What was this mess? The story line is barely recognizable from the book. What happeened to the story arc about Sienna's baldness or the role that Il Duomo played. And the ending? What pap.
shareI don't understand why Dan Brown agreed on such script - it's makes no sense
shareA book is a book, and a movie is a movie. Each genre has its own characteristics, laws, and possibilities.
You can't walk into a 2 hour movie and expect to have a similar experience to reading a 500 page book. Reading and watching are different experiences for any person. And because of the duration of the movie, *of course* certain storylines had to be changed or abandoned.
Some storylines are more suitable for prose than for cinema. Just like it is hard to put images into words, it is hard to put words into imagery. For instance, it is much easier to put a character's thoughts into words than into a movie scene. Similarly, it is easier to put a shock effect into moving image & sound than into words.
My advice: if you want to have a similar experience to reading Dan Brown's "Inferno", please re-read the book.
One would EXPECT that the movie might somehow be related to the source material though and not just have the name and the author and it saying ADAPTATION OF SAID BOOK, only to have the movie go and pull a complete 180 on the ending.
shareIf you don't see that the movie and the book are 'somehow related', as you state, then you must be blind.
Yes they were RELATED, but the movie pulled a 180 on the ending,in comparison to the book which seen the virus RELEASED.
So no they are not the SAME, and the movie should only say "LOOSELY based" on the book,or INSPIRED BY, and not an ADAPTATION.