Treasure! Knights! Founding Fathers! High tech capers! Secrets spanning centuries!
Wow - that's the most ripping trailer (WM) (Real) (QuickTime) I've seen in a long time. My heart is pounding, my eyes twitching, my imagination fired (I've GOT to get into PR one of these days).
I'm not kidding, National Treasure, with a swashbuckling yet deadpan Nicolas Cage (is he the new Harrison Ford?), looks to be an update of the Raiders series with the panache of Pirates of the Caribbean (same producer), and the precision-caper angle of Ocean's Eleven or Mission Impossible.
The plot (below) reads much more plodding and convoluted than it seems to be in the trailer, and if you really want to get into it, check out the movie site for an amazing SmartTrailer, which after showing the trailer proper allows you to select from nine special features delving into such subject as "The Treasure Is Real" "Templar Knights" "Masons" "Ben Franklin" and "Declaration of Independence," with audio-visual background, history, clips, interviews on the topics. It's like a DVD on the Internet.
- NATIONAL TREASURE
Walt Disney Pictures
November 19, 2004
CAST: Nicolas Cage, Diane Kruger, Justin Bartha, Sean Bean, Harvey Keitel, Stewart Finlay, David Dayan Fisher, Christopher Plummer, Don McManus, Mark Pellegrino
DIRECTOR: Jon Turteltaub
WRITTEN BY: Jim Kouf
PRODUCERS: Jerry Bruckheimer, Jon Turteltaub and Christina Steinberg, Charles Segars and Oren Aviv
Nicolas Cage stars as Ben Franklin Gates, an archaeologist and adventurer looking for the legendary lost treasure of the Templar Knights, spurred on by the stories he was told as a young man by his grandfather, John Adams Gates, twenty years before. John tells Ben the secret hiding place for the treasure is encoded on the back of the Declaration of Independence, placed there by none other than the founders of the United States of America, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin.
Article comments
1 - CarlosX
I saw National Treasure and it is a plus max treasure hunt story. Better than "Long John Silver" Aye me Cap'n!
It is funny at times and very Disney,
but the movie with well deserved
of your time.
2 - Eric Olsen
thanks Carlos, very good to hear your thoughts - reviews have been wildly mixed but it's done very well at the box office through the first weekend
3 - crush,etc.( lots of others
thank you for writing national treasure! everyone at school, church and even the adults say it is their favorite movie because it doesn't have swear words in it, inapporpriate parts (that don't need to be added) and it was a very well thought of! i hope you will write more movies like that (anyways I talked to a lot of people and the main reson they like it was because it didn't have the junk (swear words, a or immorrel stuff that didn't need to be added. And it was cool!)I just hope you make more movies like that so people can enjoy the whole some and Fantabulous movie that it is- Thanks Again!
4 - crush,etc.( lots of others
Thank you for writing national treasure! Everyone at school, church and even the adults say it is their favorite movie because it doesn't have swear words in it, inapporpriate parts (that don't need to be added) and it was well written! I hope more movies like that will be made. (Anyways I talked to a lot of people and the main reason they like it was because it didn't have the junk (swear words, or immoral stuff that didn't need to be added. And it was cool!)I just hope you make more movies like that so people can enjoy the whole- some and Fantabulous movie that it is- Thanks Again! Crystal age 10