I think the funniest line in this movie is :
"Just a few days with this and I could have actually finished my book , and sold dozens of copies at the Harvard bookstore."
Why it is funny :
- Professor Robert Langdon needs "a few days" to read that small pamphlet . I can read it in only a few hours , or an even faster way is photocopying all the pages and then I have all the time in the world to study the content .
- He expects to write the big , thick book "The Art of the Illuminati : Part 2" , using that small , thin pamphlet as material .
- "...sold dozens of copies at the Harvard bookstore." This is his life's dream ? Or at least his dream in the past 10 years . I think he needs to dream bigger , like selling million of copies worldwide , make a fortune , and become a movie star .
Anyway , after learning that they are going to release the 3rd film this year , I just watched the 1st and 2nd films again to warm-up , they are still the best even after several re-watchs .
I havent read the books yet , but I read about Differences between novel and film , and Im glad that they made some changes . In the book , Robert is portrayed like a Terminator :
- After the FIRE death , the Hassassin fires at Robert, who hides under an tipped-over sarcophagus, crushing the Hassassin's arm under it in the process. Then he steals a car by 'threatening' to shoot the driver to get to the fourth Illuminati altar by himself.
- When arriving alone at the Four Rivers fountain , Robert holds the Hassassin at gunpoint. Robert wounds him in the foot, but a fight ensues, in which Robert is held under water.
- Langdon makes his way to the Castle of Angels alone, and has another fight with the Hassassin . Vetra and Langdon finally succeed in killing the Hassassin together .
- Both Langdon and the Camerlengo enter the helicopter with the antimatter. Langdon makes a miraculous escape from the exploding helicopter by grabbing its windshield cover and jumping out. The cover manages to slow his descent just enough for him to survive a big splash into the Tiber river.