The Book of Secrets
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| German title | The Book of Secrets | ||
| Original title | National Treasure: Book of Secrets | ||
| Country of production | United States | ||
| original language | English | ||
| Publishing year | 2007 | ||
| length | 124 minutes | ||
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 12 |
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| Director | Jon Turteltaub | ||
| script |
Cormac Wibberley , Marianne Wibberley |
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| production |
Jerry Bruckheimer , Jon Turteltaub |
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| music | Trevor Rabin | ||
| camera |
John Schwartzman , Amir M. Mokri |
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| cut |
William Goldenberg , David Rennie |
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The Legacy of the Secret Book is an American adventure film directed by Jon Turteltaub from 2007. Because of the great success of the film The Legacy of the Knights Templar , the producers decided to make this sequel.
action
Shortly after the end of the Civil War , John Wilkes Booth and another man met Thomas Gates and presented Ben Gates' great-great-grandfather with a diary with an encrypted message. Thomas recognizes the Playfair cipher and begins deciphering it . Meanwhile, Booth goes to the Ford Theater and carries out the assassination attempt on US President Abraham Lincoln . Thomas decodes a clue to a treasure map and realizes that the two men are still loyal to the Confederates and have a somber motive to track down the treasure. He tears several pages from the diary and throws them into the fire. The second man shoots him and tries to save the pages, but only gets a small piece. The dying Gates claims the war is over, but the other man thinks the war has only just begun. With the words "The debt that everyone pays" Gates dies in the arms of his little son, who had to watch the crime.
Many years later, Benjamin Gates told the story of his great-great-grandfather at a Civilian Heroes conference and received a lot of applause until black market trader Mitch Wilkinson presented one of the eighteen missing pages in the diary. Since Thomas Gates' name is on it, this should have been the brain behind the attack on Lincoln. Ben Gates wants to prove his great-great-grandfather's innocence, with the help of his friend Riley Poole and his estranged girlfriend Abigail Chase.
With the spectral analysis , they discover a code on the back of the diary page that refers to Édouard René Lefebvre de Laboulaye . Ben and Riley travel to Paris, where she on the torch one of the located there Statue of Liberty an indication of two identical " Resolute Desk , see" (desks), on behalf of the British Queen Victoria from the wood of a British merchant ship, the HMS Resolute , manufactured were. One of these tables is now in the Queen's office at Buckingham Palace . There Ben meets Abigail, lets her know about his plan and together they manage to steal a wooden plank from the time before Columbus from a secret hiding place on the desk. Wilkinson has now taken up the chase and tracked down Ben by previously cloning Ben's father Patrick Gates' phone in a house break-in. Before Wilkinson can grab the wood, Ben has the characters carved into it photographed by a speed camera while on a spectacular car chase and then throws it into the Thames. After jumping into the river, Wilkinson and his men take it, Riley can hack into the database of the London police and get the photo of the flash unit.
Despite his father's not enthusiastic about it, Ben wants the inscription to be deciphered with the help of his mother and Patrick's ex-wife Emily, an expert in this field. She realizes that some of the Olmec characters are incomplete and Ben concludes that there must be another plank hidden in the second desk in the Oval Office . With the help of Abigail's new acquaintance, who works in the White House , Ben and Abigail get to the desk. Instead of the second plank, however, he finds a stamp with the seal of the President's Secret Book. Riley points to his recent book speculating on this president-to-president-passed book which he believes contains documents covering such controversial subjects as the Kennedy assassination , Watergate affair and Area 51 .
To find the book, Ben and his colleagues use a ruse to force the president's birthday party to be held at Mount Vernon by discrediting the original venue and making all other possible venues fully booked. Ben sneaks into the party and lures the president into a secret tunnel under the house, which is tantamount to kidnapping, as the door cannot be opened from the tunnel. There he asks the President about the book, who tells him that the book is in the Library of Congress and at the same time asks him for the favor of taking a look at page 47 in addition to the information necessary for his search. Ben does not put the president under pressure and immediately tells him the way out, and he also shows him the way to the next street. Because of the apparent short-term kidnapping, Ben is threatened with charges of kidnapping the president. In the book, he finds an illustration of the plank from the desk and the note that President Coolidge erected the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in 1924 to prevent the discovery of the treasure.
