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’National Treasure 2’ trailers has many scenes that isn’t in the movie at all

By Fiona | Jan 4, 2008 | Movie News (0) Comment

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One of the most compelling sequences in the trailer shows Nicolas Cage at the Lincoln Memorial — three or four shots that make you think that this movie’s grand historical conspiracy somehow involves that famous monument. It doesn’t, and none of those shots appear in the movie.

In one of the trailers, there are shots of the pyramids and other Egyptian landmarks. None of the movie takes place in Egypt.

Editing happens. Especially with movies in trouble or movies where early test audiences are confused. And I’ll bet there was a lot of that on this movie. Trailers are often edited rather radically — scenes rearranged, dialogue snippets taken out of context, and so on. And usually, nobody minds.

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National Treasure 2 : Book of Secrets

By Fiona | Dec 10, 2007 | Movie News (0) Comment

Ben Gates (Nicolas Cage) sets out to find the lost 18 pages from the diary of Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth.

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While Ben is presenting new information about John Wilkes Booth and the 18 pages missing from Booth’s diary, one man stands up and presents a missing page of John Wilkes Booth’s diary. Thomas Gates, Ben’s great-grandfather, is mentioned in the page.

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