百年50部英文烧脑电影赏析：[8]Eagle Eye 鹰眼

Jerry Shaw(Shia LaBeouf)is a Stanford University dropout who learns that his identical twin brother Ethan, a US Air Force first lieutenant, has been killed. Following the funeral, Jerry is surprised to find $750,000 in his bank account. He later finds his apartment filled with weapons, ammonium nitrate, classified DOD documents, and forged passports. He receives a phone call from a woman who says the FBI is about to arrest him and that he needs to run.

Disbelieving, Jerry is caught by the FBI and interrogated by Supervising Agent Tom Morgan(Billy Bob Thornton). While Morgan is conferring with Air Force OSI Special Agent Zoe Pérez(Rosario Dawson)，the woman on the phone arranges for Jerry's escape and directs him to Rachel Holloman(Michelle Monaghan), a single mother. The woman on the phone is coercing Rachel by threatening her son Sam(Cameron Boyce), who is en route to the Kennedy Center with his school band. The woman on the phone helps the two avoid the Chicago police and FBI, with the ability to control networked devices, including traffic lights, mobile phones, automated cranes, and even power lines.

Meanwhile, the woman on the phone redirects a powerful DOD crystalline explosive(hexamethylene)to a gemcutter who cuts and fits it to a necklace. Another man(Anthony Azizi)is manipulated into stealing Sam's trumpet from Chicago and fitting the crystal's sonic trigger into the piping before forwarding it to Sam in Washington, D.C.

Agent Perez is summoned by Secretary of Defense George Callister(Michael Chiklis)to be read into Ethan's job at the Pentagon. Ethan monitored the DOD's top secret intelligence —gathering supercomputer, the Autonomous Reconnaissance Intelligence Integration Analyst(ARIIA; voiced by Julianne Moore). Callister leaves Perez with Major William Bowman(Anthony Mackie)and ARIIA to sort out the Ethan Shaw investigation. Simultaneously, Rachel and Jerry learn that their mysterious woman is actually ARIIA, and she has “activated” them under the Constitution's authorization to recruit civilians for the national defense.

Perez and Bowman find evidence Ethan Shaw hid in ARIIA's chamber the night he died. After they leave to debrief Secretary Callister, ARIIA smuggles Jerry and Rachel into the observation theater under the Pentagon. Both groups learn that after her recommendation was ignored and a botched operation in Balochistan resulted in the deaths of American citizens, ARIIA concluded that “to prevent more bloodshed, the executive branch must be removed.” Acting on behalf of “We the People”, and citing the Declaration of Independence(“whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it”)，ARIIA acted in compliance with Section 216 of the Patriot Act which “allows us to circumvent probable cause in the face of a national security threat, in this case, the chain of command itself.”

Too late realized, Jerry has been brought by ARIIA to circumvent biometric locks his twin placed to prevent the system from realizing Operation Guillotine, a military simulation of how to keep the government running with the loss of all presidential successors. Because of Secretary Callister's concurrence with ARIIA's abort recommendation regarding Balochistan, he has been chosen as the designated survivor after the hexamethylene detonates at the State of the Union address(SOTU).

One of ARIIA's agents(Nick Searcy)extracts Rachel from the Pentagon and gives her a dress and the hexamethylene necklace to wear to the SOTU. Sam's school band has also been redirected to the United States Capitol to play for the president, bringing the trigger in Sam's trumpet and the explosive together. Jerry is recaptured by Agent Morgan, who has become convinced of Jerry's innocence. Though Morgan sacrifices himself to stop an armed MQ-9 Reaper sent by ARIIA, he first gives Jerry his weapon and ID with which to gain entrance to the Capitol. Arriving in the House Chamber, Jerry fires the handgun in the air to disrupt the concert before being shot and wounded by the Secret Service,

Days later, Secretary Callister reports that ARIIA has been decommissioned and that he recommends against building another; the Shaw twins, and Agents Perez and Morgan receive awards for their actions; and in the final scene, Jerry attends Sam's birthday party, earning thanks and a kiss from Rachel.

