百年50部英文烧脑电影赏析:[33]Sherlock Holmes 大侦探福尔摩斯

In 1890, London detective Sherlock Holmes（Robert Downey, Jr.）and his partner and flatmate Dr. John Watson（Jude Law）race to prevent the ritual murder of a woman by Lord Blackwood（Mark Strong）, who has killed five other young women similarly. They stop the murder before Inspector Lestrade（Eddie Marsan）and the police arrive to arrest Blackwood.
Three months later, Holmes' eccentric behavior again annoys Watson. While he enjoys their adventures together, Watson looks forward to marrying Mary Morstan（Kelly Reilly）and leaving 221B Baker Street. Meanwhile, Blackwood has been sentenced to death and requests to see Holmes in prison, where he warns of three more unstoppable deaths that will cause great changes to the world. Blackwood is subsequently hanged and pronounced dead by Watson. Three days later, Holmes is visited by Irene Adler（Rachel McAdams）, a professional thief and his former adversary, who asks him to find a missing man named Luke Reordan. After her departure, Holmes follows her as she meets with her secret employer, hidden in the shadows of a carriage. The concealed man states that Reordan is the key to Blackwood's plans. Holmes only learns that the man is a professor and that he intimidates Adler.
Blackwood's tomb is destroyed from the inside out. Reordan is found dead inside the coffin, and sightings of a living dead Blackwood, which has left a gravedigger in shock, cause public panic. Following a series of clues from the body, Holmes and Watson find Reordar's home and discover experiments attempting to merge science with magic. After they survive a battle with Blackwood's men, Holmes is taken to the Temple of the Four Orders, a secret magical organization. The leaders — Lord Chief Justice Sir Thomas Rotheram（James Fox）, U.S. Ambassador Standish（William Hope）, and Home Secretary Lord Coward（Hans Matheson）— ask Holmes to stop Blackwood, a former member of the society and, as Holmes deduces from physical similarities, Sir Thomas's son. Sir Thomas and Standish are later killed through apparently supernatural means by Blackwood, allowing him to control the Order. He plans to overthrow the British government, then conquer the United States and the world He lures Holmes to a warehouse where he finds Adler, chained to a hook, gagged, and heading towards a bandsaw, though he saves her in time. However, Watson is injured in a series of explosions set up by Blackwood. Lord Coward, secretly working with Blackwood, issues an arrest warrant for Holmes. Holmes goes into hiding and studies Blackwood's rituals, concluding that the next target is Parliament. Holmes tricks Coward into revealing that the plan is to kill its members. He, Adler and