

Disposed of their duty to scientific precision, the film then quickly moves on to take care of more pressing matters. In the movie, Kruger simply rubs a q- tip across the citric surface of a sliced lemon and slides it across the paper, almost magically revealing words. Their way of going about this is critical- at least in the realistic sense.

They are trying to decode what they think is a 300-year-old hidden message written in invisible ink. In the scene, actor Nicolas Cage and his partner in crime, actress Diane Kruger, bend apprehensively over the Declaration of Independence. We’ve managed to come across a particular scene in the film National Treasure – one that will make experts cringe and bring any respectable curator to shudder at this seemingly harmless mistake.

Sound familiar?Īdmittedly, the above is a somewhat altered excerpt from the one and only Declaration of Independence, and although it might have been tweaked just a tad, the message conveyed is clear nevertheless. We hold these truths to be self- evident, that all movies are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of chemical accuracy.
