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Today we celebrate the second saturday in the merry month of May, AKA Sean Bean month. Click HERE to see last week’s blog on Boromir
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![[Image courtesy: Wikipedia]](https://ritalovestowrite.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/300px-ian_howe.jpg)
Bean as Ian Howe [Image courtesy: Wikipedia]
FROM: National Treasure
BY: Jim Kouf, Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Cormac Wibberley, and Marianne Wibberley
RELEASED: 2004
PROS: Ian has nearly unlimited resources, and he’s smart. He can be charming. He’s crafty. Oh, and he looks great in a white parka.
![[Image courtesy: Ponderings]](https://ritalovestowrite.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/nationaltreasure.jpg)
[Nick Cage and Sean Bean look at map on the back of the Declaration of Independence. Image courtesy: Ponderings]
QUOTE: “You know the key to running a convincing bluff? Every once in a while you have to be holding all the cards”
MOST SHINING MOMENT:Well, he is a villain, so it is tough to find a “shining moment” for Ian Howe. I’d like to think he feels remorse when his side kick Shaw dies. But…hmmm… not so much.
LEAST SHINING MOMENT: Kidnapping the heroes and stranding them beneath Old North Church in Boston (essential burying them alive).
WHY SEAN BEAN IS SO GOOD IN THE ROLE: For the record if I’m every going to go on a treasure hunt with a sociopath I’d really prefer it be with Sean Bean. Sure he’ll step over your dead cold body to get what he wants, but he probably wont kill you if he doesn’t have to.
Bean straddles the line between being charming and being creepy all through this movie. And he’s a ton of fun to watch. You never root for him, but it sure is fun to root against him.
I like how the movie takes a history field trip and turns it on its ear. Even though the whole thing is fiction it is fun to think that some one might have left all those clues and that they (the clues) are still out there waiting to be discovered.
(Thanks to my buddy Tom B. for contributing tho his blog.)
Related links
- Secondary Character Saturday: Sean Bean; Boromir (ritalovestowrite.com)
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