I just watched The Prestige the other day, now I remember how good this film was. This film keeps you at the edge of your seat looking for clues to piece together the story. I like films that keep you engaged all the way through to the end, it makes it more special. Thank you, Nolan for an awesome film.
You cut the video before the best part, when Hugh explains how the magicians role of creating illusion and the unexplainable is a noble pursuit. We modern humans try so hard to see and know everything to such an extent that life for many becomes stale and predictable. The magician provides us with that whisper of a thrill, that one note of wonder which no man may fully explain. It reminds us that some things should just remain insolvable i.e. the creation of the universe.
Here is the genius of the film: the Borden's were twins, they're sacrifice was akin to the Chinese magician.....Angier was cloned when he stepped into Tesla's machine, sometimes the Angier that stepped into the machine dropped into the water tank & died, sometimes he transported & the clone drowned, Angier never knew where he would end up, that's why it took "courage each night to step into the machine, not knowing", his sacrifice was like the canaries. Pure genius.
i love the foreshading in this movie. with the birds, one of them would be killed, the other would be the prestige and how that resembled the clones between the magicians, which one would die and which one would survive, becoming the prestige. amazing
So during the movie I was making up all sorts of possible explanations okay, but in the end it were just clones. Hahaha, no seriously, best movie I have seen in a long, long while
How is Christopher Nolan overrated? Not only is he a critically acclaimed director, but he actually writes and produces, most of the movies he's done. he's not "Kubrick or Hitchcock level of good" but he brings a much more sophisticated level of artistry in his movies than most films of our time. Nolan, Aranofsky, and Scorsese are perhaps the best directors out there today. also Nolan, just started his career, he's only done like 7 movies.
My favorite movie all time.... This probably would of ruined the movie but what if in a sequel Robert made an extra clone before he was killed.... Even Bordon who have been mind fucked
Christian Bale... What could i say about him? He deserved a loads of Academy winnings, but, at least got one from 'The Fighter', but hey, he doesn't need all those awards to prove himself that he is a great actor, just like Al Pacino...
I can't believe anyone would agree with the current top comment: "Christopher Nolan is the Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, and Orson Welles all in 1, of our time."
Perhaps we could say that at the end of his career, but certainly not yet. Kubrick revolutionized the sci-fi genre. Nolan is a master, but if it wasn't for Kubrick specifically, Nolan wouldn't be where he is.
Nolan makes great films in a time when there are very few of them: that's why he's looked up to so much.
@bond626007 Wow, I wonder if your post was the inspiration for the "Dark Knight Rises - Prestige Style" trailer. If you haven't seen it, you gotta check it out.
The last 20 mins or so got cut off on my pvr.... Lol still doesn't explain why he tied the wrong knot on angiers wife... Unless it was bordens twin? I think I just figured it to while typing this...
angier was waaaay more gutsy than borden. he committed suicide EVERY SHOW , and the new angier would carry on. borden's reveal was kinda lame in comparison
@bob123789456 Borden shared one life with his brother. If you think that's easy, you either never had a family or you've never loved someone you couldn't be with...
@bob123789456 His brother sacrificed himself and he sacrificed his own blood, AFTER both had already sacrificed the love of their lives (one even had to deal with his wife committing suicide, left to take care of his child on his own) for their craft.
And through it all, Borden kept his humanity. Angier lost his.
There is another film there in the making if Robert Angier didn't shoot himself, I mean his copy and just had an oul chat with him. There's a film by.
I don't get it. When he tested it out when he had the pistol the clone was what was teleported while the original stayed. So when he performs does that mean that the clone is who lives since the one who isn't teleported dies?
@TheMorbidKlown Im pretty sure they all have the same state of mind. They both know what is going on, which is why he states how difficult it was to carry the trick out, since he felt both fear from being in the box, even though he was still alive in the prestige
Nobody new if this was a machine that teleports the original away and creates a clone in his place or if the machine created a clone in the distance while leaving the original in place.
That's why he always feared death in his trick, because he never knew if he was going to die or if a clone was the one to drown.
It's also impossible to say if a clone or the real one died, because naturally both Clones would always think of themselves as the original.
Even worse, the real Angier is definitely dead. The one who dies during the trick is the version who stays inside the teleporter, but look at the flashback the angier outside the teleporter get's shot.
The orginal Angier is dead long before the ending of the film. He either died during the first performance of the trick because the teleporter just creates a clone or he died even before that when he tested the machine and was shot by his clone.
You cannot tell which one is the real one! Is it a machine that teleports the original and leaves a copy or does it create a copy several meters away? There's no way of telling, because both Angier and his copies think they're the original. In a way they're both the "real" Angier but the whole point is that he does never know if he'll survive using the machine or die. . .
i see what you are saying but i don't think i'm wrong. Think about it.
If the machine teleports and leaves a copy the original Angier get's shot the first time he uses the machine.
If the machine doesn't teleport but just creates a copy then the original Angier dies during the first performance of his version of the transported man. I know the clone and the original can't tell the difference between themselves but that doesn't really matter because both sides get killed at a point.
Well you're right but the question is: does it really matter? I mean if there's no difference between the real one and the copy we could as well see both of them as the real ones.
What I was saying however is important to Angier because, like he stated in the film, he never knew if he was going to die while doing his trick, or if he was just going to be teleported . So going into the trick he always was struck by a horrible fear of death: that was his torment.
"You want to be... fooled." The whole movie is like the Prestige itself. We want to be fooled, and that's why we see the air bubble.
As in Inception, we never see if the totem stopped spinning, and that little thought made us doubt a lot of things, if not everything, in the movie... but then again, that's what Inception was all about.
