The Prestige

[DCW]

Thanks for your insite Secret Riddle.

 

[unknownuser]

Just watched it tonight. Absolutely fantastic.
My film of the year so far

 

[Shuley]

Boom,
Bale didn't have a machine,he really was a ****.

 

[Shuley]

I wish Scarlett had more screen time...I liked seeing her big boobs popping out of her costume.

 

[unknownuser]

Spoiler

When Jackman told Serkis to make him a machine, Serkis replies with, "Why build the same machine already built for another magician? Or something along those lines.

Does that mean Bale had a machine too? If that's the case, is Bale's twin just a clone?

Spoiler

Telsa made Borden a machine for visual effects (seen at the Professor's later shows), not for cloning

 

[Boom]

Spoiler

So did Bale trick Jackman into seeing Serkis about making a clone machine, when it was never a clone machine to begin with?

 

[unknownuser]

Spoiler

From what I understand, Jackman was under the assumption that Telsa built Bale a machine that could be used for teleportation. Hence he asked for such a machine, that would allow him to go from one part of the room to the other. Telsa, on the other hand, used Jackman's funding to continue building his cloning device which Jackman ends up bringing back to London.

 

[Boom]

Spoiler

So Telsa was already in the process of building a cloning machine when Jackman approached him?

 

[Dr. MIX]

...*head explodes*

As far as understanding this film completely I am beyond reach. I'll grasp most of it by my 5th viewing. For the time being, I will enjoy the visuals

 

[unknownuser]

Spoiler

So Telsa was already in the process of building a cloning machine when Jackman approached him?

Yes, remember at the end of their lunch Telsa tells Jackman that he had already started building the machine he was seeking.

 

[The Sage]

This movie was sick, in a good way. I'm not sure which is better between this and The Departed.

 

[FaT_tONle]

Good movie... Departed was better...

 

[JTStarkiller]

Anyone bought the score yet? Wondering if it works as well on its own as it does in the film. I distinctly recall being impressed by the music at least ten times during the movie.

 

[P.B.&Chocolate]

There is some misunderstanding of Borden's (Bale's character) machine/trick.

Spoiler

He had an actual twin his ingenuer .His machine wasn't built by Tesla .The code word Tesla was just his away of telling Angier ( Jackman ) the secret of what made his simple twin switching trapdoor below the stage trick exciting for the audience (the turn of the act)-the electricity. Remember when Scarlett Johanssen's Olivia told him that he needs to sell his act to the audience and she can tell him how -the electricity was the improvement . Cutter said so also told Angier it was nothing but a twin no matter how Borden jazzed it up. Borden is a great magician but he doesn't present his act to the audience well . He had the electricity added to make the trick seem more dangerous than it was .The prestige end result was his twinor Borden since they always switched , the electricity a distraction.Angier wanted to believe it to be more so he thought Borden worked with Tesla . Angier mistook Borden and went and spent his money to get a device like Borden's but he ( Borden) never worked with Tesla. Tesla at the lunch said he had the machine started because Andy Serkis's character gave Tesla the plans after he had drinks with Angier at the hotel.Also Angier died originally when he first tested the machine and his duplicate shot his original self . In London those were all the duplicates that did the trick night after night . Borden killed the last duplicate in the last scene.

 

[FaT_tONle]

The whole idea was a bit silly... I know the book is the book... but I figured it to be more realistic being it is a Nolan film...

 

[cryptic name]

The whole idea was a bit silly... I know the book is the book... but I figured it to be more realistic being it is a Nolan film...

yes, a man tearing thw world apart looking for meaning after the death of his wife is quite silly

 

[Equinox]

I loved the film..But had a question on it,

Spoiler

How would human cloning be possible in the 19th century just by the use of electricity..It is still kinda hard in the present age with the use of DNA and stuff.. So is there some kind of explanation to that too?

 

[kytrigger]

The whole idea was a bit silly... I know the book is the book... but I figured it to be more realistic being it is a Nolan film...

Spoiler

actually it is more "grounded in reality" (if it can actually be called that) than the book. The book had (for lack of a better word) a freacking ghost in it.

 

[kytrigger]

I loved the film..But had a question on it,

Spoiler

How would human cloning be possible in the 19th century just by the use of electricity..It is still kinda hard in the present age with the use of DNA and stuff.. So is there some kind of explanation to that too?

Spoiler

It's just suspension of disbelief. We are supposed to believe that Tesla was an amazing genius that has done things nobody else has even to this day, but was never known because Edison was more popular.

 

[Octoberist]

To Equinox, this is why some people mentioned the term 'steampunk', which this movie has.

 

[cryptic name]

I loved the film..But had a question on it,

Spoiler

How would human cloning be possible in the 19th century just by the use of electricity..It is still kinda hard in the present age with the use of DNA and stuff.. So is there some kind of explanation to that too?

Spoiler

magic

 

[Anita18]

I have successfully avoided clicking the spoiler tags thus far!

We'll see if this lasts until tomorrow. I'm planning to see it then....

But it's great to hear that so many people liked it.

 

[ToddIsDead]

I fianlly saw the movie earlier, and I loved it. Really, really awesome.

 

[Cinemaman]

There is some misunderstanding of Borden's (Bale's character) machine/trick.

Spoiler

He had an actual twin his ingenuer .His machine wasn't built by Tesla .The code word Tesla was just his away of telling Angier ( Jackman ) the secret of what made his simple twin switching trapdoor below the stage trick exciting for the audience (the turn of the act)-the electricity. Remember when Scarlett Johanssen's Olivia told him that he needs to sell his act to the audience and she can tell him how -the electricity was the improvement . Cutter said so also told Angier it was nothing but a twin no matter how Borden jazzed it up. Borden is a great magician but he doesn't present his act to the audience well . He had the electricity added to make the trick seem more dangerous than it was .The prestige end result was his twinor Borden since they always switched , the electricity a distraction.Angier wanted to believe it to be more so he thought Borden worked with Tesla . Angier mistook Borden and went and spent his money to get a device like Borden's but he ( Borden) never worked with Tesla. Tesla at the lunch said he had the machine started because Andy Serkis's character gave Tesla the plans after he had drinks with Angier at the hotel.Also Angier died originally when he first tested the machine and his duplicate shot his original self . In London those were all the duplicates that did the trick night after night . Borden killed the last duplicate in the last scene.

I didn't read spoilers, because I don't want to know 99% of the movie before I'll see it.

But from what I read in the book, Bale's character was supposed to be a mysterious figure.

 

[Octoberist]

yet, last week you kept asking people last about some of the spoiler stuff, like the things that happened near the end. Change of heart?