The Prestige made "Now you see me" look like a sponge Bob movie

@DarranKern

8 жыл бұрын

"Now you see me" is garbage

@shanehennenhoefer9881

8 жыл бұрын

FINALLY someone who agrees. I can't believe they made a sequel!

@ViperJoe

8 жыл бұрын

They make sequels and reboots to everything these days.

@merlinthegreat100

8 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@ainifathiha5148

7 жыл бұрын

exactly!! haha

The reason he killed his clones was because he knew his clones will want to be the ones who recieve the applause at the end of the trick. It's the same thing he experienced with his double at first. He was jealous of him because he received the attention. This means that he could never trust his clones even though they were himself.

@TurboOvenMan

8 жыл бұрын

This, exactly.

@hylianchriss

8 жыл бұрын

I don't think it was just a disagreement as who would get the applause (then he could have stuck with One clone and just taken turns doing the trick like Bale did. However, bottom line is he Knew he could never trust himself. Showed perfectly when he tried the machine and hid a gun right before. Then both he and the clone reached for it. The Bale twins trusted each other with their lives and even more still, but Jackman's character knew he could never do the same.

@erinc.1610

8 жыл бұрын

+hylianchriss bam! you should have done this video

@iamchillydogg

8 жыл бұрын

The clones do recieve the applause. The one who appears at the back of the theater is the clone.

@thetonnicbeats1556

8 жыл бұрын

There was never any "clones"..that was part of the story that Angier wrote while Borden was reading his journal in prison.

The comments were more informative than this video.

@WiWillemijn

6 жыл бұрын

Autsj

@jaydevkalivarapu

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, we need another video to explain this video.

@cinnamonsquash

4 жыл бұрын

That's what I do

@amandachiquititaarassy9966

4 жыл бұрын

exactly! I just pause this video and continue to read the comment :)

@sanarahman6133

3 жыл бұрын

Yessssssss😂

Guys, just figured it out why Boreden kept saying *I don’t know* whenever Angier asked him what knot did u tie!!! Borden didint know because he was the other twin

@kanemuraa_9709

5 жыл бұрын

OMFG THATS REALLY A GOOD ONE!

@trap-pd2mv

5 жыл бұрын

the besttttt... thank youuuu

@VivekKumar-ks9mb

5 жыл бұрын

No that is because Borden said that he tied a different knot while his twin said that he tied another one.

@paavampatti

4 жыл бұрын

Quite a few of these throughout the film. In one scene towards the end of the film, we see Borden tell Fallon to leave Angier alone. In a later scene, Borden apologises to Fallon saying "You were right. We should have left him alone." This makes sense only if they swapped places.

@jayantverma6196

4 жыл бұрын

Make this comment the highest rated comment.

All these layers, Nolan really should direct the next Shrek movie.

@silencia08

8 жыл бұрын

haha Onion

@poppyc9921

8 жыл бұрын

+silencia08 cake has layers

@HereForTheComments

8 жыл бұрын

Sushant Bhargav Make it entirely live action. And take place in Chicago.

@W0LV1E45

5 жыл бұрын

Nah, too much CGI for Nolan.

@mirocleeko69

5 жыл бұрын

take my money, All of it!

You said Angier killing new clones every night was a plot hole. I disagree and I frankly expected more from you than doing a 'generic IMDb Forum post' claiming every tiny thing to be a plot hole. You answered your own question in the next sentence 'Does Angier not trust himself?'. That is the correct answer and the very reason he makes sure the clone dies every night instantly, before it has a chance to do anything. He doesn't trust himself, at all. When he first tried out the machine he hid a gun nearby, ready to dispose of the clone. Question is however - which one died that day? Which one dies every night? The 'original', or the clone? Angier himself was scared to death of this question; a question he might actually never know the answer to. The one living on will always assume he is the original, he will never know any better.

@ShiivaWilding

8 жыл бұрын

He kills himself every night, the clone is the one on the balcony. The only Angier falls through a trapdoor in the stage at the moment a clone is created.

@dthevideofan657289

8 жыл бұрын

I don't think there was a plot hole with the killing of the clones at all, either. As with Angier, he is a very complex character. The ending scene alone answers questions of the man's character that we really didn't get for most of the movie. "Sacrifice is the cost of a pretty good trick," Borden says. "I've made sacrifices." "It takes nothing to steal another man's trick." "It takes everything. It takes courage. It took courage to climb into that machine every night, not knowing if I'd be the man in the box or the prestige." This says that the man ultimately gave everything up, including his own life, to pursue having a great trick, to be remembered and talked of by people. He was willing to spend a lot of money, travel the world, went so far as to betray and kill, for the cost of being remembered and recognized. The Prestige is one of my favorite movies of all time because it demonstrates so many themes, one of which is how far a man's ambition can take him for a reward to match it.

@ShiivaWilding

8 жыл бұрын

***** The machine creates a clone, it doesn't actually teleport anything. Ali had the 'box', where all the cloned stuff comes out of, in some random location to allow it to spew hats and cats out into the garden. The original hat and cat were in the machine still and they hadn't moved. The only real (by that I mean born by natural means) Angier kills his first clone by means of pistol. He then installs a trapdoor and water tanks so that each night he can commit suicide and allow for his latest clone to become him and take the bow on the balcony. Considering that they share memories, thoughts, when a new clone is made it's always a split second before the trapdoor opens, leaving the clone on the balcony without any experience of drowning, hence the fear he talks about. He didn't know which he'd be because he was both at the same time until the first drowned. No teleportation is going on during the performance of the transported man. People often say it's because of his wife that he drowns himself each night, but I believe he knew his new trick was just too unbelievable and would force Borden to try and figure it out, much like he did, in disguise. The plan works so well that when Borden is arrested, the new clone doesn't bother to appear to the audience and thus murder has been comitted. How the clone knew that it had succeeded is beyond me because Borden goes backstage before the process has even happened and the box is clearly in the stalls. Plot hole! Again, no teleportation ever occurs during the entire film. Angier kills himself on the first performance of the transported man, and however many clones do the same until Borden takes the bait. An interesting though is that the clones are created just BEFORE drowning occurs, thus no clone has any knowledge of what it means to drown. When he said he was afraid, he was, despite knowing that he HAD to kill himself for the trick to succeed and that a clone WOULD definately be created. His clones didn't know what it was like to drown all the times they did the trick, nor did the new clones standing on the balcony, knowing all too well they had one day on this earth before needing to drown themselves. THIS IS THE LONGEST REPLY I'VE EVER MADE... and I hope it makes sense because it's all totally true :)

@windowsVD

8 жыл бұрын

No, it's not as simple as that. Angier himself states he doesn't fully know how the machine works. "It took courage to step into that machine. Not knowing...if I'd be the man in the box, or the prestige." See, Angier has no idea if he's even a clone or not, but how could he? As you said, the clone retains the exact same memories as the original person who steps into the machine. Therefore, he has no idea if he is the original Angier or a clone. He doesn't know for sure if the machine functions by teleporting the original and leaving behind the clone, or if the machine creates a clone and places it somewhere else and leaves the original person in the machine.

