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- In the film, Benjamin Franklin Gates, a historian, along with computer expert Riley Poole and archivist Abigail Chase, search for a massive lost Freemason treasure, which includes a map hidden on the back of the United States Declaration of Independence.
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They all dig the ship up and explore it, expecting to find the treasure itself - but all they find is barrels and barrels of gunpowder. One of the gunpowder barrels hid a 200-year-old Meerschaum Pipe with another clue built into the carvings.
In the film, Benjamin Franklin Gates, a historian, along with computer expert Riley Poole and archivist Abigail Chase, search for a massive lost Freemason treasure, which includes a map hidden on the back of the United States Declaration of Independence.
National Treasure is a 2004 adventure film from the Walt Disney Studios. It is the first film in the National Treasure Franchise. Nicolas Cage plays Benjamin Franklin Gates, a historian and amateur cryptologist searching for a lost treasure, once protected by the Knights Templar and hidden by...
- THE SCRIPT NEEDED NINE WRITERS TO CRACK THE CODE. Originally planned for a summer 2000 release, National Treasure—based on a concept by Disney marketing head Oren Aviv and DreamWorks television executive Charles Segars—had a Byzantine plot that kept it in a prolonged pre-production period.
- BENJAMIN FRANKLIN REALLY WAS A FREEMASON. Fact and fiction blur considerably in National Treasure, which uses history as a jumping-off point for some major jumps in logic.
- THE CREW USED A BRICK-FOR-BRICK REPLICA OF INDEPENDENCE HALL. It can be tricky to secure permission to film on government property, which is why producers of National Treasure probably considered themselves fortunate when they discovered that Walter Knott of Knott’s Berry Farm fame had built a perfect replica of Independence Hall on his land in Buena Park, California back in the 1960s.
- THAT $100 BILL REALLY DID HAVE A PRECISE TIME ON THE CLOCK. One of Cage’s cryptic clues in the film is reading a time of 2:22 on the clock depicted on the image of Independence Hall on the $100 bill.
Dec 19, 2016 · Fact*: When he was 14, Benjamin Franklin wrote letters to his brother, the editor of the New-England Courant, pretending to be a middle-aged widow named Silence Dogood. Franklin was actually 16 years old when he began writing as Silence Dogood, but yes, he sent letters under the pseudonym to his brother, James Franklin, at the New-England ...
Aug 15, 2024 · He plays Benjamin Franklin Gates, a historian searching for a treasure rumored to have been hidden since the dawn of America. When a clue points him toward the Declaration, he hatches a plan to swipe it and follow all subsequent clues.
For several generations, a clan has been searching for a clue to discover where the so-called national treasure is hidden, until they have given up. But the last descendant named Benjamin Franklin Gates continued the search, his father asking him to stop, telling him that the treasure was only a myth.
