百年50部英文烧脑电影赏析:[34]Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows 大侦探福尔摩斯

In 1891, Irene Adler（Rachel McAdams）delivers a package to Dr Hoffmanstahl, a payment for a letter he was to deliver. Hoffmanstahl opens the package, triggering a hidden bomb that is prevented from detonating by the intervention of Sherlock Holmes（Robert Downey, Jr.）. Holmes takes the letter and disposes of the bomb while Adler and Hoffmanstahl escape. Holmes later finds Hoffmanstahl assassinated. Adler meets with Professor Moriarty（Jared Harris）to explain the events, but Moriarty poisons her — deeming her position compromised by her love for Holmes.
Some time later, Dr. Watson（Jude Law）arrives at 221B Baker Street, where Holmes discloses that he is investigating a series of seemingly unrelated murders, terrorist attacks and business acquisitions that he has connected to Moriarty, Holmes meets with a French Manouche Gypsy fortune-teller Simza（Noomi Rapace）, the intended recipient of the letter he had taken from Adler, sent by her brother Rene. Holmes defeats an assassin sent to kill Simza, but she flees before Holmes can interrogate her. After the wedding of Watson and Mary Morstan（Kelly Reilly）, Holmes meets Moriarty for the first time. Moriarty informs Holmes that he murdered Adler and will kill Watson and Mary if Holmes' interference continues with the case. Moriarty's men attack Watson and Mary on a train to their honeymoon. Holmes, having followed the pair to protect them, throws Mary from the train into a river below where she is picked up by Holmes' waiting brother, Mycroft（Stephen Fry）, After defeating Moriarty's men, Holmes and Watson travel to Paris to locate Simza. When she is found, Holmes tells Simza that she has been targeted because Rene is working for Moriarty, and may have told her about his plans. Simza takes the pair to the headquarters of an anarchist group to which she and Rene had formerly belonged. They learn that the anarchists have been forced to plant bombs for Moriarty.
The trio follows Holmes' deduction that the bomb is in the Paris Opera. However, Holmes realises too late that he has been tricked and that the bomb is in a nearby hotel; the bomb kills a number of assembled businessmen. Holmes discovers that the bomb was a cover for the assassination of Meinhard, one of the attendees, by Moriarty's aide, Sebastian Moran（Paul Anderson）. Meinhard's death grants Moriarty ownership of Meinhard's weapons factory in Heilbronn, Germany. Holmes, Watson and Simza travel there, following clues in Rene's letters.
At the factory, Moriarty captures, interrogates and tortures Holmes while Watson is under sniper fire from Moran. Holmes spells out Moriarty's horrific plot, revealing that the Professor secretly acquired and owns shares in multiple war profiteering companies, and intends to instigate a world war to make himself a fortune. Meanwhile, Watson uses the cannon he had been hiding behind to destroy the lighthouse in which Moran is concealed. The structure collapses into the warehouse where Moriarty is holding Holmes captive. Watson, Simza, and an injured Holmes reunite and escape aboard a moving train. Holmes deduces that Moriarty's final target will be a peace summit in Switzerland, creating an international incident.

