Look at him, standing there in his turtleneck and tweed jacket, the trademark outfit of his hero Robert Langdon, as if his protagonist were a projection of the author himself into a universe run by movie cliches.
Angels & Demons is thematically a lot like our film. But while Brown's novel is a story meant to capture the imagination, ours is a narrative meant to describe how a world works. And while Brown's dissimulazione is an offensive strategy, ours is defensive. It requires some surgery to separate these two Siamese twins: one coarse and misshapen, the other fetal, nascent and bitter.
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