@windowsVD

8 жыл бұрын

***** I know, I was explaining it in further detail.

The movie gives you clues from the beginning on how the lives of the two magicians would be. Killing the caged bird and presenting the audience with a new one, symbolizing how Angier did his act. Saving the caged bird and representing it to the audience, symbolizing Borden's act. I wonder how much thoughts Nolan could possibly put in a movie.

@neelparmar6690

7 жыл бұрын

Holy crap how did I miss that? I rewatched the movie last night and even though the clues about Borden having a twin became more obvious, I completely missed the symbolism of the bird trick.

@Rawnfella

5 жыл бұрын

Upulie Han What? Borden killed the bird, and Angier was the one killing himself/clones of himself. Did you get the names mixed up or am I missing something here?

@FunkieChicken

5 жыл бұрын

@@Rawnfella He got something right just not the full idea. The idea is that Borden was trying to teach Angier that Sacrifices must be made for success, while Angier wanted to prove it was the other way around. In the end, Borden got to be a better man following Angier's path and Angier got carried away into the dark, by starting to follow Borden's initial thinking that made him believe that sacrifice is the only way to go. C.N. at his finest, as usual!

@cinnamonsquash

4 жыл бұрын

Damn ! Details man....details

@zebedee1389

4 жыл бұрын

you're absolutely right and the kid then says "where's his brother?" showing that Boreden was not alone in his trick

This movie is so fucking good because it is actually a magic trick in itself. The very first words spoken are "are you watching closely?", which in hindsight, all the clues are there for you as you watch the film, but your mind just doesn't process it as fact. It all comes down to this trick, 'The Transported Man'. Throughout the film, Angier says for certain that it is not a double, because it is the same man that comes out at the other side, and Olivia confirms this with the statement about Borden's fingers being missing. This is one misdirection the trick relies on which is how Borden's act becomes so successful when olivia points this out to him. But throughout the movie, everything tells us that he is using a double. We just don't want to believe it because like Angier, we think that it's TOO simple, there HAS to be a complex solution to it. But watch the movie again. The scene when Borden first meets Sarah and her nephew. "But what happened to his brother?". That's the first clue. Cutter explaining to us that the only way it can be done is with a bloody double, and the best misdirection is the fact that Fallon is there, all throughout the movie right under our very noses. But we don't look. We need to believe the trick is something great, something grandiose. It's the very nature of magic that leads Angier to this obsession of finding out how it's done. Spending a fortune and ultimately going to some pretty extreme depths to upstage his rival. He learns what it means to pull off the greatest trick ever told and the sacrifice that comes with it. God I fucking love this movie and every time I see it I pick up on something new. Easily Chris Nolan's best work to date and that is really saying something.

@MrDrezzy007

7 жыл бұрын

you just encouraged me to watch the movie again dude, thanks for the brilliant explanation.

@MrDrezzy007

7 жыл бұрын

you just encouraged me to watch the movie again dude, thanks for the brilliant explanation.

@overlayzzz

7 жыл бұрын

Exactly. The very first scene with the hats, and the following with the birds in the cages(water tanks) kind of give you the secret already, but of course, no one is looking for that. I F***ING LOVE IT I always get the chills when Borden and Sarah get into a serious fight pretty late in the movie because she discovered his secret, and when she says "I know what you really are, Alfred" and you just see the look on Bale, like the expression just tells you "You'll fuck my whole life-project up if you say it" But really though, I would definitely recommend reading the book. The narrative is amazing, though in the book, the machine doesn't duplicate you, it actually transports you, and the ending a sick twist that literally stuns you even though you know the secret.

@AshyNotSoSlashy

7 жыл бұрын

I actually spotted out that Fallon was his double.....there was not much of a close up shot of him.......he says almost nothing when the other Borden talks to him....well that's fishy... ..still confused why Borden killed Angeir in the end and how that fckin tesla machine works.

@dh-uo4lt

7 жыл бұрын

I could tell Fallon was Bale with makeup on. His lurking about without any formal introduction was too big of a clue anyway.

one of the most underrated films of all time

@jirisekyra2473

5 жыл бұрын

One of most overrated.

@fixmaster6956

5 жыл бұрын

i think u dont get the underrated meaning

@Suprri

4 жыл бұрын

All it takes is brain,

@quantumreality8279

4 жыл бұрын

Jiří Sekyra you’re fucking stupid

@ethanielclyne5810

3 жыл бұрын

It's got an 8.5/10 on IMDb it's rated pretty accurately

so Batman beat Wolverine?

@qwertyneo5725

7 жыл бұрын

rxz4140 yassss...... I thought I was the only one who was thinking that

@natashanair6642

6 жыл бұрын

Nope. It was just a ploy to fool the Black Widow :P

@callumclogher3774

6 жыл бұрын

With the help of Alfred and Black Widow

@bigboss4178

6 жыл бұрын

it's actually *TWO BATMANS*

@purnesh_shetty

6 жыл бұрын

And so many freaking *Wolverine*

This confused me even more.

@hilmansamsung2337

8 жыл бұрын

youre not the only one

@SonRob01

8 жыл бұрын

The more you think about something the more confusing it gets

@UuddlerLeRoyBaStart

8 жыл бұрын

No it was a perfectly good explanation.. I blame Minecraft. you're welcome.

@JohannesWiberg

8 жыл бұрын

Yeah that's why scientists don't understand the first thing about their field of study... think before you write dude.

@SonRob01

8 жыл бұрын

+Johannes Wiberg who you talking to?

I liked the ending because it was making a point about magic. We wanted to know how the trick worked. When we found out, the magic was gone, and we are left nsatisfied knowing it is just a cloning machine, no trickery or distractions, it is just a cloning machine. You are left with regret but for the length of the movie you are left fascinated by what you see and as Angier said "it was the looks on their faces" that was why they did it. Our faces were intrigued and excited by what we saw, then when we find out we slink back into regularity but for those 2 hours where you are hooked it was worth it and we've noone to blame but ourselves for wanting to know how the trick worked and losing that magic.

@guyincognito2512

8 жыл бұрын

You lost the magic but you gained a fking cloning machine

@futurestoryteller

8 жыл бұрын

It's the opposite, by getting you to accept the "dull" explanation for Angier's trickery, the movie made you believe in "cloning machines" That's the slight of hand.

@emmanueloluga9770

7 жыл бұрын

futurestoryteller exactly, not too sound paranoid, but this makes me believe all those claims of predictive programming

@kristianquizon3380

7 жыл бұрын

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@JoshMarshain

6 жыл бұрын

I feel like Fallon as the twin was the rather obvious/dissapointing reality behind an illusion while the truth behind Angier's trick was legitimately a supernatural occurrence. There are no real cloning machines, there are plenty of twins, what Angier went for was something so unbelievably insane that it can be seen as real legit magic, and that seems to be what he wanted, but more importantly its what the audience always wanted

He killed his clones because he thought drowning was "like going home" when actually it was "agony"

@iishita.v

4 жыл бұрын

the best explanation so far!

@natkokrasevac5882

4 жыл бұрын

And also at the begginig of the movie we see Angier trying to drown in a sink of water. He wants to share the destiny of his wife.

@hamidrana085

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly.

@ButterflyAmbienceVideos

2 жыл бұрын

There arent clones

@henrytownshend8862

2 жыл бұрын

But it's common sense to know it's agony

I had to watch this at .5 speed to understand wtf you were saying.

