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National Treasure
2004 · Film · 131 min
Part of National Treasure Collection
Directed by Jon Turteltaub
Modern treasure hunters, led by archaeologist Ben Gates, search for a chest of riches rumored to have been stashed away by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin during the Revolutionary War. The chest's whereabouts may lie in secret clues embedded in the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, and Gates is in a race to find the gold before his enemies do.
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> or that someone who would not authorize something like this would literally not be allowed to show up on the ballot?
I'm surprised that you've never encountered this persepective before, it seems a very common one to me.
The first thing I think about is the South Park episode in which the elementary school had to vote for a school mascot and they were given the choice of either "a giant douche" or "a turd sandwich".
The second thing is another South Park episode (circa 2009), for which they actually produced two episodes (and aired one) for the Presidential election between McCain and Obama. Regardless of who would win, the plot was the same: the winner colludes with the loser in a National Treasure-style heist, with the election just being part of the setup.
In the latter example, the message seems to be that it doesn't matter who wins because the same outcomes occur. The former example probably doesn't need explaining.
Anyway, yeah, it would be nice to choose something better than a turd sandwich but when the other option is a giant douche, what is there to do? The way I see it, you either vote for someone who you know stands no chance (Jill Stein, btw), don't vote at all, or vote for the turd sandwich (or the giant douche, if that's your persuasion).
Excuse me, but the highly acclaimed documentary National Treasure says otherwise.
The resolution here:
Librarian: Happy Easter X
feels eerily similar to an ending from a National Treasure / Tomb Raider movie. In fact, I think we can go ahead and assume that some globe-trotting high jinx occurred. Maybe there was a map to the actual Tree of Life?
So is Great Britain, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, China, Japan, Egypt... Countries and humans are the symbol the symbol of colonization since we wiped out the Neanderthal.
Does it make it right? No.
Should we revel in it? No.
But to cherry pick America as the sole proprietor of colonialism and colonization is ridiculous and whatever you have going on with the Free Masons I put down to National Treasure. Fun movie, but fairly baseless.
I guessed fury road, fear and loathing, national treasure, Malkovich Malkovich and a handful of others. For some the posters resemble scenes from the movie, others seem to more literally express the title. To me these scream AI generated they remind me a lot of the gan generated visual dreams...
"Someone has to go to prison, Ben" - quoting Harvey Keitel from National Treasure movie (1:50) [1]
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co4EsnwAM1Q
I have read when i was in fourth grade that onion juice could be used to make invisible ink that appears when the paper is heated.
There was also a scene[0] in National Treasure film (2004) where they use lemon and heat to reveal a hidden text
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTA7KR9-9lM
I don't read much. But movies and TV shows (and Anime) have tons of mysterious libraries.
* Terry Pratchet's Discworld -- `nuff said.
* The Pagemaster (90s film about kid getting trapped inside of adventure books)
* Beauty and the Beast -- The library was the only non-magical part of the enchanted castle, ironically.
* "National Treasure" movie has a few important library scenes
* A Certain Magical Index -- Anime / Light Novel: the female lead "Index" is literally a character who had a library implanted inside of her.
* The Mystic Archives of Dantalian -- Anime / Light Novel: Another one where the female lead is a library of sorts. She's more bookwormish than Index, and actually hangs out at a normal Library most of the time.
* Read or Die -- Another anime with library / paper themed superpowers
* Harry Potter -- So many shenanigans happen in the Hogwarts library, I don't even know where to start.
* Full Metal Alchemist -- The librarian was instrumental to the plot. Its mostly an action show, but there was a period where they had to research some stuff at the Alchemist's library.
* The Ancient Magus' Bride -- I wasn't too fond of the show in general, so I haven't seen it all yet. But there was a very memorable magical library episode. Effectively, the magic library was a trap which can only be escaped if the human receives something from inside. The lead character kept returning to the library (her personal life sucked, so she needed an escape), while the Librarian would continuously give her something so that she could escape each time. When the Librarian ran out of things to give her, he rips up the magical library card (hoping she never returns again). Unfortunately, the lead character is adept in magic and finds her way back even without the library card, to a disastrous consequence.
* The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- A classic, is it not? I guess its a single book that they're working with, but the singular book is magic-space tech that has all the information you could ever need. So its basically a library.
* Ender's Game -- Honorable Mention. Ender's video game with the giant that he plays by himself effectively functions as a library. Its where Ender has self-reflection, and where the malevolent forces push Ender towards one direction of his psyche. Its as much of a "Library" as the "Pagemaster" was IMO.
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EDIT: Apparently 'The Pagemaster' is a book in of itself, and is listed in the article. I didn't know that. Harry Potter was also on their list.
it wouldn't be that hard. if this was real, we'd have a good national treasure meets the notebook film to make.
USA is like: "Look, we have ancient history as well!".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldowan
National Treasure the movie was a good laugh though.
Back in 2011 there was a Popular Science blurb on General Fusion and Jeff Bezos' investment in them. I looked through papers and news reports about them and was reminded of the comment in the movie "National Treasure" by Jon Voight discussing this potentially mythical treasure, "... another clue, and then another clue after that, its nothing but clues!" So much of the 'upstart' fusion research is just that, pure research trying to learn enough so that you can begin to answer questions like "Exactly how would we get energy out of this in useful way?" The numbers are small, $10M here, $15M there, $3-4M over there. But there is so much risk stacked on top of risk that the only funds available are literally funds that the owner expects about as much return as they would get by making a bonfire out of them, with the exception the bonfire would keep them warm for one night.
I was hoping Google's R<C effort would help with this but was disappointed in how that fund was managed with regard to new science. Perhaps its going to require Elon Musk to get involved :-)
[1] http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-05/jeff-bezos-invests-195-million-nuclear-fusion-technology?dom=PSC&loc=recent&lnk=4&con=jeff-bezos-invests-195-million-in-general-fusions-nuclear-technology
True, but I suspect that doesn't massively prolong most movies, only big ones that people are passionate about (Star Wars, The Godfather Trilogy, etc).
Just randomly picking... 2004. Top 10 movies from that year, and pulling future media sales predictions out of my ass:
Shrek 2 kids movie, profitable regardless. Spider-Man 2 probably poor The Passion of the Christ probably poor Meet the Fockers nobody cares. The Incredibles kids movie, profitable regardless. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban great. The Day After Tomorrow nobody cares. The Bourne Supremacy possibly good. National Treasure nobody cares. The Polar Express nobody cares.
I mean, I am sure all of these will have future releases on new media. There is no reason not to re-release movies, it is essentially printing money), but will many of them see dramatic sales that will really change how we view the profitability of those movies? Meet the Fockers was a good movie, but nobody is going to give a shit if you re-release it in 3D, 4K resolution, "hyperdisk". Only a few have that potential I think, and it gets more bleak if you stop looking at the top 10.
After the initial burst of home media sales, I just don't see most movies getting anything more than a trickle of revenue. For every movie like Office Space, there are dozens that aren't.
Its probably a hoax, its too close not to be, but when I saw the preview for the movie "Abraham Lincoln - Vampire Hunter" I thought, now that is not a combination I would expect, and of course "Abraham Lincoln - Patent Troll" would be equally unexpected. However, if you were doing a work of fiction you would have the descendents of Abe, who had slowly, patiently, keep the application alive in the patent office for over 167 years by tweaking the wording, a modest change there, only to have it issue in 2012 just before Facebook goes public.
Ok, its more like a National Treasure plot but still.