This one is great on a second watch, too; you notice just how many times they drop clues about Borden's trick throughout the script, such as the little boy asking "where's his brother" about the bird trick, which is essentially the same trick: one dies, one reappears. The word "brother" is used so many times you wonder how you ever could have missed it. When he says he doesn't know which knot he tied, he's not lying, because it was the other one who did it. And of course, it's how he suddenly appears in Sarah's apartment after we see him walk down the stairs.
@@briankarcher8338 Last lines of the movie sum it up: “now you’re looking for the secret. But you aren’t REALLY looking. You want to be fooled” They straight up tell us Borden’s trick multiple times in the film and rewatches show how heavily it’s foreshadowed. But we don’t want that answer. Like the audience to their shows, we came for something inexplicable, not mundane
Hi Dasha!🙂Good catch noticing Andy Serkis (Gollum) in this film. Tesla was portrayed by the great musician David Bowie R.I.P. Chris Nolan did an awesome job keeping the audience intrigued thoughout this well made film. Great reactions to this great film, Dasha!!!🎬👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽P.S. - Nice to see Hugo in your last reaction.🙂
David Bowie as the real-life Nikola Tesla (who suffered from OCD, which is why they make him knowledgeable of the agonies of obsession in this film) is such indescribably good casting. So many of the American reactors on youtube I see retain an emotional distance from what they're watching as if to protect themselves & end up not understanding what they're watching (Lots of the people who react to The Prestige talk over the emotional moments as a result and are confused at the end still if Borden also had a Tesla machine when he already said at the end of his diary that he never did!) so it's cool to see someone who actually engages with the experience for a change! I noticed this with your Children Of Men video as well. So many of these films are trying to say things about our own reality, not just their own world. :)
This movie itself IS magic! It narrates in a way magics are performed. The Pledge, The Turn, and The Prestige. It shows you something ordinary (the story about two rival magicians). Then it makes one disappear, then it brings that one back. Try watching this movie again and see if you notice any 'hints' it gives you in plain sight. 😁
ever since i was a kid i loved doing card tricks. I still do learn them and I can pull off a few good ones. At times i get busted cause my fingers can't move fast enough for the cards to slide fast this way or that, but other times I leave people dumbfounded. Its so fun. Most people my age have seen a card trick or two and know to watch the hands and count cards or whatnot to prevent from being fooled. I remeber when I taught a few tricks to my cub scouts for them to perform at a senior citizens center. It was so much fun. The old people there knew every card trick in the book but they laughed and giggled when the boys showed them some simple tricks. Even when the boys messed up they still acted as if they were shocked and awed by the trick. Good memories.
I'll give you one better: Cutter earlier on told Angier that Borden had to be using a double to perform his trick but Borden just brushed it off and said that was too simple, so it couldn't be the secret to the trick, then proceeds to find someone who looks like his twin and ultimately duplicates himself over and over to complete the trick.....SMH!!!
Great to see you get to this one!- I'm a big Nolan fan, & this is my favorite of his films (& that's saying something!): perfect cast, perfect story & keeps you guessing! This is one of those movies that came out at the same time as another one considered very similar - in this case a film called 'The Illusionist', and it's just as good and is well worth a watch! - another that will have you thinking & guessing right up til the end, hope you can fit it in your reactions somewhere! 😊
I love how you immediately got that he was copying himself and killing the copies. It took me until the end of the movie to get that. Edit: or rather, as people have pointed out, making a copy and then killing _himself._ Ever since I realised that it has bothered me. It was just about believable that he would kill a copy of himself, but committing _suicide,_ horribly, every night? It's hard to believe he would do that.
He wasn't killing the copies. He was killing himself. The copy would then take over, and the next night, he would kill himself again. He had to perform his trick each night knowing he was about to die a horrible death.
@@grimscar no he actually thought the death was painless bc Michael Caine character told him it was. That's why at the end it's so horrifying when Caine tells him that he was lying and that it's actually very painful
He thought drowning himself was getting him closer to his wife. You see him trying to drown himself in a sink earlier on too. Makes Michael Caine's reveal at the end he was lying is that much more horrific. Also makes Angier's story all the more tragic- he was a respected aristocrat with all the money in the world, he really wasn't engaged in his petty squabble with Borden for personal gain, it was that the death of his partner was so life-ruining to him he wanted to make the world more wonderous for others (hence his speech to the less magic-obsessed Borden twin at the end). The Prestige is Nolan's take on the Victorian shilling shocker, gothic romance/sci-fi in the vein of Jekyll & Hyde or Frankenstein.
With that hat and cane I thought you were going to see the 1971 movie Clockwork Orange 😁. Greetings, I really like your reactions. I have a great time sharing films I like. I do not know if you really like classic movies, I would recommend you a very nice call: The mating Game 1959.
