The last line means that you don't want to really know how a trick is done. You don't want to know that the magician is literally committing suicide every night for your enjoyment.
@benji00999 ай бұрын
Thats exactly it. Magic is so exciting and entertaining BECAUSE we don't know how it's done. Once the trick is revealed, the magic is gone.
@johannesg89595 ай бұрын
That's just the front value interpretation.
@SagnikBakshi032510 ай бұрын
Jackman was terrific excellent , Bale was electric exceptional. Modern day masterpiece for ages. The best of Nolan. Period!
@leoveach690210 ай бұрын
Caleb struggling throughout this whole reaction to not spoil the "prestige" is honestly killing me
@MegMageReacts10 ай бұрын
PAIN. PURE PAIN. I’m not a good liar…😂 gotta just grin through the pain - Caleb
@sioparr10 ай бұрын
This is pretty close to Christian Bale’s “real” accent. Not exactly the same but definitely the closest a character of his has ever been.
@passionsquietrage4 ай бұрын
I wonder why he didn't just use his real accent for this role.
@cjpreach9 ай бұрын
Christian Bale. Hugh Jackman. Scarlett Johansson. David Bowie. Michael Caine. Andy Serkis. Absolute SUPER-CAST.
@quiett619110 ай бұрын
This is Nolan's best film.
@BadassRaiden10 ай бұрын
This isn't my favorite Nolan film, that would be Interstellar. However, I do think this is, even after seeing Oppenheimer, Nolan's best film he's ever done. It is literally just so absolutely perfect. The kind of story being told, the way it's being told, the acting, the script. Nolan has always had a bit of a clunky exposition problem and it is non-existent here in this film. Every single word is where it's supposed to be, it's purposeful, and it's the right word for the job. Some films explain things that should remain unexplained. Some movies over explain things where a better script could have done it more fashionably. That's what this script does. Everything that requires exposition is done so so fashionably. It's a masterpiece. I'm sorry Meg, but some tricks require a curtain or a cloth. The whole point is to be mystified. If you do tricks in the open that need to be hidden, it takes away the magic. Some don't require being hidden and rely on slight of hand like card tricks. Some rely on other methods to be hidden like two way mirrors or some other optical illusion. Others HAVE to be covered. Like Borden said, "The secret impresses no one. The trick you use it for, is everything." If you just have no curtain than you'll just see Julia untie her hands, open up the trick lock, climb out of the water tank, and stand next to it all ta-da. That's not fun to watch for the overwhelming majority of people. If you put it behind a curtain for 60 seconds and the next time you see her she's just standing next to the tank, then your mind gets to imagine all the ways she could have done it. Angier's last line is, "It was the look on their faces." That looks is what magicians live for. If you show them the trick being done, how it's done, then that look vanishes.
@RonniePickaring9 ай бұрын
Absolutely spot on with your comment. I love this movie so much. The acting is phenomenal, too. It's just the perfect movie. I've seen this film countless times. So many layers.
@TheBuildKing10 ай бұрын
Best realization of the film when Borden says he doesn't know what knot he tied in the beginning. He wasn't lying!
@vishalvenkat610 ай бұрын
The last line makes more sense when you think back about Sarah's reaction to learning about the gun trick from Borden. She said its pretty simple once you know the trick, implying that we as the audience in any case, a movie, a TV show, or a magic trick, as much as we want to understand the trick, in reality don't want to know how the trick is done.
@mike-mz6yz10 ай бұрын
hiding how she escapes has nothing to do with not wanting to give her credit. Its the difference between magic and just watching someone escape. You arent supposed to see that the magician is really skilled, your supposed to wonder "how is that possible". Seeing her escape, while impressive, would ruin the trick.
@te101324 күн бұрын
Ya. Kind of annoying with this take
@thewanderingwizard984825 күн бұрын
"The Great Danton" is actually a real legacy stage name for magicians, but I can't find anything about it online to prove it. It's just something I know, because I was trained in stage magic and mentalism by a magician named Dan Tong, who was one of the original Ronald McDonalds.
@SagnikBakshi032510 ай бұрын
Arguably the best movie of Christopher Nolan.
@raytheuglymusician245310 ай бұрын
That’s David Bowie, the musician, playing Tesla. He had a head injury defending a girlfriend in school and for the rest of his life one of his pupils was always completely dilated. That’s probably what you thought the heterochromia was; his eyes are just like that and they’re so freaking cool!
@claytalian90917 ай бұрын
There's a theory that Jackman at the end was still alive in the tank as you see an air bubble very briefly in the last shot since earlier in the film we see he had been trying to hold his breath longer.
