百年50部英文烧脑电影赏析:(1)Angels & Demons 天使与魔鬼

Under the watchful eyes of Father Silvano Bentivoglio(Garmen Argenziano)and Dr. Vittoria Vetra(Ayelet Zorer(, the European Organization for Nuclear Research(CERN)initiates the Large Hadron Collider and creates three vials of antimatter particles larger than any that have ever been produced before. Immediately afterward, Father Silvano is killed and one of the vials of antimatter goes missing. Meanwhile, the Roman Catholic Ghurch mourns the sudden death of the Pope in Rome and prepares for the papal conclave to elect the next Pope while Camerlengo Patrick McKenna(Ewan McGregor)assumes temporary control of the Vatican. The Illuminati kidnap the ‘preferiti’(the four most likely cardinals to be eIected pope)before the conclave enters seclusion and threaten to kill one candidate every hour and destroy the Vatican at midnight, using the missing vial of antimatter as a bomb. The Vatican summons symbologist Robert Langdon(Tom Hanks)from Harvard University and Vittoria from CERN to help them save the four preferiti and locate the bomb.

Langdon listens to the Illuminati message and deduces that the four cardinals will die at the four altars of the “Path of Illumination”, marked by statues of angels in locations relevant to the four classical elements. Over Richter's objections, but with McKenna's consent, Langdon is granted access to the Vatican Secret Archives to examine Galileo Galilei's banned book, and following clues with Vittoria, Inspector General Ernesto Olivetti(Pierfrancesco Favino), and Lieutenant Valenti(Victor Alfieri)of the Vatican Gendarmerie Corps, arrive at Chigi Chapel in the Church of Santa Maria del Popolo. There they find Cardinal Ebner dead, suffocated with soil and branded with an ambigrammatic word “Earth” They verify the second altar's location is Saint Peter's Square, but are unable to save Cardinal Lamassé, his lungs punctured and his body branded with an ambigrammatic word, “Air”.

While Vetra studies Silvano's diaries, Langdon and the Vatican officers locate the third church, Santa Maria della Vittoria, but are unable to save Cardinal Guidera from being burned to death. His body is branded with an ambigrammatic word, “Fire”, The assassin appears and brutally kills everyone except Langdon, who escapes. Langdon and two Carabinieri officers race to the Water altar, the Fountain of the Four Rivers, where the assassin murders the officers and drops a bound and weights Cardinal Baggia into the fountain. Langdon, assisted by bystanders, saves the cardinal, who tells him the Illuminati's lair is Castel Sant'Angelo. There Langdon and Vetra discover a hidden passageway leading to the Vatican, being used as a hideout for the assassin. Discovering a case with marks for five branding irons, they realize the fifth brand is for the camerlengo, but are confronted by the assassin before they can alert McKenna. The assassin spares their lives, then cryptically warns them that his contractors were “men of God”，He escapes, but is killed when his car explodes.

Inside the Vatican, Langdon and Vetra find Commander Richter(Stellan Skarsgard)hovering over McKenna with a gun, the Vatican symbol branded into McKenna's chest. Richter is shot by the Guards, and Langdon takes a key that slips from Richter's hand. The stolen antimatter vial is found in St. Peter's Tomb below the church, but the battery life is too low to risk re-connecting it to a battery. McKenna, a former military pilot, seizes the vial and uses an awaiting helicopter to fly above the Vatican. At a high altitude, he parachutes out as the antimatter bomb explodes overhead. McKenna is hailed a hero and savior, and the cardinals move to elect him pope. Langdon and Vetra use Richter's key to watch a security video showing McKenna speaking to Richter before the attack, the video revealing McKenna, not the Illuminati, is the mastermind behind the scheme, intending to use the fear of the incident to be named pope and rally the church's followers to his side. This is shown to the Papal conclave, and when McKenna discovers he has been exposed he fatally sets himself on fire,

The Vatican officially announces that McKenna died due to internal injuries suffered during his parachute landing, and Cardinal Baggia is named Pope Luke I, with Cardinal Strauss as the new camerlengo. Strauss thanks Langdon for his assistance and gives Langdon Galileo's Diagramma Veritas for his research, requesting only that Langdon's will contain a bequest that it be returned to the Vatican, and that any future references he makes to the Gatholic Church in his future publications are done “gently”. The movie closes with the newly enthroned pope stepping out on his balcony for the first time, to the cheers of the crowd below.

