The Great List of Inconsistencies
Let's see. I finally got a DVD of Angels and Demons. And I've been re-reading the book as well. I'm still not done, don't ask why, I never read while I'm at home.
I did this list of inconsistencies without looking at the book or at Wikipedia. All from my memory, so maybe I missed some and maybe I've also made a mistake. Meh. Why am I looking so much into this?
1. Vittoria and her father, Leonardo should have been the only ones who knew about the antimatter experiment but in the movie, we see so many scientists doing the experiments with them.
2. Vittoria’s partner is her adoptive father in the book. Here, they’re really just partners.
3. Maximillian Kohler (who didn’t exist in the movie) was supposed to be the one to discover Vetra’s body.
4. Vetra’s body was supposed to be naked, his head should have been turned 180 degrees and he should have been branded with the word, “Illuminati”.
5. Robert should be with Max and Vittoria when they noticed the eye and that the antimatter was gone. (There also should have been a demonstration of the antimatter’s power.)
6. Robert should have been called by Max while he was asleep, not someone from the Vatican going over to the pool and just showing him a picture of the ambigram of the word “Illuminati”. Max showed Robert a picture of Vetra’s body with the word “Illuminati” branded on it.
7. There was no trip to CERN in the movie. It was supposed to be the place where Vittoria and Robert would meet.
8. The Vatican guard guy who came to Robert should be wearing a colorful outfit.
9. There should have been a video message of some sort (can’t remember what it was exactly) by the Hassassin that stated that he was going to be killing the cardinals.
10. HAHA. Angels & Demons is supposed to be a prequel to The Da Vinci Code but they made it into a sequel.
11. Olivetti is NOT this nice. He and Robert, along with Vittoria were supposed to meet him inside his office.
12. Commander whatshisname (no matter how many times I replayed the scene I CAN’T GET HIS NAME) that greeted Vittoria and Langdon has Olivetti’s supposed personality. I guess Olivetti isn’t the head honcho in the movie. It’s Commander whatshisname.
13. Vittoria was supposed to be wearing SHORTS inside Rome.
14. Vittoria said she needed 45 minutes in the book because she had to get the canister back to CERN. In the movie, she just needed to change its batteries.
15. There are no crazy phone calls to reach the Camerlengo in the movie.
16. There are no crazy BBC reporters in the movie either.
17. Vittoria didn’t know about the journals, it was Max Kohler who got them and read them and found out who was behind all of it.
18. And the conversation between the Camerlengo (I refuse to call him Patrick) and Robert in the movie was supposed to be between the Camerlengo and Vittoria.
19. Who the hell is Patrick?! His name is Carlo Ventresca. AND HE IS SUPPOSED TO BE ITALIAN. In the movie he’s Irish who fails to be Irish because he has a sort of Scottish accent.
20. The Camerlengo wasn’t supposed to seal the door until after he’s done the opening prayer but the movie didn’t show the opening prayer at all.
21. They took 274379856378924 million years to find Galileo’s archives in the book. In the movie, it took them 1 second.
22. The hassassin was supposed to be dark skinned and Middle Eastern, not sophisticated looking.
23. They took 298478493759423 million years to find out where Diagramma was. It wasn’t supposed to be on the shelf as well.
24. It should have also taken them 129834273498792 million years to find out that English was the language of science and to find out where the segno was.
25. There is no chemistry between Robert and Vittoria in the movie. There was in the book.
26. An old dude was supposed to answer Robert in the Pantheon, not some tour guide girl person.
27. It also took them 12874392853951 million years to find the entrance to the Chapel of the Earth and the demon hole itself.
28. Robert and Vittoria alone should have found the body. The police force finding them only a few minutes later. On that note, Robert alone went down the demon’s hole in the book.
29. No, I don’t recall Langdon wearing a priest’s robe.
30. Robert was alone when he entered the archives the second time. He was not supposed to be with whatshisname-smoker-guy.
31. When the Camerlengo makes his speech in the Sistine Chapel, he is supposed to be recorded and that speech should have been broadcasted worldwide. And it should have been so much longer than that.
