[
from trailer]
Robert Langdon:
The Illuminati did not become violent until the 17th Century. Their name means 'The Enlightened Ones'. They were physicists, mathematicians, astronomers. In the 1500's they started meeting in secret, because they were concerned about the church's inaccurate teachings. They were dedicated to scientific truth. And the Vatican didn't like that. So the church began to, how did you say it? Oh, hunt them down and kill them.
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from trailer]
Vittoria Vetra:
[
points to computer diagram of the antimatter device] the antimatter is suspended, there, in an airtight nano-composite shell with electromagnets on each end. But if it were to fall out of suspension, and come into contact with matter, say with the bottom of the canister, the two opposing forces would annihilate one another. Violently.
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from trailer]
Richter:
You 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 in 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.
[
from trailer]
Robert Langdon:
I need access to the Vatican Archives.
Richter:
Access to the Archives is only by written decree by the Holy Father.
Robert Langdon:
Fellas, you called me.
Robert Langdon:
It scares the hell out of me.
Cardinal Strauss:
When you write about us, and you will, do so gently.
Cardinal Baggia:
May god forgive you for what you've done...
Assassin:
Father, if God has issues, they won't be with what I've done. They will be with what I'm about to do.
Inspector Olivetti:
[
on hearing Langdon's description of Pius IX's "Great Castration" of Vatican City's male statues] Are you anti-Catholic Mr. Langdon?
Robert Langdon:
No. I'm anti-vandalism.
Cardinal Strauss:
Religion is flawed because man is flawed.
[
the bomb that threatens to destroy St.Peter's is set to go off at midnight. The Camerlengo is discussing evacuation with his security chief]
Camerlengo Patrick McKenna:
If we are still in peril at 11.15, remove the cardinals, but in a dignified manner. I want peoples' last memory of this church to be of them walking out with their heads held high, not of some old men sneaking out the back door.
Robert Langdon:
You will counsel him wisely.
Cardinal Strauss:
I am an old man. I will counsel him briefly.
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 the office of His Holiness.
[
Walks towards Robert Langdon]
Camerlengo Patrick McKenna:
. Do you believe in God, sir?
Robert Langdon:
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:
I'm an academic. My mind tells me I will never understand God.
Camerlengo Patrick McKenna:
And your heart?
Robert Langdon:
Tells me I'm not meant to. Faith is a gift that I have yet to receive.
Camerlengo Patrick McKenna:
Open the doors, and tell the world the truth.
Camerlengo Patrick McKenna:
Have you come to make a martyr out of me?
Camerlengo Patrick McKenna:
Our church is at war. We are under attack from an old enemy. The Illuminati. They have struck us from within and threatening us all with destruction from their new god Science.
Robert Langdon:
[
after suggesting a policeman not to bring him back to Vatican, but to let him save the last cardinal; the policeman turns to his colleague to confer] By all means, let's talk it over!
Camerlengo Patrick McKenna:
[
after breaking into Conclave and announcing that church is at war] ... but science and religion are not enemies! There are simply some things that science is just too young to understand. So the church pleads: "stop", "slow down", "think", "wait"... and for this - they call us backward. But who is more ignorant: the man who cannot define lightning, or the man who does not respect its natural awesome power?
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