At the summit, Holmes reveals that Rene is the assassin and that he is disguised as one of the ambassadors, having been given radical reconstructive surgery by Hoffmanstahl to alter his appearance. Holmes and Moriarty, who is also in attendance, retreat outside to discuss their competing plans. Watson and Simza find Rene and stop his assassination attempt but Rene is himself silenced by Moran. Outside, Holmes reveals that he previously replaced Moriarty's personal diary that contained all his plans and financing with a duplicate. The original was sent to Mary in London, who decrypted the code using a book that Holmes had noticed in Moriarty's office during their first meeting. Mary passes the information to Inspector Lestrade（Eddie Marsan）who seizes the bulk of Moriarty's assets, financially crippling him. Holmes and Moriarty anticipate an impending physical confrontation, and both realise Moriarty would win due to Holmes' injured shoulder. Holmes instead grapples Moriarty and forces them both over the balcony and into the Reichenbach waterfall below,
Their bodies are not found. Following Holmes' funeral, Watson and Mary prepare to have their belated honeymoon when Watson receives a package containing a breathing device of Mycroft's that Holmes had noticed before the summit. Contemplating that Holmes may still be alive, Watson leaves his office to find the delivery man. Holmes, having concealed himself in Watson's office, reads Watson's memoirs on the typewriter and adds a question mark after the words “The End”.
1891年，艾琳·阿德勒（瑞秋·麦克亚当斯饰）送了一个包裹给霍夫曼斯塔尔博士，作为让他帮忙送一份信的报酬。霍夫曼斯塔尔打开包裹，触动了一个隐藏的炸弹，夏洛克·福尔摩斯（小罗伯特·唐尼饰）的介入阻止了炸弹爆炸。福尔摩斯拿到了信并且处理了炸弹，然而阿德勒和霍夫曼斯塔尔跑了。稍后，福尔摩斯发现霍夫曼斯塔尔被暗杀了。阿德勒去见莫里亚蒂教授（杰瑞德·哈里斯饰）并向他解释这些事，但是莫里亚蒂毒死了她——认为她对福尔摩斯的爱慕影响了她的立场。 一段时间之后，华生博士（裘德·洛饰）抵达贝克大街221B,在那里福尔摩斯透露，他正在调查一系列看起来似乎没有关系的谋杀、恐怖袭击和商业收购，他把这些和莫里亚蒂联系起来。福尔摩斯遇到了一个法国的吉普赛算命师希姆（鲁蜜·瑞佩斯饰）。他从阿德勒那里拿走的信，本来是由希姆的哥哥雷内寄给她的。福尔摩斯击败了一个被派来杀希姆的杀手，但是在福尔摩斯想审问希姆之前她就跑了。在华生和玛丽·摩斯坦（凯利·赖利饰）的婚礼之后，福尔摩斯第一次见到奠里亚蒂。莫里亚蒂告诉福尔摩斯他杀了阿德勒，并且如果福尔摩斯继续干涉这个案子的话，他将杀死华生和玛丽。
莫里亚蒂的人在华生和玛丽去度蜜月的火车上袭击了他们。一直跟随并且保护着这对夫妇的福尔摩斯将玛丽从火车上扔到河里，等在那里的福尔摩斯的哥哥迈克罗夫特（斯蒂芬·弗雷饰）将她拉了上来。打败莫里亚蒂的人之后，福尔摩斯和华生到巴黎去找希姆。当他们找到她时，福尔摩斯告诉希姆她已经成为目标，因为雷内正在为莫里亚蒂工作，而他也许告诉过她莫里亚蒂的计划。希姆将这两个人带到她和雷内以前从属的一个无政府主义团体的总部。他们了解到莫里亚蒂强迫这些无政府主义者为他制造炸弹。
这个三人组听从福尔摩斯的推断，认为炸弹在巴黎歌剧院。但是当福尔摩斯意识到他被骗了的时候已经太晚了，其实炸弹在附近的一个旅馆里，一些集会的商人死于爆炸中。福尔摩斯发现爆炸只是暗杀其中一个出席者梅哈德的一个掩护，这件事是莫里亚蒂的助手塞巴斯蒂安·莫兰（保罗·安德森饰）做的。梅哈德的死，将他在德国海尔布隆的武器工厂的所有权授予了莫里亚蒂。福尔摩斯、华生和希姆根据雷内信中提到的线索找到这个工厂。
在工厂里，莫里亚蒂抓住了福尔摩斯，并且对他进行严刑拷问，同时华生正挣扎在莫兰的狙击兵炮火之中。福尔摩斯说出了莫里亚蒂的可怕阴谋，揭露这个教授秘密地在许多战争暴利公司收购并且拥有自己的股份，并且意图煽动世界大战来让自己发财。同时，华生用自己藏起来的大炮毁掉了莫兰藏身之处的灯塔。灯塔朝莫里亚蒂关押福尔摩斯的仓库倒塌。华生、希姆和受伤的福尔摩斯重聚，并且逃上了一辆行驶中的火车。福尔摩斯推断莫里亚蒂的最终目标会是在瑞士的一个和平峰会上制造一起国际性事件。
在峰会上，福尔摩斯指出雷内是刺客，雷内装扮成其中一个大使，由霍夫曼斯塔尔给他做了一个彻底的外科整容手术来改变他的容貌。福尔摩斯和同样出席的莫里亚蒂退避到外面，来讨论他们的竞争计划。华生和希姆找到了雷内，并且阻止了他的暗杀企图，但是雷内自己被莫兰灭口了。在外面，福尔摩斯透露说，他先前用一本复制品取代了莫里亚蒂的私人日记，日记上记着他所有的计划和财务状况。原件已经被送给了在伦敦的玛丽，她用福尔摩斯第一次见到莫里亚蒂时在他办公室注意到的一本书来解密这些代码。玛丽把信息传递给检查员雷斯垂德（埃迪·马森饰），他夺取了莫里亚蒂的大多数财产，让他遭受重大损失。福尔摩斯和莫里亚蒂预料即将进行一次身体对抗，由于福尔摩斯肩部受伤，他们两个人都意识到莫里亚蒂会赢。但福尔摩斯却抓住了莫里亚蒂，并且强迫他们两个跳下阳台，跳进下面的赖兴巴赫瀑布。
他们的尸体没有找到。接下来是福尔摩斯的葬礼，当华生和玛丽准备去度他们迟到的蜜月时，他接到一个包裹，里面有一个福尔摩斯在峰会之前注意到的迈克罗夫特的呼吸器。华生想着福尔摩斯可能还活着，于是离开他的办公室去找送快递的人。福尔摩斯把自己隐蔽在华生的办公室里，看打印机上华生的回忆录，并且在“剧终”两个字后面加了一个问号。

