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Re: The Prestige

null@example.com (BigDamnArtist) — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:47:03 +0000

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Jump to 5:40 for the Penn and Teller cups and balls trick, and Tellers fish bowl trick is right after.

Re: The Prestige

null@example.com (MasterZap) — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 10:53:35 +0000

Shackman wrote:

http://FunnyOrDie.com/m/3wv0

Is that Crispin freakin' Glover!?

Re: The Prestige

null@example.com (thewalkindude00) — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 07:50:33 +0000

Just listened to your commentary for The Prestige again and want to extend on my earlier post.

Something I have just picked up on is the change in role for humans and animals in this movie through advancements in technology. At the start of the movie we have animals lives being sacrificed for the sake of the magicians performance. As time progresses throughout the movie we see Cutter develop the technology to the point where a bird trick can be performed without it being harmed.

In contrast, through the development of technology we see magicians going in the opposite direction. The new technology puts them (most specifically Angier) in a position where there lives are now the ones that are being sacrificed for the good of the trick.

I find it interesting how magicians and animals essentially swap roles by the end of the film.

Greg.

Re: The Prestige

null@example.com (Shackman) — Tue, 31 May 2011 20:47:08 +0000

just re listened to this commentary on a flight and was reminded of this awesome bit from funny or die... it's Drunk History (most are pretty funny), but this one is about Tesla vs. Edison (and about what a dick Edison was).

http://FunnyOrDie.com/m/3wv0

(it looks like i'm not bright enough to embed this....but i'm going to blame edison for that)

Re: The Prestige

null@example.com (BigDamnArtist) — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:32:39 +0000

It's part of his character arc, when Cutter is demonstrating the new bird cage trick to Angier he implies that the new trick will kill the bird and that he will only get anywhere in this business if he gets his hands dirty (or something to that effect), Angier gives in and performs the trick, thinking that he is killing the bird. When he asks Cutter why, he says 'I just had to know you could". And this theme continues until we come to where he is at the end of the movie so obsessed with the new trick that he allows himself to literally be the bird in the cage that he kills in order for the trick to happen.

Re: The Prestige

null@example.com (Matt Vayda) — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 05:02:32 +0000

I do seem to remember something about Angier [paraphrasing] "finally getting his hands dirty." I think it comes up in the graveyard.

Re: The Prestige

null@example.com (Doctor Submarine) — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 23:50:00 +0000

That's a really great point. The only real answer that I can think of is "He was obsessed. Shit happens." I'd never considered that aspect of his character in retrospect before, good catch.

Re: The Prestige

null@example.com (Teague) — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 23:39:33 +0000

Welcome to the forum, Greg.

And...uh. No. Hadn't thought of that. And that seems obvious in retrospect. God damn it.

Re: The Prestige

null@example.com (thewalkindude00) — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 22:22:29 +0000

Hi! First post on this site! I think The Prestige is a brilliant movie. One aspect of the movie that really intrigues me which no one else I know has picked up on is that Angier is determined to find a way to perform the trick of the bird in the cage without killing the bird. So determined that he tells Cutter that he doesn't want to kill animals. However, when it is himself in "the cage" (or the water tank) Angier has no problem with letting himself die. Did anyone else notice this?

Greg, Australia.

Re: The Prestige

null@example.com (fardawg) — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 21:17:20 +0000

Just so you know, it's CHUNG Ling Soo, not CHING.
"Ching" Ling "Foo" was a real Chinese magician that feuded with Chung.

Re: The Prestige

null@example.com (Zarban) — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:41:32 +0000

Batman's real mistake was not letting his wife in on the gag. Magicians (and Batmen) do this all the time. After all, she's likely to figure it out eventually, in which case she'll be so angry she's likely to blab. Meanwhile, your life would be a heck of a lot easier if she wasn't constantly doubting your sincerity (and Fallon's beard).

It would even have worked thematically, since he was also fooling ScaJo. Nolan could have focused his angst about whether or not to tell the girl on that relationship, since Batman certainly can't trust her completely.

Re: The Prestige

null@example.com (BigDamnArtist) — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:27:48 +0000

@Brian: I always got the impression that they pretty much did it right after the first brother had to get them amputated. So that it would at least, to her, just look like the wound had just reopened and was taking a while to heal.
I don't think that they would have waited til it had healed fully to do it, one because of the whole wife thing, but then also because they are already so committed to the trick, that they wouldn't want to leave any discrepancy between them for too long.

Re: The Prestige

null@example.com (Jimmy B) — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:52:04 +0000

Huh.

When we see the flash of the finger cutting it cut straight to the wife tending to his wound. I didn't think that was the same as when his fingers were shot off. If it was, her inclusion in that scene threw me off. Darn Nolan and his sneakiness.

Remember, I posted right after seeing it for the first time, The Prestige is a film that demands more than one viewing to let bits sink in

Re: The Prestige

null@example.com (Brian) — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:02:59 +0000

That's correct, we only see her tending to his wound wondering why it hasn't healed as much as one would expect.

Of course, if she were tending to both their wounds on a regular basis, wouldn't she have noticed that it went back and forth repeatedly?

Re: The Prestige

null@example.com (BigDamnArtist) — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 05:36:32 +0000

Shifty Bench: When did the wife ever help with the cutting of the fingers? The actual cutting was just the brothers. I mean she was heping him stop the bleeding, but she just thought that the wounds had reopened. She had "no" (Notice the quote marks) idea that there was 2 of em.