For generations his family has searched in vain for a vast fortune believed to have been smuggled out of Europe and hidden in the colonies by our Founding Fathers. In National Treasure that individual has a name: Benjamin Franklin Gates.
You'll see it again in other movies, I guarantee that.What do you get when you cross Indiana Jones with Rodney Dangerfield? A treasure-hunter who gets no respect. His good friend betrayed him, stole the treasure for himself, and left him out to dry. All I see here is a devious Nick Cage, a man who betrayed the trust of his friend, used his friend for money, and then kept the treasure and the glory for himself while pinning a crime that he should have gone to jail for on an innocent man.
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And yet, we - the audience - came out of that movie thinking Cage was the hero. But at the end, Cage frames Bean for a crime he never committed (stealing the declaration of independence), and doesn't even give Bean credit for helping him find the treasure. But Cage is always looking for the upper hand and betrays Sean Bean some more, leaving out important details and seemingly forgetting that he made a promise to Bean to tell him everything he knew.īean does everything for his old friend, and without Bean and his help, Cage would never have gotten the treasure. Bean follows the deal right to the letter. Bean, true to his word, breaks Cage out, meets him at the correct spot, and, as per the deal they made, gives Cage back all his little trinkets as long as he tells him everything he knows. Why? NICK CAGE STOLE THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE! He should be the one going to jail, not Sean Bean! And what makes this even more tragic is the fact that Sean Bean - always the class act - breaks Nick Cage out of FBI custody.Īnd even after being broken out of custody by Bean, Cage is still pulling his little tricks throughout the movie. You see, at the end of the movie, Sean Bean goes to jail. As the FBI guy so succinctly puts it, "someone's has to go to jail." It's at this point that Cage pulls his biggest betrayal every by putting the frame on Sean Bean. (well, maybe trying to kill Nicholas Cage, but, I would argue, he didn't want to kill Cage in the first place, and really, he was protecting himself from Nick Cage betraying him)Īnd Cage is even captured by the FBI, with the FBI guy telling him that he has two options: 1) Go to jail for a really long time, or 2) Give back the Declaration, and go to jail for a really long time. So why are we labeling Bean the villain here? At this point in the movie, Bean hasn't even done anything illegal. They have video evidence showing Nick Cage steal the Declaration. With the Declaration stolen, naturally, the FBI will be on the case. It's a shame.ĭo you see that look on Bean's face? That's the look of a man who has been betrayed.
All he wanted was to share in the glory with Cage, and Cage had to go out of his way to betray Bean and steal the Declaration for himself. But for Cage to then create his own plan to steal the Declaration without Bean is a literal stab to the back.
When the entire historical community had turned against Nicholas Cage and his family, Sean Bean was right there, financing Cage's cooky dream.īut when the moment came, and big action needed to be taken, what happened to Bean? He was betrayed, as often happens, by his own friend. If you can also recall, these two were great friends, or at least business partners. If you recall, earlier in the film, Nick Cage had refused to steal the Declaration with Bean, and even went as far as to say "Ian, I'm not going to let YOU steal the Declaration of Independence." (apparently, that means that he will let himself steal the Declaration) When we last left off, Sean Bean had just finished watching his good friend, Nick Cage, make off with the Declaration of Independence.
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