National Treasure Movie Details
National Treasure taglines:The greatest adventure history has ever revealed.
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| Directors: Jon Turteltaub | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| IMDB Rating: 6.9/10 out of 79,002 votes |
“National Treasure” 2004 by Jon Turteltaub – Movie Goofs
“National Treasure” Plot Summary
A treasure hunter is in hot pursuit of a mythical treasure that has been passed down for centuries, while his employer turned enemy is onto the same path that he’s on.
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“National Treasure” Goofs List
- Factual errors: SPOILER: Ben “stains” Abigail’s fingers with a Political Button from George Washington’s inauguration. However, the first campaign button was used in the McKinley campaign in the 1890s.
- Continuity: SPOILER: When Ben and the gang are standing in the treasure room, Ben lights the chain of fire. It goes to a shot overlooking the room in which the whole room is lit. Then it switches to a shot where the light is still moving towards the back of the room. It goes back to the original shot where the whole room is lit again.
- Crew or equipment visible: When Ben visits his father after stealing the Declaration and they argue, there are reflections of video screens in his father’s glasses.
- Crew or equipment visible: In the tunnels below the church, Patrick Gates appears to be lit from the torch he is holding. When he turns toward the camera, a square diffused light is reflected in his glasses and is the source of the “torch” light.
- Continuity: When Riley is first shown in the treasure room looking at the “big… bluish-green man with a strange looking goatee”, there is already a smudge in the dust on the chest of the statue. The scene cuts to Riley, then back to the him and the statue. The statue now has an even layer of undisturbed dust with no smudge. Riley then hugs the statue and his cheek rests on the chest of the statue. He is not shown moving away from the statue, but the smudge could have only been left by his cheek.
- Continuity: When Sadusky and his men are arresting Ben, the back of Riley and Abigail’s heads can be seen leaving the scene, and a moment later, they can be seen turning away from them, waiting for their cue over Sadusky’s shoulder. However, a moment later they come around the corner and witness Ben’s arrest and then turn and leave again, for the third time total.
- Revealing mistakes: The first shots of the group once inside Trinity Church reveal that they are actually inside the First Congregational Church in Los Angeles, California, USA. The pipe organ in the background does not match the one inside Trinity church.
- Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Abigail and Riley notice two of Ian’s thugs chasing them, Riley says, “Time to run”, but his lips do not move.
- Miscellaneous: When Ben escapes from the police and he’s meeting with Ian and they are talking outside the church, one scene there are cars in the background. Then the camera turns back to look at Ian and then goes back to Ben and there are no cars.
- Continuity: The postcard carousel in the gift shop as Ben Gates is hiding from Abigail.
- Continuity: On The Charlotte, in the cargo hold, Ian’s hat has a design on it “looks like mountains”. The amount of the design that we see continually changes throughout the scene – and continues to change as Ian is escaping in the vehicle before The Charlotte blows up.
- Continuity: As Ben and Ian are talking about whether there is a next clue while in the lantern cave, the Declaration changes places multiple times as Abigail holds it. It changes from no case to brown case to white case and finally ends in the brown case on Abigail’s shoulder.
- Continuity: Young Ben Gates has brown eyes while the adult Ben Gates has blue eyes.
- Continuity: After Ben has escaped the FBI and is driven to meet Ian, Ian puts the pipe and declaration on top of the car. Ben takes the declaration in his left hand and the pipe in his right in the next shot when he tries to walk away, the declaration is in his right hand and the pipe is hidden.
- Errors in geography: When Riley goes down into the Archives-Navy Memorial Metro stop to tap the security system, the train passing behind him is clearly a New York subway train and not a DC Metro train.
- Continuity: When Riley is down in the Archives-Navy Memorial Metro stop to tap the security system, the shot that he records of the preservation room shows the Declaration already there and covered, as Ben later finds it. However, Riley has not yet set off the temperature sensors, thus the document has not been taken down to the Preservation Room yet.