@shalinigurupadu8463

6 жыл бұрын

Alexander Deschenes I agree, this guy has no idea about punctuations 😄

@carlocasanova8630

6 жыл бұрын

I am spanish and I have to say the same thing. There are people who speak slower and you can understand perfectly what they are saying, but that is not the case.

@yvesmaker

6 жыл бұрын

hahahaha :)

@asadali-gj4fo

6 жыл бұрын

hahahaha.. me too

@jaydevkalivarapu

5 жыл бұрын

May by another explain video about this above video might help us.

such high philosophical concepts but damn Scarlet Johansson was so fucking hot in this movie,......

@HereForTheComments

8 жыл бұрын

I heard she wanted to do a topless scene in this movie, but Nolan wouldn't let her.

@ironsentinel6047

8 жыл бұрын

It would mean using CGI to give her a boost in the sternum area.

@xXxBurnerable

8 жыл бұрын

+Tokugawa Heavy Industries don't play with my feelings like that :(

@sakketin

8 жыл бұрын

Shut up! I'm a fan of Nolan but if that's true then fuck Nolan. He's movies might be beautiful but they ain't Scarlett Johanson topless.

@xXxBurnerable

8 жыл бұрын

Ikr :(

one of the most underrated films, such a good watch

@oscarrulez007

3 жыл бұрын

The Hoff House How is it underrated?

@Flypidge

3 жыл бұрын

@@oscarrulez007 you want me to explain "how" lol. Nah ain't got time. It's probably best to assume it's an opinion and move along.

@regularape

3 жыл бұрын

@@oscarrulez007 It's a common thing to say about a movie to earn you some likes on youtube, this movie literally sits at number 46 on imdb's top rated movies beating millions of other movies. So if being 46 out of millions is being underrated, being underrated sounds amazing.

This movie sends a great message, how far are you willing to go to prove you are better than someone else and how much are you willing to sacrifice?

He kills himself every night b/c he can't stand sharing the spotlight... not even with himself. This is talked about in the movie. When he was using a real double/actor lookalike he couldn't stand not being the prestige every time.

@FunkieChicken

5 жыл бұрын

He didn't kill the clones because of the spotlight. He killed them because if he even thought about killing them, the clones would think about doing that too and react in the same way.

@fplalex_thekid7725

5 жыл бұрын

He had to kill himself every night to frame Borden he didn't know which night he would go down to find out how the trick worked so had to do it every night until he framed him for the murder stupid 🤔

@charleschua9930

4 жыл бұрын

Fpl Alex_Thekid that actually makes the most sense. How is that stupid?

Yeah I switched off when this guy refused to use commas when speaking.

The biggest clue about the twin in the movie was when Bordem asks sarah to come inside her house and have a cup of tea but she refuses and he leaves and suddenly he appears to be inside the house but sarah completely ignores it thinking of it as a magic trick, i knew something wasnt right when i saw it but i too ignored it and i got convinced that there couldnt be a body double,

@sangamshukla668

2 жыл бұрын

lol

@Robert-ed3jy

2 жыл бұрын

Nice one, but there is another early clue about twin.....when sarah and kid was in theater and kid says to bale about bird "where is his brother"

Angier killed his clone every night, lot are saying he didn't trust his clones, fair enough. But he actually wanted to frame Borden, bcs he knew one day Borden will come down looking for his trick 🙌 And also he didn't kill his clone, the clone killed the real one at first place, thinking he's the original one as he had all the memories and conscience as him, its a v sad thing that he wouldn't even realise ever that he was real or clone, making it a never ending hierarchy. That's why tesla said it should be destroyed.

@wolverineiscool7161

4 жыл бұрын

You Nailed it

@iishita.v

4 жыл бұрын

oh man, everything is a lot more clearer now.

@PeterParker-vq2cz

4 жыл бұрын

he also chose drowning because he thought it was a great way to die, via "it felt like going home" thanks to cutter saying that at his wifes funeral ;)

@bhartijha3309

4 жыл бұрын

I think that's why when Angrier asked where's my hat? And Tesla replied : all of them is yours. What Tesla meant that you can't really identify the real ones so even if real Angrier died it hardly matters because all clones of Angrier were resembling real ones.

@evilanime8722

3 жыл бұрын

Bro u blew my mind away 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯 damn now it all make sense

Angier couldn't make just one clone of himself and simply team up with that clone to fake the trick every night. We've seen how Angier takes to sitting under the stage, not seeing the applause. Angier and any clone of Angier would fight against appearing below stage and would doubtfully be comfortable even doing this on alternating nights. It is made clear that Angier would do anything to get to be the man who comes out of the box.

@MrReded69

8 жыл бұрын

Another big difference between Borden and Angier. Angier never learned to share.

@GestaltCipher

8 жыл бұрын

Notable that the first thing Angier does when he realizes it duplicates him is shoots himself. But regardless we have to remember that Angier - in his obsession to be the one on the stage - has a crisis of continuity. Every night he asks himself if the clone is really him - is he the one bowing to applause or simply dying in agony drowning while some other person is applauded. It's a very interesting question of self.

@gerberbaby281

6 жыл бұрын

Plus, he had to continue using the machine for the spectacle of the Tesla coil. So a clone would have to be made every night he did the show. After a while, that’s way too many clones to manage and the trick is busted. He had to kill himself every night.

@ladyYeniel

6 жыл бұрын

He already had one double before and he screwd him over, maybe that's why he doesn't trust the clones eather, cause it could happen again

@moses9647

4 жыл бұрын

I think it's really that he doesn't trust himself. I think he believes that if the clone is an exact duplicate of himself it too would want the glory as much as he does. And that's really all he really wanted: the prestige.

speak faster.

@MrMrjack18

3 жыл бұрын

I'm Greek and i understand him... don't be a bitch mate !

@cosmiledsouza5372

3 жыл бұрын

We can watch it at 2x speed. :)

Did you guys noticed the blind stage hand is cloned as well? It is interesting because the blind stage hand probably doesn't even know he is cloned because none of them can see each other. They all do their work, and none of them know the secret, so they do not reveal it.

@Vesporeon

7 жыл бұрын

Simon Naylor Holy shit, that's amazing

@xcvsumextra

6 жыл бұрын

Yep the cloning machine is real.

@keneusebio3007

6 жыл бұрын

Bing Bong angier already cloned it all of the 3 servant got same face the fucking machine works

@justinfung4351

5 жыл бұрын

@Politically correct speech isn't my thing, fk off That isn't cognitive dissonance. Don't throw your pretentious phrases around incorrectly to feel smart.

@viwotosheqi

4 жыл бұрын

What is blind stage hand?

This explanation was more confusing than the movie itself.

I still wonder. Borden knew to give Angier the name “Tesla” when pressed about how he did the trick. What’s more, Angier saw Borden at the Tesla exhibition, meaning Borden was deeply interested in Tesla’s work. My BIG question is, did Tesla make the cloning machine for Borden first, Borden then made a duplicate of himself, then scrapped the machine intending on just using his clone for the transported man trick? Borden gives reference that this is his “twin brother” but was he actually a clone ?

