Dan Brown: Angels and Demons

[chergent_schazee]

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yep, mas exctitng ang story compared sa da vinci code and mas daghan og lain2x settings and i think more works of art involved.

[sheeshcute]

* the ending made my jaw drop! did not have any clue nga ang ending mao
diay to. Angels and Demons is a really good book. Page turner and ya
don't wanna let it go until you're done.

[IceInHeLL]

But I guess this one will be a lot harder to be adopted into a movie since most of the settings happened within Catholic Church property. I don't think the Church will even consider of letting anyone shoot a movie that presents an idea that they are a lying, murdering institution. ALthough any producers could just recreate the settings in a studio (just like Westminster Abbey, London in The Da Vinci Code where Isaac Newton lays burried) but it will be quite costly if they want to make it realistic.

[diem]

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@IceInHell, bro Hollywood made a functioning airport terminal for the Tom Hanks film 'The Terminal'.

Yes, it will be expensive but expensive is what people like Ron Howard and Brian Grazer do everyday.

[IceInHeLL]

An airport, that's nothing. A replica of Titanic, its something...but it still is quite attainable.

But a replica of a city like Vatican with the various popular sites including St. Peter's Basilica including the details? Now that would be something I would like to see in my lifetime.

"Expensive" will be an understatement for this one.

[evs]

definitely a good read though it's kinda predictable as to who the bad guy is.

[sanction214]

some of Dan Brown's description of a place or etc..is true daw...i was wondering if the city of the dead under the vatican is true and their climate controled library for the old writings is stored/placed...especially the scriptures that are not supposed to be read by ordinary people..hmm..just a thought...

[IceInHeLL]

The necropolis found under the Vatican is true but as to Dan Brown's description of a tomb of St. Peter's, it is merely fabricated. The remains of St. Peter or even his tomb has not been found or can be confirmed to be in the necropolis. Although Christian traditions have it that St. Peter (died in Rome) must have been burried in Rome. However, in 1958, there is a book written in Italian called "Gli Scavi del Dominus Flevit" written by Roman Catholic priests Bagatti and Milik in 1958 offers proof that Shimon bar Yonah (Peter) is burried in Jerusalem in a Franciscan monastery site called "Dominus Flevit" on the Mount of Olives. There was an excavation that was done there and they found ossuaries (bone boxes). The names of Mary and Martha as well as their brother Lazarus (allegedly risen by Jesus from the dead) where found their and also an ossuary that bears the name "Shimon bar Yonah" in ancient Aramaic. The writtings is predated to be the first century and before 70CE, the time of St. Peter. Although their are doubts that this could just be coincidences and probably is a different person but aside from the perfect name and date, these ossuaries where found with evidences of Christian burrials. I could not tell more about this findings because I am also still studying this.

But I think it will also be interesting to know that in 1950, before the Christian burial ground in Jerusalem was found, Pope Pius XII made an announcement during his Christmas message that the bones of St. Peter were found under St. Peter's Basilica as tradition held, beneath the immense dome of the Cathedral ("there was, however, no evidence that the bones uncovered there belonged to the body of the martyr" - Newsweek July 1, 1957 issue). I think the Pope was just trying to work on the assumption that Peter was their first Pope and that he was martyred and buried there. That the Basilica's foundation is the very foundation of the Church.

It is even more interesting that the discover of supposedly St. Peter's bones said that the bones where identified to be exactly Pete's age of death at around 65. But history would point out that St. Peter died at the age of 80 to 82. That is again the mistake of the Church. Moreover, the burial ground found under the Basilica is a pagan burial ground. I think St. Peter, being a Christian, will be least likely to be buried in a pagan cemetery.

With regards to the Archivum Secretum Apostolicum Vaticanum, it does exist and was described by Dan Brown quite accurately even to the point of getting the permission to see a particular archive. You have to know what you are looking for and must know that the document exist. Aside from that, your research must be for the good of the Church. Although there are certain documents from the archives that have been released already to the public.

[hera_82]

Read the book..... can't wait to see this on the big screen.

[Fairypink888]

The fictional angels and demons by Mr. Brown is far better than his popular Da Vinci Code in my opinion.