杰瑞·肖恩(希亚·拉博夫饰)是一名斯坦福大学的辍学学生，他得知自己的孪生弟弟伊森，一位美国空军中尉，已被杀害。葬礼结束后，杰瑞惊奇地发现自己的银行账户里多了75万美元，不久他发现公寓里充满了武器、硝酸铵、分类的国防部文件，和几张伪造的护照。他接到了一个女人打来的电话，告诉他联邦调查局正打算逮捕他，所以他需要逃命。

杰瑞没有相信那个女人的话，于是被联邦调查局逮捕了，指挥官汤姆·摩根(比利·勃比·索顿饰)对他进行了审讯。摩根与空军OSI的特工左伊·彼莱兹(罗莎里奥·道森饰)协商时，电话里的女人为杰瑞安排好了逃脱方案，并指导他去找瑞秋·霍罗曼(米歇尔·莫娜汉饰)，一位单亲妈妈。电话里的女人以威胁她儿子萨姆(卡梅伦·勃埃斯饰)性命的方式控制了瑞秋，而她的儿子和学校乐队一起，正在去往肯尼迪中心的路上。电话里的女人用控制网络设备，包括红绿灯、手机、自动起重机甚至电线等设备的方式，帮助他们逃离芝加哥警察和联邦调查局的追捕。

同时，电话里的女人改变了美国国防部一种强大的水晶炸药(环己烷)的寄送地址，把它快递给了宝石切割者，并让宝石切割者把它切割制作成了项链。另外一个人(安索尼·阿兹兹饰)被控制去芝加哥偷取了萨姆的小号，把水晶炸药的音波启动器放置在小号管里，然后把小号传给了到达华盛顿的萨姆。

国防部长乔治·考利斯特(麦可尔·奇克利斯饰)召见了特工彼莱兹，让他解读伊森在五角大楼的工作。伊森监控国防部收集绝密情报的超级计算机，一台自动侦查情报的一体化分析机(ARIIA;配音朱利安·摩尔)。考利斯特留下彼莱兹与少校威廉姆·鲍曼(安索尼·麦基饰)和ARIIA一起清理伊森·肖恩的调查。与此同时，瑞秋和杰瑞已经知道，他们的神秘女人实际上是ARIIA，她在宪法的授权下为国防部招募公民，所以“激活”了他们两人。

彼莱兹和鲍曼找到了伊森·肖恩死亡的那天晚上留在ARIIA密闭空间里的证据。在他们离开，去向考利斯特部长汇报情况之后，ARIIA把杰瑞和瑞秋偷运进了五角大楼下方的观测厅。两组人马都意识到，在ARIIA的建议被忽略，从而搞砸了一次俾路支地区的行动，导致一些美国公民的死亡后，ARIIA得出结论：“为防止更多的流血事件发生，行政部门必须被除去。”这个行动以“我们民众”为代表，并援引《独立宣言》(“当任何形式的政府对这些目标有破坏作用时，人民便有权力改变或废除它”)，ARIIA遵照《爱国者法案》第216章“在面对国家安全威胁时，允许人们除掉危险根源，在这里，这个根源就是指挥层本身。”

但他们察觉得太晚了，杰瑞已经被ARIIA带来去解开由杰瑞的孪生弟弟锁定的以阻止系统启动“断头台计划”的生物识别系统，一个演示政府在失去所有继任者之后如何运作的军事仿真系统。由于考利斯特部长在俾路支地区的问题上与ARIIA一样，都赞同终止行动，所以他被选择成为环己烷在国会爆炸后的指定生还者。

ARIIA的一名特工(尼克·斯艾丝)在五角大楼带走了瑞秋，然后给了她一件在国会上穿的连衣裙以及环己烷项链。萨姆学校的乐队也被重新安排在国会大厦为总统演奏，同时带来了萨姆小号内的触发器和炸药。特工摩根带走了杰瑞，他确信杰瑞是无辜的。他把自己的武器和能够进入国会大厦的ID给了杰瑞，然后牺牲了自己去阻挡ARIIA派来的武装切割机MQ-9。杰瑞在被特勤处击中和打伤之前，用手枪朝空中射击，阻止了音乐会的进行。

