Angels & Demons (2009)

Pierfrancesco Favino: Inspector Olivetti

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• Inspector Olivetti : [on hearing Langdon's description of Pius IX's "Great Castration" of Vatican City's male statues]  Are you... anti-Catholic, Professor Langdon?

  Robert Langdon : No. I'm anti-vandalism.

• Robert Langdon : I need access to the Vatican Archives.

  Inspector Olivetti : Professor, I don't think this is the appropriate moment.

  Richter : Your petition has been denied seven times.

  Robert Langdon : No, no. This has nothing to do with my work. The Path of Illumination is a hidden trail through Rome itself that leads to the Church of the Illumination, the place where the Illuminati would meet in secret. If I can find the Segno, the sign, that marks the beginning of that path, the four churches along it may be where he intends to murder your Cardinals. One every hour at 8:00, 9:00, 10:00 and 11:00. Then the device explodes... at midnight. If we can figure out the first church and get there before he does, may be we can stop it. But I can't find the start of the path until I get into the Archives.

  Richter : Even if I wanted to help you, access to the Archives is only by written decree by the curator and the Board of Vatican Librarians.

  Robert Langdon : Or by papal mandate.

  Richter : Yes, but as you no doubt have heard, the Holy Father is dead.

  Robert Langdon : What about Il Carmerlengo?

  Richter : The Carmerlengo is just a priest here, the former Pope's chamberlain.

  Robert Langdon : Doesn't the power of the Holy See rest in him during Tempo Sede Vacante?

  [all the Vatican police men look at each other, with various degrees of doubt and uncertainty] 

  Robert Langdon : Fellas... you called me.

• Inspector Olivetti : Where did you get that paper?

  Vittoria Vetra : We borrowed it.

  Robert Langdon : [reading paper with magnifier]  "From Santi's earthly tomb with demon's hole...

  Inspector Olivetti : Are you insane?

  Robert Langdon : ...Cross Rome the mystic elements unfold. The path of light is laid, the sacred test. Let angels guide thee on they lofty quest."

  Inspector Olivetti : You removed a document from the Vatican Archives?

  Robert Langdon : [points at Vittoria]  She did.

• Robert Langdon : [Swiss Guards Offices Corridor. As Langdon and Olivetti walk, Langdon studies the row of statues of male nudes that line both sides of the hallway, all wearing fig leaves]  The Great Castration.

  Inspector Olivetti : I beg your pardon?

  Robert Langdon : 1857. Pius IX felt the male form might inspire lust, so he got a hammer and chisel and unmanned two hundred statues. These plaster figs were added later.

  Inspector Olivetti : [Olivetti stops abruptly, outside a heavy steel door with a security keyboard beside it]  Are you anti-Catholic, Professor Langdon?

  Robert Langdon : Me? No, I'm anti-vandalism.

• Robert Langdon : [Swiss Guards Offices corridor. As Langdon and Olivetti walk, Langdon studies the row of statues of Male nudes that line both sides of the hallway, all wearing fig leaves]  The Great Castration.

  Inspector Olivetti : I beg your pardon?

  Robert Langdon : 1857. Pius IX felt that the male form might inspire lust, so he took a hammer and chisel and unmanned hundreds of these statues. These plaster fig leaves were added later.

  Robert Langdon : [Olivetti stops abruptly outside a heavy steel door with a security keyboard beside it]  Are you anti-Catholic, Professor Langdon?

  Robert Langdon : Me? No, I'm anti-vandalism?