19September2009
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Wait a minute: Knights Templar? Freemasons? Clues to a mystery hidden within a well-known historical artifact? Sounds a lot like Dan Brown’s book “The Da Vinci Code” to me. In fact, National Treasure is a blatant rip-off of the best-selling novel. Only the artifact has been changed. When I read “The Da Vinci Code,” I thought it was a piece of crap – a preposterous potboiler trying to pass itself off as something scholarly and academic. This film doesn’t have the pretension, thank goodness, but it has all the same ridiculous plotting.
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19September2009
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Is there anything more pitiful than a “Da Vinci Code” knockoff? Actually, yes: the sequel to a “Da Vinci Code” knockoff. Look, we understand the realities of Hollywood, even the guilty pleasure of watching Nicholas Cage… Wanna know what’s in that book of secrets? Paychecks. Very big paychecks.
19September2009
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“Funny, I don’t even like history” - Sophie Noveu (Something tells us Dan Brown is speaking from personal experience here).
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19September2009
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Its a genius move because these two movies have very similar plot lines: The Knight’s Templar (and the Masons, in NT) have hidden a treasure throughout the ages. In DVC its a secret about the bloodline/descendants of Jesus, and its focal point is France. In NT, its actual piles of gold, and inexplicably its focal point is the USA. There are many people will kill (and be killed) in protecting the secret. Equally inexplicably, in both movies the action is generated by a race against time (and authorities, and enemies) - inexplicable because for centuries nobody had done anything. But so it goes in fiction.
And that’s the point - both of these movies (and the books they’re based on), are complete acts of fiction. Or are they?
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19September2009
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Have you read “The Da Vinci Code?” If so, then take that plot, spin it around until the whirling feeling leaves you woozy, and then transplant the story to America. Remove the logical progression of events from “The Da Vinci Code” and you’ve got “National Treasure.”
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19September2009
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It’s everything you loved about The Da Vinci Code, stripped of its religious context and transposed to early America. In fact, the movie so unabashedly mirrors Dan Brown’s guilty-pleasure bestseller that it might just as easily have been called ”The Franklin Code.”
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19September2009
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Those who haven’t read Brown’s outrageously popular novel may notice a certain familiarity to the film adaptation.Ever seen “National Treasure”? Just substitute the iconography of Christianity with that of the American Revolution, and the template is the same.
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19September2009
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The one thing the movie did reveal to me was the absurdity of that legend’s claims. It made National Treasure look like a documentary. As a matter of fact, I think the comparison is very valid.
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19September2009
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When Dan Brown cooked up a similarly far-out plot in his runaway bestseller The Da Vinci Code—about a 2,000-year-old secret it claimed has been concealed by the Catholic Church—readers flocked to religious and historical texts to learn more about what really happened.
Will National Treasure do the same for moviegoers?
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19September2009
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Bottom line: If you want an entertaining yarn about the Knights Templar, historical secrets, and cryptic codes hidden in famous documents and artifacts, go rent National Treasure. Now there’s a movie that knows how to have fun with an absurd premise—and it doesn’t spread falsehoods about the Church that have already undermined the faith of many Christians. The best thing that can be said about The Da Vinci Code is that it is such a dud, it just might help to bring this phenomenon to an end. And the sooner, the better.
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