The father and daughter survived ( the one who loved sarah ) and the one who was part of the act where the girlfriend of robbert drowned. So Robert was the big loser because he couldnt take revenge on the right person
This movie is a real magic trick. He says he killed all the clones, but we don't have any proof it is real, just his word and the view of only ONE man in the tank (it could be a understudy again...) The point is that we don't know if the machine really create clones... (ha! my head!)
This is the only movie I've ever gotten a headache thinking about. Not that it was a difficult concept to grasp, just the replication idea. Its more than just a clone concept... Because they were the exact same person. So would Danton be able to control the mind of both, since they were the same? Or just one of them, but at the same time both? Is the conscience split, or replicated? They are not two separate people, but one in the same. So which one was Danton...really? Haha. Great stuff :D
I personally think that the magician who died actually cloned himself before and hid him in the water tank so that one of them could live because at the end it says every magician wants to be fooled and i guess thats the fooled part
Were Borden and Fallon TWINS? Or was one of them a clone?? Because Borden never confirms that they were twins.. he just says "we were both borden, we were both fallon" But that could mean, his clone took on his role, and he took on his clone's role.
And if one of them were clone's, why was Borden so amazed when Angier did his version of "Transporting Man"? Because he would already know how this trick was done.
@Badfish228 they were twins, we were both borden we were both fallon meaning they'd always switch, they convinced the world there was only one when there was 2
iknew when watching it the audience were given the right to root for either bale or jackman. I'm assuming nolan intended the audience to root for bale because in the end he had the last say, I wanted bale to get the best of him.
Not seeing the bigger picture can make a man mad,thinking that nothing makes sense,while the opposite is exactly true. Nothing is impossible in the infinite.
Love this ending... but one thing I don't understand was the significance of him keeping his dead clones... why is it sort of done as a plot twist? Why did he keep them?
i believe it's there to assure the viewer that this relevation is truly genuine and final. otherwise people would start to reason that teleporting/cloning doesn't work and search for a trick that isn't there. they do it anyway...
We apply too much mysticism to life. All we know is that we're made up of the same stuff as everything else and through it we achieve consciousness, an entirely new natural phenomena. We are not special, we do not have "souls," we are simply alive. It's probably nothing more than that.
The technology seen in this movie will some day be possible. Life won't be as special as we think it is when we have that kind of power. Which means life just isn't as special as we think it is :)
@raptic "The technology seen in this movie will some day be possible." No it won't. Look up the Laws of thermodynamics. Basically, you can't create energy (another person is considered matter, which is a form of energy), from nothing.
I don't know the future, so I can't say with 100% certainty, but it's about as likely as pink flying unicorns from outer space to come into existence.
@KoolA1d Gah, sorry. I should have specified as I did not mean the exact technology show here. What WILL be possible is the manipulation of matter such that what was once non-living becomes so. A conversion of matter is all I mean, I agree nothing cannot come from something. I maintain that our identity is meaningless in the sense that we are just matter carrying out the process of cognition.
@KoolA1d sorry, I was wrong. I was mainly concerned with the philosophical issue and what WILL be possible is the manipulation of matter. No, something cannot come from nothing, but we will be able to convert plain old matter into a living thing (similar to what we see in this video). I believe our current understanding of life and our identities will be challenged once this is possible. I'm concerned about it, because if this is possible...what are we?
@raptic We have already managed to form organic compounds from inorganic precursors. Look up the Miller–Urey experiment.
I think instead of "living thing" you may mean a multicellular complex organism. A study very recently at, I think it was the University of Minnesota, managed to do exactly that with yeast. Although this is most likely because yeast's very ancient precursors may have indeed been multicellular themselves. Just remember, not everything is possible, even with technology + time
@KoolA1d I was aware of the experiment you reference, which only shows how life can naturally occur. I'm not talking about chemical manipulation, I'm talking about the ability to order atoms to our liking. This is very much within the realm of reality.
What would it mean if we had a machine capable of taking any old matter and within a very short time frame converting that matter into a person (who presumably had been scanned to a minute detail of their makeup)? What if?
@raptic This is really an unanswerable question and too deep to even think about. The question in itself is an inception going layers upon layers of what we are.
@Zackarius14 I wonder though if it is unanswerable. I wonder if consciousness lay somewhere between the layers...What forms our consciousness? What if it's just a discernible algorithm of electrical signals within our brain? We may not know now, but I foresee this being an answerable question. That which we call a soul may just be what we attribute ourselves due to our current lack of understanding.
@emiynu no body killed her. she died bcoz borden thought that the othr knot wud work and angiers wife had also once mentioned that she cud work her way out of the knot. but she cudnt ultimately n hence she died. it wasnt planned
earlier in the film, while Angier was reading bordens diary, Borden wrote that Tesla wasn't the keyword and Angier went all the way to America for nothing.
One aspect of this film that was left unsaid and I'm not sure it if was implied. But, was Borden's twin a twin or a clone. I ask since he wrote "Tesla" as the keyword to his diary. So I would think that implies Tesla made him one clone for the sake of the transported man act. Great movie, but that bugs me...
@SoldierT105 they were twins. a little before this clip Angier even says "a twin?" In the book the two were named Albert and Freddy which is which is how they put together the name Alfred.
@TheDudeLordOfFantasy I am still not certain, although the name is a good hint at the twins theory. I just find it too big a hole in the plot with Borden writing "Tesla" as a keyword and the fact that Tesla made a device for Borden. For them to be twins, it would have had to be a very wild coincidence that Tesla somehow knew how to make a clone without knowing. I guess this will bug me for sometime, but it was a surprisingly good movie.
damn, he killed all his clones...i wonder what it feels to be a clone...i mean of course you wouldn't know your a clone ,it will probably feel like your the original unless some1 proves it to you.