@henrytownshend8862

2 жыл бұрын

That is possible , remember when angier asked Tesla to make the machine like he did for his colleague He neither confirm nor deny

only Chris Nolan could make a movie about two magicians a deep profound cinema masterpiece, I bet he could make the same with any theme , he could make spongebag look like the sequel to titanic

YES ADAM!!!! Your back We've ALL missed you

@TimeBunny

8 жыл бұрын

From what I have heard, he was moving from London to Newcastle. Might be why he didn't do any videos for a while.

@wallyrosario654

8 жыл бұрын

He also books What Culture Pro Wrestling which is based in a warehouse in Newcastle. Wrestling takes time to work on for days at a time

@senseweaver01

8 жыл бұрын

*you're

@sonalg1988

8 жыл бұрын

His back what? :/

@emperorcaesarandyvsrex7950

8 жыл бұрын

+Cole Van Meygaarden No no no, you've got it wrong, these are two separate statements. 1) YES ADAM!!!! Your back: this guy has a back fetish and likes Adams. 2) We've ALL missed you: Saying that most people like Adams videos. We clear now?

i paused at 3:25 to address your alleged plot hole. Angier had to kill his clone / his actual self every time because he is unaware when Bale would watch his show and go backstage. his objective was to frame him for murder, not to perform the trick and be famous.

@Pecisk

8 жыл бұрын

But was that his objective? I don't think so and movie never implies so. That flashback where he first creates second himself and then quickly shoots him just indicates that he doesn't trust himself.

@Grizabeebles

8 жыл бұрын

I don't think its *just* that he doesn't trust himself. Look at the extent Borden/Fallon had to go to keep their secret. Angiers was reluctant to sacrifice/share the spotlight with a double already. The fact that he was so surprised when he got shot meant he probably never have even considered sharing his entire *life* the way Borden/Fallon had.

@HillwoodLam

8 жыл бұрын

no i'm pretty certain that was his goal. He had money, he had fame. He probably initially wanted to just over shadow Borden, but once he found he could duplicate himself, he set it up so he can frame borden. The backstage men were set up to call police should borden show up. he drowned himself every night until borden showed up, the extent of hatred he had was what Nolan wanted to show.

@noushigavakyan2269

4 жыл бұрын

@@HillwoodLam thank you, Jesus, everyone got it wrong except you and the likes. there is no reason for him to not kill his actual self every night except for the glory of framing Borden and making him suffer whilst he didnt know that Borden had a twin and his death wouldnt be his end.

@Suprri

4 жыл бұрын

That part is not planned,!

I always felt he killed his duplicates or himself because he new his clones or himself depending on whichever it was couldn't and or wouldn't be able to handle not being the one who acquires all the applause or prestige when the trick is performed. He wanted all the credit for himself and no one else not even another version of himself.

I think the first 'plothole' at 3:00 is no such thing, and easy to explain. Angier is still wracked with grief and possibly also guilt at his wife's death at the beginning of the film. The film also shows scenes of him earlier on trying to drown himself in his sink, but he can't bring himself to go through with it and throws his head back out of the sink and starts crying. I think that he wants to experience what she went through: to go out like she did, and also test what Cutter told him (and what we later find out to be a lie) that drowning is 'like going home'. I think that Angier has always wanted to experience drowning, but his will to continue living and create a legacy overcame that. With the creation of Tesla's machine he now has a way to do both, with it also being a way to prevent duplicate Angiers existing together.

I like ADAM'S interpetation. What are you willing to sacrifice for your legacy? Bravo Bravo. I never looked at it that way.

@guyincognito2512

8 жыл бұрын

Most people just sacrifice morals for their legacy and nothing more.

@RazaPlaysGames

8 жыл бұрын

+Guy Incognito Agreed

@moses9647

4 жыл бұрын

I think that's the beauty of the double entendre of the film's title. How far is too far in the pursuit of prestige?

he didn't explain the ending

Is there anyone like me who always had a eye on Fallon, just because the character never spoke and his cheek looked different......i had a doubt that someone is disguising as Fallon. But it never came to my mind that it could be Borden

What else was amazing but people don't talk about is the story of the sailor that John Cutter told Robert Angier. The first time he tells him the story he says the sailor told drowning was like going home. This made drowning clones everynight easy for Angier, but in the end Cutter tells him the sailor told him drowning was agonizing.

I didn't understand why the question: "Which knot did you tie?" was part of the movie. The knot was still tied when she was lying there.

@mickyjankis9542

3 жыл бұрын

Hahahahahah, nice one. Just to contradict you I think she might have escaped/removed the knot but it was too late to escape the water filled glass chamber.

I have a really good theory. Remember when Tesla cloned the cat, it was kinda unstable and mewoing. But the second the cat was cloned, it became silent but the cat that was cloned far away was still mewoing. This means the machine teleported the original object and put clone in the original place. Later when agnier cloned himself, he did not knew this. He put a gun near to himself so to instantly kill the clone. But when he cloned himself, he got transported and the clone was near the gun and he remembered everything. So he first killed the original Agniernas soon as he realised this. And to support this, when the clone was killing original Agnier, the original one was saying wait I'm the original..... Now the clone knew how the machine really worked. So whenever he cloned himself, he got teleported over and the newly made clone would take his place and get drowned. And that's the exact reason why he feared that he would drown because if the machine malfunctioned and teleported the clone instead of him, that would instantly kill him. So that was the stake he was ready to take. I hope this all makes sense. If it does, please subscribe and support my channel 🙏.

Now , we need the explanation for 2001: a space odyssey. That will be confusing.

@FreakieFan

8 жыл бұрын

you can find explanations everywhere of that film,not that hard to find

@alanpartridge8253

8 жыл бұрын

good shout

@deth2871

8 жыл бұрын

not really, it's a pretty clear ending and has enough room for your own interpretation

@FreakieFan

8 жыл бұрын

***** ''What is amazing is how, in the 60's, such a fantastic sci-fi story could be made, but that it could also touch on hefty issues'' This is exactly why 2001, is one of my favorite movies of all time. It's absolutely brilliant

@FreakieFan

8 жыл бұрын

***** That's not true. The book was written at the same time, the screenplay was being written. Clarke's book is even uncredited as writer credits. Also, the book is overly explanatory which is exactly what Kubrick *didn't* want. Also there are alot of great movies that arent based on books :)

Me: The illusionist is the best movie of magic right? Nolan: Shut up and hold my beer 3 years later Nolan: Gimme my beer

@doncorleole2356

4 жыл бұрын

U trying to tell the fucking Illusionist is better than the prestige?!?

@yasmin9473

3 жыл бұрын

only people with two brain cells will be idiot enough to think illusionist comes anywhere near 100000 miles of prestige

@mickyjankis9542

3 жыл бұрын

@@yasmin9473 you said it man!!!!

What I also found interesting about this movie was the characters themselves and how they represent two types of modern day magicians: The flashy magician, and the people's magician. Angier was the flashy magician, Borden is the people's magician. Angier spent a lot of money on elaborate sets and even bought a device that defies all logic, and uses his trick to create the illusion he had come back from the grave...only it's wasted because he never revealed it to anyone. He always wanted to have a big reaction, wouldn't he think coming back from the dead would be the first thing he'd brag about. No, he wastes it to be an asshole to Borden. Borden spent little to no money on his tricks. Yet he's seen as the greatest magician in the world, no one could tell his secret, not even his own wife. His secret brother taking his place after he died, therefore creating the illusion of coming back from the dead, is the greatest trick of all and it cost him everything and also nothing. He didn't buy a sci-fi machine, he just had a secret double his whole life. And yet he lost his wife, his job, his fingers, his freedom. And when Borden takes care of his daughter after he died, that was him revealing to the world that he had performed the greatest magic trick ever. His last word was "Abracadabra" hinting to the hangmen that a magic trick is about to happen.

