Angels & Demons (2009) Poster

Tom Hanks: Robert Langdon

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  • Camerlengo Patrick McKenna : Christianity's most sacred codices are in that archive. Given your recent... entanglement with the Church, there is a question I'd like to ask you first here in-in the office of His Holiness.

    [Walks towards Robert Langdon] 

    Camerlengo Patrick McKenna : Do you believe in God, sir?

    Robert Langdon : [pause]  Father, I simply believe that religion...

    Camerlengo Patrick McKenna : I did not ask if you believe what man says about God. I asked if you believe in God.

    Robert Langdon : [pause]  I'm an academic. My mind tells me I will never... understand God.

    Camerlengo Patrick McKenna : And your heart?

    Robert Langdon : [pause]  Tells me I'm not meant to. Faith is a gift... that I have yet to receive.

    Camerlengo Patrick McKenna : [pauses to consider his words]  Be delicate with our treasures.

  • Inspector Olivetti : [on hearing Langdon's description of Pius IX's "Great Castration" of Vatican City's male statues]  Are you... anti-Catholic, Professor Langdon?

    Robert Langdon : No. I'm anti-vandalism.

  • Richter : He said they'd be killed publicly.

    Robert Langdon : Yes. Revenge... for La Purga.

    Richter : La Purga?

    Robert Langdon : Oh, geez, you guys don't even read your own history, do you? 1668, the Church kidnapped four Illuminati scientists and branded each one of them on the chest with the symbol of the cross... to purge them of their sins, and they executed them. Threw their bodies out into the street as a warning to others to stop questioning Church ruling on scientific matters. They radicalized them. The Purga created a darker, more violent Illuminati, one bent on... on retribution.

  • Chartrand : The Catholic Church is not a corporation, it's a beacon. A source of inspiration for a one billion lost and frightened souls.

    Robert Langdon : Sure, I get that. It's also a bank.

  • [last lines] 

    Cardinal Strauss : Mr. Langdon. Thanks be to God for sending someone to protect His church.

    Robert Langdon : I don't believe He sent me, Father.

    Cardinal Strauss : Oh, my son. Of course He did.

  • Robert Langdon : I need access to the Vatican Archives.

    Inspector Olivetti : Professor, I don't think this is the appropriate moment.

    Richter : Your petition has been denied seven times.

    Robert Langdon : No, no. This has nothing to do with my work. The Path of Illumination is a hidden trail through Rome itself that leads to the Church of the Illumination, the place where the Illuminati would meet in secret. If I can find the Segno, the sign, that marks the beginning of that path, the four churches along it may be where he intends to murder your Cardinals. One every hour at 8:00, 9:00, 10:00 and 11:00. Then the device explodes... at midnight. If we can figure out the first church and get there before he does, may be we can stop it. But I can't find the start of the path until I get into the Archives.

    Richter : Even if I wanted to help you, access to the Archives is only by written decree by the curator and the Board of Vatican Librarians.

    Robert Langdon : Or by papal mandate.

    Richter : Yes, but as you no doubt have heard, the Holy Father is dead.

    Robert Langdon : What about Il Carmerlengo?

    Richter : The Carmerlengo is just a priest here, the former Pope's chamberlain.

    Robert Langdon : Doesn't the power of the Holy See rest in him during Tempo Sede Vacante?

    [all the Vatican police men look at each other, with various degrees of doubt and uncertainty] 

    Robert Langdon : Fellas... you called me.

  • Robert Langdon : You will counsel him wisely.

    Cardinal Strauss : [chuckles]  I am an old man. I will counsel him briefly.

  • Robert Langdon : The Illuminati did not become violent until the 17th Century. Their name means "The Enlightened Ones." They were physicists and mathematicians, astronomers. They were concerned with the Church's inaccurate teaching and they were dedicated to scientific truth. But the Vatican didn't like that. So the Church began to... how did you say it? Oh, "Hunt them down and kill them."

  • [Police have been ordered to return Langdon to the Vatican] 

    Robert Langdon : [to poiice]  The Vatican is about to see its fourth Cardinal murdered tonight! Now, look... You can do as they say and force me back to the Vatican, where we can all mourn his death together. Or you can show how real cops act, and take me to the Piazza Navona, where we still might be able to stop it!

    [the police start conferring between themselves] 

    Robert Langdon : Oh, by all means, let's talk it over. In 14 minutes, he's gonna be dead!

  • Inspector Olivetti : Where did you get that paper?

    Vittoria Vetra : We borrowed it.

    Robert Langdon : [reading paper with magnifier]  "From Santi's earthly tomb with demon's hole...

    Inspector Olivetti : Are you insane?

    Robert Langdon : ...Cross Rome the mystic elements unfold. The path of light is laid, the sacred test. Let angels guide thee on they lofty quest."

    Inspector Olivetti : You removed a document from the Vatican Archives?

    Robert Langdon : [points at Vittoria]  She did.

  • Vittoria Vetra : He chose the name Luke.

    Robert Langdon : There's been many Marks and Johns. Never a Luke.

    Cardinal Strauss : It's said he was a doctor.

    Vittoria Vetra : It's quite a message, science and faith all in one.

    Cardinal Strauss : The world is in need of both.

  • Camerlengo Patrick McKenna : Would it surprise you to find those clothes suit you?

    Robert Langdon : [chuckles]  It would surprise the hell out of me.

  • Vittoria Vetra : You know, the worst thing we thought would happen... was that our work would fall into the hands of the energy companies... We thought we could change the world... So naive.

    Robert Langdon : No, no. Not naive. Innocent, maybe. But that's not a crime.

    Vittoria Vetra : I'm not so sure.

    Robert Langdon : Go back to work. Change the world.

  • Robert Langdon : Do you smoke?

    Chartrand : A little bit.

    Robert Langdon : Then you better sit down before you keel over.

  • Robert Langdon : [Swiss Guards Offices Corridor. As Langdon and Olivetti walk, Langdon studies the row of statues of male nudes that line both sides of the hallway, all wearing fig leaves]  The Great Castration.

    Inspector Olivetti : I beg your pardon?

    Robert Langdon : 1857. Pius IX felt the male form might inspire lust, so he got a hammer and chisel and unmanned two hundred statues. These plaster figs were added later.

    Inspector Olivetti : [Olivetti stops abruptly, outside a heavy steel door with a security keyboard beside it]  Are you anti-Catholic, Professor Langdon?

    Robert Langdon : Me? No, I'm anti-vandalism.

  • Robert Langdon : [Swiss Guards Offices corridor. As Langdon and Olivetti walk, Langdon studies the row of statues of Male nudes that line both sides of the hallway, all wearing fig leaves]  The Great Castration.

    Inspector Olivetti : I beg your pardon?

    Robert Langdon : 1857. Pius IX felt that the male form might inspire lust, so he took a hammer and chisel and unmanned hundreds of these statues. These plaster fig leaves were added later.

    Robert Langdon : [Olivetti stops abruptly outside a heavy steel door with a security keyboard beside it]  Are you anti-Catholic, Professor Langdon?

    Robert Langdon : Me? No, I'm anti-vandalism?

  • Robert Langdon : It scares the hell out of me.

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