铁面人 The Man in the Iron Mask Movie Script

杰瑞发布于2022-11-25

故事发生在1660年的法国，国王路易（理查德·查伯兰 Richard Chamberlain 饰）整日沉湎于酒色之中，无心朝政，使臣民们生活在水深火热之中。路易有一个孪生弟弟名为菲利普（理查德·查伯兰 Richard Chamberlain 饰），史书中记载的菲利普刚刚出生便已夭折，可实际上，他被偷偷送往阿尔卑斯山的一个庄园中，隐姓埋名，生长在此。　　国王的昏庸让内务大臣科贝尔（拉尔夫·理查德森 Ralph Richardson 饰）和火枪手队长达达尼昂（路易斯·乔丹 Louis Jourdan 饰）感到大为不满，他们决定找到菲利普，扶持他推翻哥哥的统治，登上王位。贪婪的财政大臣富凯（帕特里克·麦高汉 Patrick McGoohan 饰）早先一步找到了菲利普，他和国王一起设计，给菲利普带上铁面，投入了深牢之中。 Paris is starving, but the King of France is more interested in money and bedding women. When a young soldier dies for the sake of a shag, Aramis, Athos and Porthos band together with a plan to replace the king. Unknown to many, there is a 2nd king, a twin, hidden at birth, then imprisoned for 6 years behind an iron mask. All that remains now is D'Artagnan, will he stand against his long time friends, or do what is best for his country?

ARAMIS' VOICE I was summoned to the royal apartments. Arrange a carriage, they told me, and wait by the door of the stables.
INTERCUT FLASHBACK We see images of that night, as we saw in the opening.
ARAMIS' VOICE They brought a baby from the back of the palace, into the black carriage I had waiting. They had given the driver instructions about where it was, and I was ordered to make the whole journey with the blinds of the carriage drawn.
In the flashback we see the young Musketeer Aramis, his face shielded in shadow, handing a living bundle over to someone at one of the back doors of a large country house.
ARAMIS' VOICE I carried that baby into the countryside, to a chateau, like this one. And there I left him.
ARAMIS IN THE PRESENT
ARAMIS:
I have never forgotten that night, or what I carried.
PORTHOS:
I don't understand. What does this have to do with...? You carried a baby somewhere, it's unusual, but --
ARAMIS:
Not just a baby, Porthos. I carried the child of the king.
PORTHOS:
The child of the king is... the king. Louis!
ARAMIS:
No, not Louis!
PORTHOS:
Athos, do you understand this? He confuses me --
ARAMIS:
I carried the king's child! The queen had twins that night, and one of them was sent away, in secret!
PORTHOS:
But why?
ARAMIS:
Because the old king had a twin as well, and through his whole reign his brother fought him for the throne. Then he had two heirs, not just sons but twins. So he decided that one be put away, as if he never existed. You, Phillippe.
Phillippe is pale... We DISSOLVE TO a flashback of Phillippe's early education in the country house.
ARAMIS' VOICE The old king ordered you be educated and well treated, but your identity kept from you and all those around you.
The FLASHBACK moves to the palace, matching the narration -- ARAMIS' VOICE On his death bed, he revealed your existence to Louis and your mother.
Your mother had been told by her own priest that you had died at birth.
Somehow she blamed herself for ever believing it, and she wished to restore your birthright. But now Louis was king.
We see in FLASHBACK Louis wearing his new crown, plotting.
ARAMIS' VOICE A priest, even a Pope, he could kill without hesitation, but he was afraid to kill you, for his whole claim to power rests on the sanctity of royal blood. So he had you hidden in a way that only a monster could devise. I know, for it was I who took you to prison, and the Iron Mask. Someday I will ask your forgiveness. But not until we have restored to you what is yours.
We are in present time again. All eyes are on Phillippe.
PHILLIPPE: Restored...?
ARAMIS:
We will replace Louis with Phillippe. No one but the King himself -- and now we -- knows Phillippe even exists. All we have to do is switch them.