Week 4 Story: Sita the Treasure of the Cage's
Link to my Portfolio: Sita Story
There was a family, the Cage's, who collected rare items of history. There collection raked up a net worth of $100 million, but in an unfortunate happening their family got in trouble with the Rare Artifact of Value Acquirers, RAVA for short. Being Jealous of the Cage's large collection they created false documents claiming that one of the Cage's artifacts was theirs. This particular artifact was of high importance, the most beautiful painting of a woman from ancient Indian culture, Sita. RAVA placed its claim and obtained Sita without the Cage's even knowing what happened. This particular painting was dear to one of the thirteen children, Nicolas, as he was tasked with caring for the art collection.
Furious with the painting being unjustly stolen from him he set out to obtain it back. As he was leaving, one of his brothers, Riley, saw him and said he would not let him leave on this adventure alone. They unfortunately had no starting point as to where Sita was located. This was due to the secrecy of RAVA and where its headquarters were located. They began their journey by searching every known art museum in the area, but to no avail. They then went to black market auctions known for selling high priced paintings. They did this for the next three years until one day an arts acquirer approached them asking why they have been to so many auctions with out a single purchase. They explained their situation. The mystery man said he has heard of the famous Cage's and of what RAVA had done to them. He told them his friend had a run in with RAVA earlier in the year. He saw the Sita painting, after it did not sell due to everyone knowing it was unjustly taken, he followed her back to RAVA's headquarters where he was caught and had his memory wiped. Fortunately, he knew if caught they would do this so he wrote himself a message of everything that had taken place. The headquarters is located in Washington D.C. They are hiding their paintings under important documents utilizing the security systems set-up for these documents. After hearing this the two brothers set-up a plan to discover which document Sita was hiding under. They asked their old friend, Hans, the son of a king who could diplomatically enter the country and ask questions without suspicion, as he was a painting collector. Hans crossed the sea to the US and began asking question, acting as though he were interested in the purchase of the Sita painting. After the museum holding Sita was closed he was taken to her, under the Deceleration of Independence, there she was. He said she was beautiful, but not as beautiful as he had imagained as to trick RAVA into not suspecting anything. After this Hans told the two brothers where she was, while offering any help he could give. The two brothers came up with a plan to steal the Deceleration of Independence in order to re-obtain their Sita. They basically followed the plot of national treasure and got her back. After this RAVA was found to be a fraud by the government, which caused an investigation, leading to their demise. RAVA was no more and Sita was back with her rightful family.
There was a family, the Cage's, who collected rare items of history. There collection raked up a net worth of $100 million, but in an unfortunate happening their family got in trouble with the Rare Artifact of Value Acquirers, RAVA for short. Being Jealous of the Cage's large collection they created false documents claiming that one of the Cage's artifacts was theirs. This particular artifact was of high importance, the most beautiful painting of a woman from ancient Indian culture, Sita. RAVA placed its claim and obtained Sita without the Cage's even knowing what happened. This particular painting was dear to one of the thirteen children, Nicolas, as he was tasked with caring for the art collection.
Author's Note: The original story was that Ravana, a demon, stole the wife of a man Rama and his brother Lakshmana. They searched for her back, but to no avail. Until they ran into a vulture who's brother told of the location of Ravana and Sita. The two brothers befriended a monkey god king, who's brother's son, Hanuman, could leap across the ocean and search for the exact location of Sita. After Hanuman got to Lanka, the capitol of Ravana's rule, he found Sita and told Rama. Then Rama and company waged war against Ravana eventually killing Ravana and getting Sita back. I decided to set-up the story to be familiar, the plot of national treasure, all while maintaining the overall plot and moral of the story. Nic Cage is Rama, Riley is Lakshmana, the vulture is the mystery man, Hans is Hanuman, and RAVA is Ravana. I wanted to keep out the violence, as well as to keep it within modern reality somewhat.
Bibliography: Website: Public Domain Edition of the Ramayana
Zach, I love the way you wove together National Treasure with the story of the Ramayana! I thought it was very clever and entertaining. I never would have thought of such a thing, but it ended up being a pretty similar story to both National Treasure and the original Indian Epic. I was wondering why you didn't include any dialogue, instead opting to only describe what happened. This could have been a perfect way to spin actual quotes from the movie into your story! Also, at the end you just say that it follows the plot of the movie, what if instead of that, you added a little bit more information that says what the plot details are rather than just saying it is the plot of National Treasure? Regardless, I still thought the story was hilarious, and would be interested to see more stories from Indian Epics crossed over with Hollywood movies.
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