@magicstorm1 thats what he was saying, it got to the point where he didnt know if he was even the original 'him' or not anymore, all he cared about was the trick and beating borden
Hey guys i got a few questions about this movie. In the really end about the last few frames before the credits, it shows wolverine in a water tank, does that mean anything?, also, how does the 5 letter notebook thing work? i would like to make me own
@TheConzArtist It shows one of the Angier clones in the tank to show that every single one of those tanks was used, giving both Borden and the viewer an idea on just how obsessed Angier was, and how intent he was on being the better magician. He killed dozens of those clones, showing the sacrifices he made just to beat Borden.
The notebook was a Macguffin (plot item that serves no other purpose other than to move the story along), so we never actually got to read it or make any sense of it.
Many people keep saying he killed his clone. The whole point was that he was unsure of how the machine worked. In turn, he never knew if he killed himself or the clone every night. Once the machine was activated they both thought they were the original. It was impossible to tell the difference.
@galaxian78 Even though what little logic can be implemented into this film would suggest that his clone is who survives each night, the book (that the movie is based on) reveals that it is the clone that dies.
i absolutely LOVE the ending. the last 5 minutes really are the best part of the movie and the ultimate trick wasn't as easy to predicted as i thought it would be (although i was suspicious when his hand started bleeding again).
The machine had to work, Even if the guy in the tank at the end is Root who the fuck is in the morgue. I think the realists out there tryingto find a super cool magic trick to make the teleport seem more elaborate are either too sceptical to consider the suggestion that the machine is real or just buying into the end monoluge and are being reversed psyched into looking for another explanation.
@mjmoverscoach you are absolutely right I've even proven that it worked and the refuse to believe me. It's most simply proven by the flashback with Angier using the machine and killing the clone. Since this scene is only shown to audience it can't be a lie.
OMG, anyone who perceives Borden/Fallon as the 'Bad Guy' has serious morality issues. Angiers wife clearly agrees with borden backstage that the risky knot is a suitable choice and as she watches him tie the knot they are both in agreement. THIS MEANS HER FAILURE TO ESCAPE WAS AN ACCIDENT, A MISCALCULATION ON HER PART. From this point on Angiers obsession with ruining Borden's life and even going so far as to attempt to murder him clearly makes him the villain.
It kinda bothers me people seem to not understand this part.
There is no 'real' Angier they were clones they were ALL Angier just like Tesla said they're BOTH your hat. Each time he did the trick he both died and survived. The last one alive is killed here.
Borden is not a clone Tesla had not made a working machine at the time and they have DIFFERENT personalities.
The Prestige is my favorite nolan movie because it is a magic trick in film
@myleftnutts yes twin brother at first I thought he might have been a clone but it is proven Tesla had not made a clone machine yet. Borden also doesn't know how Angier is doing his trick which he would if he knew about cloning.
@demiser21 So u are saying THIS,Bale was a secret TWIN,while Jackman,had Various Tesla machined produced Clones???....and in the end bale kill's the original Jackman.however did Bale know Jackman had Clones,and if he didn't know,how would he know if he were really killing the Original Jackman,or just one of his Clones???.
wait?!?! this makes NO sense?!?! yet again, christopher nolan mindfucked me yet again, i knew since the scene where they captured the twin i thought he kinda looked like christan bale, but i thought he used teslas device to clone himself thats why he had a note in his book saying "tesla" but he just had a twin this entire time?!?! im still shocked
Borden explained that they took turns to play the engineer and Borden. I think it's the one who killed Angier's wife cuz the one got hanged obviously is more obsessive.
@chrisproxxx I think it's considered his worst simply because most of his other movies explore the depth and psyche of the main character but this one sort of fails (it still tries but I didn't really feel connected to Angier or Borden as I did to, say, Batman or Shelby.
Its use of time distortion, cinematography and pretty much everything else is amazing though.
batman is a little far-fetched in terms of personal choices and relationships. it's not a very tangible existence to be the richest man, with the best tools, and incredible strength and fighting acumen. it's cool to watch, perhaps, but there's not to much to stack up against your own life. in this case, i believe the characters are relatable, showing the dehumanizing nature of obsession. the pursuit of status becomes consuming, destroying lives both figuratively and literally.
@chrisproxxx I wouldnt say this is considered his worst movie at all....it's known as one of the most underrated movies of all time. Plus he only has like 5 movies 2 of which are batman. Momento gave him a name, Insomnia would prob be considered his worst movie.
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I just watched The Prestige the other day, now I remember how good this film was. This film keeps you at the edge of your seat looking for clues to piece together the story. I like films that keep you engaged all the way through to the end, it makes it more special. Thank you, Nolan for an awesome film.
cyborgninja100 6 days ago
You cut the video before the best part, when Hugh explains how the magicians role of creating illusion and the unexplainable is a noble pursuit. We modern humans try so hard to see and know everything to such an extent that life for many becomes stale and predictable. The magician provides us with that whisper of a thrill, that one note of wonder which no man may fully explain. It reminds us that some things should just remain insolvable i.e. the creation of the universe.
Midironica 1 week ago in playlist The Prestige
@Midironica whats the rest of it, when he said if you can just fool them for a second?
dlc85007 1 week ago
Here is the genius of the film: the Borden's were twins, they're sacrifice was akin to the Chinese magician.....Angier was cloned when he stepped into Tesla's machine, sometimes the Angier that stepped into the machine dropped into the water tank & died, sometimes he transported & the clone drowned, Angier never knew where he would end up, that's why it took "courage each night to step into the machine, not knowing", his sacrifice was like the canaries. Pure genius.
thebigmalkowski 1 week ago
"you didn't see where you were... look around"
"dont care" best line ever
schapadap 1 week ago
Batman owned Wolverine
akkifans 2 weeks ago
Hugh Jackman... killed Hugh Jackman... and lived to tell the tale 0_o
NightmareVF 2 weeks ago
Very eerie music track playing in the background, while Borden confronts his life-long rival about what he's lost; his humanity...
