As I looked at the screen, craning my neck to the right, as I was seated right at the extreme left of the cinema theatre (yes, the theatre is still full despite 3 weeks into screening!), I just couldn't find the wrong element that made me so uncomfortable.
He seemed rather, flaccid. At least, what I perceived from the book, Robert Langdon was a charming intellect. Balding wasn't in my mind. Tom Hanks could look like an intellect, but er, looking at him in this show, made me relate to the show Cast Away. An intellect no less (how else he would have survived?), having a bloodied volleyball as his bestest friend. Some credit to his creativity too, Wilson-the-volleyball-turned-best-pal had quite a hairstyle. But charming intellect, he fall short a little. Not for Robert Langdon, I say.
So I and my boy started to come up with the possible candidates in Hollywood who could play Robert Langdon's role. Not easy, actually. Not many male stars in Hollywood come across as intellectuals even.
No, not even those who acted as James Bond.
The one who comes the closest is...
Keanu Reeves.
Really! Look, he has acted in Devil's Advocate, in Constantine, and in The Matrix. All are something to do with devils, angels, heaven and hell and for The Matrix, something very out of this world itself. He's perpetually moody and for that he seemed deep. Unfathomable. And in the Devil's Advocate, he acted as a lawyer, quite convincingly. And charmingly. So he could still pull off as a professor. Now, imagine him with spectacles. He can look like a professor! And a charming one to add.
Overall, the movie was rather a disappointment. Nothing that I expected it out to be. Go read the book la. And the movie, I don't know exactly, but it seemed like it wanted to inject some objectivity into the Christianity and Paganism issues. Like it will lessen the controversial part of it.
Too fast-paced. In the show, it was like Robert Langdon's a genius cos the answers just plonked down on him suddenly. Too much luck. A little slipshod, and too much cut-away portions of the story.
BOOOOOO....
I say, the show's a mega-hit, only because it was banking on Dan Brown's controversial book.
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On the side note, I believe in some sense about the Sacred Feminine. Paganism. And that in the past, people prolly worshipped nature and balance in the world. Because I believe, that the world is created out of balance. There's no one true entity that could exist on its own, and have any true meaning to it. Like, you only know the meaning of happiness, when there's sadness. The existence of male is supported by the existence of female, vice versa. Ying and Yang. Up and down, left and right.
The balance in the world is all off. Our believes in male supremity, all women included, are evident. Women partake activities that predominantly male, like work and politics, and vacate the female roles. Females becoming 'Male'. Male - Egoism - Power - War. Indeed, the downfall of Mankind, will be our very own destruction.
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