Along the way, Corso lends the book to a bookshop owner friend, who is later found hanged. Dean Corso (Johnny Depp) is an amoral, sexy bookseller who is hired by wealthy collector Boris Balkan (Frank Langella) to compare his copy of The Nine Doors to the other two books. Polanski dispenses entirely with The Club Dumas and replaces them with the usual sexually decadent and disaffectedly wealthy Satanic coven, (perhaps the same debauched clan from the orgy scene in Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut one suspects the same group rents themselves out for these scenes). The movie, however, is far darker than the novel and uninterested in books except as way to access the supernatural. While they book’s plots do run out of steam towards the end, it is essentially mystery about our own love of great literature. The novel is filled with eccentric, memorable characters - deposed nobility who sold all their possessions to acquire a rare books, a club of wealthy fans (The Club Dumas) demanding to see Corso’s draft of the novel, a mysterious blond woman who beats up anyone who messes with Corso and claims to be an angel. The world of books has never been so gothic and lusciously depicted it is a world of both obsession and intense knowldge the world of book collectors is one of searching for intellectual treasure. Not only does the plot center on antiquarian books and classic novels, but it also references more than fifty other real novels and nearly 30 imaginary titles. Perez-Reverte’s novel is a feast for book lovers. When Corso realizes that all three copies contain instructions to summon the Devil, he confronts Borja - only to realize that things are not what they seem.īoris Balkan (Frank Langella) is unimpressed with the Satanic coven headed by Liana (Lena Olin) In a castle, he encounters a mysterious group obsessed with the draft and a mysterious woman who helps him avoid captures. While hunted by widow of the draft’s previous owner, Corso tracks down the owners of other two copies of Nine Doors, who later end up dead. Corso, who is also working on authenticating a previously unknown version of The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, agrees. Borja knows there are that two other copies exist, and since only one can be authentic, he hires Corso to find the other two and acquire the legitimate one. Lucas Corso, an expert in antiquarian books, is summoned to Toledo by Borja, a famous and eccentric collector who thinks he might have a copy of Of the Nine Doors of the Kingdom of Shadows, a imaginary book whose author was burned at the stake for heresy.
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Polanski’s movie needed a different title than the book
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