The prestige

• العربية • Azərbaycanca • বাংলা • Беларуская • Беларуская (тарашкевіца) • Български • Català • Cebuano • Čeština • Cymraeg • Dansk • Deutsch • Ελληνικά • Español • Esperanto • Euskara • فارسی • Français • Galego • 한국어 • Հայերեն • हिन्दी • Hrvatski • Bahasa Indonesia • Italiano • עברית • Jawa • ქართული • Kreyòl ayisyen • Latviešu • Lëtzebuergesch • Lietuvių • Magyar • Македонски • മലയാളം • მარგალური • مصرى • Bahasa Melayu • Nederlands • नेपाली • 日本語 • Norsk bokmål • Occitan • ਪੰਜਾਬੀ • پنجابی • Polski • Português • Română • Русский • संस्कृतम् • Simple English • Slovenčina • Српски / srpski • Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски • Suomi • Svenska • தமிழ் • ไทย • Türkçe • Українська • Tiếng Việt • 吴语 • 粵語 • 中文 • United Kingdom • United States Language English Budget $40 million Box office $109.7 million The Prestige is a 2006 The cast also features The Prestige was released on October 20, 2006, to positive reviews and grossed $109 million worldwide against a production budget of $40 million. It received Plot [ ] In 1890s London, Robert Angier and Alfred Borden work as Unable to discern Borden's method, Angier hires a double, Gerald Root, to perform his own version of the trick. The imitation is a greater success, but Angier is dissatisfied, as he ends the trick hidden under the stage while Root basks in the applause. Angier has his assistant Olivia spy on Borden to learn how he performs The Transported Man. However, Olivia falls in love with Borden and becomes his assistant. With...

The story of a rapidly escalating feud between rival magicians in the 1800s, The Prestige proved Christopher Nolan wasn't a director to ignore. A twisty script, excellent editing, and stellar performances by Michael Caine, Christian Bale, and Hugh Jackman all hide the central twist of the movie in plain sight. The ending is telegraphed repeatedly, through nearly every character and every line, making it one of the most surprising, and paradoxically most foreshadowed, twists in movie history. The "magic" of the movie's twist is that nearly every character in the movie—everyone the audience is conditioned to understand as intelligent and sober-minded—knows Borden (Christian Bale) uses a double for his trick. Cutter (Michael Caine) knows, Olivia (Scarlett Johansson) knows, Sarah (Rebecca Hall) knows. But the audience doesn't want to believe it, and neither does Robert Angier (Hugh Jackman). We're as invested as he is to discover the trick, even when every detail of the script constantly tells us the truth. We don't really want to know. We want to be fooled. Here's the ending of The Prestige explained. Everything in the movie plays fairly with the audience regarding the central trick. It's all summed up in the opening narration by John Cutter: "Every great magic trick consists of three parts or acts. The first part is called 'The Pledge.' The magician shows you something ordinary: a deck of cards, a bird or a man. He shows you this object. Perhaps he asks you to inspect it to ...

The pledge of Nolan's "The Prestige" is that the film, having been metaphorically sawed in two, will be restored; it fails when it cheats, as, for example, if the whole woman produced on the stage were not the same one so unfortunately cut in two. Other than that fundamental flaw, which leads to some impenetrable revelations toward the end, it's quite a movie -- atmospheric, obsessive, almost satanic. It takes place in Victorian London, at a time and place where seances and black magic were believed in by the credulous. Somerset Maugham's novel The Magician captures that period perfectly in its fictional portrait of Aleister Crawley, "the most evil man in the world," who created the illusion that he really was an occult practitioner of dark forces. He had a gift for persuading women to materialize in his bed. These days, when most of us are less superstitious, it is the technical craft of a Houdini, the great transitional figure between "magical" acts and ingenious tricks, was at pains to explain that everything he did was a trick; he offered rewards, never collected, for any "supernatural" act he could not explain. The Amazing Randi carries on in the same tradition, bending spoons as easily as Uri Geller. And yet in Houdini's time, there were those who insisted he was doing real magic; how else could his effects be achieved? Daniel Mark Epstein wrote about the Houdini believers in a 1986 issue of the New Criterion, which I read as I read everything I can get my hands on a...

