视频简介
埃文（本·斯蒂勒 Ben Stiller 饰）是镇上的一个商店经理，对社区的事务也十分积极。然而商店保安却遭遇了意外谋杀，当地警察却无心追查，埃文的生活就此被打乱，他决心自己找出凶手。埃文将目光投向了邻里街坊，并与同样在生活中受挫的鲍勃（文斯·沃恩 Vince Vaughn 饰）、富兰克林（乔纳·希尔 Jonah Hill 饰）和贾马克思（理查德·艾欧阿德 Richard Ayoade 饰）四人组成了邻里联防组，每天在镇上巡逻，当然也借此理由偶尔放纵。在一次驾车巡逻时，他们意外地发现了一个奇怪的金属球，与此同时，镇上也出现了几起神秘死亡事件，联防组在被一只外来生物攻击时制服了它，得知外星人已经入侵小镇，并且通过偷窃人类皮囊来伪装成人，施展攻势。联防组方知行动已经迫在眉睫但却雾里看花，因为小镇上的任何一个人都可能是外星人，然而更可怕的是，外星人的最终目的竟然是毁灭整个地球。得知这一切的联防组能否凭四人之力粉碎外星人的阴谋呢……。Dr Janina Ramirez unlocks the secrets of illuminated manuscripts that were custom-made for kings and explores the medieval world they reveal. Part 1: Ruling by the Book Janina begins her journey with the first Anglo-Saxon rulers to create a united England, encountering books in the British Library's Royal manuscripts collection which are over a thousand years old and a royal family tree which is five metres long. Janina finds out about a king who had a reputation for chasing nuns and reads a book created as a wedding gift for a ten-year-old prince. She roams from Westminster Abbey to other ancient English spiritual sites such as Winchester, St Albans and Malmesbury, and sees for herself how animal skins can be transformed into the finest vellum. Part 2: What a King Should Know Janina shows how medieval manuscripts gave power to the king and united the kingdom in an age of plague, warfare and rebellion, discovers that Edward III used the manuscripts he read as a boy to prepare him for his great victory at the battle of Crecy and reveals how a vigorous new national identity bloomed during the 100 Years War with France. In the British Library's Royal Manuscripts collection Dr Ramirez finds out that magnificent manuscripts like the Bedford Hours, taken as war booty from the French royal family, were adapted for the education of English princes. She also explores how knowledge spread through a new form of book - the encyclopaedia. Part 3: Libraries Gave Us Power The story of the British Library's Royal Manuscripts collection reaches its end with the last great flowering of illumination, in the magnificent courts of the Tudors. She investigates astrological texts created for Henry VII, and unwraps his will - still in its original, extravagantly-decorated velvet and gold cover. She hears music written for Henry VIII, which went unperformed for centuries| and reads love notes between the king and Anne Boleyn, written in the margins of a prayer book. Nina also visits Bruges, the source of many of the greatest manuscripts, where this medieval art form collided with the artistic innovations of the Renaissance. （转自mvgroup论坛）。
