The Great Castration. I beg your pardon? 1857. Pius IX felt the male form might inspire...
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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.
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Oh' yes Pope Pius lX's great castration
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l beg your pardon 1 857 ' Pope Pius lX
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felt the male form would inspire lust
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So he took a hammer and chisel
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and unmanned hundreds of these statues
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The plaster fig leaves were added later
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Are you anti Catholic' Professor Langdon
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o l'm anti vandalism
Clip duration: 33 seconds
Views: 480
Timestamp in movie: 00h 18m 01s
Uploaded: 17 November, 2022
Genres: action, mystery, thriller
Summary: Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon works with a nuclear physicist to solve a murder and prevent a terrorist act against the Vatican during one of the significant events within the church.
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