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I've seen this film twice now - about a year ago and then yesterday - and thoroughly enjoyed it both times, even the second time when I remembered some of those fantastic twists in the last half hour. Sometimes it's even more fun to view a film like this when you know a few things, because earlier scenes take on new meaning. It's not an easy film to totally digest, even with two viewings, because that ending has some mind-boggling revelations. Without having to resort to spoilers, let me just say the story is extremely interesting, the acting very good, the period pieces fun to view and it's a pretty clean movie so grandma can also enjoy it, too, without language or sex concerns. Basically, it's a story about obsession between two magicians in the last decade of the 19th century. They continually try to top one another and things get nasty along the way. Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale are both fun to watch in those roles, as are Michael Caine and Scarlett Johansson in supporting roles. This is one movie guaranteed to have you thinking about it when it's over! I won't say it's an underrated movie, but it has somewhat been buried by the legacy of other "popular" Nolan movies. With this movie, Nolan shows his ability to make a metacinematic film, yet again. This is obviously my most favorite Christopher Nolan movie, along with "Memento" (2000). Just like you can relate the theme of memories and interpretations shown in the story of "Memento" with the actual experience we had...

The story of a rapidly escalating feud between rival magicians in the 1800s, The Prestige proved Christopher Nolan wasn't a director to ignore. A twisty script, excellent editing, and stellar performances by Michael Caine, Christian Bale, and Hugh Jackman all hide the central twist of the movie in plain sight. The ending is telegraphed repeatedly, through nearly every character and every line, making it one of the most surprising, and paradoxically most foreshadowed, twists in movie history. The "magic" of the movie's twist is that nearly every character in the movie—everyone the audience is conditioned to understand as intelligent and sober-minded—knows Borden (Christian Bale) uses a double for his trick. Cutter (Michael Caine) knows, Olivia (Scarlett Johansson) knows, Sarah (Rebecca Hall) knows. But the audience doesn't want to believe it, and neither does Robert Angier (Hugh Jackman). We're as invested as he is to discover the trick, even when every detail of the script constantly tells us the truth. We don't really want to know. We want to be fooled. Here's the ending of The Prestige explained. Everything in the movie plays fairly with the audience regarding the central trick. It's all summed up in the opening narration by John Cutter: "Every great magic trick consists of three parts or acts. The first part is called 'The Pledge.' The magician shows you something ordinary: a deck of cards, a bird or a man. He shows you this object. Perhaps he asks you to inspect it to ...

The pledge of Nolan's "The Prestige" is that the film, having been metaphorically sawed in two, will be restored; it fails when it cheats, as, for example, if the whole woman produced on the stage were not the same one so unfortunately cut in two. Other than that fundamental flaw, which leads to some impenetrable revelations toward the end, it's quite a movie -- atmospheric, obsessive, almost satanic. It takes place in Victorian London, at a time and place where seances and black magic were believed in by the credulous. Somerset Maugham's novel The Magician captures that period perfectly in its fictional portrait of Aleister Crawley, "the most evil man in the world," who created the illusion that he really was an occult practitioner of dark forces. He had a gift for persuading women to materialize in his bed. These days, when most of us are less superstitious, it is the technical craft of a Houdini, the great transitional figure between "magical" acts and ingenious tricks, was at pains to explain that everything he did was a trick; he offered rewards, never collected, for any "supernatural" act he could not explain. The Amazing Randi carries on in the same tradition, bending spoons as easily as Uri Geller. And yet in Houdini's time, there were those who insisted he was doing real magic; how else could his effects be achieved? Daniel Mark Epstein wrote about the Houdini believers in a 1986 issue of the New Criterion, which I read as I read everything I can get my hands on a...

• العربية • Azərbaycanca • বাংলা • Беларуская • Беларуская (тарашкевіца) • Български • Català • Cebuano • Čeština • Cymraeg • Dansk • Deutsch • Ελληνικά • Español • Esperanto • Euskara • فارسی • Français • Galego • 한국어 • Հայերեն • हिन्दी • Hrvatski • Bahasa Indonesia • Italiano • עברית • Jawa • ქართული • Kreyòl ayisyen • Latviešu • Lëtzebuergesch • Lietuvių • Magyar • Македонски • മലയാളം • მარგალური • مصرى • Bahasa Melayu • Nederlands • नेपाली • 日本語 • Norsk bokmål • Occitan • ਪੰਜਾਬੀ • پنجابی • Polski • Português • Română • Русский • संस्कृतम् • Simple English • Slovenčina • Српски / srpski • Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски • Suomi • Svenska • தமிழ் • ไทย • Türkçe • Українська • Tiếng Việt • 吴语 • 粵語 • 中文 • United Kingdom • United States Language English Budget $40 million Box office $109.7 million The Prestige is a 2006 The cast also features The Prestige was released on October 20, 2006, to positive reviews and grossed $109 million worldwide against a production budget of $40 million. It received Plot [ ] In 1890s London, Robert Angier and Alfred Borden work as Unable to discern Borden's method, Angier hires a double, Gerald Root, to perform his own version of the trick. The imitation is a greater success, but Angier is dissatisfied, as he ends the trick hidden under the stage while Root basks in the applause. Angier has his assistant Olivia spy on Borden to learn how he performs The Transported Man. However, Olivia falls in love with Borden and becomes his assistant. With...