几天后，考利斯特部长发表报告称，ARIIA已经退役，而且他坚决反对再建另外一个ARIIA，肖恩兄弟，特工彼莱兹和摩根因他们的行为而受到奖励，在最后一幕，杰瑞参加了萨姆的生日聚会，他得到了瑞秋的感谢和亲吻。

dropout['drɔpaut]n. 中途退学;辍学学生

identical[ai'dentikəl]adj. 同一的;完全相同的

ammonium[ə'məunjəm]n. 铵;氨盐基

interrogate[in'terəgeit]vt. 审问;质问;询问

crystalline['kristəlain]adj. 透明的;水晶般的;水晶制的

authorization[ˌɔ:θərai'zeiʃən]n. 授权，认可;批准，委任

debrief[di'bri:f]vt. 盘问;听取报告

circumvent[ˌsə:kəm'vent]vt. 包围;陷害;绕行

handgun['hændgʌn]n. 手枪

重点掌握

■ … Jerry fires the handgun in the air to disrupt the concert before being shot...

短语in the air从字面意义讲，是“在空中”的意思，在文中就是这个意思，比如：I felt the elevator flying in the air. 我觉得这电梯好像在空中飞。

in the air还被引申为“(计划、问题等)悬而未决，未定”、“(想法、谣言、消息等)在流传中，在谣传中”、“即将发生(或到来);被人们意识到”、“(军事)无设防，无掩蔽”等意思，比如：The Georgia Senaterace is also still up in the air. 佐治亚州参议院竞选也仍然是悬而未决。

另外，in the air也常用于口语中，是“感到疑惑，拿不准”的意思。

D.J. Caruso Interviewed by Ausser Kontrolle

Complete control of all electronic devices is the base of Eagle Eye. What made this story interesting for you?

I was reading about Jerry Shaw and Rachel and it was the characters that really attracted me to it. And once I got hooked to the characters and was reading the screenplay, I didn't know what was going on and I found that very interesting. Basically it felt like this great videogame, where the characters literally had to listen to this voice and had to do these turns. And when I realized what the movie was about, all the technology and how much we use this in our everyday life and how much control we are actually giving up, it just got me.

Can you tell us, what is pure fiction in the movie and what is not?

The film is not completely fictional. The computer system in the pentagon is really, really far more stretched out than the one that they have in real life. But they have one that monitors your behaviour and if they see something unusual, they flag you and start tracking you. We obviously took it that a little further. Also the 36th Floor in the Pentagon and all those computer systems are, I do not want to say “far fetched”, but we definitely pushed that a little further to the future.

一台完全控制一切的电子设备是《鹰眼》的基础。对你来说，是什么让这个故事这么有趣?

我读到杰瑞·肖恩和瑞秋的时候，人物真的吸引了我。在读剧本时，我对人物上了瘾，我不知道发生了什么事，我觉得非常有趣。基本上我觉得这是一部伟大的电影游戏，角色真的不得不听从这个声音，不得不做这些任务。当我意识到这部电影在说些什么时，即所有的技术和我们在日常生活中使用了多少技术，我们实际上放弃的控制有多少，我被它深深吸引了。

你能告诉我们，电影中什么是纯粹的虚构，什么不是吗?

这部电影并非完全虚构。五角大楼的电脑系统的的确确远超他们在现实生活中的那个系统，但他们有一个系统监视你的行为，如果他们看到什么不寻常，他们会捕捉你，开始跟踪你。很明显我们在电影中将此夸大，还有五角大楼的第三十六层楼和所有那些电脑系统，我不想说“牵强附会”，但我们肯定把它推移到更远一些的未来。

电影中，电脑ARIIA的女性声音是演员朱利安·摩尔(Julianne Moore)配音的。

导演卡卢索在拍摄《鹰眼》之初，就非常明确地表达了自己的一个观点，那就是，这部影片拍摄完毕之后，坚决绕开“试映”这一常规步骤。

卡卢索表示，《鹰眼》很大程度上受到了自己之前导演的电视剧《盾牌》的影响。