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The Prestige - Patreon Version (Patreon)

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2023-05-13 12:00:04
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No Sync Required Version: https://cinebingers.ca/qaPasYe7C6 - For Patreon tier "Bingers on The Wall" or higher.

Movie runtime: 2:10:29

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The Prestige - Patreon Version

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redddfer44

For once, the microphone picked up background noise!

Chris B

My personal No.1 Nolan movie, with Interstellar being a close second. Thank You.

Śéáń

Oh excellent, it's been a while since I've seen this stellar film

Adam Wetstein

Love the interplay btw 2 good friends. .

Duncan

Only just watched the intro,but you should 1Billion% watch David Bowie's "Labyrinth (1986)"

droodly

Love this one. I suppose it's not feasible from a time spent perspective but I've wondered what a reaction video of peoples 2nd time through this movie would be like. There are so many hints to things that jump out once you have seen it once.

Persnickity

At the end they do say that the little girls birth father is the brother that lived.

Opti_Frog

Regarding Angier's doubles (i'm not calling them clones): there is another reason to kill a double every night instead of just keeping one double as an "assistant". Having an identical double is not like having a twin like Borden. The double would have all your obsessions, all your vanity and all your ruthlessness. How could you ever trust a double like that? Angier is prepared to do almost anything to reach his ultimate goal, which is to frame Borden for his murder. A double of Angier would likely be as much of a predator to original Angier. And what of the double when Borden is hanged and dead? Would he just happily take what crumbs Lord Caldlow offers him to stay hidden in the world? The double feels just as much as the original as Angier does! Actually, we don't even know for sure if it wasn't original Angier who got shot by the double that very first time he stepped into the machine.

Tenn Seven

George was so close with his theory! Ignoring, of course, that the movie had already established that Tesla did not build any kind of special machine for Alfred.

PIG

I like this movie more and more the more I see it.

Opti_Frog

I've talked to several people who thinks that Tesla's machine ruins the movie because it becomes "unrealistic". Well, that little splash of sci-fi elevates the movie to legendary status for me. I live in reality, i like seeing fiction that i can never see in real life. 😄

Brandon Harms

One of the most well-executed films of all time. Drowning yourself 100 times for revenge is insane. If you rewatch it, it is really easy to tell which twin is which. Christian does a great job of having different characteristics and a different smile and slightly different patterns for each one.

Chris B

Great reaction, just a sidenote - Angier did not use "the money hack" to become Lord Caldlow, he has always been Lord Caldlow. At the very beginning him and his wife talked about how he is "pretending to be sb else to pursue his dream in magic which his family would not approve of".

David Martin

You could see that Angier anticipated Borden finding the "man in the box" because that night there was no prestige act -- Angier never appears.

Michael Robayo

I'm glad Patreons spoiled the movie for you.

Tenn Seven

I love this movie, but it doesn't make any sense that the general public would think "The Real Transported Man" is any better than Angier's original version. Disappearing in electricity and then re-appearing in the upper balcony isn't as impressive as disappearing in a free-standing door and instantly re-appearing out of another door across the stage given that the audience can't distinguish a double from an exact copy.

Jameson Yates

Is the Angier that falls in the water tank the clone or the original? No one knows. Also the reason Borden/Fallon didn't come clean with Olivia/Sarah and "pick a lane" is explained with the old Chinese magician and the water bowl. "This is the trick, right here, living your life pretending to be crippled." It's also why Borden doesn't know what knot he tied. Angiers asked the wrong Borden.

Twiska Brand

The machine isn't a teleporter. It can't move matter, only create it. If it were built with a disintegrator to destroy the original, it would be. However, it doesn't. So the original has to be dealt with; that is the price for using it. If it did destroy the original completely, it would be a teleporter, and not even the one using it could tell. From the clone's perspective, he goes on stage and then teleports to the rafters. From the view of the one in the box, nothing happened, and he was just dropped from the stage into a tank. That is what Robert is talking about when he says he never knows if he will be the one in the box or the one in the prestige. Every time he uses it, from his perspective, there is a 50/50 chance he will die. Also, it was 100 shows, five a week. So 20 weeks. One hundred bodies maximum, plus the one from the first test that got shot. But we don't know during which of the 100 shows Bordon fell for the bait. But we know that was Robert's intention because he told Cutter he needed a show that Bordon couldn't ignore. So Robert's plan for his final run was always to "fake" his death and frame Bordon for his "murder." Lastly, the Bordon who shot Robert said he loved Sarah, meaning he is Jess's father. And said the one that got hanged loved Oliva. I don't think the brothers would sleep with each other's wife/girlfriend. And they shared whole days, and "Alfred Bordon" has a wife, a daughter and an assistant. So each brother has to spend time with all three. You should rewatch the film again; there are many hints that Bordon is two people, like how he broke into Sarha's apartment or how he "changed his mind" about buying a house. And that is the reason he says he doesn't know what knot he tied when Robert's wife died. One twin did it and swore it was the normal one. But the one who showed up at the funeral doesn't believe his brother. He can't say, "I think my brother tied the wrong knot," so he says, "I keep asking myself that," when Robert asked, "what knot did you tie."