Watson discover a machine below the Palace of Westminster, based on Reordan's experiments, designed to release cyanide gas into the Parliament chambers, killing everyone but Blackwood and his supporters, to whom Blackwood slipped the antidote. Blackwood walks into Parliament and announces that soon all but his supporters will die. As Holmes and Watson battle Blackwood's men, Adler removes the cyanide containers from the machine and flees, pursued by Holmes. Blackwood and Coward realize their plan has failed; Coward is captured but Blackwood escapes. Holmes confronts Adler on top of the incomplete Tower Bridge, but is interrupted by Blackwood. As Holmes and Blackwood fight, Holmes tricks him into becoming entangled in the ropes and chains hanging over the Thames, while Holmes explains the technical trickery behind Blackwood's supposed magic. After a climatic fight, Blackwood, with a noose of chains around his neck, falls from the bridge and is hanged.
Adler explains that her employer is Professor Moriarty, warning that Moriarty is as intelligent as Holmes but far more devious. As Watson moves out of 221B, the police report to him and Holmes that a dead officer was found near Blackwood's device. Moriarty used the confrontations with Adler and Blackwood as a diversion while he took a key component, based on the new science of radio, from the machine, Holmes looks forward to the new case and new adversary.
1890年，伦敦侦探夏洛克·福尔摩斯（小罗伯特·唐尼饰）和他的搭档兼室友约翰·华生博士（裘德·洛饰）赶去阻止罗德·布莱克伍德（马克·斯特朗饰）在宗教仪式上谋杀一个女人。之前他用相似手法已经杀了其他五个年轻女人。他们在探长莱斯特·雷德（埃迪·马森饰）和警察来逮捕布莱克伍德之前，阻止了谋杀。
三个月后，福尔摩斯古怪的行为又惹恼了华生。尽管他享受他们在一起时的冒险，但华生期待娶马丽·摩斯坦（凯利·雷莉饰），离开贝克街221B。与此同时，布莱克伍德已经被判死刑，请求在监狱里和福尔摩斯见面。在那里，他警告说还会有三个不可阻挡的死亡会引起世界巨大的变化。布莱克伍德后来被绞死，由华生宣告死亡。三天后，艾琳·阿德勒（瑞秋·麦克亚当斯饰）造访福尔摩斯，她是职业小偷，也是福尔摩斯从前的对手，她来请求他寻找一个叫卢克·里奥丹的失踪的人。在她离开之后，福尔摩斯社了她，在她和她的秘密雇主会面时，他隐藏在马车的阴影里。那个隐藏在暗处的人说里奥丹布莱克伍德计划的关键。福尔摩斯只知道这人是个教授，他威胁阿德勒。
布莱克伍德的坟墓被彻底破坏了，里奥丹被发现死在棺材里面，看到死去的布莱克伍德复活，令掘墓人震惊，引起了公众的恐慌。追随从尸体上发现的一系列的线索，福尔摩斯和华生找到了里奥丹的家，发现了试图要合并科学与魔法的试验。在和布莱克伍德的人交战之后，他们幸存。福尔摩斯被带到四令会（一个神奇的秘密组织）的寺院。首领们——首席大法官托马斯·罗瑟拉姆（詹姆斯·福克斯饰）爵士，美国大使斯坦迪什（威廉·霍普饰）和内政大臣考沃德勋爵（汉斯·麦瑟逊饰），请求福尔摩斯阻止该组织前任成员布莱克伍德。根据福尔摩斯对面貌特征相似的推理，布莱克伍德正是托马斯先生的儿子。托马斯爵士和斯坦迪什后来被杀了，显然是布莱克伍德用超自然的能力干的，为的是让他来控制四令会。他计划推翻英国政府，然后征服美国和世界。他把福尔摩斯引诱到他的仓库，在那里发现了阿德勒，她被锁在一个钩子上，堵住嘴，头朝带锯床，但他及时救了她。然而华生在布莱克伍德制造的一系列爆炸事件中受伤。考沃德勋爵偷偷和布莱克伍德勾结在一起，对福尔摩斯发出逮捕令。 福尔摩斯隐藏起来，研究布莱克伍德弄出来的神秘仪式，认为下一个目标是议会。福尔摩斯骗考沃德揭露出下一个计划是杀死议会成员。他、阿德勒和华生发现了威斯敏斯特宫地下的一台机器，基于里奥丹的实验，用于在议会上释放氰化物气体，杀死除布莱克伍德和他的支持者之外的所有人，当然，他已经让他的支持者服下了解药。布莱克伍德走进议会，宣布除了他的支持者，所有人很快都会死。福尔摩斯和华生与布莱克伍德的手下交战时，阿德勒拿走了机器中的氰化物容器，然后逃走，这正是福尔摩斯想要的结果。布莱克伍德和考沃德意识到他们的计划失败了。考沃德被活捉，但布莱克伍德逃走了。在不完整的塔桥上，福尔摩斯和阿德勒对峙，但被布莱克伍德打断了。福尔摩斯和布莱克伍德搏斗，福尔摩斯一边巧妙地引诱布莱克伍德缠上悬在泰晤士河上的绳链，一边解释着布莱克伍德所谓魔法背后的花招伎俩。在一场风云色变的搏斗之后，绞索链缠在布莱克伍德的脖子上。他从桥上掉下来，被绞死了。