20:00 The machine is a teleporter. Same as Star Trek. The problem with teleporters is that assembling a person on the other side, and disassembling the person being teleported are two unrelated processes. There is no reason to disassemble the original, you can just produce a copy on the other side. When Tesla was trying the machine, he just implemented the teleporter and it assembled the object at the destination. With the cat, he was hoping that the cat being a living thing and having a soul, would prevent copying it. Instead he ended up with two cats.
5:50 "Come on, come on! Get, like, CPR!" Unfortunately for the magician's assistant, this movie is set many decades before CPR became a common, well-known medical technique.
I’ve been a magic fan since I was a kid and learned sleight of hand in high school. Other than Tesla’s machine, pretty much every other trick in this movie is doable and uses the basic principles of any good magic trick. I will say that the bullet catch is a very real, and very dangerous, trick that has cost at least a dozen performers their lives over the years. The most well known was a Scottish magician who used the stage name Chun Ling Soo (performing as Asians was in vogue at the time) who died from a piece of magic wand getting lodged in the barrel of the flintlock pistol he used for the trick. As far as I know, no one has intentionally screwed up the trick to try and commit a public murder as depicted here. While most magicians take secrecy as seriously as any professionals do with trade secrets, it’s not as serious as shown here. Most tricks can be worked out or even looked up, several have their methods patented if you want to go through patent drawings, and virtually any card trick can be googled to find a method. However, as the movie says, “You don’t really want to know…”. Magic tricks in general do not have elaborate, interesting methods, and the few that do are revealed in various acts because they’re so clever they work even if you know how it’s done.
11:30 - price and cost are very carefully chosen words in this scene, as it foreshadows that even though these men are rich, the depth of their rivalry will take so much...
The thumbnail kind of reminds me of Rose the Hat from Doctor Sleep (sequel to The Shining) Liked how you pointed out that Christopher Nolan films make you pay attention to every little detail. For someone who seems to pick up on the tiniest of details, you should do a reaction to his most recent film "Tenet". It may come off as confusing but it will keep you guessing and trying to figure out what is going on. Keep up the good work.
Borden accidentally killed Angier's wife. It was the twin that tied the wrong knot because he wasn't present to learn it. But because Borden was chasing the prestige, he couldn't admit the truth to Angier or even his own wife. In an oblique way, Christopher Nolan describing magic is also describing movie making. More importantly, though, the title of the movie doesn't explain how they do it, it explains why they do it.
Except Borden didn't care about the Prestige, Angier did. The Prestige is about the audience's response to the trick. Borden's concern was becoming the greatest magician and having the sheer ability to pull off the tricks themselves, not the response it creates in people. Borden didn't know what knot he tied when Angier asked him because it was the other brother that tied it. Borden couldn't say because he didn't know for sure what his brother had done (implying that the bad brother lied to the good brother about it). I absolutely agree with you about the metaphor for movie making and the entertainment industry.
I loved your outro, but also why was there some random magician in a Cafe showing you magic tricks? 😂 Talk about a great way to get a girls number and flirt though. A sneaking suspision that's why he came to you 😂😂
Great movie for a Nolan movie. You should watch The Illusionist that came out the same year who is also about magicians and is overshadowed by this movie success.
@@bigdream_dreambig The Illusionist was a lyric poem of a movie, compared to this epic tragedy. Two completely different things. The Illusionist was a very good movie, in fact, it was composed more elegantly than The Prestige. Two examples of clumsy composition in The Prestige is the scene near the end which showed Borden seeing the covered tank being removed from the theater. That scene wasn't for the sake of the Borden character; it was for the audience, to set us up to recognize the final showdown scene. This is a common movie-making technique, and is fine. But showing us that Borden saw the tank undermined the plotline, because seeing the tank would've led Borden to follow the cart to find out why they were removing the tanks and then finding all of the tanks with Angier's duplicates in them. It would have been more compelling to Borden to *not* see the tank so his curiosity would take him inside the theater to discover Angier drowning, as Angier intended. A second example: Angier keeping all of his duplicates in duplicate tanks was visually impressive but nonsensical. Angier was an intelligent person and he would've been destroying the bodies so as to avoid them ever being found. So again Nolan's focus on concept undermined the fidelity of the character of Angier. Undermining both plot and character damages the flow of a movie. The Illusionist was as smooth as silk, with no plot or character flaws. I'd expect Dasha to enjoy it even more than this one.
@@bigdream_dreambig The only reason The Prestige is more well know is because it is a Nolan movie. Which people today seem to lose their mind every time he make another crappy movie.
Christopher Nolan, Christian Bale and Michael Cane, but this didn't feel like Batman. It fell like Alfred torn on working for two eighteen hundreds' Gotham City Villains, and Black Widow trying to be a good assistant. Having David Bowie playing Tesla was a stroke of genius. A legend playing a legend.