This is why The Prestige is likely my favorite movie

@hadeelfadel3585

7 жыл бұрын

Music Discovery same ✋

You should have put up '(to me at least)' in the title of the video

3:07- that's because the other jackman would probably not like the idea of being the cloned one. In fact, since he has all the memories of the original Jackman, he might not even realize that he's a clone, and might assume that the other one is his duplicate. As soon as you introduce the original-clone model, you've inevitably created a hierarchy of identity.

@dealaxim

8 жыл бұрын

True.

@vinayseth1114

8 жыл бұрын

Thanks.

@markgeuellim9384

8 жыл бұрын

This actually makes a lot of sense.. remember the first time Angier used a double in his performance? -(The Drunk Hugh) He actually envied his own double for being the one receiving the audience's applause after performing his grand trick. He even wanted to turn things around with his double, until of course Bordon ruined his show.. AND breaking his leg literally! Then, there's this scary symbolism where in Angier actually kills his real self each night -by killing his actual self and letting his clone replica live on. COZ the ORIGINAL Angier is the one falling below the trap door disapearing, and the prestige that recieves the praise is the double/clone.... IMO

@vinayseth1114

8 жыл бұрын

+Mark Geuel Lim Hmm interesting. But why would the original Angier want himself killed and the clone to survive?

@melody8923

8 жыл бұрын

We don't know which one falls through the trap door. Angier doesn't even know. Does the "original" fall through the trap door and drown, while the clone is replicated onto the balcony, or is the "original" being transported to the balcony, and a clone being replicated in the machine, to then fall through the trap door? Is the "original" being obliterated by the machine, and two clones are being produced? All possible scenarios, and no one can know, not even Angier himself - or his clones for that matter, because they all share the exact same memories and sense of self.

The prestige ending got to me as something that is so easy to understand after viewing it once. the second and third time gave me an "oh, so that's why" moment. So it really was surprising that ten years later, we still get people terribly confused and out of whack about this. But then, each to their own viewing I suppose. Still one of the best underrated films ever made.

@hylianchriss

8 жыл бұрын

I agree on all points. I stumbled upon this movie many years ago because I loved both Jackman and Bale, and was super pleasantly surprised by it! Terrific movie! There are some twists in the movie that I didn't see coming; but once they were revealed they were clear as glass. Upon the 2nd and 3rd viewing you understood things on an even deeper level (mostly the Christian Bale twins peculiar lives, why he acted the way he did) and you really understood the movies 'time skipping' mechanic. I think this movie is just like the Matrix in that regard. Should be clear as glass that the Matrix is a computer simulation, but oh so many people gets a headache from that movie. Don't get me started on the casual movie goer seeing Inception for the first time...

@TheSingingBUn

8 жыл бұрын

hylianchriss Well, the thing is that the prestige was based on a novel, but the truth is that the author himself felt that Christopher Nolan was the perfect director for the job after watching his first well-known movie "memento". I had a look at the novel quite frankly, the novel was written in a diary format and although the ending differs greatly, Christopher Nolan did a good job in keeping with the spirit of the novel. (the novel was actually more straightforward but darker to a certain extent)

@MrAdrianjherman

8 жыл бұрын

+TheSingingBUn the "spirit" of the novel? well played.

@TheSingingBUn

8 жыл бұрын

Adrian Herman ??

@futurestoryteller

8 жыл бұрын

"Well, the thing is that the prestige was based on a novel, but the truth is that the author himself felt that Christopher Nolan was the perfect director for the job after watching his first well-known movie 'memento'." "I've only ever had one meeting with him, when the film was finished. Because I wasn't very interested in him. We all have different points of view on the world. *To the world he's this great, innovative filmmaker; to me, he was a kid who wanted to get into Hollywood...* We got three offers. One was from Sam Mendes, who just made American Beauty; it was exactly at that point. On the day I heard from Mendes, he was up for seven Academy Awards for American Beauty, and in the end he won five, including Best Film. So that was a superb offer. It was going to be his next film after American Beauty, so I was keen on that... Word got back to Nolan or his wife, who is his producer, and I got a message, email or something, that said 'There's a motorbike on its way; don't decide anything!' And so an hour later a motorbike came to my house and gave me a VHS; that's how long ago it was - a VHS of Following - and there was a note on it that said 'Watch this film, and try to imagine what the filmmaker can do with a Hollywood facilities behind him.' So I watched the film, and *I took a chance* and decided that Nolan was probably going to be good, and so I selected Nolan over Mendes. I don't think he knows that... I think its probably his best film, [along] with Memento. Of the films he's made, those two are supreme. I don't like his other work; I think its shallow and badly written." - Christopher Priest on Christopher Nolan.

"Is your legacy worth dying for?" If it isn't then your life probably wasn't worth living.

@RK-ep8qy

8 жыл бұрын

I feel like this is something Tywin Lannister would say

@hobartman

6 жыл бұрын

this doesn't mean anything lol

Return of ADAM!!

Can we also let Predestination be listed with Inception, Interstellar and Prestige? What an underrated movie! It needs recognition!

@aryansharma749

3 жыл бұрын

Rightly said

Angier drowned his duplicate every act, as he could not forgive himself for his wife drowning at the start of the film, him drowning himself was his punishment for his lack of action when his wife was drowning, and he caused Borden to be hanged as punishment for Borden tying a difficult knot around his wife's hands, which led to her death. So him drowning his duplicate (or himself) does actually make sense as far as his motivations in the film are concerned.

@akizeta

8 жыл бұрын

Questions of identity get confusing when you're dealing with magic cloning machines, but it's the newly created duplicate that survives to drown himself at the _next_ show each time. It's not Angier drowning a new duplicate each time, it's Angier number _n_ creating Angier number _n+1_ and drowning _himself_ each time. I forget now, the first time Angier tries out the machine, does he leave the pistol by himself, or does he put it where the duplicate is due to appear? If he does the latter, then he's been killing himself every time he uses the machine.

@professorlayton8712

8 жыл бұрын

NelC He leaves the pistol by himself, but Angier later says that when he clones himself, he doesn't know whether he will be the "man in the box or the prestige", so he could be drowning himself or the duplicate each time.

@akizeta

8 жыл бұрын

Tom Sargent The way I interpret that is that when Angier's consciousness branches as the duplicate is made, one is in the box and one is the prestige (the duplicate). From one point of view, the duplicate has experienced being duplicated several times, while the one in the box has died so doesn't know anything. He imagines the drowning one (the one that's survived n-1 acts) thinking, "Looks like I lost out this time." In essence, he is both the man in the box _and_ the prestige, and he doesn't know which he will be because he can't reconcile the notion of each person having a unique soul and consciousness with the fact of mass production of Angiers who all have an equal claim to being _the_ Angiers. Who he murders. Or they murder themselves but each duplicate bears the guilt for it.

