19 September 2009
An untraceable source…
Posted by christopher under: Uncategorized .
As I watched National Treasure, I couldn’t help but feel that someone was trying to beat Dan Brown to the punch. Now, while The Da Vinci Code (scheduled to be made into a major motion picture next year, rumored to star Tom Hanks) has little to do with Masons (well, maybe a little, but not really in the grand scheme), it does cross-plots with National Treasure a bit when we find ourselves watching the Knights Templar plunder a treasure hidden beneath the Temple of Solomon. And the analysis of codes and riddles by Benjamin Gates, Nicholas Cage’s character in the movie, seems straight out of the world of Dan Brown’s character, Robert Langdon. Brown’s successful book series could become quite a movie franchise if Hanks and company make The Da Vinci Code as inspiring on screen as it was in print… but here’s the kicker: The next book in the Robert Langdon series (Brown is still working on it) is supposedly set in the Washington DC area, and it’s supposed to deal with a Masonic conspiracy…. Sounds a wee bit like National Treasure preempted that plot. Conspiracy theory, anyone?
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