How is it that Vittoria or whatever her name was just so happens to be expert on the effects of drugs on the body, including postmortem side effects? Are we to presume that this is common knowledge among nuclear physicists? In reality, probably only a specialized medical doctor such as a forensic toxicologist or the like would have this knowledge at their immediate disposal.
M912k
Just because I don't like violence doesn't mean I'm not good at it.
I think they explained the source of her knowledge in the book, but I don't remember what it was. I do recall that, as a scientist, she was supposed to be learned in several fields with biology among them.
shareIn the book her FATHER was the scientist working on the antimatter. She was a Marine biologist who had used a version of that particular heart drug on whales to keep them healthy while they were unable to move around while being transported. She had known someone at an aquarium who had accidentally overdosed some whales and their tongues had been hanging out black when she got there. The film cut all of that out, probably to save time.
shareThe movie cuts the CERN director entirely out of the plot. Her father is just briefly shown and not made into any big deal.
In the book (which like so many other cases is better than the movie) she works with her dad to make this antimatter and they do it all by themselves.
Jaynekranc explained it nicely about how she would know about the drug.
I somhow like the movie ending better than the book one. Only diffrence is that in the book Langdon ends up with the girl.
Also Im sorta proud to be from Denmark and have not just one but TWO significant roles going to Danes ( Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Ture Lindhart). Though i find Nikolaj Lie Kaas somwhat not exactly what id expect for this role. In the book he is much more assasin like. This due to him assending from an old assasin clan.
I didn't mean to imply that she didn't know what her dad was doing. I only meant to emphasise that she had a career of her own in the book apart from CERN. It explains why she left Langdon. In the next book she is off doing an important Marine study, which I cannot at this moment remember the details of.
shareJust to clarify: Vittoria's father is also cut out of the movie completely from what I recall. The man shown in the film who's murdered at CERN and has his eyeball cut out is one of Vittoria's co-workers. I believe they even say the guy's name in the movie and it's not the name of Vittoria's father.
shareUm...................how exactly is this a MONSTER plot hole?
I think "Captain Planet" is something that should be mandatory to watch nowadays.
Team Jacob!
As +portrayed+ in the film, I guess that we the audience are supposed to unquestioningly accept that anyone who works in any field of science has highly specialized expert knowledge of every other scientific discipline.......as portrayed, not too much different from the screenwriter having a lawyer diagnose someone's rare form of cancer.
Now were you having some kind of problem with my semantics?
M912k
Just because I don't like violence doesn't mean I'm not good at it.
The actual mortals working at CERN are some of the most intelligent in the world, many holding several degrees in different fields.
shareHow is it that Vittoria or whatever her name was just so happens to be expert on the effects of drugs on the body, including postmortem side effects? Are we to presume that this is common knowledge among nuclear physicists? In reality, probably only a specialized medical doctor such as a forensic toxicologist or the like would have this knowledge at their immediate disposal.
Kaymen...+1 !!!
shareEven in the movie, she wasn't a nuclear physicist, but a researcher in bio-systems.
But you're right, it didn't automatically give her some of the knowledge she displayed in the movie. Similarly, Robert Langdon came out with some pretty specialist knowledge of architecture and architectural history that his own field of expertise wouldn't necessarily have led him to know. I guess it's one of those shorthands you have to accept in a film, where they go for economy in the number of characters they introduce. Books have the luxury of more detail.
You might very well think that. I couldn't possibly comment.
When you are a scientist you learn so much stuff you and retain a decent amount. I know so much random stuff from my bachelor's that I even surprise myself at times!
shareThat's a monster plot hole? You people nit-pick too much.
What if this storm ends?
And I don't see you
As you are now
Ever again
-Snow Patrol
I've got a friend who's an (amazing) chef by trade, but he could definitely school anyone on WWII politics. A lot of people have interests outside of their occupations/professional training. For example, us. The vast majority of IMDB posters have no professional background in filmmaking, but I'm sure we each know all kinds of trivia concerning the technical process.
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