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''The Raven'' is a 2012 American mystery thriller film directed by James McTeigue and based on a screenplay by Ben Livingston and Hannah Shakespeare.〔("Luke Evans and Alice Eve in James McTeigue’s The Raven" ). ''HollywoodTrailers.net''. Retrieved 2011-07-22.〕 It stars John Cusack, Alice Eve, Brendan Gleeson and Luke Evans. It was released March 9, 2012 in Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom and the United States on April 27, 2012. Set in 1849,〔 it is a fictionalized account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe's life, in which the poet and author pursues a serial killer whose murders mirror those in Poe's stories. While the plot of the film is fictional, the writers based it on some accounts of real situations surrounding Edgar Allan Poe's mysterious death. Poe is said to have repeatedly called out the name "Reynolds" on the night before his death, though it is unclear to whom he was referring. The title derives from Poe's poem "The Raven", in the similar manner of the earlier unrelated 1935 and 1963 films. Receiving mixed to negative reviews from critics, the film just made back its budget. The visual effects garnered praise, as did the musical score by Lucas Vidal, but reviewers criticized the various twists and turns of the plot-lines, as well as the performances. ==Plot== In 19th-century Baltimore, Maryland, several policemen discover a murdered woman sprawled on the floor of her apartment, which was locked from the inside. While police search for the killer's means of escape, they discover a second corpse in the chimney, later identified as the 12-year-old daughter of the first victim. A celebrated detective, Emmett Fields, is called to assist in the investigation and discovers that the crime resembles a fictional murder in the short story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" that he had once read. The writer Edgar Allan Poe is brought to Fields for questioning. After finding the body of a rival critic of Poe's cut in half with a pendulum (as in Poe's story "The Pit and the Pendulum"), the pair deduce that someone is copying Poe's stories. Edgar's love, Emily Hamilton, is kidnapped at a masquerade ball her father is hosting, like the one described in Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death". The killer taunts Poe in a note, demanding that Edgar write and publish a new story. Poe's lodgings are burned down by people who believe he is exploiting the murders for his own journalistic ends, and he is forced to move in with Fields. A clue from the killer referring to "The Cask of Amontillado" leads Poe and Fields to search the tunnels under the city with several policemen, discovering the walled-up corpse of a man dressed as Emily. The man is determined to be a sailor, and the clues on his body bring the pursuers to Holy Cross Church, where an empty grave with Emily's name on it has been prepared. As the police attempt to break down the church doors, the killer attacks and kills one of the policemen, then shoots and wounds Fields. Poe gives chase on horseback, but the killer escapes. Poe writes one last chapter for his newspaper column, offering his life for Emily's, suggesting that he could take a poison. In the morning, the maid gives Poe a letter from the killer, accepting his terms, but the note had been delivered long before the paper was distributed. Realizing that the killer must work at the paper, Poe races to the newspaper office to confront his editor, Henry, but instead finds Henry already dead, with another note. The real killer, the paper's typesetter, Ivan, appears, and congratulates Poe, offering him a drink. Ivan attempts to converse with Edgar, but Poe only demands to be told of Emily's location. Ivan pours a vial of poison, promising to end the story as Poe had written, to which Poe agrees, drinking the liquid. It is revealed that Ivan's surname is Reynolds, and the killer quotes a line from the "The Tell-Tale Heart", allowing Edgar to deduce that Emily is concealed beneath the printing floor. As the killer leaves, Poe uses the last of his strength to tear up a false section of floor and open a trapdoor leading to where his fiancée is being held. Poe rescues Emily and they share a poignant moment before she is taken away by ambulance. Delirious from the poison, Edgar wanders off to a park bench to die. A man walking in the park recognizes him as "Edgar Poe", the famous writer, and asks if he is all right. Poe can summon only enough strength to say, "Tell Fields his last name is Reynolds". Later, when Fields comes to view Poe's corpse at the hospital, the attending physician is unable to tell him the exact cause of death, but mentions that the writer was incoherent, insisting that "his last name is Reynolds". Fields ponders the meaning of the phrase, slowly connecting the dots. Some time later, Ivan (now under his new name "Reynolds") is shown disembarking from a train in Paris. As a porter carries his luggage, Ivan climbs into a carriage to be confronted by Fields, revolver levelled at him. He lunges for the detective, and is immediately shot. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Raven (2012 film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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