32. Robert’s epic phail was actually accurate. But Olivetti’s death should have been more gruesome than that.
33. Vittoria was supposed to be kidnapped by the Hassassin and Robert was supposed to be trapped in some sort of coffin.
34. Robert was supposed to be unconscious when the firemen found him.
35. Robert took 28853904832080 million years to find out where the 4th place is and even 4294398729 more million years to find out the 4 places made a cross.
36. Robert was alone when he got to Piazza Navona. And it took him 23453256629 million years to find out that the dove was the angel on the statue.
37. Robert fought with the Hassassin in the fountain and the Hassassin did not just flee like a scared little girl.
38. Baggia did not survive in the book and it made Robert cry.
39. Robert found out on his own where the Church of Illumination was.
40. Vittoria was almost raped by the Hassassin in the book.
41. Robert was supposed to be alone in the Church of Illumination.
42. The Hassassin did not flee the scene when Vittoria and Robert were coming. They fight to the death and he was supposed to fall off onto a pile of cannon balls, not explode RANDOMLY while inside a vehicle.
43. There was supposed to be an 11th hour Samaritan, and that guy was Max Kohler. Since he didn’t exist in the movie, they just made Robert suppose that someone would brand the Camerlengo.
44. Max Kohler instead of Commander whatshisname was supposed to be the one to talk to the Camerlengo and reveal his lies.
45. Max Kohler also owned a SONY RUVI camcorder that recorded his conversation with the Camerlengo. In the movie, the conversation was just recorded by a security camera in the room. Corny.
46. A guard named Chartrand was supposed to be the one to free Robert and Vittoria from Il Pasetto. And Rocher should have been the one to be guarding the door so fervently.
47. Rocher was the one the Camerlengo pointed at and called, “Illuminatus”, not that random priest I don’t know.
48. AND THE BRAND. THE BRAND ON THE CAMERLENGO WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE ILLUMINATI DIAMOND.
49. The Camerlengo went crazy and via a “Divine message” found out where the antimatter was, Robert and Vittoria did not help at all in finding this out, according to the book. He was supposed to be running, apparently in shock according to the people, screaming “Grazie Dio!”
50. Instead of a battery bar, the canister should have a countdown timer and the Camerlengo grabs it and makes a run for the helicopter that was supposed to bring him to the hospital.
51. Robert was supposed to be in the helicopter with the Camerlengo.
52. The Camerlengo was not supposed to be unconscious and people should not have seen him with the parachute. He should have been standing on the terrace in a dignified manner when the people saw him. But what the hell, it was much more fun this way, his unconscious body maiming several nuns and unsuspecting civilians.
53. Since they made it a sequel rather than a prequel, Langdon had become far too old in the movie. Thus, he was written out of the helicopter scene in the final script, aside from "Langdon stares up at the helicopter as it flies away". (this is courtesy of my good buddy, Bacon.)
54. Robert was supposed to dive from so high above LOL. And get saved by doctors. He listens to the recorded thing Max Kohler gave him and runs back to the Square, makes out with Vittoria and all other whatnot.
55. The people in the square begin yelling out the Camerlengo’s name, along with the cardinals. So he really did become Pope for a short while. Proclamation by adoration indeed.
56. It was supposed to be said that the Camerlengo was the late Pope’s son, LITERALLY. To pave way to Vittoria’s epic line: “He killed my father! He killed his own father!” But meh.
57. They made the Camerlengo look so evil here. They were not able to explain why he did all the things he did properly. I find that unfair. =_=
58. The video should have been shown to the whole College of Cardinals, not only to Mortati and the other election cardinal people.
59. The Camerlengo was supposed to be wearing a WHITE ROBE when he came back to the Sistine Chapel.
60. The Camerlengo was supposed to try to explain himself before leaving the chapel (and he was supposed to leave secretly too). This was crucial, this is where he explained why he had killed the late Pope.
61. The Camerlengo was supposed to die on the terrace, not where the 99 oil lamps were. He burned himself in front of all the people to see.
62. Mortati was supposed to become the Pope since Baggia died in the book.
Not sure what else to add here. I haven’t finished re-reading the book, I’ll add more when I finish it. I’m almost done with this, anyway.
