《国家宝藏2:神秘书》剧情介绍:
1865年4月14日晚10点15分,林肯总统在华盛顿福特剧院遇刺。凶手据称是当时颇有名气的演员约翰·沃克斯·布斯,他在审判尚未开始之前就遭人枪杀,犯罪动机被归结为精神错乱。林肯被刺固然遗留下了一连串令人难解的疑问,但真正打动冒险家本杰明·盖茨(尼古拉斯·凯奇)的,却是它与恢复盖茨家族声誉之间千丝万缕的联系。
一切要从他的曾曾祖父托马斯·盖茨说起。当年,以宝藏探险家闻名天下的老托马斯,在华盛顿城内一家小酒馆曾与布斯有过一面之缘。在帮助布斯破译他日记本上的一段密码时,密码文字中惊现西班牙语中的黄金城字样,老托马斯瞬即意识到布斯很可能就是密谋造反的金环骑士会一员。为了免于让美利坚再次陷入战乱,老托马斯撕掉了日记本中的18页扔入火炉,不料这不仅给他带来杀身之祸,竟还让他牵扯入了林肯遇刺案,落下不白恶名。
伟大的探险家成为了涉嫌阴谋暗杀林肯总统的幕后主脑!怎么可能?!为了还曾曾祖父一个清白,也为了探寻传说中的黄金城下落,借着祖上留下的只言片语,本杰明又一次踏上了冒险征程。这一次,本不仅要带着老爹老妈和女朋友全家上阵,还将闯入英国白金汉宫,溜进白宫总统办公室,偷走历届美国总统的“秘密之书”,甚至还会绑架美利坚总统大人!上帝保佑,阿门!
国家宝藏2:神秘书 花絮
传说,在广袤无垠的原始亚马逊密林深处,有一座失落的黄金城。那里有一个叫帕蒂的酋长统治的玛诺阿国,金银财宝堆积如山,就连宫殿都由纯金砌成。1528年,一个遇难落水的西班牙奴隶曾误入了这座神秘城市,黄金城的传说不胫而走。随后,西班牙人、葡萄牙人、英国人、荷兰人和德国人都蜂拥而至,然而做着一攫千金美梦的探险队们,却或失望而归,或丢了性命。其中,只有一两支西班牙寻宝队,在付出了上百条性命的惨重代价后,终于发现了黄金城难以估价的财宝中的冰山一角--黄金湖,即便是这样也足以让贪婪的世人垂涎三尺。Cibola,西班牙语中的黄金城--据说,这是一份西班牙探险队留下的寻宝图中的关键字眼。
1854年,在美国中西部路易斯维尔州,成立了一个自称为“金环骑士会”的幽灵似的神秘兄弟会组织。骑士会宣称自己是天命的使者,他们有着复杂的宗教仪式、严密的等级标识,并宣称要建立一个起自南部,扩大到整个墨西哥、中美洲和西印度群岛的蓄奴州“金环”,进而退出联邦,成立新的庞大奴隶制帝国。
黄金城与金环骑士会?除了都是谜团重重的庞大隐秘,到底还有什么不为人知的瓜葛?借用当年刺杀林肯的凶手布斯孙女伊左拉的回忆录中关于林肯刺杀与“金环骑士会”的秘辛记载,好莱坞又一次把捕风捉影大胆推测,将总统被刺与中世纪传说扯成了一线。这一来,咱们“英姿飒爽”的凯奇大叔既能像福尔摩斯般推理探案,又能像印第安纳琼斯般展示历史文物知识,还能顺便一展拳脚向动作片靠齐,当然最重要的还是继续寻宝猎人探秘解谜的刺激旅程。
National Treasure: Book of Secrets Movie Synopsis
For Ben Gates (Nicolas Cage), history isn't just a dry record of what's occurred in a distant and half-forgotten past... for him, history is alive, vital, and occasionally it offers the possibility of finding extraordinary treasures. After his astonishing discovery of the riches of the Templar Knights, Ben has become the world's most famous treasure hunter... although he prefers the term "treasure protector."
Ben and his father, university professor Patrick Gates (Jon Voight), are shaken by the discovery of one of the long-lost pages from the diary of Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth. The diary was found on Booth's body when he was killed; however, several pages had been torn from the diary and have never been found... until now. Surprisingly, the information on this page seems to implicate their ancestor Thomas Gates as a co-conspirator in the assassination of President Lincoln.
Ben must work with his now ex-girlfriend, American history archivist Abigail Chase (Diane Kruger), and his tech-wiz partner, Riley Poole (Justin Bartha), in a globe-trotting adventure which dangerously criss-crosses the inner sanctums of Washington, D.C., Paris, London and the American heartland.
As Ben, Patrick, Abigail and Riley meticulously unravel clues which threaten to turn history, and their lives, completely upside down, their search for historical truth widens into a hunt for perhaps the most mysterious and highly guarded book on earth and, from that, to a famed mythological treasure. Much to Patrick's consternation, Ben calls upon a secret weapon -- his formidable mother and Patrick's ex-wife, linguistics professor Emily Appleton (Helen Mirren), who hasn't spoken to Patrick in 32 years. She is soon caught up in the intrigue, but the team is not alone in its pursuit. The man who brought the lost page to Ben's attention, Mitch Wilkinson (Ed Harris), has his own family history to uncover. But his ambitions are less noble than merely discovering treasure, putting him on a deadly collision course with the others in a desperate effort to uncover the secrets that lie beneath the half-burnt diary page from America's past.