{"id":1357940,"date":"2022-03-04T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1357940"},"modified":"2022-03-04T07:55:36","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T12:55:36","slug":"uncharted-may-be-a-cliche-treasure-hunting-thriller-but-its-timeless-tropes-are-winning-viewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uncharted-may-be-a-cliche-treasure-hunting-thriller-but-its-timeless-tropes-are-winning-viewers\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Uncharted\u2019 May Be A Clich\u00e9 Treasure-Hunting Thriller, But Its Timeless Tropes Are Winning Viewers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Funcharted-may-be-a-cliche-treasure-hunting-thriller-but-its-timeless-tropes-are-winning-viewers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1357940&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-01-at-12.45.51-PM-e1646160603207.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><em>Spoilers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cUncharted\u201d may look like another clich\u00e9d treasure-hunting thriller movie, but its charming tropes are the timeless content that many adventure-loving viewers love and admire. <\/p>\n<p>Despite \u201cUncharted\u2019s\u201d star-studded cast featuring Mark Wahlberg and up-and-coming Tom Holland, fans of the popular video game that served as the film\u2019s inspiration received \u201cUncharted\u201d into theaters in February with great hesitancy. Skeptics were afraid that the <a href=\"https:\/\/comicbook.com\/gaming\/news\/uncharted-movie-mark-wahlberg-replaced-nathan-drake\/\">long-awaited movie<\/a> might flop as other gaming adaptations have. After two weekends at the box office, however, the movie seems to have survived what some have dubbed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/business\/story\/2022-02-28\/how-uncharted-cracked-the-video-game-movie-code-for-hollywood-charles-roven-atlas-interview\">\u201cHollywood\u2019s video game curse<\/a>\u201d and raked in more than <a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/uncharted-movie-box-office-success-bad-reviews\/\">$225 million worldwide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUncharted\u201d is far from the shipwreck <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/uncharted_2022\">Rotten Tomatoes and critics<\/a> said it would be, even though the film\u2019s international, danger-ridden quest to recover the long-lost treasure of a 16th-century explorer and his crew is not necessarily a new or innovative plot. <\/p>\n<p>In the film, protagonist Nathan Drake, played by Holland, uses his older brother\u2019s mysterious international postcards as his guide. The movie begins with Drake dramatically falling out of a plane over the ocean but quickly segues into a flashback scene in a closed museum where a young Drake and his older brother Sam fondly gaze at an ancient world map. <\/p>\n<p>Their aspirations to explore the world together are cut short when Sam, facing criminal consequences for repeatedly breaking into the museum, flees and leaves Drake behind. Despite promising to find his way back to his brother, Sam disappears and is never seen again (that is, until the end of the film, when he makes a small cameo in a cell that hints at an \u201cUncharted\u201d sequel).<\/p>\n<p>The movie\u2019s plot picks up when a young adult Drake ditches his life as a bartender who moonlights as a thief to join his brother\u2019s cocky treasure hunting buddy Victor \u201cSully\u201d Sullivan, played by Wahlberg, on a quest to find the lost fortune of the world explorer Ferdinand Magellan. After stealing Magellan\u2019s golden cross from the rich Moncada family\u2019s goons in a joint heist at an antique auction in New York City, Drake and Sully meet up with fellow treasure hunter Chloe Frazer, who possesses the other cross required to recover the explorers\u2019 loot in Barcelona. <\/p>\n<p>In Spain, the trio rushes through a series of booby traps with Moncada\u2019s gang right on their heels, only to discover the loot they desire lies in the Phillippines, where Drake and his shady partners are nearly killed in hand to hand combat and forced into adrenaline-fueled, unrealistic chases across rooftops and mid-air plane cargo. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cUncharted\u201d checks all of the overused boxes featured in most revered action and adventure movies. A tragic backstory that leaves the main character orphaned? Check. An evil pack of villains run by the head of a rich family with cool foreign accents? Check. A pretty young woman who earns the trust of our love-dazed protagonist before backstabbing him? Check. <\/p>\n<p>Daring stunts and devastating injuries that would put a normal adult human in the hospital for weeks but miraculously leave characters unscathed? Check. Cheesy lines about how friendship and a \u201cheart of gold\u201d are more important than physical treasure? Check. Flying off into the sunset in a stolen helicopter at the conclusion of the film after conveniently getting rid of every bad guy? Check.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"a-surprising-moral-message-sets-uncharted-apart\">A Surprising Moral Message Sets \u2018Uncharted\u2019 Apart<\/h2>\n<p>You might have to search a little to see it, but \u201cUncharted\u201d isn\u2019t just paying homage to an action-packed video game quest by making Holland do <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinemablend.com\/interviews\/the-uncharted-stunt-that-tom-holland-calls-the-hardest-thing-ive-ever-done\">dozens of difficult stunts<\/a>. It\u2019s a movie that subtly communicates one of the oldest adages of time: The love of money, or in this case, gold, is the root of all evil. It\u2019s a message that, whether viewers recognize it or not, adds moral development to the film. <\/p>\n<p>All of the film\u2019s looters including Sully aren\u2019t afraid to lie, beat up, shoot, backstab, and even kill the people who stand in the way of the gold they desire. The rich son of the historic family who funded Magellan\u2019s quest hundreds of years ago orders the murder of his father after he realizes he won\u2019t be privy to his family\u2019s fortune. <\/p>\n<p>He is in turn murdered by Jo Braddock, the woman who leads his pack of goons on the chase after Drake, Sully, and Frazer. Drake seems to be the only treasure hunter who peeks at his moral compass before making rash decisions, but even he finds himself fending off Braddock\u2019s mercenaries in less than becoming ways and intentionally misleading Frazer after she doublecrossed him first. <\/p>\n<p>By the time they discover the shipwreck and ancient gold together, Drake and Sully seem to have a trustworthy relationship after the older treasure hunter lets go of his gold to save the younger one from falling into the ocean during another mid-air, heated fight with Braddock. Drake eventually rewards Sully\u2019s sacrificial attitude with some of the treasure he recovered from the fast-sinking ships. <\/p>\n<p>The movie feels like a jumbled mix of \u201cMission Impossible,\u201d \u201cIndiana Jones,\u201d and \u201cNational Treasure,\u201d where guns are constantly blazing yet never seem to hit anyone. Even Holland admitted that his \u201cUncharted\u201d performance stemmed from his pitch to play <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinemablend.com\/movies\/tom-holland-tried-to-be-young-james-bond-but-landed-another-huge-project-instead\">a young 007 in an origin story<\/a> movie. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s only natural, then, that the actor relied on his interpretation of an undercover agent to inform his role as a secret explorer. Fortunately for filmmakers and evidenced by top box office numbers, viewers don\u2019t seem to mind the triteness or the film\u2019s surprisingly wholesome and principled ending. <\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no doubt that this action-packed movie captures the desire and adventure behind treasure hunting, even if it does come off as a little clich\u00e9. Because of its monetary success and the fact that the movie ended on a cliffhanger involving Drake\u2019s not-so-dead brother, there\u2019s likely an <a href=\"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/uncharted-sequel-ruben-fleischer-wanted\/\">\u201cUncharted\u201d sequel slated to begin filming in the near future<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and co-producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire and Fox News. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on Twitter @jordangdavidson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spoilers. \u201cUncharted\u201d may look like another clich\u00e9d treasure-hunting thriller movie, but its charming tropes are the timeless content that many adventure-loving viewers love and admire. Despite \u201cUncharted\u2019s\u201d star-studded cast<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1357940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1357940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1357940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1357940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1357940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}