Key Features Of 1 Of The 3 Acts

[Karmun Tan]

Choose a movie and view it for 30 minutes. Identify the key features of 1 of the 3 acts.
-Movie: National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)
-Director: Jon Turteltaub
-Duration: 2 hours 35 minutes

Key features:
Act 1
-Hook: history – civil war (Thomas gates – break the code)
-complication – who is this guy that killed president Lincoln? Why? “war has just begun”?
-we know why Nicholas gates wants the treasure; to clear Thomas gates name (innocence that he didn’t lie about why he burned the paper) but we don’t know why the Wilkinson wants the treasure.
-the call to action – Abigail says “yes” to Nicholas gates  access to see the diary page
- riley helps gates in search for the treasure
-beginning to find treasure
-plot point – hunting for treasure
-bad guys after treasure too; broke into gates’s dad’s house and clone his cell phone device to retrieve information