在西尔瓦诺·本蒂沃利奥(卡门·阿金齐亚诺饰)与其女维多利亚·维特拉(阿耶莱特·祖里尔饰)博士的努力下，欧洲核子研究中心发明了大型强子对撞机和三瓶比以往发现的更加强大的反物质粒子。不久，西尔瓦诺遭谋杀，其中一瓶反物质粒子也不翼而飞。此时，罗马天主教皇暴毙，按照教会制度，教皇选举委员会要准备选举下一任教皇，罗马教廷事务暂由教廷主管帕特里克·麦肯纳(伊万·麦克格雷格饰)负责。在教皇选举会议举行之前，光照派绑架了教皇候选人(四名红衣主教)，扬言在接下来的每一个小时会将一名红衣主教撕票，并在午夜时分用那瓶反物质粒子摧毁罗马教廷。教廷找到哈佛大学符号学家罗伯特·兰登(汤姆·汉克斯饰)和欧洲核子研究中心的维多利亚，请求他们给予帮助，找到四位红衣主教和反物质炸弹的所在。

根据光照会提供的信息，兰登推断处决四位红衣主教的地点是四个“光明之路”的圣坛，因为在这四处有代表四元素的天使雕像。尽管里奇反对，麦肯纳还是让兰登翻阅了罗马教廷秘密档案中伽利略的被禁书籍。根据查找到的线索，兰登随同维多利亚、检察长埃内斯托·奥利维蒂(皮尔弗朗西斯科·法维诺饰)和宪兵部队中尉瓦伦蒂(维克多·艾法利饰)，来到人民圣玛丽亚教堂的基吉小圣堂，发现红衣主教艾布纳已经被土活埋窒息，身上打下“土”字烙印。当他们查明第二个圣坛位置在圣彼得广场并赶往之前，红衣主教拉玛瑟早已被刺穿肺部身亡，身上留有“空气”的烙印。

维特拉通过西尔瓦诺的日记得知，第三个圣坛位置在维多利亚圣玛丽亚教堂，但当兰登和教廷人员赶去的时候，红衣主教嘉德拉刚被烧死，身上烙下“火”字，这时杀手突然出现，除兰登外的所有人遇害。兰登和两名宪兵赶往水的圣坛——位于四河的源泉，杀手将两名宪兵杀死，把红衣主教巴吉亚扔进水里仓皇而逃。在旁人的帮助下，兰登将巴吉亚救起，得知光照会的藏身之处在圣天使堡。兰登和维特拉前往圣天使堡，在那里发现了一条通向罗马教廷的秘密通道，这条通道便是杀手的藏身之处，同时他们还发现带有五种符号的烙印工具，意识到第五个烙印是为教廷主管准备的。他们立即赶去通知麦肯纳，在途中遇到杀手，杀手没有对他们下手，且隐晦地告诉他们这件事的主谋是“上帝的人”。杀手离开后，被炸死在自己的车里。

当兰登和维特拉回到罗马教廷，看到教廷内卫指挥官里奇(斯特兰·斯卡斯加德饰)正举枪指着胸口被烙上烙印的麦肯纳，几名侍卫迅速开枪击毙了里奇，兰登从里奇手中拿到了一把钥匙，并在教廷地下的圣彼得墓中找到了那瓶反物质。但是这瓶反物质由于电力不足即将爆炸，情急之下，部队飞行员出身的麦肯纳将反物质带到教廷屋顶的直升机上，将直升机开到高空，自己则借降落伞返回地面。反物质在高空爆炸，人们为他欢呼，称颂他为英雄和救世主，红衣主教们选举他为教皇。然而，兰登和维特拉通过里奇的钥匙找到了一柄录像带，录像是麦肯纳在遇袭前对里奇说的话，真相大白：制造这一场阴谋的人是麦肯纳而不是光照会，他企图制造恐慌拉拢教会人心，最后当选教皇。兰登把这卷录像带交给教皇选举委员会，麦肯纳知道事情败露，焚火自尽了。

