National Treasure

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• Ben, Patrick, and John Gates were all named after founding fathers (Benjamin Franklin (II), Patrick Henry, and John Adams (XV)). Abigail Chase is a combination of Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams, and Samuel Chase, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and later an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
• Movie Goof (errors in geography): When they are at the Charlotte, there are mountains in the background in multiple directions. They alleged they are in an area where the ice pack is "semi-solid" and shifting. Clearly, they are in a valley, completely surrounded by mountains, inland. While it is reasonable that a ship wreck would move with the ice pack, it is not reasonable that it would have shifted enough to bring a ship wreck that far inland.
• Movie Goof (factual errors): When the characters go underground, Ben pulls a torch off of the wall and lights it, and it burns instantly and brightly. Also when the heroes find the treasure room, a 'river of fire is lit'. There is no substance the 18th century colonials would have had access to which could have both produced instant flames of that kind *and* had it's potency last for 200+ years.
• Movie Goof (continuity error): Young Ben Gates has brown eyes while the adult Ben Gates has blue eyes.