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Questions (spoilers)

posted 14 years ago by jonschaper
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Well, since I read elsewhere that Camerlango had planned to have a vision of where the bomb was at the last minute, that clears up THE major plot hole (i.e. how he could possibly expect, excepting great luck, that things would possibly turn out the way they did), but I'm still left with some questions:

1) Where are the Illumanati? If they have infiltrated the Vatican shouldn't they have been working behind the scenes to stop Camerlango? After all they'd be like "We're blowing up half of Rome? Isn't that a terrible idea? No, we're not? Then, since we know where the path leads why don't we just come up with an excuse to wander along, spot the bomb and go 'Whoomp, there it is!'?" Does that mean that in Dan Brown's universe, the Illuminati are either extinct or less competent that they are credited with being?

2) Why was Robert Langdon gifted with Gallileo's tract? After all, the only information about the Illuminati in it was the poem about how one could find the path (and therefore get initiated into the Illuminati), and he already had that. And it's hardly something that would make for an entire volume in a 2 book series. And, regardless of what that vandal Vittoria said, it would only take less than a minute to write that down on a piece of paper. Shouldn't the Vatican keep that tract under its care where they can keep it more professionally preserved and make it available to, say, someone who was actually writing a book about Gallileo?

3) If the path is pointed out by angels and demons, where were the demons?

And, no, I'm not taking the film too seriously. If I was, I'd be ranting about either its poor science, or treating it like a serious treatise on religion or history because it can supposedly turn Christians into atheists (or vice versa -- atheists often prove to be as moronic and prejudiced as they rightly or wrongly accuse others of being), or give people who are blissfully ignorant of history some different misconceptions than what they already have.

[–] Shipless 13 years ago

late reply is late, but oh well.

1. the illuminati, in the context of the time (in the film) was a cover-up devised by the camerlango. whether they still exist as a group in the modern day (in the film) is not discovered, but if they do, they were not the ones behind the attacks. the camerlango was behind the murders and the hiring of the hitman dude who killed the preferiti.

2. don't know, either way, langdon had requested gallileo's book a number of times prior to the events in the film and had been denied. as a gift (for him to borrow, not keep) for his efforts to help the vatican in stopping the attacks, they granted him access to the book. we don't know that the only information about the illuminati was on that one page, we only know that's all they looked at and upon finding the clue, left the rest. he may want other info from the book. either way, it was a great honour and all that jazz so he was appreciative.
as for vittoria, i agree with you there - the fact that a woman of science would vandalise what may be the ONLY copy of the book because "there wasn't time" is retarded. there was time enough to wander around looking at statues and pace through st peter's square - not everything they did was a major rush. dumb.

3. don't know about this one? there was a half demon looking statue in that rundown church they found the first dead cardinal in, that counts maybe? i can't remember whether it was stated that the path was pointed out by angels and demons, i thought it was just angels and that the name of the book/movie, came from the path being pointed out by angels/statues of angels and the "demons" being the evil agonists in the film.