Jesse Coombs

That was great! If you really want to have your mind blown, I'd love to see a reaction to "In & Of Itself". It's a live show, but directed by Frank Oz. I promise it will be worth it.

Grand Moff Slackin'

This is like how Star Trek transporters work. The original is destroyed and the new copy is reconstituted at the destination. But it’s an exact copy down to the atoms. Angier said something along the lines of it being 50/50 chance of which copy ends up in the tank and which one at the final position for the prestige. Tesla was up to some wild shit.

Odd Thomas

One of Nolan's best, but least spoken of. This'll be fun. The Illusionist is like a bad TV movie version of The Prestige.

Vegard

Really hoping to see Memento on a poll soon! My favorite Nolan film, and an early one from his career.

Odd Thomas

You need to watch Labyrinth IMMEDIATELY

Martin Nicholls

Simone looked shell shocked at the end there :) He limits the number of shows to cause pressure on Borden to find out the secret quickly, knowing it would drive him mad and it's the one who is most obsessed he gets in the end hanged. It's just a coincidence that Tesla could do the thing that gave him the trick. It's a great movie, and a good metaphor for Nolan's movies - it's very meta within meta. Also you can tell which is which if you watch it again, and the Fallon disguise isn't all that good, to the point you worry that people might spot it's really Bale and ruin the movie a little, but nobody ever does :) And yes, it's very dark. The one that goes into the machine is the one who dies, the prestige is a copy so you'd go in knowing you're going to die. Also he was always a lord, it's not something you can buy, he says something like "my family wouldn't like" because he has massive inherited wealth, and a title - I'm with you though, stuff the trick and copy gold bars, but the point is he's obsessed.

sarCC
>>108469483

The "original" Angier died many shows before. He was probably in one of the stored tanks at the end.

sarCC
>>108470512

Oh, I've heard of that show before, but this is the first I've heard that Frank Oz directed the recorded version of it. He's great! I'll have to finally check it out.

Einherj

My take on the water tanks is that Angier ultimately wanted Borden to die for the killing of his wife, which is why he drowned himself taking the place of his wife every night. After her death he was smothering himself in the sink trying to feel what she felt. Cutter had also said in his story about the seaman, that drowning felt like going home, which Angier would probably think would be a relief (as it turns out, Cutter was lying, though).

Odd Thomas

This is one of those films that you go 'wow' on first viewing but actually appreciate even more on repeat viewings because you see the subtle hints and how cleverly Nolan 'fools' us all the way through.

FranciscoGios

Alfred & Allen were real twins sacrificing their life’s for the sake of the act (just like the old man and his fish tank). Robert Algier wasn’t having any of the “twin’s magic” he denied himself that’s what it was happening; so he looked up on Tesla(the real wizard) to build him a “clone machine” thus making Robert killing all of his clones for the act. nice reaction guys 👍

Moni Castaneda

YES!!! you finally did Goldmember!, gonna get my copy ready....

akaTheBARON

🖤So hyped you guys reacted to this. And I just knew this was going to be a movie that made George say his "Ok. I have a theory" trademark line we get during thinkers like this LOL. Such a fun movie to watch twice when you know the ending too. I don't want to address a comment Simone said during the credits talk outright, (when she says watching it again with Christoper Nolan to ask X and X) but when you watch it again you can usually tell what's happening when... usually. You'll at least have an educated guess. Also, just got a glimpse of the youtube thumbnail, and it's awesome! And honestly, if it wasn't for the shirts, I wouldn't be able to tell who was George and who was Simone😜

Ken Quick

"The patrons told me this is one of those twin movies." WHAT? They gave away the twi... oh, wait, you meant something else entirely.

Steve Mercier

Still my favorite Nolan movie...maybe Oppenheimer will take the spot.

James O'Sullivan
>>108468782

I think it does. As Angier says, if you can make the audience doubt what they're seeing isn't a trick, but actual magic then you see something wonderful. Across a stage? Could be trap doors, could be mirrors,etc.. across an entire theatre and up a floor? Magic.

James O'Sullivan

It's amazing how this film never makes you question who Fallon is and why he never speaks? I feel like Nolan manages to make him appear like a minor character as a mirror to Caine's character. That also works for the Borden twins too, they would have wanted a man who people didn't pay much attention to, suspect they designed their cover as such.