@SageVallant

8 жыл бұрын

The whole concept of an original is a bit ridiculous to disassemble when you're talking about exact copies with exact memories. There is no "copy," both of them are Angier as he was at the exact moment of transfer. As for drowning, Angier really cannot bring himself to share, and he definitely can't let fifty clones of himself run around. He chooses drowning because he was told (quite inaccurately) that drowning was a quick, painless way to go. It seemed a tidy way to clean things up. As for the question of why he didn't just make one copy and then share? On top of not being the sharing type, he's shown no real hesitation in killing himself and should assume the copies won't either. There's even less room for trust than there was in his prior arrangement.

@akizeta

8 жыл бұрын

Mike E Sure, I only use "duplicate" and "original" as convenient labels to keep track of which is which for the discussion. I don't believe that either has any special privilege in terms of consciousness or claims on human rights.

I don't know what's real any more man!

this movie is so brilliant and we'll done. it may be his 2nd or 3rd best movie..truly underrated. plus batman kills that bitch wolverine in the end. so that's awesome

Let’s not forget that Angier is actually Lord Caldlow the entire movie. Angier is not real and just an identity Caldlow adopted so he can be a stage performer. He merely drops the act and goes back to himself at the end of the movie. That is not Angier in disguise.

There's something almost Lovecraftian about Angier's Real Transported Man.

Yeah the whole thing about the replication machine just made me think "Why doesn't he just buy one gold bar and spam the machine until he's the wealthiest man on the planet?" Since it's capable of perfectly replicating living things, he could feed the world, but instead he uses it to murder himself over and over in the name of showman ship.

@PongoXBongo

8 жыл бұрын

Using technology to feed the world, Tesla would have heartily approved.

@akizeta

8 жыл бұрын

Not just showmanship, but also grief and revenge.

@alfred0621

8 жыл бұрын

He's obsessed with that trick.

@dark3031

8 жыл бұрын

I would speculate that such machine if it exist will still obeys the law of energy conservation. I would think that cloning a gold bar or anything probably will cost you more at the end in terms of power consumption. Unless your earth is filled with oceans of petrol, it is probably very inefficient to clone a gold bar to get rich or clone food to feed the world. I wouldn't know if Nolan had this in mind, but in the movie it was obvious that this machine consumes a lot of power. The problem is then, how much does a human life worth in terms of power cost?

@iamchillydogg

8 жыл бұрын

Actually he commits suicide over and over. He knows he's going to die when he steps into the machine and a clone will appear in the back of the theater.

Adam. My lord. My saviour. My God. The rightful King of WhatCulture!

The fact that some people see the "secret" commission of one hundred life sized, wax replicas of a single human being (that look suitably corpse-like in an underwater environment, and have been - presumably - fashioned into various stages of decomposition) for the sole benefit of a man the hoaxer thought was dead, _and_ who could always simply open up a tank and poke around inside at any time, as somehow *_MORE_* plausible than "cloning machine" is a great example of how much more stupid people will get in a desperate attempt to avoid "stupid."

To me, (as a magician myself) it is a warning about that obsession. It is a warning not to try to die for your legacy, to not remain obsessed with being better than those around you.

Ok so I got a question when Alfred “wrote” Tesla in a paper and gave it to angier what did he mean by that? Tesla was also working with alfred?

@maryamj8047

4 жыл бұрын

I think Tesla's machine made the other Alfred before.

@viwotosheqi

4 жыл бұрын

@@maryamj8047 makes sense

@mim._.r

4 жыл бұрын

He was trying to confuse Angier, he didn't knew that Tesla would actually make something work.... Sorry for my English

@mim._.r

4 жыл бұрын

@@maryamj8047 the other Alfred wasn't s clon, they were identical twins

@maryamj8047

4 жыл бұрын

@@mim._.r who said that? So how he knew Tesla?

The best Christopher Nolan film, in my opinion.

@abubakr7767

4 жыл бұрын

Inception

Rarely people talk about the fact that it was a mere clone of Angier that Borden shot at the end of the film. The last seconds of the film show Angier in a tank, but His not actually dead! He is holding His breath, the tiny air bubbles above His head Prove this.

@jamez5712

2 жыл бұрын

I refute that; 1. Angier died long ago, because when he first cloned himself, the original is transported and the clone takes its place that's why he tries to say "I'm the original.." before he's shot, that's why in every trick the first clone is transported away and the new one takes its position and is drowned immediately because it knows how the machine works and can never share the spotlight. That's why he's always afraid that the machine could malfunction and transport the new clone instead and live it to drown. 2. The bubble doesn't even come from his nose, it comes from his clothes, because clothes can carry pockets of air in them.

At the beginning Angie said he didn’t want to kill birds even with the abundance and the audience know knowing if he did he still chose not to. At the end he became a bird murder

2:58 it no plot hole! Of course he does not trust the clone also he was afraid that if someone spotted him with his clone then his audience will be gone because every one will think that he used a duplicate

Thank you for this video, The Prestige is amazing

Such a wonderful movie and I love the insight you have given to this film. I find it interesting that no one talks about what Cutter's (Michael Caine's) role was in all of this.

I knew Alfred was gonna side with Master Wayne at some point.

Why does the teleportation machine work? Because Tesla, that's why.

@ProtikMitra7

5 жыл бұрын

only, it isnt a teleportation machine, its a cloning machine.

GODDAMNIT. your talking too fast for me too process any of this...been pausing it every 5-10 seconds lol

Michael Caine's final line in the movie is based on nudging the audience to wonder if Tesla's machine actually works or not. Most people think it does (it doesn't) The trick itself (the duplicating hats, the duplicating cat) isn't hard. Angier got duped by a scientist so he could receive funding for his project, Angier was so desperate that he couldn't see the sleight of hand. The trick done on the audience is to believe such a machine could exist.

@tumbi97

2 жыл бұрын

So how would you explain the literal clones in the film? Especially the final scene where there's a room full of Angiers clones

It's not that he doesn't trust himself, but he doesn't trust others. Even if it is a clone of him, he still sees the clone as a double/duplicate/twin. He had a bad experience of backstabbing from the last double he used and didn't want to risk that again, which from a reasonable standpoint, is understandable. What didn't make sense to me was that Alfred didn't tell Sarah he had a double. If he trusted her enough I'm sure given enough time she could learn to live with it. Alfred was a great magician but terrible at expressing his emotions and confiding in his wife.

No Backround Music?

@Billcornfield

8 жыл бұрын

No need

@HereForTheComments

8 жыл бұрын

Maybe Adam was so overbooked for work that he forgot to sing the background music this time?

@SirHRDking

6 жыл бұрын

Adam doesn't like the prestige

What? Then how did Angier get 50ft away in a second? No. That is completely NOT what Nolan was thinking when he made The Prestige. Also, Dark Knight Rises, Inception and Intersteller were all shit compared to Prestige, Memento and Dark Knight.

@maryamj8047

4 жыл бұрын

When Tesla tested the machine with a cat , did you see the clone somewhere near that cat? So the clone can appear somewhere far from the original.

