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vseslav.botkin posted:The only thing that ever really bothered me about The Prestige is the very end, where we have that pan to the tank with Angiers in it with Caine's closing speech about how you want to be... fooled. I feel like it's set up as though we're supposed to be shocked by what we see, or that there's something missing in what we've seen that we didn't realize until now? I mean, they've just explained what's going on, and it's been obvious for a reasonably perceptive viewer ever since the new trick started. I think this part is meant to mirror the bird trick at the start, where the kid sees through the illusion that there were two birds, and they killed one for the trick. For the trick to work it's magic, you have to blind yourself to the fact that the bird dies. Similarly, at the end, they give very clear hints as to what's going on with Angier's trick. Either you don't catch on and his dead clones are the twist, or you catch on and you hope it isn't true.
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Doesn't Borden also talk at the beginning about a sweet tricks he's working on that the world isn't ready for?
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May 3, 2017 18:16
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Artelier posted:I think this part is meant to mirror the bird trick at the start, where the kid sees through the illusion that there were two birds, and they killed one for the trick. For the trick to work it's magic, you have to blind yourself to the fact that the bird dies. This is exactly it.
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May 3, 2017 19:00
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I can't get over the way Bale says 'rubber ball'. He says it like 5 times and it cracks me up.
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May 3, 2017 19:05
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Rubbah Bowl
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May 3, 2017 23:25
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Much like Jason Statham, Bale is an English person who sounds utterly absurd doing an English accent.
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May 4, 2017 00:06
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vseslav.botkin posted:The only thing that ever really bothered me about The Prestige is the very end, where we have that pan to the tank with Angiers in it with Caine's closing speech about how you want to be... fooled. I feel like it's set up as though we're supposed to be shocked by what we see, or that there's something missing in what we've seen that we didn't realize until now? I mean, they've just explained what's going on, and it's been obvious for a reasonably perceptive viewer ever since the new trick started. The "fooled" part of that is spoken by Angiers' voice rather than Caine's, making the person wonder if Angiers didn't actually kill all of his clones immediately for the trick. Maybe Lord Cordlow was living it up the whole time ever since he met Tesla and realized he could have it all.
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May 4, 2017 00:15
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Neo Rasa posted:Maybe Lord Cordlow was living it up the whole time ever since he met Tesla and realized he could have it all. To him, at this point in life, having it all is the applause and recognition. If he can't have that, he might as well be dead.
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May 4, 2017 00:19
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Sir Kodiak posted:To him, at this point in life, having it all is the applause and recognition. If he can't have that, he might as well be dead. That is most certainly the case for the Angiers that got shot.
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May 4, 2017 00:42
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vseslav.botkin posted:The only thing that ever really bothered me about The Prestige is the very end, where we have that pan to the tank with Angiers in it with Caine's closing speech about how you want to be... fooled. I feel like it's set up as though we're supposed to be shocked by what we see, or that there's something missing in what we've seen that we didn't realize until now? I mean, they've just explained what's going on, and it's been obvious for a reasonably perceptive viewer ever since the new trick started. That actually ruins the whole movie for me. It's as dumb as most of Interstellar.
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May 18, 2017 17:53
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SimonCat posted:We're never told what the guy saw before that qualified as "real magic." But it's the same as Borden's trick. It's reality, but it's too simple so that audience doesn't know have time to react. You see this all the time in the real world. You can show someone a wonder of technology and it's boring. Hence, Interstellar.
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So I showed my girlfriend The Prestige yesterday. She'd never seen it, but she was convinced that the writer had seen this old cartoon. We watched it right after, and while I don't think the writer watched it, it's way too similar. It's an old Canadian cartoon from 1990, called "To Be" by John Welden. https://youtu.be/pdxucpPq6Lc It's the old Star Trek transporter argument. I like the black humor in this one.
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