Riley: We've broken into Buckingham Palace, stolen a page from the President's super secret book, and actually kidnapped the president of the United States. What are we going to do next, shortsheet the Pope's bed?
Ben: Well, you never know...
The model of the Statue of Liberty was built in 1870. The Resolute was only retired in 1879. How could the makers of the statue know that the Indian markings would be hidden in desks made of wood from the Resolute 9-10 years in advance? Or were the markings only put there in 1880? That would mean that the diary entry was made 15 years in advance of the clue being put on the Laboulaye Lady. See more...
starring Diane Kruger, Ed Harris, Harvey Keitel, Helen Mirren, Jon Voight, Nicolas Cage (add more)
Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
The "questions" section is for any random questions that occurred to you while watching this film, or anything you didn't entirely understand, and which Google or the IMDb can't help with. Submit them as a question, and hopefully someone will answer (the bold comments in brackets) - check back regularly. If the answer is wrong, or missing information, please use the "clarify answer" option. Don't feel limited - want to know what music played in a certain scene? Whether this was the first film to use a certain effect? Here's the place to ask!
What did Ben Gates know about Mitch Wilkinson that made him know that Mitch "NEEDED" to find the City of Gold? [It wasn't that Mitch knew anything about him, just that like himself family history was very important to him. Mitch needed to find the city of gold to redeem his family name in that it was his family that was traterious in the past not Ben's.]
Answered by Boobra
Just curious what was on page 47 that the President asked Ben Gates to help him with. . . Was it finding the City of Gold?? [No one knows. It had nothing to do with the city of gold. We are led to believe that page 47 has something to do with National Treasure 3.]
Answered by shortdanzr
At the end of the film there are a bunch of people in the lost city of gold. If the devices were busted up and didn't work any longer, how did they get the water out? Also, if there's not really a way in any more, how did they all get in? [You can see the hoses and pumps that were used to pump the water out. Now that the location is known, even though the entrance was blocked, they could gain entrance by drilling/blasting/tunneling/etc.]
Answered by Phixius
How, exactly, would one decode a playfair cipher? [Best explained here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playfair_cipher]
Answered by Rlvlk
Why was Thomas Gate's name on that page? [It was a list of people Booth would seek out while in Washington - most of them to help with the assassination, but Gates was needed to solve the cipher that lead to the treasure.]
Answered by Twotall
Why was the playfair cipher on the missing page invisible? Thomas Gates wrote it in normal ink. [Thomas Gates didn't write it in normal ink. He wrote in pencil. The cipher wasn't written on that page, it was written on the facing page and minute bits "transferred" onto the page with the names.]
Answered by shortdanzr
How does finding the treasure clear Thomas Gates of plotting Lincoln's death? [Because it verifies the story that the Gates family has passed down, that the pages were burned to protect the city of gold's location, not to hide his name as a plotter.]
Answered by Boobra
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