{"id":1157,"date":"2007-12-18T10:33:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-18T10:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2007\/12\/national-treasure-the-junket-reports-up\/"},"modified":"2007-12-18T10:33:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-18T10:33:00","slug":"national-treasure-the-junket-reports-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2007\/12\/national-treasure-the-junket-reports-up.html","title":{"rendered":"National Treasure &#8212; the junket report&#8217;s up!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/R2gf9BbDuHI\/AAAAAAAAA7o\/p78Yd9qcOzQ\/s1600-h\/nationaltreasure2-1-a.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/R2gf9BbDuHI\/AAAAAAAAA7o\/p78Yd9qcOzQ\/s400\/nationaltreasure2-1-a.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br><span style=\"font-family: georgia\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/movies\/interviews\/nicholascage.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">My article<\/a> on <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/newsbites-horsemen-franklyn-casino.html#4\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">National Treasure: Book of Secrets<\/a><\/i> \u2014 including interviews with Nicolas Cage, Jon Voight, Diane Kruger and director Jon Turteltaub \u2014 is now up at CT Movies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, Voight just might be the first filmmaker outside of the local film industry that I have interviewed, albeit in group settings, more than once.  About nine years ago, I and several other student journalists from across the continent took part in a series of phone interviews with the cast and crew of <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00000J11Y\/petertchatta\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Varsity Blues<\/a><\/i> (1999), and Voight was one of the interviewees.  And at least two things haven\u2019t changed since then: one, he gives <i>very<\/i> long answers, so if you\u2019ve only got him for 15 or 20 minutes, you only have time to ask a few questions; and two, he bids farewell with a \u201cGod bless.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Also interesting was a debate I had with some of my colleagues over whether to mention a plot element that was given away in the <a href=\"http:\/\/movies.yahoo.com\/movie\/1809839449\/video\/2814838\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">original teaser<\/a> that played before <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/06\/pirates-will-be-even-harder-to-follow.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pirates of the Caribbean: At World\u2019s End<\/a><\/i> seven months ago.  The plot element in question is presented in that teaser as a <i>fait accompli<\/i>, and in the trailer released back <a href=\"http:\/\/movies.yahoo.com\/movie\/1809839449\/video\/3657280\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">in August<\/a>, it is presented as something that the characters are <i>going<\/i> to do.  But in the most recent trailer, released <a href=\"http:\/\/movies.yahoo.com\/movie\/1809839449\/video\/4819571\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">in November<\/a>, the bits that refer to this plot element are a lot more obscure \u2014 and so it was felt that mentioning this plot element would be giving away a spoiler.  In fact, none of my colleagues seemed to remember those earlier trailers, and so they said I had \u201cspoiled\u201d the movie for them just by having this discussion.  And yet, I\u2019m sure I can\u2019t have been the only one in the theatre who knew this plot element was coming when we saw the finished film itself.<\/p>\n<p>So \u2026 can something be a \u201cspoiler\u201d if the studio has already made it part of the publicity campaign?  (One friend of mine deliberately avoided hearing <i>anything<\/i> about <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/these-are-john-connors-i-know-i-know.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Terminator 2: Judgment Day<\/a><\/i> before that film came out, and was pleasantly surprised when it turned out that Arnold Schwarzenegger was playing a <i>good<\/i> Terminator this time.  But the studio had been announcing this fact in its promotional material for months.)  What if the studio has backed away from revealing it so explicitly, as seems to be the case here?<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to comment, and if you do, feel free to say what you think the \u201cspoiler\u201d in question in <i>National Treasure: Book of Secrets<\/i> is.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My article on National Treasure: Book of Secrets \u2014 including interviews with Nicolas Cage, Jon Voight, Diane Kruger and director Jon Turteltaub \u2014 is now up at CT Movies. Incidentally, Voight just might be the first filmmaker outside of the local film industry that I have interviewed, albeit in group settings, more than once. 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