Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Where do u b, key to DC............................??????????



Benjamin Franklin Gates (Nicolas Cage) is an American historian, amateur cryptologist, and the youngest descendant of a long line of treasure hunters. While his father Patrick Henry Gates (Jon Voight) discourages him from following in the family line, Ben is driven on by a story told by his grandfather, John Adams Gates (Christopher Plummer). According to John, a clue - the phrase "The secret lies with Charlotte" - was entrusted to the family by Charles Carroll of Carrollton in 1832, and would lead to the fabled "national treasure", a wealth of artifacts dating from Ancient Egypt and secretly hidden by the Founding Fathers and the Freemasons during the American Revolutionary War.
Thirty years later, Ben discovers evidence that Charlotte refers to a colonial ship trapped in the Arctic ice, and arranges an expedition financed by Ian Howe (Sean Bean). With help of his computer expert and friend Riley Poole (Justin Bartha), they successfully find the ship, and within its hold, a meerschaum pipe which is engraved a riddle. Ben concludes that the riddle indicates the presence of a map on the back of the Declaration of Independence. When Ian suggests they steal the Declaration to get the map, Ben holds fast and wanting to acquire the document legally. They fight, and gunpowder in the hull is ignited; Ian and his team leave Ben and Riley to their fate, but the two are able to escape safely.
Ben attempts to alert the government to the imminent threat, including the FBI and Dr. Abigail Chase (Diane Kruger) at the National Archives in Washington D.C. where the Declaration is held, but their claims are dismissed. Ben decides to steal the Declaration themselves before Ian can. Ben secretly obtains Abigail's fingerprint and a password that allow them to steal the Declaration during a gala dinner while the Declaration is placed in storage, but Ben absent-mindedly walks into a gift shop and is spotted by a cashier who thinks he is trying to shoplift a replica of the Declaration, forcing him to pay with his credit card since he doesn't have enough cash. Abigail becomes aware of Ben's actions, but as she approaches them during their escape, Ian and his men arrive. Ben, Abigail, and Riley escape in a car chase. The FBI, led by Peter Sadusky (Harvey Keitel), discover the missing Declaration and begin to trace Ben's identity through the purchase of it, while Ian and his men work to locate Ben.
Ben, Abigail, and Riley go to Patrick's home. Despite Patrick's protests, Ben and Abigail start to review the Declaration, and find a Ottendorf cipher written in invisible ink on its back. The encrypted message references the Silence Dogood letters written by Benjamin Franklin, which were owned by Patrick, but he recently donated them to the Franklin Institute. Ben, Abigail, and Riley use schoolchildren to acquire the key words from the letters, with a message pointing them to the bell tower of Independence Hall where the Liberty Bell was originally located. There, they find a hidden cache with a pair of spectacles with multiple colored lens, which when used to read the back of the Declaration, reveals a clue in an older area of New York City. They become aware that Ian and his agents have been following them, and the group splits up. Ben is arrested and interrogated by the FBI, while Abigail and Riley attempt to flee with the Declaration but lose it to Ian. Abigail is able to convince Ian to help them rescue Ben from the FBI in exchange for the next clue. Ian agrees, and arranges a meeting at the USS Intrepid during which they engineer Ben's escape.
Ian then returns the Declaration and demands Ben provide the next clue, but Ben remains coy. Ian reveals they have captured Patrick, coercing Ben's cooperation, and directing them to the Trinity Church. Inside, they find a passage that leads deep underground. A room at the bottom is lit by a single lantern, which Patrick asserts refers to Paul Revere's Ride—a clue pointing to the Old North Church in Boston. Ian and his men ditch Ben, Abigail, Riley and Patrick and race to Boston, unaware that the clue was fake. Ben opens a secret door by an engraving of the all-seeing eye. Inside, they find a notch which the pipe from the Charlotte fits, opening onto a large chamber containing the national treasure, as well as a secondary passage to the surface. Once out of the church, Ben contacts Sadusky, and learns he is a Freemason; Ben returns the Declaration and the location of the treasure in exchange for their names being cleared of stealing the Declaration. Ben also informs Sadusky of his bluff to Ian, and the FBI are able to ambush Ian and his men and charge them with kidnapping, attempted murder, and trespassing on multiple government properties.
Later, Ben and Abigail have started a relationship, while Riley is somewhat upset that Ben turned down the 10% finder's fee for the treasure and accepting a much smaller amount that still has netted them all significant wealth.

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