<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">Mark:</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">>>You'll be better off finding a more accurate portrayal of <br>
Freemasonry in an old episode of the Honeymooners or the Flintstones.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">:-D</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">Derek:</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">>>So if there are any similiarites, it can probably be chalked up to writers <br>
simply writing types of stories that are in a certain vein, therefore making it <br>
look like one was inspired by the earlier story. So I don't think there's any <br>
connection as far as Don's stories and the movie are concerned.<br>
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<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">Well, of corse there's always the chance that two writers write down the same ideas, but I have found all these coincidences between the movie and some Rosa's stories:</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> -The hero is searching a legendary treasure jumping from place to place, finding a new clue on each place (The guardians of the Lost Library);</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> -The treasure is supposed to be the remainings of the Templar Knights' treasure (The Crown of the crusader kings);</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> -There's a map drawn in the reverse side of an historic, ancient document (The lost Charts of Columbus);</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> -At the beggining of the story, the action places in a museum where there's the original copy of the Independence Manifest (the JW handbook in The Guardians of the Lost Library);</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> -The treasure contains some ancient papers from the Library of Alexandry (Guardians of the Lost Library);</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> -(SPOILER) The detective pursuing the hero happens to have *a certain secret* at the end (The Crown of the crusader kings);</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> -There's a fact concerning the historic date & time settings (the timelight savings in the movie, the dates in The Crown of the crusader kings);</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">I think that even the characters are spoofed from the duck universe (though I realise they are quite classical, standard characters): </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> -Gates being US (the hero)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> -The girl being HDL (History expert)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> -The </font><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">friend </font><font size=2 face="Courier New">being DD (the comical guy)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> -The villain being FG (or some other duck villain)</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">Yes, yes... Analogue relations could be made for thousands of movies. I just see as one more "coincidence".</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">Or maybe am I suffering from duckmania? ;-)</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">Santiago.</font>
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