I did this list of inconsistencies without looking at the book or at Wikipedia. All from my memory, so maybe I missed some and maybe I've also made a mistake. Meh. Why am I looking so much into this?
1. Vittoria and her father, Leonardo should have been the only ones who knew about the antimatter experiment but in the movie, we see so many scientists doing the experiments with them.
2. Vittoria’s partner is her adoptive father in the book. Here, they’re really just partners.
3. Maximillian Kohler (who didn’t exist in the movie) was supposed to be the one to discover Vetra’s body.
4. Vetra’s body was supposed to be naked, his head should have been turned 180 degrees and he should have been branded with the word, “Illuminati”.
5. Robert should be with Max and Vittoria when they noticed the eye and that the antimatter was gone. (There also should have been a demonstration of the antimatter’s power.)
6. Robert should have been called by Max while he was asleep, not someone from the Vatican going over to the pool and just showing him a picture of the ambigram of the word “Illuminati”. Max showed Robert a picture of Vetra’s body with the word “Illuminati” branded on it.
7. There was no trip to CERN in the movie. It was supposed to be the place where Vittoria and Robert would meet.
8. The Vatican guard guy who came to Robert should be wearing a colorful outfit.
9. There should have been a video message of some sort (can’t remember what it was exactly) by the Hassassin that stated that he was going to be killing the cardinals.
10. HAHA. Angels & Demons is supposed to be a prequel to The Da Vinci Code but they made it into a sequel.
11. Olivetti is NOT this nice. He and Robert, along with Vittoria were supposed to meet him inside his office.
12. Commander whatshisname (no matter how many times I replayed the scene I CAN’T GET HIS NAME) that greeted Vittoria and Langdon has Olivetti’s supposed personality. I guess Olivetti isn’t the head honcho in the movie. It’s Commander whatshisname.
13. Vittoria was supposed to be wearing SHORTS inside Rome.
14. Vittoria said she needed 45 minutes in the book because she had to get the canister back to CERN. In the movie, she just needed to change its batteries.
15. There are no crazy phone calls to reach the Camerlengo in the movie.
16. There are no crazy BBC reporters in the movie either.
17. Vittoria didn’t know about the journals, it was Max Kohler who got them and read them and found out who was behind all of it.
18. And the conversation between the Camerlengo (I refuse to call him Patrick) and Robert in the movie was supposed to be between the Camerlengo and Vittoria.
19. Who the hell is Patrick?! His name is Carlo Ventresca. AND HE IS SUPPOSED TO BE ITALIAN. In the movie he’s Irish who fails to be Irish because he has a sort of Scottish accent.
20. The Camerlengo wasn’t supposed to seal the door until after he’s done the opening prayer but the movie didn’t show the opening prayer at all.
21. They took 274379856378924 million years to find Galileo’s archives in the book. In the movie, it took them 1 second.
22. The hassassin was supposed to be dark skinned and Middle Eastern, not sophisticated looking.
23. They took 298478493759423 million years to find out where Diagramma was. It wasn’t supposed to be on the shelf as well.
24. It should have also taken them 129834273498792 million years to find out that English was the language of science and to find out where the segno was.
25. There is no chemistry between Robert and Vittoria in the movie. There was in the book.
26. An old dude was supposed to answer Robert in the Pantheon, not some tour guide girl person.
27. It also took them 12874392853951 million years to find the entrance to the Chapel of the Earth and the demon hole itself.
28. Robert and Vittoria alone should have found the body. The police force finding them only a few minutes later. On that note, Robert alone went down the demon’s hole in the book.
29. No, I don’t recall Langdon wearing a priest’s robe.
30. Robert was alone when he entered the archives the second time. He was not supposed to be with whatshisname-smoker-guy.
31. When the Camerlengo makes his speech in the Sistine Chapel, he is supposed to be recorded and that speech should have been broadcasted worldwide. And it should have been so much longer than that.
