NATIONAL TREASURE

The movie that I’ve watched was National Treasure directed by Jon Turteltaub. This story was about Benjamin Franklin Gates, an archaeologist and adventurer and third generation treasure hunter has been searching for the legendary lost treasure of the Templar Knights, spurred on by the stories he was told as a young man by his grandfather, John Adam Gates, twenty years before. John told Ben the secret hiding place for the treasure is encoded on the back of the Declaration of Independence, placed by none other than the founders of the United States of America, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Ben. A coded map on the back of the Declaration of Independence points to the location of the “national treasure”, but Gates was not alone in his quest. Whoever can steal the Declaration and decode it first will find the greatest treasure in history.

            Ben and his friend, Riley Poole found the ship “Charlotte”. Ben’s family has been looking for this ship for decades, because it is supposed to contain a clue to a treasure hidden by the forefathers. Benjamin and Riley followed this clue to the Declaration of Independence, but one of their teammates turns against them and tried to find the treasure for themselves. Riley and Ben steal the Declaration so that the traitor, Ian, won’t get it for himself.

            Along the way, they pick up Abigail Chase, who is an employee at the national archives. They found the letters on the back which leads them to the Silence Dogood letters, where they are then led to the liberty bell. After they got a special pair of glasses to read the map, Ian steel the declaration, and Ben is taken into FBI custody. With Ian’s help, Abigail and Riley help him escape, and they found the final treasure together under a church. When Ian abandons them at the bottom of a cavern because he thought there was no treasure, they end up exploring and finding it for themselves.

            Patrick Gates is Ben’s unsupported father who doubts the search for treasure but ends up coming alone. However, he changed his mind when Ben, Riley, and Abigail found the treasure: a room of historical artifacts. Ben leads the FBI to arrest Ian, and the movie ends with the treasure recovered.