{"id":739,"date":"2009-10-13T20:18:17","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T04:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/?p=739"},"modified":"2009-10-06T20:20:56","modified_gmt":"2009-10-07T04:20:56","slug":"angels-demons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2009\/10\/angels-demons\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels &#038; Demons"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellspacing=\"10\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"140\" width=\"95\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/angels_and_demons_eng1.jpg\">\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<b>Angels &#038; Demons <\/b><br \/>\n<br \/><i>Tom Hanks<\/i><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-2\">based on Dan Brown&#8217;s fiction<br \/>\n<\/font>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>I enjoyed the book and overdosed on Dan Brown with it.  By that time, I have read <i>Da Vinci Code<\/i> and <i>Digital Fortress<\/i>.  I liked his pace, but all those hidden meanings of abstract symbols made me suspicious at every little glyph someone graffiti&#8217;ed on the wall.  All those secret societies made me felt everything was part of a giant conspiracy.<\/p>\n<p>So I decided to wait for the DVD.  Delighted, it was one of the flight movies on my way to India.  Perfect.<\/p>\n<p>I was disappointed, not very, just a bit.<\/p>\n<p>The papal succession process was supposed to be revealing.  The execution of four bishops was supposed to be torturous.  The path to St. Peter&#8217;s grave was supposed to be creepy.  The Camerlengo was supposed to personify angel and demon in one.  They all did, but none satisfied my imagination when I read the book.  Maybe all movies will be disappointing to readers of the original books? <\/p>\n<p>The Roman scenes are supposed to be awesome, and they were.  Just the recognition of places I&#8217;ve just visited was exciting.  There were several details and special angles not accessible to tourists.  Rome already offered &#8220;Roman Holiday Tour&#8221; and &#8220;Da Vinci Code Tour.&#8221;  I think there will be an &#8220;Angel and Daemon Tour&#8221; soon.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone read <i>Lost Symbol<\/i> yet?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angels &#038; Demons Tom Hanks based on Dan Brown&#8217;s fiction I enjoyed the book and overdosed on Dan Brown with it. By that time, I have read Da Vinci Code and Digital Fortress. I liked his pace, but all those &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2009\/10\/angels-demons\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[294,295],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":740,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions\/740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}