The book being respectfully translated into the movie?

Rating: 3/10 (25 October 2006)

I've read the book, and the film doesn't follows the book too close... Yes, I know... the main plot line is there... but there are a few "minor" changes as another reviewer said, that to my understanding, changes in a big way the whole thing... For example... in the very beginning of the movie... In the book, Langdon is tooked off the bed at midnight in the Ritz Hotel by Lt. Collet... In the movie, Collet goes to the book-signing in the hotel's lobby... Was that change a needed one in order to make the story "more appealing"? I think not... If so, Brown himself would write that way the meeting between Collet and Langdon. Another example is when the Teacher kills Remy... the movie reveals the identity of the Teacher too early!!! And I can't remember that in the book, Fache tell Collet he is himself a member of the Opus Dei. Aringarosa is shot by Silas, yes... but Silas himself carries him to the hospital in the book, is not gunned down by policemen as seen in the movie. And the movie doesn't make any reference to Sophie's brother, who lives in Rosslim with Sophie's grandmother... so... there was no "minor" changes... there was a huge rewriting of the story. If Peter Jackson successfully adapted Lord of the Rings to the Screen (a more difficult task, by the way) why in the heck didn't Howard with DVC? If I were Brown, I'd never give Howard the film-making of any of my books.