National treasure?

It was a great movie that twisted yesterday and was very facinating. I can't lie low dig the second precise come out later this year. Here's some fun facts coming out of the imdb site:

1. Before the movie got its rating, it was governed the Touchstone Pictures banner (which is sector of Disney). When the film got its rating (which is PG), it was then put under the Walt Disney Pictures banner, equally it is clear that it is a more family-friendly movie.

2. The last name on Security Guard Mike's jacket is Hawk.

3. The movie suggests that something is written over the back connected with the Declaration of Independence. It is true such something is written over its back. The essay on the back of the Declaration connected with Independence reads: "Original Declaration of Independence archaize 4th July 1776" and it appears over the nether portion of the document, upside down. While no precise experience for certain who wrote it, it is celebrated that early customary its life, the large parchment evidence (it breadth 29 3/4 one thirtysixth of a yard via 24 ½ inches) was rolled relevant because storage. So, it is credible that the code was hitch on quietly as a label.

4. Ben, Patrick, and John Gates were integer supported after founding fathers (Benjamin Franklin, Patrick Henry, also John Adams). Abigail Chase is a combination of Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams, and Samuel Chase, a signer of the Declaration connected with Independence also Chief Justice of the United States. associate judge.

5. As the camera pans via the treasure cave we can show a statue of a black game - an homage on The Maltese Falcon (1941), which was added treasure hidden via a group of knights and sought after via several parties.

6. The screenwriting set connected with Terry Rossio and Ted Elliott were authorize via producer Jerry Bruckheimer on do an uncredited manuscript brilliance for the movie.

7. On the DVD, director Jon Turteltaub make known the initial precise cut was about square hours long.

8. The polished that the oversized action takes place customary (Washington D.C., Philadelphia, and New York City) are three of the nine capital cities the United States has had customary its history.

9. Good guys customary the movie exercising Google and bad guys exercising Yahoo! search engines.

10. Along with the Gates tribe all body supported postern founding fathers, Ian's antipodal name is Howe, the last name of bifid brothers who were a British general and an admiral customary the Revolutionary War.

11. In the DC sector during the planning stage of the burglary the movie cuts on an external shot connected with a fit together on the Potomac River - presumably where the just guys are represent their attempt. This fit together is the Watergate Hotel.

12. The water customary the reflecting pool in blind of the Lincoln Memorial in the scene where Ben and Riley are talking on the steps was digitally added posterior because the water drained for maintenance at the time of filming.

13. EASTER EGG: To see unusual hidden special comment on the R2 DVD navigate on the logbook in the upper right collar of the main menu and press select to enter, then forget the code 405 also select the 'master code' for a list of integer the exclusive features available (some are otherwise only available in scarcely any lie low menus that must be found through mini-games over exclusive menu).

14. During a press junket, albeit asked on the occasion that he believed the love existed, Sean Bean replied, "It's probably in Sheffield," (his home town).

15. Diane Kruger go for it most connected with her own stunt office in the compact expel scene.

16. When Gates is purchasing a replica Declaration connected with Independence in the gift shop, on the respond next on the register is a stack of scroll because sale. The book is 'The Secret Architecture connected with our Nation's Capital' by David Ovason and is almost the Masons and the fit together connected with Washington DC. Ovason and wrote "Secret Symbols connected with the Dollar Bill", and US currency is used as one of the clues customary the film.