I simply can't get enough of this!
rsmovielord 2 weeks ago
Far and away Nolan's best film. Honestly, it's his only one that's worked on every level for me. Genuinely one of my all time favourites.
Mowglieboy69 2 weeks ago
i love the foreshading in this movie. with the birds, one of them would be killed, the other would be the prestige and how that resembled the clones between the magicians, which one would die and which one would survive, becoming the prestige. amazing
JJ14202 3 weeks ago
So during the movie I was making up all sorts of possible explanations okay, but in the end it were just clones. Hahaha, no seriously, best movie I have seen in a long, long while
Mastersteef123 3 weeks ago
'Contains spoilers' oh really? The ending? :youdontsay:
Mastersteef123 3 weeks ago
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How is Christopher Nolan overrated? Not only is he a critically acclaimed director, but he actually writes and produces, most of the movies he's done. he's not "Kubrick or Hitchcock level of good" but he brings a much more sophisticated level of artistry in his movies than most films of our time. Nolan, Aranofsky, and Scorsese are perhaps the best directors out there today. also Nolan, just started his career, he's only done like 7 movies.
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errupin 1 month ago
I watched 4 times this movie and I'm sure I'll watch many times a sight.
zgnmgg 1 month ago
My favorite movie all time.... This probably would of ruined the movie but what if in a sequel Robert made an extra clone before he was killed.... Even Bordon who have been mind fucked
ben102ben102ben102 1 month ago 2
this movie is Fucked. Up.
bambarby 1 month ago
@bambarby
no its not...its fuckin incredible movie
akkifans 1 month ago
@akkifans I know, but still
bambarby 1 month ago
i get it now,just like the asian guy who walked around with a limp on purpose just for the sake of one trick
VILEHINTZ 1 month ago
Christian Bale... What could i say about him? He deserved a loads of Academy winnings, but, at least got one from 'The Fighter', but hey, he doesn't need all those awards to prove himself that he is a great actor, just like Al Pacino...
zeromant80 1 month ago 7
i want to know if there really were twins, since batman's secret was TESLA, Ffff I'm confused, well kinda, idk, pfftt
Malic2094 1 month ago
@Malic2094 yes twins thats it.. tesla helped him clone himself
VILEHINTZ 1 month ago
@VILEHINTZ They were twins at birth, tesla only helped Robert Angier to get cloned...
zeromant80 1 month ago
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I can't believe anyone would agree with the current top comment: "Christopher Nolan is the Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, and Orson Welles all in 1, of our time."
Perhaps we could say that at the end of his career, but certainly not yet. Kubrick revolutionized the sci-fi genre. Nolan is a master, but if it wasn't for Kubrick specifically, Nolan wouldn't be where he is.
Nolan makes great films in a time when there are very few of them: that's why he's looked up to so much.
BraunBrothers 1 month ago 5
How many twins in tandem now!
SuperBIGTEL 2 months ago
Of course he's not dead. He's the GODDAM BATMAN!
carlter2004 2 months ago
Batman Begins = the pledge
The Dark Knight = the turn
The Dark Knight rises = the prestige
bond626007 2 months ago 26
@bond626007 Wow, I wonder if your post was the inspiration for the "Dark Knight Rises - Prestige Style" trailer. If you haven't seen it, you gotta check it out.
jackytreehornn77 1 week ago
@jackytreehornn77 I've seen it. :)
I'd be flattered if it was, but I doubt it.
just a fan throwing out a theory.
bond626007 1 week ago
The last 20 mins or so got cut off on my pvr.... Lol still doesn't explain why he tied the wrong knot on angiers wife... Unless it was bordens twin? I think I just figured it to while typing this...
phattyfat 2 months ago
@phattyfat it was his twin, that's why he say "I can't remember", cause in that conversation he isn't the one who tied the knot
Malic2094 1 month ago
The Dark Knight owns Wolverine
TheJbloom 2 months ago
angier was waaaay more gutsy than borden. he committed suicide EVERY SHOW , and the new angier would carry on. borden's reveal was kinda lame in comparison
bob123789456 2 months ago
@bob123789456 Borden shared one life with his brother. If you think that's easy, you either never had a family or you've never loved someone you couldn't be with...
rsmovielord 2 months ago
@rsmovielord ya, that's emotionally stressful, but it doesn't compare to committing suicide every night for 100 nights.
bob123789456 2 months ago
@bob123789456 His brother sacrificed himself and he sacrificed his own blood, AFTER both had already sacrificed the love of their lives (one even had to deal with his wife committing suicide, left to take care of his child on his own) for their craft.
And through it all, Borden kept his humanity. Angier lost his.
Mowglieboy69 2 weeks ago
There is another film there in the making if Robert Angier didn't shoot himself, I mean his copy and just had an oul chat with him. There's a film by.
TheOshman4 3 months ago
C.Bale sounds so much better with his English accent ;)...sexier!
frostylunetta 3 months ago
Love this film but American Psycho is still the best Bale film I reckon
silentwars666 3 months ago in playlist Liked videos
hands down the most underrated Nolan movie.
hailmary7283 3 months ago 7
Chris Nolan cannot seem to make a bad movie ... the guy really has true skills (Memento, Insomnia, Batman Begins, Dark Knight ...)
disengagejam 3 months ago
One of Nolan's movies without epic Hans Zimmer musical score, and it's still amazing!
rsmovielord 4 months ago 9
watch shutter island itzz more mindsucking
MrHamtaq 4 months ago
simply a MASTERPIECE
MrHamtaq 4 months ago
I don't get it. When he tested it out when he had the pistol the clone was what was teleported while the original stayed. So when he performs does that mean that the clone is who lives since the one who isn't teleported dies?