BJ Stephens
>>108480604

Except it wasn't him sacrificing the clones for the act. It was him sacrificing himself, and the clone (which appears off in the distance, like the cloned hats/cat) taking over the show with the same thoughts/memories. So he (and each clone) was essentially going to his own death each night. Admittedly not for a noble purpose as it was to attempt to punish Borden.

Chase Schleich

SPOILERS for anyone yet to watch the movie. This is so George can understand the ending. George, the trick wasn't about setting up Bale's character to go to prison. You missed the most important line of the movie. "It takes guts to step into that machine, never knowing if I'll be the man in the box or the Prestige" He had no idea if he was going to be the one to drown or if he'd be the guy at the top of the auditorium getting the ovation. He never figured out if he was getting transported or if he was being cloned and the clone got transported. The clone doesn't know they're a clone and the original doesn't know if he's the original. The original could have died night one, he doesn't know and we don't know. Then why do it that way? Doing the trick with a clone would have made his trick no better than Bale's. His trick was superior, it was real magic (The Real Transported Man), every time. That's why he kept using it. Yes, his plan was to also set-up Bale, but that was secondary to the wants and needs of his own ego. Sending Bale to prison was just the icing on the cake. He got to become the greatest magician in London AND take out his arch nemesis at the same time.

FranciscoGios
>>108480604

I must of missed the line when Robert said that he doesn’t know every time he uses the machine if he would be transported into the water box or to the audience. But I get what you saying, Robert wasn’t sacrificing the clones but himself which is almost the same thing.

John

Whens goldmember out guys?

Pajander
>>108469981

I would say there's a 100% chance he will die. There's really no reason assume that his consciousness could somehow be transported, since the machine clearly doesn't do anything to the original body, except scan it, and your consciousness just emerges from activity in your physical brain. That last part is debatable of course, but it's the simplest explanation. Like you said, it's a crude version of a Star Trek transporter, where destroying the original is not yet built in. Every time you use a transporter your life just ends and an identical but separate consciousness pops into existence a few seconds later.

Tukken
>>108500352

Spoilers again. But one way or another the original died anyway even before the end sequence. The first attempt, the one in the machine killed the one out of the machine but every time after that the one entering the machine is the one to die so in either that first trial or the first practice at the trick set up the original died.

dieselbeast

It was Alfred at the end the one who loved Sarah, he said something at the end when he was explaining to angier, "he loved Olivia, I loved Sarah" unless I misheard I choose to believe it was Alfred the biological father that survived 🤷

Astraeos
>>108597329

They filmed lots of stuff in advance cause I guess they are both doing vacations and what not. So sometime in the future?

Kymaera

I adore this movie, everything from how the movie itself mirrors a magic trick to the critical use of what would have been a throwaway side character in most movies (Fallon). I highly recommend rewatching sometime. I could honestly write an essay about it, but I'll keep it to one point I haven't seen others touch on yet. In my opinion Bale's acting in this is over the top. If for the sake of clarity we say that 'Fallon' is the one that loves Sarah and the shoots Angier and 'Alfred' is the one who loves Olivia and was hanged, it's actually really clear on rewatch scene-by-scene which one is which. Bale acts Alfred consistently as being much more brash and obsessive while Fallon is much more caring and has a calmer, more composed disposition. The one who buys the house for Sarah is Fallon, the one yelling at the restaurant is Alfred. The one who demands to know Angier's trick is Alfred, the one who says, 'We're done, let it go, we're not going to more showings,' is Fallon. There is a sense of 'justice' (not that anyone in this movie is really innocent) in that the one who instigates the rivalry more often is Alfred, and it leads him to his death.

Angela D. Mitchell
>>108472507

The Prestige is a great movie, but so is The Illusionist, which has absolutely nothing to do with the Prestige and very little similarity plotwise or characterwise. It's not a copy in any way, nor does it try to be -- it's a completely different story and both went into production at about the same time. Did you even see it?

Angela D. Mitchell

The secret to the entire movie is in the scene where Sarah's little nephew watches the canary trick, cries, "he killed him!" and then asks, "Where's his brother?" The use of twins/doubles in "The Transported Man" was common at the time. Which was why Albert and Alfred's commitment set them apart. They were two people with one life. There was never any evidence to discover because they never broke character, living the trick 24 hours per day. George, it does matter which is Alfred and which is Albert, and on rewatch it's fun to be able to tell. Albert is the gentler twin, who loved Sarah and fathered the little girl and who gets out in the end to be with her. Alfred is the more fiery twin -- the one who tied the riskier knot (but it was Albert at the funeral), the one with Scarlett's character, the one who yelled at the restaurant -- the one who didn't love Sarah or father her child, and the one who kept the rivalry going with Angiers. That's why Alfred apologizes to his brother one last time from prison -- he says "You were right, I should have left him to his damn trick," then he says he is sorry about Sarah and that he didn't mean to hurt her. The movie is really even more fun the second time around.