@rogertemple719310 ай бұрын
I've heard of this movie I have seen trailers of it on tv but I haven't seen it before until now, I hope You and Caleb have a great weekend Thanks.🙏🐶👍
@roshanpaul854810 ай бұрын
I think if you watch the movie back it's pretty obvious that Fallon is Bourdain's twin brother. He always talks of sacrifice and that's because he's referring to the fact that he and his twin switch lives and live forever in secrecy. It's also definitely a cloning machine because the final shot is showing all of the deaths Angier went through for the trick. It's kind of a cruel irony that if Angier wasn't so egotistical he could have worked together with the clone like Bourdain worked with his twin but he didn't want to share the glory.
@sammiller864010 ай бұрын
We also don’t know if Angier is a clone or the original. The original Angier might have died long ago.
@mariebourgot49497 ай бұрын
@@radbarij Most of the time yeah, but not always. Sometimes even after knowing the solution, depending on the execution, you can still struggle to see/understand how it's done.
@crappleindusuries10 ай бұрын
I fucking love this movie. Another one with a similar vibe to this one, featuring magic too, is The Illusionist. I highly recommend it.
@MegMageReacts10 ай бұрын
Ooo someone recently recommended that to me, too!
@ionelt110 ай бұрын
The Illusionist with Edward Norton as the main character. Not so spectacular as "The Prestige", but very good.
@passionsquietrage4 ай бұрын
I love that this movie is literally Batman vs Wolverine, but Alfred is on Wolverine's side and Black Widow is helping both sides lmao. That said, this is great movie. I thought I had it figured out, but the end Uno reversed me and blew my mind.
5 күн бұрын
You are correct. That was not the "real" Angier. Because as he said, he "never knew if he was going to be the man in the tank, or the man on the prestige". Every time Angier cloned himself he had a 50/50 chance that the original him would be on the prestige and not the one who gets killed. If he did 50 shows, it's basically impossible that that "original" Angier is still alive, he would have likely been teleported and killed, with the clone to take his place.
@jayfrancelf4 ай бұрын
I’ve never seen anyone laugh at a drama this much
@spencerarnold6698 ай бұрын
I think the idea is that being a twin is so simple no one could figure it out (its also used by real magcians through the ages, so it fits). Telsa, being the password was just a distraction, a wild goose chase after seeing him at the great exhibition. He had no idea Telsa could actually build such a thing. If Telsa had actually built one already, he could have just built another machine straight away but we see him wrestling with the science and not understanding how it works which shows he's never done anything like this before
@spencerarnold6698 ай бұрын
oh course the best way Angier could have dealt with this is to make a clone of himself once and say "Hey mate shall we take it in turns to have the prestige?" "No way I was thinking the same thing, yes lets do it?" "Right? its so must better than the other plan" "Yeah and unlike the actor double we won't mess up because we're the same" *BANG BANG* "haha sucker"
@antpal31910 ай бұрын
It was my understanding that he killed his clones because the real cat and the clone cat where fighting each other when he found them amongst all the cloned hats. In other words, he realised his clone(s) would fight with him.
@wiredspider10 ай бұрын
CPR wasn't really taught universally until the 1950's.
@MegMageReacts10 ай бұрын
Good to know!!
@MannerdDesert78 ай бұрын
The last line is symbolic of the audience's realization that Danton has been committing suicide every single night, "now you're looking for the secret, but you won't find it because you're not really looking, you don't really want to work it out, you want to be fooled". Up until that point there are heaps of signs of what Danton has really been doing but most of the audience haven't figured it out because they're not really looking, they're invested in the story (the trick) Also the Borden Fallon reveal is literally a magic trick, think about it Act 1: The Pledge Borden is arrested at the start of the movie Act 2: The Turn Borden is executed Act 3: The Prestige Borden appears in front of Danton Even though it is explained later for a brief moment the audience thinks Borden has somehow survived, if you rewatch the movie there are heaps of give always that Fallon is Borden's twin, but on a first watching you don't see them, you want to believe that Borden has survived rather than the truth that Fallon is a twin & Borden really did die. Danton's last words explain what the movie was trying to do. "The Audience knows the truth, the world is simple, miserable, solid all the way through, but if you could fool them, even for a second, then you could make them wonder, then you got to see something very special, you really don't know, it was the look on their faces".