At Mount Rushmore, Ben, Riley, Abigail and Patrick meet Mitch, who kidnapped Ben's mother and has further clues from a letter from the Queen to one of his ancestors. They will then find the entrance to a cave that is home to the legendary Native American city of gold, Cibola . The group is locked in the cave and separated a little later. After overcoming several dangers, they find themselves together again in the face of the golden city, but the falling water threatens certain death, especially since all exits seem blocked. You follow the flow of the water and find an exit inside a centrally located pyramid. To escape, one of them has to keep the door open inside the pyramid by some mechanism - and drown. Mitch takes Abigail under his control and threatens the others until Ben volunteers to stay. But by the power of the water and collapsing parts of the cave, Ben is thrown to the exit and Mitch remains the last one. With the discovery of the treasure, Ben clears the name of his family. He is also not being arrested as the president claims he just accidentally locked himself in with Ben at Mount Vernon. Ben ensures that the name Mitch Wilkinson is mentioned in the same breath as the explorers of the city, and when the President asks what he read on page 47 of the Secret Book, Ben replies that it is life-changing.
At the end of the film you can see how the found city is secured and examined more closely. Ben and Abigail want to move in together again.
Reviews
"Second film in a routine, but not particularly profiled adventure series that lacks irony and narrative breath, but above all, lacks charm."
“Even more stupid, illogical and boring than the forerunner 'The Legacy of the Knights Templar' is this outrageous Schmu. This is all about an action-packed, but completely meaningless scavenger hunt with bangs and a pinch of romance. Once again, director Jon Turteltaub seems to completely ignore the fact that there are adventure flicks like the Indiana Jones trilogy at all. However, it is funny how some historical facts are twisted here: when it is said, for example, that General Custer only died at Little Big Horn because he was looking for that fabulous city of gold. This is so bad it's almost good again. No, quite honestly: a film that absolutely nothing is right or works. But if the audience pays for it ... "
reception
The first reviews in the USA were mixed. The film has taken first place in the US box office since its launch. Disney Press released an official novel version of the script on November 6, 2007 under the title National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets The Junior Novel , the plot of which is slightly different from the film. The accompanying youth novel Changing Tides: A Gates Family Mystery was also published on the same day . The story takes place in England in 1612 and is the first in a planned series of historical novels about the Gates family.
The film opened in cinemas on December 21, 2007 and grossed over 457 million US dollars worldwide. After the film opened in Germany on January 24, 2008, it was seen by 1,771,200 moviegoers.
The film received two nominations for the negative film award Golden Raspberry in 2008 : Nicolas Cage for worst leading actor (also for his performances in Ghost Rider and Next ); Jon Voight for worst supporting actor (also for his performances in Bratz: The Movie , September Dawn and Transformers ).
synchronization
The film was dubbed by Film- & Fernseh-Synchron GmbH. The dialogue book was written by Klaus Bickert , the dialogue was directed by Dietmar Wunder .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Benjamin Franklin Gates | Nicolas Cage | Martin Keßler |
| Abigail Chase | Diane Kruger | Stephanie waiter |
| Riley Poole | Justin Bartha | Marcel Collé |
| Patrick Gates | Jon Voight | Hans-Werner Bussinger |
| FBI agent Peter Sadusky | Harvey Keitel | Joachim Kerzel |
| Emily Appleton Gates | Helen Mirren | Sonja German |
| Mitch Wilkinson | Ed Harris | Wolfgang Condrus |
| US President | Bruce Greenwood | Oliver Stritzel |
| Connor | Ty Burrell | Johannes Berenz |
| FBI agent Spellman | Alicia Coppola | Claudia Urbschat-Mingues |
| Dr. Nichols | Albert Hall | Roland Hemmo |
| Thomas Gates | Joel Gretsch | Thomas Nero Wolff |
| Michael O'Laughlen | Brent Briscoe | Frank Ciazynski |
Trivia
When Riley searched the Internet for the (fictitious) manufacturer of the Resolute Desk in Buckingham Palace, he clearly opened a page on the fictitious website "Find On-Line", the content of which corresponds to the article Puzzle box on the English language Wikipedia (status: 6 February 2007).
Web links
- The Book of Secrets in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Legacy of the Secret Book in the online film database
- The Book of Secrets atRotten Tomatoes(English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for The Legacy of the Secret Book . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2008 (PDF; test number: 112 616 K).
- ↑ Age rating for The Legacy of the Secret Book . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ The Legacy of the Secret Book. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 1, 2017 .
- ↑ The Legacy of the Secret Book. In: Prisma.de. Retrieved March 24, 2019 .
- ↑ Cinema charts: Nicolas Cage conquers the top ten. In: Kino.de. January 28, 2008, accessed March 24, 2019 .
- ^ National Treasure: Book of Secrets. In: BoxOfficeMojo.com. Retrieved March 24, 2019 .
- ↑ Top 100 Germany 2008 - No. 21: The Legacy of the Secret Book. In: InsideKino.de. November 4, 2012, accessed March 24, 2019 .
- ↑ The legacy of the secret book in the German synchronous index
- ↑ Puzzle box in the version from February 6, 2007