Angels & Demons Movie Details
Angels & Demons taglines:The holiest event of our time. Perfect for their return.
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| IMDB Rating: 6.7/10 out of 47,272 votes |
“Angels & Demons” 2009 by Ron Howard – Movie Goofs
“Angels and Demons” Plot Summary
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon works to solve a murder and prevent a terrorist act against the Vatican.
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“Angels & Demons” Goofs List
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: SPOILER: According to the storyline, the kidnapped Cardinals are to be “publicly executed.” It was thought that the Cardinal stabbed in the square is the only death that is truly in a public place. In fact, the first killing is hidden in a basement but in the catacombs (thus, in the public view of many dead people).
- Plot holes: SPOILER: When the container of antimatter is found deep underground, it is discovered that the temperature is very cold, apparently leaving less battery time to work with. Not unless the area is air conditioned, the deep underground area where the container is located, would be a much more temperate climate temperature wise due to the thermal properties of the surrounding earth and architecture.
- Revealing mistakes: The Oxygen Monitor in the Library Vault has bilingual signage and a bilingual error message. However, the labels at the side of the Oxygen-Level Graphic are only in Italian.
- Factual errors: Historically, the Illuminati was a post-Enlightenment sect started in Bavaria in 1776 by Adam Weishupt, 200 years after Galileo. All secret societies were banned in Bavaria by Karl Theodor in 1784. Conspiriology abounds with theories about their survival, hence the frequent use of the word “Illuminati” to refer to any sinister conspiratorial group.
- Factual errors: The equipment needed to store antimatter, and the quantity produced, is inconsistent with reality. Also, the Large Hadron Collider is not a particularly important instrument in antimatter research, and antimatter research is not an important part of the LHC’s goals. However it is established in dialogue immediately that the antimatter-production experiment is an unauthorized piece of research well outside of the LHC’s actual mission, and that the few researchers “in on it” are creating an exceptional new method for producing large quantities of antimatter. While this is not realistic, it’s deliberate and established in the movie’s fictional world.
- Factual errors: Langdon states that, after the death of the Pope and before his successor is chosen, the Camerlengo becomes Head of the Holy See. While the Camerlengo does in fact become acting head of state of Vatican City, leadership of the Church is taken up by the College of Cardinals.
- Factual errors: The movie falsely states that Priests cannot truly be elected as the Pope. However, they can be elevated to the rank of Bishop, and can therefore take office. Furthermore, every unmarried, male Catholic layman can be elected as the Pope and would then be promoted to the rank of Priest and Bishop consecutively.
- Factual errors: The Camerlengo is always a Cardinal, yet Father McKenna holds the post as a Priest.
- Continuity: When they are arriving at the church to save the first cardinal at 8:00 PM the sun is much too high in the sky for that time of day, especially when contrasted with the lighting as they exit the church later.
- Revealing mistakes: After the Cardinals elect the new Pope and the crowd in St. Peter’s Square sees the white smoke, the camera tilts down from the microwave dish on a TV truck, to the reporter below. The microwave dish is clearly a fake, as it lacks a feedhorn.
- Revealing mistakes: When Langdon is trapped in the oxygen-depleted vault in the Vatican Archive, he tries to break a glass wall by shooting at it. The resultant impacts show the glass to be laminated safety glass. When the glass finally breaks under the weight of a cabinet it shatters into thousands of small pieces – showing that the glass is toughened safety glass.
- Factual errors: The Camerlengo is always a Cardinal and not just a priest. He is part of the College of Cardinals and the conclave. Furthermore, the Camerlengo does serve as acting head of State of the Vatican City but is not responsible for the government of the Roman Catholic Church itself.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When one of the Preferiti is burned in the church, Rober Langdon releases the chain on his left arm, and the cardinal falls into the flames, suspended by his right arm only. However, soon we see him again, behind the Assassin, and he is again suspended by both arms. In fact Langdon never completely released the Cardinal’s arm: we see the chain snag again before Langdon is forced to take cover from the gunfire.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Italian scientist Vittoria Vetra tries to change the battery on the bomb she says that batteries lose charge when they are cold. This is accurate: the chemical reactions in a battery are slower at low temperatures, and at particularly low temperatures, the electrolyte may freeze, causing the battery to completely fail. Clearly the fictional high-capacity battery in their fictional antimatter containment device is particularly sensitive to temperature drops. At high temperatures, a rechargeable battery’s working lifetime may be reduced, meaning it has to be replaced sooner, but this would not adversely affect its capacity in the short term.
- Factual errors: The sealed chambers in the Vatican Archives are said to be at a “partial vacuum”, i.e. low air pressure. This is standard procedure for scientific laboratories or other locations where the goal is to stop contaminants getting out, because the low pressure ensures a constant flow of air into the room rather than back out of it. However in an archive, this would constantly draw in outside air and contaminants through any imperfect seals or the use of doorways. Real archives have a high-pressure atmosphere instead, which ensures a constant flow of air out and therefore keeps contaminants from entering. It’s possible to have a low-oxygen atmosphere that still has a higher pressure than normal air.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: The screen showing the Antimatter Canister has a number “0086″ in the top left. Although this may suggest that the corresponding camera has a registered location and would be easy to find, the number may also simply refer to the camera itself. Because the camera sends its signal wireless, it is unlikely that the number is assigned to a specific place.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Throughout, Langdon is asking which way a statue points. Even as a Professor of Symbology, he would have to ask because the orientation of church buildings varied throughout the times. In early times many church entrances faced East while this changed during the Medieval Era and from that time the apse was commonly placed towards East. So Langdon was not able to know the direction of the statues for sure. Also he has just got off an 8 hour flight and is in a strange city, it is likely that he is disorientated.
- Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Robert Langon has to ask Vittoria Vetra to translate a Latin passage and one of the Swiss Guards to translate some Italian. In the books and in the first movie, Robert Langon speaks multiple languages, including Latin and Italian. Nor would any academic scholar specializing in religious iconography be able to achieve credibility if he/she did not speak Latin and Italian, not to mention ancient Greek and probably Arameic.
- Factual errors: Right after the white smoke comes out of the chimney, a reporter is announcing who the newly-elected Pope is. However, that announcement (“Habemus Papam”) is not made publicly until the Pope is ready to appear on the balcony.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: The Canon Rules (until recently) did not allow for someone with seizures to be a priest. The Church believed the person with epilepsy to be possessed by the devil. Therefore, the Pope would not have been publicly taking anti-seizure medicine. However, the movie establishes that the Pope kept his illness a secret from all but his closest confidants (the given reason is not “Canon Rules”, but there’s no reason to suppose that this was not also the case).
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Langdon and the rest first enter the Vatican Archives you see the lights go off as they are shutting off power in an attempt to locate the bomb, but as they go through the reading room the screens on the computers are still on. However, lights and mains outlets are often wired on to separate grids and it is probable that the Swiss guard were only cutting power to the lighting grids, as their goal was simply to kill the lighting around the bomb.
- Continuity: The Galileo’s booklet Langdon is examining in the Archives is called “Diagramma Veritatis” at the beginning but “Diagramma Della Verita” at the end, when Cardinal Straus is offering it to him.
- Factual errors: Bernini’s Ecstasy of St Teresa in Santa Maria della Vittoria is obviously a fake. The real statue lacks a base and it appears that the figural group of St Teresa and the Angel float above the altar in the Cornaro Chapel. The arrow is also pointing in a different direction to that in the actual sculpture (where it points directly at St Teresa’s heart a
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