TheMorbidKlown 5 months ago
@TheMorbidKlown Yeah the clone lives and he kills himself but the clone also has his memories so he thinks he's the original.
MrLimsky83 5 months ago
@TheMorbidKlown Im pretty sure they all have the same state of mind. They both know what is going on, which is why he states how difficult it was to carry the trick out, since he felt both fear from being in the box, even though he was still alive in the prestige
ThePunkbebe 4 months ago
@ThePunkbebe
It's rather simple:
Nobody new if this was a machine that teleports the original away and creates a clone in his place or if the machine created a clone in the distance while leaving the original in place.
That's why he always feared death in his trick, because he never knew if he was going to die or if a clone was the one to drown.
It's also impossible to say if a clone or the real one died, because naturally both Clones would always think of themselves as the original.
Mangiff 4 months ago
@Mangiff
Even worse, the real Angier is definitely dead. The one who dies during the trick is the version who stays inside the teleporter, but look at the flashback the angier outside the teleporter get's shot.
The orginal Angier is dead long before the ending of the film. He either died during the first performance of the trick because the teleporter just creates a clone or he died even before that when he tested the machine and was shot by his clone.
gamefreakforlife 4 months ago
@gamefreakforlife
Sorry but you got it wrong.
You cannot tell which one is the real one! Is it a machine that teleports the original and leaves a copy or does it create a copy several meters away? There's no way of telling, because both Angier and his copies think they're the original. In a way they're both the "real" Angier but the whole point is that he does never know if he'll survive using the machine or die. . .
Mangiff 4 months ago
@Mangiff
i see what you are saying but i don't think i'm wrong. Think about it.
If the machine teleports and leaves a copy the original Angier get's shot the first time he uses the machine.
If the machine doesn't teleport but just creates a copy then the original Angier dies during the first performance of his version of the transported man. I know the clone and the original can't tell the difference between themselves but that doesn't really matter because both sides get killed at a point.
gamefreakforlife 4 months ago
@gamefreakforlife
Well you're right but the question is: does it really matter? I mean if there's no difference between the real one and the copy we could as well see both of them as the real ones.
What I was saying however is important to Angier because, like he stated in the film, he never knew if he was going to die while doing his trick, or if he was just going to be teleported . So going into the trick he always was struck by a horrible fear of death: that was his torment.
Mangiff 4 months ago
Wait a minute.. Did the device that Tesla made, the clone device, did it actually work? I didn't get the last part..
MisterCovek 5 months ago
Wow! Batman and wolverine having a dinner!
EminidisMike 5 months ago
Damn... this movie is mindfuckery over mindfuckery.
yuriirii 5 months ago 6
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Angier still alive.....clone was shot in the end :)
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hermeshgupta21 5 months ago
i shat bricks in the end. i mean how the fuck couldnt i figure that out? a twin! so fucking simple, and yet...
BufasB 5 months ago
Extremly underated film!
MercenaryOfOZ 5 months ago 4
"You want to be... fooled." The whole movie is like the Prestige itself. We want to be fooled, and that's why we see the air bubble.
As in Inception, we never see if the totem stopped spinning, and that little thought made us doubt a lot of things, if not everything, in the movie... but then again, that's what Inception was all about.
7Rabuja 5 months ago 30
@7Rabuja Well put.
waffenfabrik4815 6 days ago
Wait! If Borden and Fallon were twins who was hung and who lived?
wherearewe7 5 months ago
@wherearewe7 we don't know
7Rabuja 5 months ago
@wherearewe7
The father and daughter survived ( the one who loved sarah ) and the one who was part of the act where the girlfriend of robbert drowned. So Robert was the big loser because he couldnt take revenge on the right person
Zeberde3 5 months ago
all magic trick consists of 3 parts...
Akshay34U 6 months ago
This movie is a real magic trick. He says he killed all the clones, but we don't have any proof it is real, just his word and the view of only ONE man in the tank (it could be a understudy again...) The point is that we don't know if the machine really create clones... (ha! my head!)
neitmar 6 months ago
Just watched this movie again today... I pick up something new every time that I watch it! Christopher Nolan is mind-blowing!
DanTheMortician 6 months ago
Batman vs. Wolverine. Batman won
MilchSir 6 months ago 6
This is the only movie I've ever gotten a headache thinking about. Not that it was a difficult concept to grasp, just the replication idea. Its more than just a clone concept... Because they were the exact same person. So would Danton be able to control the mind of both, since they were the same? Or just one of them, but at the same time both? Is the conscience split, or replicated? They are not two separate people, but one in the same. So which one was Danton...really? Haha. Great stuff :D
aquakid360 6 months ago
what a movie!!!
sofiakok21 7 months ago
isnt it messed up how the other twin just is hanged at the end and the other one is living with the daughter.
ecysoul 7 months ago
@ecysoul The one that lived was the father of the girl to begin with. But, you're right; still disturbing.
lledec 6 months ago
lool... I JUST DONT KNOW OK? XD
mysticdarkness2 7 months ago
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I think this is film is quite hard to follow but brilliant
rayner1704 7 months ago
Christopher Nolan, you ingenious bastard. You are the Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, and Orson Welles all in 1, of our time.
mahavishnuxc 7 months ago 57
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@mahavishnuxc it is based on a novel you know ;)
BizzyTkiD 7 months ago
@mahavishnuxc Well, you can't credit him for the great story, it was a book first.