阿德勒解释，她的雇主是莫里亚蒂教授，警告说莫里亚蒂和福尔摩斯一样地聪明，但要狡猾得多。当华生搬出221B时，警方向他和福尔摩斯报告，一名警官被发现死在布莱克伍德的设备附近。莫里亚蒂利用阿德勒和布莱克伍德的对抗分散了注意力，他从机器上拿走了一个基于无线电新科学基础的关键组件。福尔摩斯期待着新的案子和新的对手。

flatmate［'flætˌmeit］n. 合住一套公寓的人；合租者
adversary［'ædvəsəri］n. 对手；敌手
concealed［kən'si:ld］adj. 隐蔽的；隐匿的
gravedigger［'greɪvdɪgə］n. 挖墓者；埋葬虫
warehouse［'wɛəhaus］n. 仓库；货栈；大商店
antidote［'æntidəut］n.［医］解毒剂；解药；矫正方法
trickery［'trikəri］n. 欺骗；诡计；奸计
deviousr［'di:viəs］adj. 偏僻的；弯曲的；不光明正大的
confrontation［ˌkɔnfrʌn'teiʃən］n. 对抗；面对；对峙
重点掌握
■ As Watson moves out of 221B...
move out是英语中一个固定搭配，在文中，它是“搬走，迁出”的意思，比如：We are going to move out of our old house next month. 我们准备下个月从我们的旧住宅搬走。另外，move out还有“出发，撤出”的意思，比如：The troops are ready to move out at short notice. 部队准备一接到命令就开拔。

Guy Ritchie and Lionel Wigram Interviewed by Ben McCarthy
Of all the iconic characters to bring back, why Sherlock?
Partly because I was interested in Sherlock Holmes as a child, so I really had a strong visual sense of who I thought Sherlock Holmes should be. But not only that. I hadn't seen any other productions，unlike most people, I had no visual reference other than what I'd knocked up in my mind. Warners came to me with it as an idea and as soon as they mentioned it, I was fascinated.
Lionel, how did you make sure you maintained that integrity of Sherlock Holmes?
It comes from fandom. This whole movie really. I was a fan from being a kid and everybody on this roster either was a fan of Sherlock or became a fan during the shooting of the movie. We kept constantly referring back to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stories. Every scene in the movie, we tried to have at least one piece of Arthur Conan Doyle dialogue and we just kept going back and back and back and really harvesting those amazing stories, which are so rich, for as much detail as we could put in there. It was essential to us. There's a reason why Sherlock Holmes has lasted 122 years and it's because the stories are so good and he's created such amazing characters in Holmes and Watson. We really wanted to maintain that. 部分原因是因为我小时候就对夏洛克·福尔摩斯感兴趣，所以我对福尔摩斯的形象有很强烈的视觉感。但不仅如此。与一般人不同，我没看到任何其他作品，除了我脑海中原有的印象，我没有任何视觉上的参考。华纳兄弟来找我，谈了这么一个想法。他们一提到它，我立刻就感到着了迷。
莱昂内尔，你怎样确保你所认为的《福尔摩斯》的完整性？
它来自全体影迷。整部电影都是。我还是孩子的时候就已经是福尔摩斯的粉丝，影片团队中的每个人要么一开始就是福尔摩斯的粉丝，要么是在拍摄期间成了他的粉丝。我们一直不断地参考阿瑟·柯南道尔先生的故事。电影中的每个场景，我们尝试至少要有一段是阿瑟·柯南道尔先生的对话，我们一直保持回归小说，回归，回归，回归，真正收获到那些离奇的丰富的故事，因为我们想在电影中展示出更多的细节。这对我们来说是必不可少的。这就是《福尔摩斯》持续了122年的原因，因为故事太棒了，创作出了福尔摩斯和华生这么神奇的人物，我们真的很想一直保持下去。

历史上曾有超过75位演员饰演过福尔摩斯。
在裘德·洛确定演出华生之前，这一角色的原定人选是柯林·法瑞尔。
《大侦探福尔摩斯》并非根据阿瑟·柯南道尔的系列小说而改编，实际上本片改编自莱昂内尔·威格拉姆所创作的同名漫画作品，风格和原著完全不同。
由于盖·里奇自己热衷于巴西柔术——种非常受欢迎的混合武术。故此在电影后段的一场打斗中加入巴西柔术，让福尔摩斯和华生以柔术中的地板扭斗，杠杆原理控制对手的关节，来制伏德雷格尔。