his role in the story. I won’t give it away completely but casting such a famous actor takes away all the mystery in this conspiracy story. His performance in Big Fish has convinced me he’ll do great job as the camerlingo.
The movie’s website is also worth looking at. Being a Flash enthusiast it musters perfect integration of web technology and video. This is the direction we should be going in the long run (although the shorter the better) with internet and tv/film convergence.
EDIT: In the mean while I’ve been doing some research and found the name of this statue. It’s the Elorahim (or sometimes called the Nephalem), a half demon half angel mentioned in one of the Apocrypha (the books excluded from most non-Catholic bibles and included in most Catholic ones). This creature lives between heaven and hell, torn between his loyalty to God and Satan at the same time. Demons are said to be unforgivable because they’ve chosen for the ‘fallen angel’. But this story talks about a demon who is so afraid of the ‘end of times’ (cf. demons being cast into pigs because they’re so afraid of Jesus) that he feels remorseful for his choice. But God won’t forgive him completely which leads to him wanting to be faithful to God (who rejects him) and unwillingly belonging to Satan’s underworld (who owns him).
