movie re-watch: National Treasure
Oct. 2nd, 2017 07:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marcicatThis is a movie that focused on two things: witty one liners and Nic Cage posing for glamour shots. The witty one liners, at least, hold up pretty well 13 years later.
"It took you all of two seconds to decide to steal the Declaration of Independence."
"Yeah, but I didn't think I was going to personally have to tell my dad about it."
-Riley, Ben
I mean, it's not a non-problematic movie. (To get to two female characters you'd have to include the FBI team member who doesn't even get a name, or the "real national treasure" meat counter woman, and Ben is generally an extremely self-centered person that seems to lack any ability to make an emotional connection, which makes his whirlwind romance with Abigail make zero sense at all.)
But there's no question that Nic Cage saying, "I'm going to steal the Declaration of Independence," is a movie moment that has made its way into pop culture history, which is pretty neat.
"It took you all of two seconds to decide to steal the Declaration of Independence."
"Yeah, but I didn't think I was going to personally have to tell my dad about it."
-Riley, Ben
I mean, it's not a non-problematic movie. (To get to two female characters you'd have to include the FBI team member who doesn't even get a name, or the "real national treasure" meat counter woman, and Ben is generally an extremely self-centered person that seems to lack any ability to make an emotional connection, which makes his whirlwind romance with Abigail make zero sense at all.)
But there's no question that Nic Cage saying, "I'm going to steal the Declaration of Independence," is a movie moment that has made its way into pop culture history, which is pretty neat.
