Disney’s National Treasure: Edge of History is left-wing propaganda and awful entertainment
Christopher Tremoglie
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The National Treasure franchise starring Nicholas Cage was a fun, family-friendly, pseudo-patriotic, entertaining action-adventure film series. It included two films, National Treasure, released in 2004, and National Treasure: Book of Secrets, released in 2007. While neither film broke any box office records or will ever be considered one of cinema’s great masterpieces, both films did decently at the box office and were relatively well-received. The same cannot be said for Disney’s National Treasure: Edge of History.
Unfortunately, like much of the content Disney releases nowadays, the show is filled with left-wing cultural platitudes and propaganda. The series stars Lisette Olivera as Jess Valenzuela, a 20-something living in Louisiana, who gets entangled in a hunt for a hidden Native American treasure. Valenzuela is a “DACA child.” The show repeatedly mentions how she could be unfairly deported from the country at any moment because of this.
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The rest of the cast seems to feature a member from every racial, social, ethnic, and economic demographic possible in the country, and they make sure to regularly let the audience know it. And while the “good guys” are a bunch of diverse, multicultural groups of friends, all the “bad guys” in the film are of European heritage, including the series antagonist Billie Pearce, an affluent crypto queen and black market historical artifact dealer, portrayed rather unconvincingly by Catherine Zeta-Jones and all of her henchmen. If the Left’s diversity, equity, and inclusion could be a cinematic representation, this show would be it.
It even included a major plot twist in which a mysterious evil leader, referred to as “Salazar,” thought to be the brains behind the show’s most sinister points and believed to be Mexican, naturally, turned out to be a white male. And, the Caucasian cadre of the movie’s villains was after an indigenous treasure solely so they could destroy it — a not-so-subtle metaphor.
And the thing is, all of this could have legitimately worked if the show wasn’t trying to be so obvious about it. Throughout the series’ 10 episodes, topics such as privilege, inequality, discrimination, and immigration were repeatedly forced into the details of the episode, despite none being remotely necessary.
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This is the kind of indoctrination that Disney is releasing to influence a new generation. They want to reinforce left-wing talking points of DEI through entertainment so a generation of people will embrace their socio-political ideologies. It was supposed to be a series about treasure hunting, not a video for the Democratic National Committee.
The show was awful entertainment and yet another example of what happens when Disney reboots a well-known franchise to insert political propaganda. They figure that using the name National Treasure will cause people to watch it, and then they can insert their political ideals and values for the audience to see. Instead of focusing on entertainment and producing a quality product, people are left with this kind of drivel.