罗马教廷对外宣称麦肯纳死于降落伞落地时的内伤，红衣主教巴吉亚被选为路加一世教皇，红衣主教施特劳斯被任命为教廷主管。为了答谢兰登，施特劳斯赠予他伽利略的《图解真理》一书以助于他的研究，唯一的要求是在兰登死后把这本书送还罗马教廷。除此之外，还允许他在今后的出版物中可以参考天主教堂的资料。影片最后的镜头是，新上任的教皇迈上他的阳台，朝下面的人群微笑。

antimatter['æntiˌmætə]n.[物]反物质

conclave['kɔnkleiv]n. 秘密会议;红衣主教团

summon['sʌmən]vt. 召唤;召集;鼓起;振作

brand[brænd]vt. 铭刻于，铭记;打烙印于;印……商标于

punctured['pʌŋktʃəd]adj. 具刻点的;被剌破的

passageway['pæsiʤwei]n. 通道;走廊

parachute['pærəˌ∫u:t]vi. 跳伞

camerlengo['kæmə'leŋgəʊ]n. 财政官;教宗侍从(天主教)

重点掌握

■ The movie closes with the newly enthroned pope stepping out on his balcony...

step out是“走出，出去”的意思，尤其指“(暂时的)离开”，在文中意思是“离开到阳台上去”，比如：Let's step out for a walk, shall we?咱们出去走走，好吗?有时，我们步测距离时，也可以用step out，它有“步量，步测”的意思，比如：to step out a distance of 10 metres. 步测出10米的距离。另外，step out还可以作“加大步幅，加快步伐;退出;引退”解，比如：Step out, or we'll be late!快点走，咱们要迟到了。

Ewan McGregor Interviewed by Paul Fischer

Were you familiar with this extraordinary sort of literary franchise that is the Angels and Demons?

You couldn't miss it. You couldn't miss it, unless you'd been on another planet when The Da Vinci Code came out. But I wasn't ——I didn't go and see the film. I didn't read the book. I have a slight kind of inverted snobbery. I think any kind of monumental amount of publicity like that makes me not go and see a movie. So I didn't see — and I still haven't seen the first one, or read the first book.

What was the attraction of playing this particular role for you?

He's a great character, in a good thriller. You know, a great old-fashioned kind of clock- ticking, bomb licking away thriller. And I met - I spoke to Ron Howard about making a film with him some years ago, and we didn't get the opportunity to do that, because the film that he was going to do wasn't made. And then we bumped into each other in London a few times when he was making The Da Vinci Code. And I always really liked him. I mean, I do like him very much. When he offered me this, I was delighted to work——and I also thought it was a great story. I think it's a great thriller, and it's a good part.

你熟悉《天使与魔鬼》这种另类特殊的文学门类吗?

你不能错过它。当《达芬奇密码》面世时，除非你是在外星球，否则就不能错过它。可惜我没有——我没去看那部电影。我也没读过这本书。我有一种轻微的逆反心理。我觉得任何那种盛大的宣传，都会让我不去观看电影。所以，我没看那部电影——我始终还没有看过这种类型的第一部片子，或者读过第一本书。

对你来说，扮演这个特殊角色的吸引力是什么?

他是这部片中的一个好角色，而这个片子，你知道的，是一部传统的时钟滴答滴答响、炸弹即将爆炸的绝妙惊悚片。几年前我跟朗·霍华德见面谈过一起拍电影，我们没有得到这样的机会，因为他要拍的那部电影没拍成。后来当他在伦敦拍《达芬奇密码》时，我们有几次偶遇，我一直很喜欢他。我是说，我非常喜欢他。当他把这个角色给我时，我很高兴来工作——我也认为这是一个伟大的故事。我觉得这是一个伟大的惊悚片，给我的是一个好角色。

娜奥米·沃茨最初曾计划在片中饰演维多利亚。

在《达芬奇密码》里扮演反派角色的阿尔弗雷德·莫里纳，在这部影片的预告片中仅以声音出演，并没有正面亮相。

本片的筹拍始于2007年，但当时正值好莱坞编剧罢工，而本片编剧阿齐瓦·高斯曼也参与了罢工，致使写到一半的剧本不得不中途停下，电影的开拍时间也因此推迟。