@domainmojo2162Ай бұрын
I still think we're missing one last trick/twist at the end that we're not seeing, cause we're satisfied. The end is just too suspect - "But you're not really looking. You dont really want to work it out. You, want to be.. fooled." This is all the more intriguing when you see Bale walking around the clones at the end... looking for something, and the scene ending with a clone of Jackman who appears to be alive. There's just something there, I feel. I feel he's describing us at the end of the movie. Well, he does, but I mean - he's * telling * us that we're missing something. Just like Nolan told us the trick at the beginning- "Where's his brother?" In the end... we don't want to really work it out any further after the reveal, cause we're satisfied. We prefer that emotion. We want to be fooled. It's like the other masterpiece with a twist- "They only see what they want to see" (Describing * us * - the viewer)
@sonofyah_chosen19509 ай бұрын
Bloody masterpiece
@GinoGonzalez1210 ай бұрын
ive been following you since gow 1. I've been waiting for this moment... A cinematic magic trick by Christopher Nolan. LOVE you guys and the content!
@thewackykid8 ай бұрын
the reason why borden gave the name tesla to angier is so to send him away to waste his money on his "secret" (and also to save his twin)... i dun think borden had known than tesla actually could make a duplicating machine...
@braincruser10 ай бұрын
There is no "real" version of him. All of them are the real version of him.
@braincruser10 ай бұрын
The Tesla machine was supposed to be a teleporter. It was supposed to move you somewhere else. The problem with teleporters is that reassembling something on the other end doesn't require you to destroy the original being teleported. So the first time Tesla demonstrated it, he was disappointed because the hat stayed where it was, it didn't get destroyed. That is why he tried it with the cat. He thought that a living being won't be duplicated, due to its soul. But he just ended up with 2 cats.
@braincruser10 ай бұрын
As for telling his wife, he tried to tell her at the start. When they were doing the catch a bullet trick. But she answered: When you know how it's done, it's not so impressive. That answer is the reason why he kept it a secret from her.
@MegMageReacts10 ай бұрын
Oh damn, your last comment!!! I did NOT realize that.
@DanielDeLeon6910 ай бұрын
I Freaking Love This Movie its Fantastic
@sdebass9 ай бұрын
Have you guys seen The Illusionist? If you like magicians then I think you'll like this one. It's one of my favorites.
@MegMageReacts9 ай бұрын
No but we definitely need to watch it! It sound great
@StopReadingMyNameOrElse10 ай бұрын
Hair color really fits well Meg 8/8 would rate again
@MegMageReacts10 ай бұрын
:) hehe thanks
@cometgirl21710 ай бұрын
It’s a gorgeous color, with immaculate fall vibes! 🍂 Still, IMHO, it kinda pulls attention away from your beautiful face 😕 Plus, the maintenance must be nearly-impossible (speaking from past experience). Love the variety, though!
@chrisfofficial9 ай бұрын
Watch Cloud Atlas (2012), I know you'll love it. Arguably The Wachowski's best movie, even better than The Matrix (yeah, I said it!).
@hkaayaakuu10 ай бұрын
Nolans best of the best
@mauricio775910 ай бұрын
Nice reaction! 😄. Please 🙏 make a reaction of "Poseidon" 2006. It's a really good movie. Could it be possible?. I'm leaving my like.
@AdrianFlipflop10 ай бұрын
Anyone else think Timothy looks a lot like Caleb?
@rileymorton12810 ай бұрын
don't you mean your mom and dad are divorced?
@Progger1110 ай бұрын
She means she loves both actors, but since they're not friends in this movie she has to root for one more than the other. You're welcome, --A fellow autist.
@Trepanation219 ай бұрын
Why would she say "mom and dad" when she's referring to Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale (these characters) as the dads that split up? lol
@DaveF.9 ай бұрын
"Is he drowning every duplicate?" - the man falling into the water is not the duplicate....
@eddhardy10549 ай бұрын
Might not be the duplicate
@DaveF.9 ай бұрын
@@eddhardy1054 Well, it's never the duplicate - the duplicate appears at the back fo the theatre - it's the magician who commits suicide every night.
@eddhardy10549 ай бұрын
@@DaveF. How do you know that for certain? Angier himself says he doesn't know whether he's the man on stage or the man in the tank.
@DaveF.9 ай бұрын
@@eddhardy1054 Because that's what happens. Before he is cloned Angier stands on a trapdoor over a water tank. Then he is cloned and the trapdoor opens and he falls into the tank and drowns. It's never been clear to me what he meant when he said he wasn't sure about if he or the clone drowns - perhaps he's talking about what he would think/feel after the act. But clearly, every night it's the original angier who stands on the trapdoor and falls in the water tank. The only alternative is that Tesla's machine not only duplicates - but teleports the subject first, then duplicates a copy back to the original location. That seemsa stretch.
@eddhardy10549 ай бұрын
@@DaveF. Think about what you've just said. Angier can only commit suicide once. After that the Angier who drowns each night must be a clone...also maybe Tesla's machine does duplicate & teleport?
@TeslaRangerNY10 ай бұрын
I prefer _The Illusionist_ with Edward Norton, which came out the same year.