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The Prestige (2006)

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O-Danny-Boy

You ain’t seen nothing yet. Well guess you have since you’re posting the finish watch but mind blowing the first few time you watch it

Jay Rivera

Nolan. Say less. Magic. 🪄

streaky

Are you watching closely? Sorry, somebody had to.. I'll get my coat.

Eamonn Locke

Been waiting for this one! Thanks VIP!

Ryan Martin

Oh boy. This is gonna be a treat. Absolutely amazing film!

Nicole Sherlock

Omg one of my favorite movies!!! 💛💛💛

Dan Gershgol

One of my favorite movies. Will watch later.

CHROME DeePo

😂 if you didn’t I would have

Darth Brooks

Great flick! Just getting home and I have this and The Office to look forward to watching. Thanks VIP for the movie!

Rebecca Karsner

Can't wait to watch this one again!! It's been a while!! Idk why i confuse this movie with The Illusionist lol Thanks VIP!

Eamonn Locke

The Illusionist is a good movie too. I get the confusion as they are the same in a lot of ways and both came out in 2006.

Brandon Fife

No. He was a Twin the whole time. Danton was having to drown himself everytime and the duplicate took over

streaky

I think it's supposed to be ambiguous which it is that ends up in the tank, but, it doesn't really make much logical sense for it to not be the one who goes into the machine, i.e. the dupe survives (even Angier claims to not be sure) - though theoretically they would be the same person, so I guess it depends on how you look at it. Also, they're like identical twins or something - the Tesla thing was nonsense, Borden just wanted Angier to waste his time and money not realising that Tesla could build him an actual dupe machine - that's why Borden wants to find out how Angier's trick works when he comes back from Colorado; he had no idea Tesla could do that. If you're ever on the hunt for more performance magic movies, the Now You See Me series of movies is well worth seeing - I thought they were going to be awful, but they pleasantly surprised me, and I'm hard to please, I have standards :)

Michael Keefer

No its definitely Jackmans character killing himself every time he does the trick. Thats why like the hats his clone is in the back of the theatre. The clone always shows up somewhere else. The original, or original clone is dropped into the tank to drown. Hes technically both and neither. Considering his clone shot the original in Teslas lab but he knew he would. Thats why he left the gun next to where the clone would pop up.

Deep Dives

Also The Illusionist that came out the same year.

Dan Gonya

What I love about this movie is that they tell you the twist about a double the entire movie, and you still miss it. I'm an amateur magician myself and I missed it.

PIG

Really looking forward to their reaction to this one.

Dan Gonya

Either way, the original Angier died a long time ago. We've seen both the man who stays put and the one who gets teleported die, so at the end they're all clones.

Andrew Mann

Asia said I only knew about Tesla 10 years ago LOL do you guys not know Nikola Tesla? David Bowie Played Nikola Tesla in this movie. He made the machine that duplicated him

Josh Viz

That part about the gun dosent make sense. You just said the clones always appear somewhere else while the original stays in place. If that is an established rule then the original Hugh Jackman killed his first clone with that gun. The Original lived on. After that the original did drown himself, dieing just like his wife.

Dan Gonya

Upon rewatches, you can tell the difference between when Christian Bale is Alfred, and when he is Fallon. It's subtle but it's there. And all the clues about how sometimes he means the I love you, or the little girl will say that he promised to do something, and he doesn't remember, because it was the other twin that told her. Lots of subtleties that lead up to the big surprise.

Dan Gonya

The irony is, once Angier cloned himself, he could have done the trick the same way Borden did it.

Dan Gonya

Alfred didn't duplicate himself. Fallon was his twin brother. I'm saying that cuz at the end, you guys are confused.

Matt

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Kevin

So good! Yall gotta do: Gone Girl, Hitch, Big Daddy, Clue and Crash!

Mister Lou

Alfred and Fallon were twins, the kid recognizing that the birds were twin brothers was foreshadowing his secret. The one who loved their wife died by hanging, the same way their wife took her own life. Angier (Aka Wolverine) was lied to by Cutter (Micheal Caine) when he said that Drowning was "like going home" so he was okay with drowning, like his wife. Thinking it's going to be 'like going home' but it wasn't until Cutter found out what Angier had been doing this whole time, he told him the bitter truth that it was pure agony.. "nobody cares about the man in the box" that can be true about both magicians.

M4RRS

Well, I've never seen this one, so I guess I'm gonna have to watch along with y'all! However, I am a longtime owner of 'The Illusionist' on DVD, which is apparently of a similar ilk to that of 'The Prestige' (plus both were released in 2006). It is well worth checking out, in my humble opinion. It stars Edward Norton plus Paul Giamatti and Jessica Biel. I know Ed Norton is an actor whose work you both have enjoyed thus far, so I hope you two seriously consider reacting to that one in the near future! For that matter, 'Primal Fear' (1996) is another captivating, must-watch movie featuring both Norton — in his debut starring role, at that — and Richard Gere. Additionally, y'all would probably recognize actor Steven Bauer. He is the guy who played Tony Montana's best friend, Manolo "Manny" Ribera, in 'Scarface'. He also appeared as Don Eladio in both 'Breaking Bad' and 'Better Call Saul'.

