THE PRESTIGE (2006) | FIRST TIME WATCHING | MOVIE REACTION

When Borden kept telling Angier that he didn't know which knot he tied, he was actually telling the truth. His twin brother tied it.

"show me that again!" said every single person who ever watched this movie. it's the only movie my dad and i saw in theaters, walked out, and we bought tickets to the very next showing lol.

RIP to the late and great David Bowie as Nicola Tesla.

"But where is his brother" whole mystery behind the movie, right in plain sight. This was Nolan at his absolute best.

Cassie: Doesn't recognize a shaved Hugh Jackman until 15 minutes in despite currently watching him every other week in X-Men Also Cassie: Is that Gollum? 😅

It made me laugh that you took awhile to recognize Hugh Jackman, but recognized gollum right away 😁

"We were two young men at the start of a great career." He's not talking about himself and Angier; he's talking about himself and his brother.

Oh Cassie: - the car/battery company called Tesla was called that before Elon Musk was ever involved with it. He didn’t set up the company… he merely invested in it quite early on; - Nikola Tesla (the character in this movie) was a real person who was a physicists and great inventor, especially in the field of electrical engineering, being instrumental in the development of alternating current electrical systems and developing a wireless power system (basically what we now have for mobile phone wireless charging); and - the car company is called Tesla in homage to Nikola Tesla, because he was so important in such a related field of engineering. Of course Tesla didn’t actually invent a machine that could replicate humans and animals 😉

One of the things I love about Cassie is that she watches these types of movies and doesn't talk over all the key points and reveals trying to solve some perceived mystery. She just watches it and enjoys it as a true audience member and then lets it BLOW HER DARN MIND. Ha! :-)

I used to do magic , juggling, and general vaudeville stuff when I was growing up, and the line about how, "they'll ask you and beg for the secret to the trick, but as soon as you give it away you'll be nothing to them" is so true. They don't say it as explicitly in the film, but the bigger thematic point is that "the prestige" isn't usually the hard part. In general, the thing that impresses the audience is never the hard part (and that applies to juggling and slight-of-hand magic as well). The skill involved in making the trick work is the part that goes unseen, but what the audience claps at is the simple bit at the end that ties it all together. The "twist" at the end of the film works so well because it was never about the prestige, but about all the work that we never saw leading up to it. Of course everything is telegraphed from the beginning, but all magic is also about misdirection, which is what this film does so well. At the end it all seems like it should have been obvious, but the twist (the "prestige") is literally Nolan giving away the secret to the trick. In other words, he begins the film by saying that giving away the secret ruins the magic trick, and then uses the secret AS the prestige of the film.

This movie stars Batman, Alfred, The Black Widow, Wolverine, Gollum and that singing dark prince from Labyrinth. 😅

31:58 "Edison was the worst, apparently." - Popcorn in Bed "Edison was the worst, definitely." - Topsy the Elephant

Nobody knew CPR back then. It was first developed in 1960.

The moment Hugh Jackman's character said he no longer cared about his wife's death when it came to getting revenge, is the moment he becomes the antagonist of the movie. Also, I still love that literally the whole movie is laid out to you in the Caged Bird trick at the beginning. Like the whole movie is just a magic trick on us.

When you rewatch it one day, all the subtle clues placed along its runtime are revealed. Like, Alfred being the one to immediately spot the Chinese magicians secret - because he and his twin brother are doing a similar performance, whenever they are in public. Their real life off the stage IS the performance.

The greatest trick this movie plays is that it gives you the twist ending in the first 15 minutes when Borden tries to comfort the little boy by showing him the bird is still alive and the little boy asks, "but what about his brother?" ...Are you watching closely?

Once you realize that Christian Bale is playing two characters -- one who is calm and measured, one who is a hot head and impulsive -- it instantly clears up the confusion about why he's doing what he's doing and saying what he's saying. Masterclass performance from Bale.

Holy crap she finally watched it! One of my favorite movies of all time. My mind was blown at the end too.

My favorite thing is to rewatch this and know which Borden brother is on screen because their personalities are too different.

I love that once you know what you're looking for, it's right out there in the open. The first shot with all the top hats looks like a graveyard, then they show the collapsing cage trick which is essentially what the final trick is, and they tell you that you have to bring it back... both "dead" characters return at the end of the movie! As for why both Christian Bales keep swapping roles, he explains it to Hugh Jackman's double, you risk giving one person too much power. Switching places keeps them equals, no one has the advantage over the other.