Xen1aserman 5 months ago
I hope people actually watch this movie all the way through. I was a good movie.. What a trip..
goodkitty8 7 months ago
I personally think that the magician who died actually cloned himself before and hid him in the water tank so that one of them could live because at the end it says every magician wants to be fooled and i guess thats the fooled part
931Brothers 7 months ago
Were Borden and Fallon TWINS? Or was one of them a clone?? Because Borden never confirms that they were twins.. he just says "we were both borden, we were both fallon" But that could mean, his clone took on his role, and he took on his clone's role.
And if one of them were clone's, why was Borden so amazed when Angier did his version of "Transporting Man"? Because he would already know how this trick was done.
Badfish228 7 months ago
@Badfish228 they were twins, we were both borden we were both fallon meaning they'd always switch, they convinced the world there was only one when there was 2
welshdragon182 7 months ago
@Badfish228 twins
fuckem187 6 months ago
im sorry but i dont get the very end... the part where you see him in the box full of water :s
BexC34 7 months ago
@BexC34 the end with the box it means that one of the clones in the water could still be alive :)
webk1n5 7 months ago
@webk1n5 oh okay thanks :)
BexC34 7 months ago
Would this work on Penn and Teller: fool us?
Penn: I think, and this is just a guess, that you used a body double. Am I correct?
Angier: Well, no actually, I just create a clone then drown myself.
Penn: In that case, you fooled us!
Ross: He's going to vegas everybody! Him and his 100 other dead clones...
GibbyGoldfisch 8 months ago
iknew when watching it the audience were given the right to root for either bale or jackman. I'm assuming nolan intended the audience to root for bale because in the end he had the last say, I wanted bale to get the best of him.
jk94111 8 months ago
you shoulda added the abracadabra scene
slomotionaction 8 months ago
This film reveals what genius is. Genius does not necessary to be smart or talented, the most important things are sacrifice and craziness.
Progurlife 8 months ago
Not seeing the bigger picture can make a man mad,thinking that nothing makes sense,while the opposite is exactly true. Nothing is impossible in the infinite.
The question is,are you watching closely?
alexander2705 8 months ago
Love this ending... but one thing I don't understand was the significance of him keeping his dead clones... why is it sort of done as a plot twist? Why did he keep them?
AmbroseCadwell 9 months ago
@AmbroseCadwell
Maybe because he was afraid of ppl finding the boddy`s when he would have hided them somewhere else.
Zeberde3 8 months ago
@AmbroseCadwell
i believe it's there to assure the viewer that this relevation is truly genuine and final. otherwise people would start to reason that teleporting/cloning doesn't work and search for a trick that isn't there. they do it anyway...
sufferingminotaur 5 months ago
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what a great movie ! the plot is just BRILIANT! especialy the ending! i really loved this movie ! recommended by me (:
Yon729 9 months ago
We apply too much mysticism to life. All we know is that we're made up of the same stuff as everything else and through it we achieve consciousness, an entirely new natural phenomena. We are not special, we do not have "souls," we are simply alive. It's probably nothing more than that.
The technology seen in this movie will some day be possible. Life won't be as special as we think it is when we have that kind of power. Which means life just isn't as special as we think it is :)
raptic 9 months ago
@raptic "The technology seen in this movie will some day be possible." No it won't. Look up the Laws of thermodynamics. Basically, you can't create energy (another person is considered matter, which is a form of energy), from nothing.
I don't know the future, so I can't say with 100% certainty, but it's about as likely as pink flying unicorns from outer space to come into existence.
KoolA1d 9 months ago
@KoolA1d Gah, sorry. I should have specified as I did not mean the exact technology show here. What WILL be possible is the manipulation of matter such that what was once non-living becomes so. A conversion of matter is all I mean, I agree nothing cannot come from something. I maintain that our identity is meaningless in the sense that we are just matter carrying out the process of cognition.
raptic 9 months ago
@KoolA1d sorry, I was wrong. I was mainly concerned with the philosophical issue and what WILL be possible is the manipulation of matter. No, something cannot come from nothing, but we will be able to convert plain old matter into a living thing (similar to what we see in this video). I believe our current understanding of life and our identities will be challenged once this is possible. I'm concerned about it, because if this is possible...what are we?
raptic 9 months ago
@raptic We have already managed to form organic compounds from inorganic precursors. Look up the Miller–Urey experiment.
I think instead of "living thing" you may mean a multicellular complex organism. A study very recently at, I think it was the University of Minnesota, managed to do exactly that with yeast. Although this is most likely because yeast's very ancient precursors may have indeed been multicellular themselves. Just remember, not everything is possible, even with technology + time
KoolA1d 8 months ago
@KoolA1d I was aware of the experiment you reference, which only shows how life can naturally occur. I'm not talking about chemical manipulation, I'm talking about the ability to order atoms to our liking. This is very much within the realm of reality.
What would it mean if we had a machine capable of taking any old matter and within a very short time frame converting that matter into a person (who presumably had been scanned to a minute detail of their makeup)? What if?
raptic 8 months ago
@raptic This is really an unanswerable question and too deep to even think about. The question in itself is an inception going layers upon layers of what we are.
Zackarius14 7 months ago
@Zackarius14 I wonder though if it is unanswerable. I wonder if consciousness lay somewhere between the layers...What forms our consciousness? What if it's just a discernible algorithm of electrical signals within our brain? We may not know now, but I foresee this being an answerable question. That which we call a soul may just be what we attribute ourselves due to our current lack of understanding.
raptic 7 months ago
no one cares about the man in the box.
kurono1999 9 months ago
i considered this movie genius, so many twists and turns, so much depth, i dont see how other people hated it
dionstrezlecki 9 months ago
did Borden have a brother ?? og a twin ?