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M4RRS

A helpful history lesson: Whether we are discussing 'The Prestige', Elon Musk, or what have you, Tesla refers to / derives from real life inventor, Nikola Tesla. Albeit, as things pertain to Tesla (portrayed here by David Bowie), this film blends both fact and fiction. For instance, while Tesla was an inventor at the time and the machine was a real invention of his called the magnifying transmitter, it was actually made for the wireless transmitting of electrical energy rather than cloning things. Tesla actually briefly worked for Thomas Edison's company before they had their famous falling-out, which lead to a feud between the two of epic, historical proportions, and has long been highly publicized. Tesla and Edison's rivalry was known as the War of the Currents, a battle between Tesla's alternating current (AC) and Edison's direct current (DC) systems for the future of electricity. AC, promoted by Tesla and his partner George Westinghouse, proved superior for long-distance power transmission, eventually becoming the global standard used in homes and industries today. Edison, an early proponent of DC power, fiercely opposed AC, even launching smear campaigns to highlight its perceived dangers. The heated rivalry took place in the late 1880s and early 1890s, and ultimately resulted in the triumph of AC for power transmission. While Edison's DC was limited to short distances, Tesla's AC, with its ability to be efficiently transmitted over long distances using transformers, became the global standard. The conflict involved industrial power struggles, patent disputes, and even a public relations campaign by Edison to discredit AC as dangerous, including electrocuting animals to demonstrate its alleged risks.

Kiera Walker

Every Nolan movie is a two-time watch (at LEAST lol) Borden wasn’t two clones. They were natural-born identical twins who dedicated their lives to their greatest trick, “The Transported Man”. Simple. And unimpressive once you realize it. Which (they) literally says multiple times during the movie. You have to watch it SO many times to analyze which twin is being represented in whichever scene, lol. Angier (Wolverine, lol) has so much more showmanship, but over-complicates his method to pull it off, but genuinely appreciates the awe it elicited from the audience. Bottom line: The Borden twins were obsessed with their method and sacrifice, but couldn’t care less about the audience’s response; Angier was obsessed with the audience’s response, but couldn’t care less about the method and sacrifice in his method.

Davide

The original Angier dies when demonstrating the prestige to the manager in the abandoned theater

Michael Keefer

Youre right. Had to go back and watch it. Must have seen the movie 50 times. Not sure how i always thought the clone grabbed the gun

Davide

No, when he tries the machine for the first time, the gun is in the same place, it is not on the opposite side. Technically we cannot know if the machine transport the real Angier or only produces a copy distant a couple of meters from the original. My interpretation is that the machine create a copy distant some meters and the original stays in the same place. I am referring to the first time he tries the machine and then when he demonstrates to the manager in the abandoned theater. From that point on there will be a copy of the copy of the copy....

Katie Davis

Elon named his company after Nikola Tesla, a famous inventor/engineer. Here's Wiki's description of the man: Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, engineer, and futurist who revolutionized how the world generates, transmits, and uses electricity

Katie Davis

Borden was not a clone and had not made a clone of himself - they were actually twins. Brothers. Naming his key "Tesla" was just an intentional misdirection for Angiers. But the "terrible things" Angiers did - he was using Tesla's machine to actually clone himself. Each night, "the man in the box" was the clone that he would immediately murder (allow to die in the box). His fear was that he - Angiers himself - would end up becoming the man in the box.

O-Danny-Boy

I’ve got a friend in Arkansas who’s been performing magic for 30yrs. He hated this movie because the movie kills the doves. People started accusing him of killing his doves so he had to get rid of that act

PVaughn

This movie is top tier!!! Thank you Ultimate VIP !!!

Neal Moody

Watch it at least twice to fully understand

Saints_Madness

Bravo VIP. You got Asia and BJ deliberating at the end. But you all miss the point. Alfred Helped Batman Defeat Wolverine including the Black widow. DC and Marvel(black widow) took down "THE WOLVERINE!!!!!!" Chalk it up for a win

CLIFFORD HENRY

They were twin brothers identical twin brothers ... he said it was tesla to throw him off.

Freddie Miles

Angier was cloning himself; the other two were just identical twins. Cutter told Angier this, but Angier wouldn't believe him (also referened in one of Cutter's final lines about you wanting to be fooled).

Arjan Pelle

holy shit is that David Bowie?

MD

Yep

3BeerThunder

This movie is best the sixth time around that’s when you really start to see all the subtle hints at all the clues

Richard Zinns

The bullet-catching trick was very popular in the nineteenth century but they stopped doing it because so many things kept so going so dangerously, and sometimes fatally, wrong, not just with the basic original trick but with different variations of it. As a child, I read about a performance in the old west, which went perfectly except that one cowboy, actually believing that the magician had demonstrated an ability to catch a bullet, enthusiastically fired several shots at the man while urging him to catch some more - so that was the end of that magician. Michael Caine has done so much great stuff in his career, but I especially recommend his Oscar-nominated performance in the 1972 film Sleuth, where he stars alongside Laurence Olivier; it's another of those movies where the twists keep coming and you keep trying to figure things out right up until the end.