Good video. I hadn't even considered that there would be a second layer of deception below all of the reveals at the end. I am happy to accept either situation, although I think that to believe that there are no further layers of deception than are revealed is a more satisfying ending.

Great video. Just wondering when you guys will upload another how they should have made

Hmmm, yes, indeed, I agree.... WHAT!?

For me, the part of the film that stands out is Cutter telling Angier about how drowning really feels, that he lied, and drowning really feels horrible (remember Cutter knows what he is doing). You see how distressed Angier is, and it's about his clones, not his wife, because as he says to Olivia earlier, he doesn't care about his wife, only the trick. And he feels horrible he's killed so many people. My theory is that the original Angier was teleported and a clone is produced as a byproduct, which Angier swiftly dropped into a tank of water and slaughters. The clones have no memory. This contradicts the first cloning though, where according to my theory, the original remained still and shot the clone. This can be remedied by remembering Angier said 'It took bravery, not knowing whether I'd be the man in the box or the prestige'. Like Tesla says, science is unpredictable and the machine could have done either. It bolsters it in fact, as in the first cloning, the clone was clearly surprised at his existence, inspecting his newly formed body. So to sum up my theory is this. The first time Angier uses the machine, the clone was teleported away and he shot it out of surprise. After using it more, he realised that the sometimes he would be teleported and sometimes the clone would be. Nevertheless, with a 50% risk of death every night (and his useless clone surviving), he performs the trick. For two main reasons - he wants to frame Borden and the water tank is symbolic to him. If he dies, he will die like his wife. Miraculously, the acts go as planned every night, and every night a clone is drowned. Cutter confronts him with disgust and tells him the drowning isn't like going home, it's horrible. As he has murdered so many clones, this resonates with Angier. On the night Borden comes, again the clone is drowned and Borden is framed for murder. One Borden is hanged and the other shoots the true original Angier, who has all of the memories, which is why he is able to explain. And he talks about the bravery it took to not know if he would drown each night trying to frame Borden.

@MrDrezzy007

7 жыл бұрын

i like your explanation but goddamn it nolan is a genius.

@muttleygutierrez108

7 жыл бұрын

+Flying Swordfish They are both surprised after the teleporting/cloning and the clone shoots the original Angier because Angier screams out No No No I am... and is shot. The clone is the one that catches sight of the gun and reacts having a shared memory of what the gun was for. The last original thought/memory the original Angier has is a fear of getting shot by his own original plan/gun before he did the test to begin with. There is no 50% chance with Angier (your theory) surviving each and every show. That makes his "It took bravery..." speech pointless. He had to be fearing something and that something; were all of the unpleasant emotional and physical pain he suffers each time he performs. Why would he be brave if he knew that the clone dies after every show? Angier, the original is long dead. When the cloned Angier said it took bravery, he meant that he knew, from experience how terrifying it was to drown after every performance. Otherwise Angier would say that it took Luck... Angier KNEW what had to happen every night. It is on his face as he steps into the machine. One clone dies, one clone lives every night. He doesn't know which night he will be hearing the applause or when he will be drowning...that is to say the older clone or the newer one. Each and every clone retains the same memories. That is suffering for your art, that is why they show all the birds in the cages awaiting their performance (getting squashed in that cage/table). That is why Borden tells the bird that gets to hear the applause that it is the lucky one and back in the cage it goes to await whether it is lucky again or if it will be killed.

@flyingpenandpaper6119

7 жыл бұрын

Muttley Gutierrez​ You bring up "errors" with my theory, but clearly you didn't read my comment properly because the explanations for these errors are very clear. These are the explanations my theory provides: The cloned Angier screams "No, No, No.." because he is a person and he is afraid of being shot and killed... Why does his "No, no, no.." prove he's the original? It just proves he's scared of death like a normal person. The Angier that shoots the other one knows where the gun is because he is the original Angier - and he put the gun there. The original Angier performing didn't know that the clone dies after every show. That's what 50-50 means - he had an equal chance of dying and surviving. The *original* Angier says it takes bravery - and doesn't it? Doesn't it take bravery for him to stand above a trapdoor every night not knowing whether he will die or not? Like I said, he had a 50-50 chance of dying. Miraculously, he doesn't, but he had no way of knowing he would survive. Bonus point: When 'Angier' is drowning, he looks shocked and fearful. My theory says that it is because it is a clone with no memory. If it was a clone *with* memory, why would it be so surprised to find itself in the water tank? It might be scared, but the surprise on the clone's face is unmistakeable. Agree with my interpretation or not, that's ok. But all of your counterarguments were utter nonsense. Please try to read comments before denouncing them.

@StealthBlackHand

6 жыл бұрын

How can the surviving Angier have memories of what it feels like to drown that makes no sense since only one survives and one falls in the tank to drown. The drowning Angier dies and the surviving doesn't have memories of what it feels like to drown your theory is pointless.

@GoErikTheRed

6 жыл бұрын

+Flying Swordfish See I assumed that the clone has all the same memories as the person being cloned had when they went into the machine. In that sense, the only way of identifying the "original" Angier is by looking at the specific atoms that were arranged to form Angier before the first cloning. Those atoms I am convinced comprise a corpse somewhere. Whenever the machine is powered up a split occurs. At the instant when both the template and the second Angier coexist for the first time, their memories are identical. There is no way of knowing if the specific atoms were transported (I suspect not), but those atoms are irrelevant to the question of who is Angier. +Muttley Gutierrez The Angier who exists on the balcony and who lives to repeat the trick cannot know "from experience" what it is like to drown, as those memories were held by a completely separate Angier. The whole "bravery" line comes about because the Angier walking into the machine has no memory of drowning, so he has no way whether his specific atoms are being transported or not. From his point of view a clone appears in one of the two locations, while he continues to exist. However if we consider that the new collection of atoms that were not previously grouped to form an Angier is the clone, then at the instant of the clone's creation there is no difference between the two. From the clone's point of view he has always existed.

Loved this movie. The ending made me think about this movie for years afterward.

Your whole point about how it's not actually magic neglects to mention the scene where we see himself get clones and then shoot the clone right then and there.

@GAshoneybear

7 жыл бұрын

Connor Welch But Angier was telling that to Borden, so that doesn't have much credibility as he had every intention to manipulate Borden.

How long was this introduction ???

@RobCleverPig

8 жыл бұрын

1 minutes and 48 seconds

Angier was NOT killing his clones. He, as in the original and each sequential clone, was committing suicide and allowing his clone to live on in his place. The Angier that was shot was a clone of his clone of his clone of his clone...

All along Nolan pulled a trick on us of being obsessed to know the ending .

Adam is God

............huh?

I love this movie! One of my top 10 movies of all time. The ending is so simple yet amazing and I don't think anyone sees the ending coming.

By far one of my favorite movies. Great video

Ahh this is a surprise, A very nice one to say the least.

You speak totally fast, I couldn't understand

The reason why he didn’t use one duplicate was because he wanted to be the prestige at the end of the trick

Brilliant video. Great analysis of a great film. Thumbs up!

Respectfully, I disagree. I don't think the man who stepped into the machine was drowned each time. Angier wanted to live and be the one who accepted the applause. I believe the doubles were dropped into the locked water box and the original was transported to the balcony. That would make his heinous murder of hundreds of clones even more appalling and fit into his obsession with the limelight. Also, just on a human level, it's hard to believe he would willingly drown himself over and over. As my man Michael Caine reveals, it's "agony." That's why I think he transports himself and drowns the doubles.