Duffman89detmig 9 months ago
the real question is why the hell did they kill Angier's wife in the first place?!?!
emiynu 9 months ago
@emiynu no body killed her. she died bcoz borden thought that the othr knot wud work and angiers wife had also once mentioned that she cud work her way out of the knot. but she cudnt ultimately n hence she died. it wasnt planned
ytgurlii 9 months ago
it woulda been funny if Angier blinked at the end during the close-up
8ingco 9 months ago
This might be really stoopid, but why did Angier kill all of his clones? Couldn't he have just lived with a clone, like Borden and his twin?
johnjcb1 10 months ago
@johnjcb1 I think Angier did it to keep his secret intact.
MrRo330 9 months ago
@johnjcb1
i believe it was fear. he didn't trust himself.
sufferingminotaur 5 months ago
earlier in the film, while Angier was reading bordens diary, Borden wrote that Tesla wasn't the keyword and Angier went all the way to America for nothing.
wierdo713 10 months ago
One aspect of this film that was left unsaid and I'm not sure it if was implied. But, was Borden's twin a twin or a clone. I ask since he wrote "Tesla" as the keyword to his diary. So I would think that implies Tesla made him one clone for the sake of the transported man act. Great movie, but that bugs me...
SoldierT105 10 months ago
@SoldierT105 they were twins. a little before this clip Angier even says "a twin?" In the book the two were named Albert and Freddy which is which is how they put together the name Alfred.
TheDudeLordOfFantasy 10 months ago
@TheDudeLordOfFantasy I am still not certain, although the name is a good hint at the twins theory. I just find it too big a hole in the plot with Borden writing "Tesla" as a keyword and the fact that Tesla made a device for Borden. For them to be twins, it would have had to be a very wild coincidence that Tesla somehow knew how to make a clone without knowing. I guess this will bug me for sometime, but it was a surprisingly good movie.
SoldierT105 10 months ago
6 films, 3 were shorts..and he has 1 coming out...thats neither here nor there....the guy is brilliant.
gordoboy18 10 months ago
damn, he killed all his clones...i wonder what it feels to be a clone...i mean of course you wouldn't know your a clone ,it will probably feel like your the original unless some1 proves it to you.
magicstorm1 10 months ago
@magicstorm1 thats what he was saying, it got to the point where he didnt know if he was even the original 'him' or not anymore, all he cared about was the trick and beating borden
LinkinBasser 10 months ago
alright heres the thing. if angia wasnt such a selfish pig, he would have duplicated himself and then lived the same life bouldin did.
Dempseyboi8 10 months ago
Hey guys i got a few questions about this movie. In the really end about the last few frames before the credits, it shows wolverine in a water tank, does that mean anything?, also, how does the 5 letter notebook thing work? i would like to make me own
TheConzArtist 10 months ago
@TheConzArtist It shows one of the Angier clones in the tank to show that every single one of those tanks was used, giving both Borden and the viewer an idea on just how obsessed Angier was, and how intent he was on being the better magician. He killed dozens of those clones, showing the sacrifices he made just to beat Borden.
The notebook was a Macguffin (plot item that serves no other purpose other than to move the story along), so we never actually got to read it or make any sense of it.
NegroTed 10 months ago
Um..Bale looks fat and lipless.
kruxii 11 months ago
THAT'S WHAT YOU GET FOR MESSING WITH DOULBES GUY
CrackThoseClaws 11 months ago
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CrackThoseClaws 11 months ago
i thought it was him that dies and the clone keeps living with all of his memories, and so on..
its one thing to kill a clone, but its so much scarier to kill yourself and let the clone live on
ReducedToAsh 11 months ago
No ! where the hell the last sentence by Jackman .. the sentence is missed
84Terminator 11 months ago
Many people keep saying he killed his clone. The whole point was that he was unsure of how the machine worked. In turn, he never knew if he killed himself or the clone every night. Once the machine was activated they both thought they were the original. It was impossible to tell the difference.
galaxian78 11 months ago 43
@galaxian78 Even though what little logic can be implemented into this film would suggest that his clone is who survives each night, the book (that the movie is based on) reveals that it is the clone that dies.
adesva 6 months ago
@galaxian78 And he never knew if he were to be the man in th box dying, or the Prestige himself.
MidnightGrunt 6 months ago
i absolutely LOVE the ending. the last 5 minutes really are the best part of the movie and the ultimate trick wasn't as easy to predicted as i thought it would be (although i was suspicious when his hand started bleeding again).
amjwUK 11 months ago
The machine had to work, Even if the guy in the tank at the end is Root who the fuck is in the morgue. I think the realists out there tryingto find a super cool magic trick to make the teleport seem more elaborate are either too sceptical to consider the suggestion that the machine is real or just buying into the end monoluge and are being reversed psyched into looking for another explanation.
mjmoverscoach 1 year ago
@mjmoverscoach you are absolutely right I've even proven that it worked and the refuse to believe me. It's most simply proven by the flashback with Angier using the machine and killing the clone. Since this scene is only shown to audience it can't be a lie.
demiser21 11 months ago
OMG, anyone who perceives Borden/Fallon as the 'Bad Guy' has serious morality issues. Angiers wife clearly agrees with borden backstage that the risky knot is a suitable choice and as she watches him tie the knot they are both in agreement. THIS MEANS HER FAILURE TO ESCAPE WAS AN ACCIDENT, A MISCALCULATION ON HER PART. From this point on Angiers obsession with ruining Borden's life and even going so far as to attempt to murder him clearly makes him the villain.
mjmoverscoach 1 year ago
It kinda bothers me people seem to not understand this part.
