I haven’t been keeping good track of which movie trailers I see on TV - there’s been a lot of them this time of year, after all - but for the first time I can remember, I saw a promo for National Treasure: Book of Secrets on the boob tube over this past holiday weekend.
It was just a 30-second spot, but there were several Mount Rushmore scenes sprinkled around - and a few I hadn’t seen before. The one that comes to mind was a nicely-staged shot of Nicolas Cage and Justin Bartha in front of the Lincoln Borglum Museum, the four faces of the mountain reflected in the granite-framed glass behind them.
This struck me in particular because I had only been there a few days before. My wife and I took a friend visiting from Mississippi, and we poked around the memorial right around sunset. I wasn’t sure if they were lighting the mountain in the winter, but a helpful ranger pointed out that they brighten Rushmore year-round. We explored the museum until it got dark, then we wandered outside.
By the way, I love that museum. I can’t decided which is my favorite - the plunger that lets you set off historic explosions on the video screen, or the compilation of Mount Rushmore’s appearances in pop culture. The pop culture display might edge the explosions out, thanks to the Muppets.
Anyway, I got a couple of neat night shots while we were there. Nothing Pulitzer-prize winning, but fun anyway. I posted my favorite above, but you can see the rest in my Mount Rushmore Flickr album.
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Is that one of the famous shoe shots?
Oh and I thoroughly enjoyed the visit and personal tour, even if the altitude had me panting (I live only about 35′ above sea level….).
I had no idea there was so much information on Muppets in one place!
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