recipient［ri'sipiənt］n. 容器；接受者；容纳者
anarchist［'ænəkist］n. 无政府主义者
deduction［di'dʌk∫ən］n. 扣除；减除；推论；减除额
instigate［'instigeit］vt. 唆使；煽动；教唆；怂恿
lighthouse［'laithaus］n. 灯塔
duplicate［'dju:plikət］n. 副本；复制品
balcony［'bælkəni］n. 阳台；包厢；戏院楼厅
waterfall［'wɔ:təfɔ:l］n. 瀑布；瀑布似的东西
memoir［'memwɑ:］n. 回忆录；研究报告；自传；实录
重点掌握
■ Holmes spells out Moriarty's horrific plot,…
spell out是英语中一个固定搭配，如果你spell something out, you explain it in detail or in a very clear way. 也就是“清楚地解释；详细说明”的意思，比如: Be assertive and spell out exactly how you feel. 自信点，把你的真实感受详细说出来。另外，spell out还可作“认真研究；理解”解，比如：Can you spell out my meaning?你能理解我的意思吗？

Robert Downey Jr. Interviewed by Christina Radish
What was the challenge in taking Sherlock Holmes to another level for the sequel?
After the first one worked out pretty good, we were doing the press tour and talking about things that we would like to improve and other directions we could go. And then, there was the reality of doing it. Anybody who's ever been involved in making the second part to a first thing that worked, there should be a whole online support team. We happened through it. There's so much to learn and the greatest disguise was us disguising ourselves as consummate, by the numbers, professionals, when in fact, we're all incredibly eccentric. And, Warner Bros, has given us the opportunity to try to do something that's complicated and needs to tick a bunch of boxes. The great thing was that, this time, we also had Noomi ［Rapace］and Jared ［Harris］.
What are the things you keep in mind, as you try to stick to the basics of Sherlock, but also make it different?
Well, you just keep Doyle in mind. I just respect the guy, more and more. Often times what's required, particularly if you're in any central position, is that you just have to let go of the things that are darling to you. You have to take the focus off yourself and put it on the shape of the scene and the intention of what everyone else needs. You have to give people something to actually write music to, so that you're not just running your mouth, all the time. It was a democracy, in the truest, most frustrating and most rewarding sense of the world. Anybody could come in and say, “You know, I'm just not cool with that.” We'd be like, “Who's that?”，and they'd say, “Oh, I was just cleaning the trailers.” It was nuts. 在续集中，把夏洛克·福尔摩斯带到另一个水平有什么挑战？
在第一部获得好评之后，我们正在做巡回记者会，并且讨论我们可以提高的地方和我们可以发展的方向。然后就是实际完成它。任何参与到为卖得好的第一部拍第二部分续集的人，都应该有一个网络支持团队。我们碰巧可以凭借这些。有太多东西需要学习，最好的伪装便是通过数据和专业人员来将我们包装成完美无暇的，而事实上我们都古怪得让人难以置信。华纳兄弟公司给了我们这个机会，去尝试做一些复杂的、需要包括很多方面的事情。最棒的事情是，这一次我们还有鲁密（瑞佩斯）和杰瑞德（哈里斯）的参与。
当你尝试坚持夏洛克的基础特质，同时还要让它有所不同时，你牢记的是什么东西？
你只要记住道尔。我越来越尊敬这个家伙。很多时候，尤其是当你在中心位置时，你要做的是必须放开你心爱的事物。你必须让焦点离开自我，重点关注拍戏本身和别人的需求和意愿。你必须给人们一些真正可以写入乐曲的东西，这样你就不会一直只是花言巧语了。这是一种民主，是世界上最真实、最令人沮丧也是最值得的感觉。每个人都可以进来并且说，“你知道，我就是对这个不爽。”我们会说，“这是谁啊？”然后他们说，“哦，我刚刚在清洗拖车。”这是胡说。

杰瑞德·哈里斯和斯蒂芬·弗雷虽然在片中扮演的是死对头，但是在生活中，这两个人的生日却是在同一天：8月24日。
这并不是小罗伯特·唐尼和杰瑞德·哈里斯的第一次合作，他们曾在奥利佛·斯通的名作《天生杀人狂》中有过合作。
莱斯利· S ·克林格（Leslie S. Klinger），《夏洛特·福尔摩斯新注》（The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes）一书的作者，也是本片的顾问，他曾经建议导演把本片命名为《夏洛特·福尔摩斯：大游戏》（Sherlock Holmes: The Grand Game）。
布拉德·皮特、加里·奥德曼、丹尼尔·戴·刘易斯、西恩·潘和贾维尔·巴登都曾经是扮演莫里亚蒂教授的人选。