just watched "the prestige".. i know it's old movie, forgive my slow.. the whole movie is a magic trick.. illusion.. and at the end when i thought i already knew what trickery was going on and there wasn't anything more to reveal.. i got knocked around for a loop by the ending. total mind f***.

whose magic trick do you prefer? the professor's or the great danton's?

inb4 bn's magic tricks

what is there to explain ? great danton died
the professor has his own real dupe
whereas , danton make his duplicate through electricity ( like photostat machine )
at the end , the dupe and great danton died
dupe got hanged accused of killing the danton ( duplicate )
the professor revenge his dupe by killing the real danton

The whole tesla invention is really a turn off.

Prefer something more simple like the illusionist.

One of my all time favourite movies.didnt expect that kind of ending in the end because both of them are bad and good in the same time.

I prefer the professor because he devoted his life toward his career

this
its doesnt even make any sense how can such device make a human duplicate
i also prefer the illusionist if it comes to magic/illusion movie

The real magician here is Tesla.

the woman

Prestige is more appealing because it wasn't "idealistic".

It represents how shit magicians in reality are.

Illusionist is just all the dressing with no substance, which ironically doesn't represent real magicians at all.

it's the reveal of the "real dupe" at the end that got me.. i didn't expect that at all.. when great danton got shot i thought it's just a simple revenge by the professor's aide.. but actually it's "himself"..

that's bullshit

well... using science fiction for movie like this is too vague... u can stretch anything without explanation.

just like movie now u see mee

but mindfucuk movies with simple unexpected theme is hard to come by like the illusionist or the usual suspect.

but i like the character build up in the prestige. but i choose the prof... bcoz he's a batman.

This post has been edited by HarDiE: Jun 1 2014, 12:57 AM

he ended up dead alone and spend his time speaking to pigeon

In the middle of the movie, Michael Caine's character already suggested to Great Danton that Borden's transported man trick involves a double, simple as that. Only Great Danton refuses to accept that it is that simple and let Borden leads him to a wild search in America.

i watched halfway but found it boring inception and exam are way better

Both The Prestige and The Illusionist are miles better than that awful Tony Leung film The Great Magician.

this one? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Magician

Yes. It started off promisingly enough and then swerved crazily into comedy and farce.

google quantum physics.

look for einstein-rosen-podolsky (EPR) effect.

for layman, this whole thing may look like hocus pocus crap. but if u look deeper, the film dwells on the hostility between two great scientists of electricity: tesla vs edison (u can also look this one up. pretty cool rivalry, in which tesla lost). during the rivalry, both seek to out do each other. eventually, due in most part to edison's financial prowess, electricity we know today was grounded in what edison "believed" is true.

the film simply explores on what if tesla was correct? that all we believe about electricity and science in general is not exactly accurate?

so in the film, angier practices old school magic tricks, while danton pushed the boundaries of science that it becomes magical.

I would prefer if they stick to only pure illusion and pure magic tricks, instead of wtfbbq tesla duplicate machine..totally turn off..
But still an entertaining movie..