- Factual errors: When the characters go underground, Ben pulls a torch off of the wall and lights it, and it burns instantly and brightly. Also when the heroes find the treasure room, a ‘river of fire is lit’. There is no substance the 18th century colonials would have had access to which could have both produced instant flames of that kind *and* had it’s potency last for 200+ years.
- Revealing mistakes: Just after Ben mixes the fluorescent marker liquid, he reaches into the glass clearly holding the George Washington campaign button. The scene then cuts to him dipping his bare fingers and the button has vanished.
- Continuity: When discussing the Pass and Stow riddle in Urban Outfitters, Abigail is clearly leaning on the counter with one hand as Ben says, “… the vision to see the treasure past must refer to a way to read the map”. In the next shot, Abigail’s arms are crossed and she is standing straight up.
- Continuity: When Abigail and Riley are running through the market, Abigail jumps over a low wooden counter but is shown finishing her “jump” behind a glass meat case far from the wooden counter which, incidentally, is being blocked by the waitress.
- Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): While explaining the importance of the lantern outside the treasure room Patrick Gates incorrectly states that a Thomas Newton hung the lanterns in the Old North Church for Paul Revere to see. The name of the church sexton that hung the two lanterns was Robert Newman.
- Continuity: When Abigail opens the box containing the campaign button, the bottom of the box falls on its side. In the next shot, the close-up of her hands holding the button, the box is right side up.
- Continuity: When Ian’s henchman is shooting at Ben as he is ducking behind the red van outside the gala, he shoots out one of the headlights on the passenger side. When the chase is coming to an end, after Ian realizes that he has a replica in his possession, they show the van with both headlights in tact. Only one headlight is lit (drivers side) but the glass on the passenger side is intact.
- Factual errors: When Ben determines that the shadow cast from Independence Hall must be viewed at 2:22 PM, there is no consideration given as to the time of year. For the shadow to be cast in exactly the correct spot, the shadow would have to be viewed on the same day of the year as the clue was viewed.
- Continuity: When everyone reaches the ‘dead end’ room at the bottom of the winding staircase, Ben has the tube with the Declaration of Independence over his shoulder, he slung it there after saving it from falling into the pit. After they start talking about having reached a dead end, it disappears from over his shoulder. When Ian and his henchman turn to go back out, Riley is holding it and when Ian is talking to Ben from the platform, Abigail has the Delcaration of Independence and Riley just has the tube.
- Factual errors: When the gunpowder burns up at first there is little to no smoke. Smokeless gunpowder was not invented until 1884-1886 and the Charlotte was lost at sea in 1818. The gunpowder used prior to the invention of the smokeless gunpowder invented in 1884-1886 would have produced a large cloud of smoke, disabling them from seeing each other. Also, the gunpowder must have been wet from being in the ice. Gunpowder cannot explode when it gets wet.
- Miscellaneous: After crawling through the “creepy, crawly” space where the coffin was removed, all characters emerged without a speck of dust, dirt or cobwebs on their clothing. The knees on their pants should have been filthy.
- Continuity: When Riley is sitting outside the building that holds the Dogood Letters, retrieving the next clue by the Museum Kid, he puts a pile of papers that were previously seen under the paper he is writing the clue on, next to him on the bench. Then in the next shot, in which there is a close up of the paper that holds the clue, they are back under it.
- Factual errors: Throughout the movie, it is said the Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4th, 1776, when in fact, it was only adopted on that day. It was not actually engrossed on parchment, and signed until August 2nd, 1776. The copy that was signed on July 4th was a “rough journal” as it was called, and then only signed by John Hancock, President of the Continental Congress and Charles Thomson, the Secretary.
- Errors in geography: When they are at the Charlotte, there are mountains in the background in multiple directions. They alleged they are in an area where the ice pack is “semi-solid” and shifting. Clearly, they are in a valley, completely surrounded by mountains, inland. While it is reasonable that a sh
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