There is no 'real' Angier they were clones they were ALL Angier just like Tesla said they're BOTH your hat. Each time he did the trick he both died and survived. The last one alive is killed here.
Borden is not a clone Tesla had not made a working machine at the time and they have DIFFERENT personalities.
The Prestige is my favorite nolan movie because it is a magic trick in film
Any questions ask away
demiser21 1 year ago 3
@demiser21 did Borden had a twin brother?
und3rgroundmihay08 11 months ago
@und3rgroundmihay08 yes
demiser21 11 months ago
@demiser21 IF Borden is not a clone then who is the other him???...a twin brother or what???.
myleftnutts 11 months ago
@myleftnutts yes twin brother at first I thought he might have been a clone but it is proven Tesla had not made a clone machine yet. Borden also doesn't know how Angier is doing his trick which he would if he knew about cloning.
demiser21 11 months ago
@demiser21 So u are saying THIS,Bale was a secret TWIN,while Jackman,had Various Tesla machined produced Clones???....and in the end bale kill's the original Jackman.however did Bale know Jackman had Clones,and if he didn't know,how would he know if he were really killing the Original Jackman,or just one of his Clones???.
myleftnutts 11 months ago
wait?!?! this makes NO sense?!?! yet again, christopher nolan mindfucked me yet again, i knew since the scene where they captured the twin i thought he kinda looked like christan bale, but i thought he used teslas device to clone himself thats why he had a note in his book saying "tesla" but he just had a twin this entire time?!?! im still shocked
superflycos123 1 year ago
@crapzors,
Borden explained that they took turns to play the engineer and Borden. I think it's the one who killed Angier's wife cuz the one got hanged obviously is more obsessive.
wngmv 1 year ago
One of the best movies I've ever seen, another reason to say Christopher Nolan is my favorite director!
karokaro34 1 year ago
which brother died hanged? the one that made the wrong knot killing angier's wife or the engineer ?
crapzors 1 year ago
@crapzors the engineer
y34r 1 year ago
WTF, man. You cut it off before the best part: Hugh Jackman's monologue.
TheSilhouette 1 year ago
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This is one of the best movies I've seen
IamSomeguy112 1 year ago
You can´t understand one god damn thing hugh hackman says here
ThePennywiser 1 year ago
This is considered Christopher Nolan's "worst" movie. That should explain just how amazing his others are...
chrisproxxx 1 year ago 54
@chrisproxxx I heard it was Insomnia
stinkyglasses 1 year ago
@chrisproxxx Well, this is one of my favorites. We all have different tastes.
jordaniangamer 1 year ago 2
@chrisproxxx I think this is one of his best movies, along side memento.
profilescythe 11 months ago
@chrisproxxx I think it is his best by far!
tomannion 11 months ago
@chrisproxxx says who? there is no worst Chris Nolan movie, they are all excellent. This is one of my favorites.
andyfortruth 10 months ago 3
@andyfortruth Rotten Tomatoes.
And I said it was his worst... that doesn't make it bad by any means.
chrisproxxx 10 months ago
@chrisproxxx I think it's considered his worst simply because most of his other movies explore the depth and psyche of the main character but this one sort of fails (it still tries but I didn't really feel connected to Angier or Borden as I did to, say, Batman or Shelby.
Its use of time distortion, cinematography and pretty much everything else is amazing though.
gruntora 10 months ago
@gruntora
batman is a little far-fetched in terms of personal choices and relationships. it's not a very tangible existence to be the richest man, with the best tools, and incredible strength and fighting acumen. it's cool to watch, perhaps, but there's not to much to stack up against your own life. in this case, i believe the characters are relatable, showing the dehumanizing nature of obsession. the pursuit of status becomes consuming, destroying lives both figuratively and literally.
1PartAlize 10 months ago
@chrisproxxx This is Nolan's best movie, hands down.
TheCoasterGod 10 months ago
@chrisproxxx i personally think prestige is one of his best films. i can only think of inception as better
omgbbq2 10 months ago
@chrisproxxx I wouldnt say this is considered his worst movie at all....it's known as one of the most underrated movies of all time. Plus he only has like 5 movies 2 of which are batman. Momento gave him a name, Insomnia would prob be considered his worst movie.
gordoboy18 10 months ago
@gordoboy18 I'm just going off of the majority of the critics' ratings; I don't think this movie is bad at all.
But the Associated press has this movie at around a 5.4/10, while most of his movies are an 8 or 9.
Also, he has 10 films.
chrisproxxx 10 months ago
@chrisproxxx It says something when his worst failures could be considered better than certain others best work:p
Nightlightknight 10 months ago 8
@chrisproxxx nolan doesnt have a "worst" movie.... this movie was incredible
cr33pyGamer 10 months ago
@chrisproxxx
actually it's his best movie.
bobdebicker 10 months ago
@chrisproxxx Nolan's worst movie is 'Batman Begins' in my opinion. MY RANKING IS;
Batman Begins- Excellent Piece Of Work, I'm amazed.
The Dark Knight- Best Superhero Movie Ever Made, a great crime movie too...
The Prestige- Nolan lives in a completely different world. Five out of Five stars.
Memento- Best Film Screenplay Ever Written. One of the best 5 movies ever made..
Inception- This Movie Just Made My LIFE.
BeatOfTheGuardians 10 months ago
@chrisproxxx I loved this movie but was disappointed in Batman Begins and Dark Knight.
bonchbonch 9 months ago
@bonchbonch Okay. Batman Begins wasn't as amazing as some reviews make it out, but you were disappointed in TDK?
GabersJones 9 months ago