@bchugi3172

8 жыл бұрын

its called sacrifice

@anitelufalemei4200

6 жыл бұрын

Brandon Katz the machine doesn’t transport anything. It simply creates a “clone” that appears at a nearby random location. Which is why Tesla was puzzled until he saw all the random hats outside his complex. The “clone” however is not JUST a “clone”. It is ALSO him. Retaining all his memories and such so in actuality he’s not creating “clones”. He’s just creating multiple “originals” of himself which makes the machine even more spectacular.

@artaratoryx4077

6 жыл бұрын

Brandon Katz I'm beginning to get pretty frustrated here m8, this shit is obvious. Your buddy Michael Caine originally told Angier that drowning is like going home, which is why Angier is okay with drowning himself/his clone. That is why he is so horrified when Caine tells him it's pure agony

Heh ok

Actually, if you pay attention you will notice that both Angier's and Borden's deaths mimic those of their wives. Angier drowns, and Borden is hanged. Also, Sarah's nephew asks Borden where the bird's brother went, which foreshadows the twist with the twins.

This is fantastic. Great analysis. Why don't you guys do more of these instead of countless top tens that are pretty much all the same?

the only sparks wax figures theory doesn't make any sense. then why did Borden see him actually drowning in the tank? there's no way he could have known for sure that Borden was going to go backstage that night. and how would he have been able to do the transported man?? stupid.

@mikemars261

6 жыл бұрын

because it was the drunk look-a-like that drowned, not Angier or a clone.

if each clone IS Angier that means they would have his memories right ? why would they do the "trick" knowing they'd die?

@Grizabeebles

8 жыл бұрын

For the applause. The copy that survives is seemingly unharmed by being transported. The surviving Angiers has no memory of dying and never will while the other is "disposed of" like the bird in the collapsing birdcage trick earlier (to, among other things, protect the secret of the trick). That's part of the reason why the trick is set up the way it is. It's always Angiers' choice to step into the machine and die knowing that should the machine fail, he'll die permanently and that even if everything goes according to plan, a version of him will die a slow, terrifying death. But, in his mind, the roar of the crowd is worth it.

@jyesucevitz

8 жыл бұрын

+Grizabeebles plausible and well thought out. I appreciate that. thank you.

@WhatisReal11

8 жыл бұрын

HIS WIFE. Remember when he earlier in the film is holding is own head underwater for grief...

@futurestoryteller

8 жыл бұрын

tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DyeingForYourArt

@muttleygutierrez108

7 жыл бұрын

+Grizabeebles I disagree, We can guess that each clone shares the same memories because Angier, the original has died sometime during the show's run if not before it (see below) and each clone indeed has a memory of how horrible it is to die by drowning. That is why he is so passionate when he says that it took courage...not knowing if he'd be the man in the box or the prestige. That is how he suffers for his art. Every performance there is that anticipation. That is why he dreads what is about to happen yet has full memory as he talks to Alfred in prison and/or Cutter, or anyone else he deals with. In that same scene during the flashback to his first attempt in the machine (with the gun), the clone is the one that shoots the original Angier. Angier seems to say "No! No No I'm the..." as if to say that he is the original as the clone shoots him.

There’s something I don’t understand, why did Cuttler betray Angier? He could’ve stopped Alfred form killing Angier. I know he feels betrayed for helping Alfred to get convicted but I don’t think that’s enough to explain his behavior

This reminds me about something I heard about the transporters on Star Trek, each time someone uses them they're being killed and reproduced somewhere else, so the original dies and your copy lives on... Can't remember where I read it but someone counted the number of times that Captain Kirk had died throughout the series and it was in the hundreds.

I always thought Bales character was a clone, but he was disciplined enough to work together with it. Otherwise the Tesla parts dont make a lot of sense

@carameldrops08

7 жыл бұрын

No. They are twins. Remember when the two Bordens (one dressed as Fallon) were together in their workroom racking their brains as to how Angier was doing the transported man? If they were clones they'd already know.

@carameldrops08

7 жыл бұрын

And what doesnt make sense about Tesla? Borden goes to the modern innovations fair. He sees Angier there so Borden knows he's familiar with Tesla. Borden gets a simple static electricity conducter to put in his stage show just to dress it up and throw Angier off. Then he uses Tesla as a hint cause he knows Angier will take the bait. Little does Borden know, Angier will get a real cloning device from Tesla. Tesla and Allie don't tell Angier they've never made that device before because they want his money.

@funhousefilmreviews9767

5 жыл бұрын

@@carameldrops08 I believe that Borden 2 came out of the machine believing he was a twin, therefore not knowing how the trick worked but Borden 1 knew the secret.

don't hate me, but I think you should slow down the dialogue in your vids, it's hard enough to try and wrap one's head around the plot of the movie, but i also have to follow your hyperfast speaking. maybe put bullet points or something, great vid tho.

@WorldOnWeb84

6 жыл бұрын

piggypoo no should hate you for expressing your opinion..if someone does..just pity them. P.S ..I absolutely agree with your point here.

So happy to finally have a video with Adam back

He knew his clone would want to be the one in prestige so he had to kill himself.

@DivineAtheistWannabe

3 жыл бұрын

This. In fact, if he didn't shoot his clone immediately, his clone would've shot him eventually. I mean, they have the exact same brain after all. He realised straight away he needed to kill the clone. That's why he had the gun there in the first place before he tested it.

I have a theory. Borden never met Tesla. Borden simply tells Angier that Tesla's machine is the secret to his illusion (to save Fallon, of course) and Angier believes him and (probably) visits Tesla in Colorado to ask him to sell his machine. It is at this point that Angier would have realised that he has been lied to by Borden. At most, he may have gotten the trick to produce fancy sparks. Why do I believe in this theory? In the scene where Angier meets Tesla for the first time, Angier tells him that he wants the same machine that he had built for Borden and Tesla responds as if he had actually built one but this is clearly not true as Borden never needed Tesla. He had his twin brother! The catch is that the meetings and conversations between Borden and Tesla are all taken from Angier's diary. Angier was obviously furious with Borden for lying to him about Tesla but instead of confronting Borden, he decides to get even by lying to Borden through his journal. The meetings with Tesla, cloning and killing the clones are all lies told through Angier's diary. The person who appeared at each prestige was Root. Root was clearly happy to do anything for some money and booze and Angier was rich so his loyalty isn't a surprise. As far as the drowning scene goes (for which Borden was convicted), it was clear that Angier knew that Borden would smell a rat and go snooping around and may have decided to appear only during the prestige and leave the pledge and turn to Root for many (or all?) of his shows in advance. Placing the tank below the stage that night (and killing off Root) was a contingency plan in case Borden managed to sneak inside and Angier must have somehow known that that night was the night (The blind stagehands moving the tanks every night was just a red herring). The corpse and the dead body in the tank are clearly Root/wax figurines. Nolan clearly pulled a neat trick on us even after the "twist" was announced. We simply didn't "watch closely" ;)

@saltaenutrof

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you, this right here is the trick the film plays on the audience. The machine doesn't work, wax figures and doubles.