百年50部英文燒腦電影賞析:(1)Angels & Demons 天使與魔鬼

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.

在西爾瓦諾·本蒂沃利奧(卡門·阿金齊亞諾飾)與其女維多利亞·維特拉(阿耶萊特·祖里爾飾)博士的努力下，歐洲核子研究中心發(fā)明了大型強子對撞機和三瓶比以往發(fā)現(xiàn)的更加強大的反物質(zhì)粒子。不久，西爾瓦諾遭謀殺，其中一瓶反物質(zhì)粒子也不翼而飛。此時，羅馬天主教皇暴斃，按照教會制度，教皇選舉委員會要準(zhǔn)備選舉下一任教皇，羅馬教廷事務(wù)暫由教廷主管帕特里克·麥肯納(伊萬·麥克格雷格飾)負(fù)責(zé)。在教皇選舉會議舉行之前，光照派綁架了教皇候選人(四名紅衣主教)，揚言在接下來的每一個小時會將一名紅衣主教撕票，并在午夜時分用那瓶反物質(zhì)粒子摧毀羅馬教廷。教廷找到哈佛大學(xué)符號學(xué)家羅伯特·蘭登(湯姆·漢克斯飾)和歐洲核子研究中心的維多利亞，請求他們給予幫助，找到四位紅衣主教和反物質(zhì)炸彈的所在。

根據(jù)光照會提供的信息，蘭登推斷處決四位紅衣主教的地點是四個“光明之路”的圣壇，因為在這四處有代表四元素的天使雕像。盡管里奇反對，麥肯納還是讓蘭登翻閱了羅馬教廷秘密檔案中伽利略的被禁書籍。根據(jù)查找到的線索，蘭登隨同維多利亞、檢察長埃內(nèi)斯托·奧利維蒂(皮爾弗朗西斯科·法維諾飾)和憲兵部隊中尉瓦倫蒂(維克多·艾法利飾)，來到人民圣瑪麗亞教堂的基吉小圣堂，發(fā)現(xiàn)紅衣主教艾布納已經(jīng)被土活埋窒息，身上打下“土”字烙印。當(dāng)他們查明第二個圣壇位置在圣彼得廣場并趕往之前，紅衣主教拉瑪瑟早已被刺穿肺部身亡，身上留有“空氣”的烙印。

維特拉通過西爾瓦諾的日記得知，第三個圣壇位置在維多利亞圣瑪麗亞教堂，但當(dāng)蘭登和教廷人員趕去的時候，紅衣主教嘉德拉剛被燒死，身上烙下“火”字，這時殺手突然出現(xiàn)，除蘭登外的所有人遇害。蘭登和兩名憲兵趕往水的圣壇——位于四河的源泉，殺手將兩名憲兵殺死，把紅衣主教巴吉亞扔進水里倉皇而逃。在旁人的幫助下，蘭登將巴吉亞救起，得知光照會的藏身之處在圣天使堡。蘭登和維特拉前往圣天使堡，在那里發(fā)現(xiàn)了一條通向羅馬教廷的秘密通道，這條通道便是殺手的藏身之處，同時他們還發(fā)現(xiàn)帶有五種符號的烙印工具，意識到第五個烙印是為教廷主管準(zhǔn)備的。他們立即趕去通知麥肯納，在途中遇到殺手，殺手沒有對他們下手，且隱晦地告訴他們這件事的主謀是“上帝的人”。殺手離開后，被炸死在自己的車?yán)铩?/p>

當(dāng)蘭登和維特拉回到羅馬教廷，看到教廷內(nèi)衛(wèi)指揮官里奇(斯特蘭·斯卡斯加德飾)正舉槍指著胸口被烙上烙印的麥肯納，幾名侍衛(wèi)迅速開槍擊斃了里奇，蘭登從里奇手中拿到了一把鑰匙，并在教廷地下的圣彼得墓中找到了那瓶反物質(zhì)。但是這瓶反物質(zhì)由于電力不足即將爆炸，情急之下，部隊飛行員出身的麥肯納將反物質(zhì)帶到教廷屋頂?shù)闹鄙龣C上，將直升機開到高空，自己則借降落傘返回地面。反物質(zhì)在高空爆炸，人們?yōu)樗麣g呼，稱頌他為英雄和救世主，紅衣主教們選舉他為教皇。然而，蘭登和維特拉通過里奇的鑰匙找到了一柄錄像帶，錄像是麥肯納在遇襲前對里奇說的話，真相大白：制造這一場陰謀的人是麥肯納而不是光照會，他企圖制造恐慌拉攏教會人心，最后當(dāng)選教皇。蘭登把這卷錄像帶交給教皇選舉委員會，麥肯納知道事情敗露，焚火自盡了。

羅馬教廷對外宣稱麥肯納死于降落傘落地時的內(nèi)傷，紅衣主教巴吉亞被選為路加一世教皇，紅衣主教施特勞斯被任命為教廷主管。為了答謝蘭登，施特勞斯贈予他伽利略的《圖解真理》一書以助于他的研究，唯一的要求是在蘭登死后把這本書送還羅馬教廷。除此之外，還允許他在今后的出版物中可以參考天主教堂的資料。影片最后的鏡頭是，新上任的教皇邁上他的陽臺，朝下面的人群微笑。