32. Robert’s epic phail was actually accurate. But Olivetti’s death should have been more gruesome than that.
33. Vittoria was supposed to be kidnapped by the Hassassin and Robert was supposed to be trapped in some sort of coffin.
34. Robert was supposed to be unconscious when the firemen found him.
35. Robert took 28853904832080 million years to find out where the 4th place is and even 4294398729 more million years to find out the 4 places made a cross.
36. Robert was alone when he got to Piazza Navona. And it took him 23453256629 million years to find out that the dove was the angel on the statue.
37. Robert fought with the Hassassin in the fountain and the Hassassin did not just flee like a scared little girl.
38. Baggia did not survive in the book and it made Robert cry.
39. Robert found out on his own where the Church of Illumination was.
40. Vittoria was almost raped by the Hassassin in the book.
41. Robert was supposed to be alone in the Church of Illumination.
42. The Hassassin did not flee the scene when Vittoria and Robert were coming. They fight to the death and he was supposed to fall off onto a pile of cannon balls, not explode RANDOMLY while inside a vehicle.
43. There was supposed to be an 11th hour Samaritan, and that guy was Max Kohler. Since he didn’t exist in the movie, they just made Robert suppose that someone would brand the Camerlengo.
44. Max Kohler instead of Commander whatshisname was supposed to be the one to talk to the Camerlengo and reveal his lies.
45. Max Kohler also owned a SONY RUVI camcorder that recorded his conversation with the Camerlengo. In the movie, the conversation was just recorded by a security camera in the room. Corny.
46. A guard named Chartrand was supposed to be the one to free Robert and Vittoria from Il Pasetto. And Rocher should have been the one to be guarding the door so fervently.
47. Rocher was the one the Camerlengo pointed at and called, “Illuminatus”, not that random priest I don’t know.
48. AND THE BRAND. THE BRAND ON THE CAMERLENGO WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE ILLUMINATI DIAMOND.
49. The Camerlengo went crazy and via a “Divine message” found out where the antimatter was, Robert and Vittoria did not help at all in finding this out, according to the book. He was supposed to be running, apparently in shock according to the people, screaming “Grazie Dio!”
50. Instead of a battery bar, the canister should have a countdown timer and the Camerlengo grabs it and makes a run for the helicopter that was supposed to bring him to the hospital.
51. Robert was supposed to be in the helicopter with the Camerlengo.
52. The Camerlengo was not supposed to be unconscious and people should not have seen him with the parachute. He should have been standing on the terrace in a dignified manner when the people saw him. But what the hell, it was much more fun this way, his unconscious body maiming several nuns and unsuspecting civilians.
53. Since they made it a sequel rather than a prequel, Langdon had become far too old in the movie. Thus, he was written out of the helicopter scene in the final script, aside from "Langdon stares up at the helicopter as it flies away". (this is courtesy of my good buddy, Bacon.)
54. Robert was supposed to dive from so high above LOL. And get saved by doctors. He listens to the recorded thing Max Kohler gave him and runs back to the Square, makes out with Vittoria and all other whatnot.
55. The people in the square begin yelling out the Camerlengo’s name, along with the cardinals. So he really did become Pope for a short while. Proclamation by adoration indeed.
56. It was supposed to be said that the Camerlengo was the late Pope’s son, LITERALLY. To pave way to Vittoria’s epic line: “He killed my father! He killed his own father!” But meh.
57. They made the Camerlengo look so evil here. They were not able to explain why he did all the things he did properly. I find that unfair. =_=
58. The video should have been shown to the whole College of Cardinals, not only to Mortati and the other election cardinal people.
59. The Camerlengo was supposed to be wearing a WHITE ROBE when he came back to the Sistine Chapel.
60. The Camerlengo was supposed to try to explain himself before leaving the chapel (and he was supposed to leave secretly too). This was crucial, this is where he explained why he had killed the late Pope.
61. The Camerlengo was supposed to die on the terrace, not where the 99 oil lamps were. He burned himself in front of all the people to see.
62. Mortati was supposed to become the Pope since Baggia died in the book.
Not sure what else to add here. I haven’t finished re-reading the book, I’ll add more when I finish it. I’m almost done with this, anyway.