Lost Broadway Treasures
You can not forget Captain Jack Sparrow, but National Treasure is one heck of a game
Copyright © 2007 Ed Bagley
National Treasure 3 Stars (Good)
He took too long for the land of cinema to bring a modern day treasure hunt worth watching, but director Jon Turteltaub delivered to largest in the National Treasury, the story of a secret treasure that crosses the centuries.
The search is the story of immense generosity continues to grow and change hands over time until seized by the Knights Templar from the 11th century as during the Crusades. The Knights Templar Masons today.
Finally, the treasury makes its way to our shores and our founding fathers, several of whom were Masons, hide the treasure to help finance the War of Independence against the British.
Then, the treasure was lost, and six generations of the Gates family to conduct a search to prove its existence, the latest of which is Ben Gates (Nicolas Cage). Gates joins partner Riley Poole (Justin Bartha), Patrick Gates (Jon Voight as Ben's father) and Abigail Chase (Diane Kruger).
Gates ends steal the Declaration of Independence to validate a key and get the important document before the bag boys do (all treasure hunts have been bad for the prosecution). Abigail, the curator of the National Archives, is shot in the chase to retrieve the original document, and eventually joins Gates in a search for truth.
National Treasure is full of obscure clues, the trail of what keeps the audience riveted on the argument written by Jim Kouf and Oren Aviv, and polished by screenwriters Ted Elliott not accredited and Terry Rossio.
It begins on the coast of the Arctic with a meerschaum pipe 200 years old, found on board a ship buried in the snow call Charlotte, confirming the first clue: The secret lies with Charlotte. For the curious sea foam is a soft, white clay consisting of hydrous magnesium silicate, found mainly in Turkey, so that in this case, meerschaum is a hookah.
From there the original Declaration of Independence stolen to confirm the presence of a code is not detected in the back of the document.
So is the silence dogood letters written by a young Benjamin Franklin when I was a printer with his brother. From there to the Liberty Bell at Independence Hall in Philadelphia and an ocular device (goggles) hidden in a brick wall. Finally led us to Trinity Church, near Broadway and Wall streets in New York, and the tomb of Parkington Lane.
Ultimately, the meerschaum pipe 200 years age is the key "to the treasure.
This is a good movie because of some clever writing and direction by Jon Turteltaub. National Treasury loses Race honors for Oscar recognition and reward associated sites, but wins the race viewer by capturing your audience.
The likely path to find the treasure is a wood 200 years old staircase several stories high and full of crumbling joints and heroic escapes. I liked this movie and I hope that it shows.
Unlike the Indiana Jones trilogy with Harrison Ford, which are attracted to Ford and his antics action adventure, treasure national stay focused on the tracks with the actors not upstaging the treasure hunt in history.
Turteltaub does without the usual Hollywood braces sex drugs, alcohol, profanity, rape and murder, and raises a number of brands Disney (PG) to do so. The whole family can watch this movie without the fear of inappropriate scenes. There is some violence, but by Hollywood standards of violence is nothing.
Nick Cage does a good job in this movie we focus on the treasure hunt, and Diane Kruger does most of his own stunt work in a car chase scene of heartbreaking.
I like this movie despite some blunders improbable events and filming. None of this seems to interfere with the mission to hand: solving the clues and find the treasure.
See National Treasury. You will like it, especially if you like treasure hunting, or good story lines on the treasure hunt.
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Oh well, performing arts is just very interesting for me.`;-