One of my favorite movies. Loved it. I watched it twice at theaters. It is Christian Bale and Hugh Jackmans best acting as well in my opinion. I loved The Dark Knight with the Joker and Two Face, but this movie to me is better, Nolan's Masterpiece. Hilariously genius as well, how the kid asks about the birds brother, giving away the trick of the movie.
My favorite movie. A man whose obsession led him to literally killing himself in the most painful way possible a hundred times, just to prove he is the better magician. One man dedicated to the illusion of being one man, but a prisoner to the consequences. Another man so obsessed with being “The Prestige” that he could not share the glory - even with “himself”. A brilliant, layered movie well worth multiple watchings. If you watch it again notice how they spell out the answers to you in almost every other scene. You, as the audience, simply want to be fooled. You don’t want to know the truth. And David Bowie as Tesla is brilliant.
He doesn't do it prove he's the better magician though, that's the final and most brutal twist. We're led to think Angier did all this for personal gain only for it to be revealed at the end he was never an American, he was a British aristocrat (Lord Caldlow) using a stage persona to avoid bringing his family into disrepute for chasing a bohemian lifestyle (as he says near the start when they're discussing stagenames). He already had all the money and standing in society he could ask for. He becomes obsessed with his craft because he wants to create art that is better than the horrible reality of real life where his wife drowned, & he's drowning himself repeatedly to feel closer to her, like when he sticks his head in the sink earlier on. This is why he gives his final speech to the less magic-obsessed Borden twin about "the look on their faces" etc.
I've been hoping and waiting for a watch and reaction to "The Prestige" by you. It's one of my favorites, along with the original novel by Christopher Priest.
This movie is so brilliant and I really enjoyed your passionate reaction towards their obsessive rivalry. There's a British magician named Dynamo and that man is MESMERIZING to watch perform.
Dasha, the same year as this another magician movie came out, 'The Illusionist'. It isn't as highly regarded as this one, but I actually prefer it. You'd love it, I'm sure. It's a love-poem of a movie, as opposed to the epic tragedy that this movie is.
Dasha, we need you to watch Eastern Promises. There's a lot of Russian that the subtitles won't say what it is. Think of it as your patriotic duty as a reactor :)
Oh man, I love it when reactors watch this movie, it explains my entire reason for living. All my damn mysteries explained in a 2 hour movie. What a joke 😞
0:44 .... "With Interstellar and Inception, you're watching it and up until the last moment, you're not sure what's going on".... Then God forbids you from ever watch "Perfect Blue"..... You'll be lost from the very beginning of the movie......
If you think what Tesla did was magic, what would you call the from any science fiction series or movie.....there is an episode of Star Trek the next generation were Riker was duplicated......real science is working on teleporters.......is science, magic? I would actually say yes.....magic being the ancient term for what we today would call science, especially when you consider quantum entanglement
If Christian bales character (the one who didn't tie the knott) just got his twin to face Hughes and tell him to come clean then a lot of this could have been avoided.
Dasha you seem like a nice person so I'm just letting you know instead of letting you look stupid but I've never heard a man say he likes those big stupid fake eye lashes. Most men think they're stupid and trashy.
Oh yes, I actually like it too but swapping poor Crown Prince Rudolf for some evil Leopold guy is quite a bold step from my - Austrian - point of view. 😁
@@bigdream_dreambig it's true and it isn't needed in the movie at all. In the story the plot is discovered through investigation by descendants trying to figure out what started it all. Including a sad mention of a relative who awas thrown into the device as a boy, but was pretty much disowned (likely because the relatives who knew viewed them as a subhuman copy). One of the descendants had, as a young girl, witnessed what she thought was one of twins being murdered, but there was no record of him ever having a twin. So that was her motivation to research the feud. After uncovering everything, she also realizes that the boy had been copied, and one of them was killed and the other spent his life with everyone wondering if he was just the copy or not.
@@bigdream_dreambig correct. It was kind of a mechanical representation of the century long blight on two families. Makes it almost like a Twilight Zone sci-fi tragedy with that element in.
No offence but Nolan's movies are not smart, entertaining sure but not smart. Tenet for instance is one of the worst piles of rubbish ever made. His films appear really highbrow but are, in reality, shallow and highly predictable.
I hate this film. Partly because of the story being unsatisfying to me. Secondly because the illusionist was released at about the same time, is a far superior movie, but everyone preferred the prestige.
"The Prestige" feels like an extended episode of "The Twilight Zone." Same kind of vibe... a morality play wrapped in a sci-fi/fantasy shell.
This one is great on a second watch, too; you notice just how many times they drop clues about Borden's trick throughout the script, such as the little boy asking "where's his brother" about the bird trick, which is essentially the same trick: one dies, one reappears. The word "brother" is used so many times you wonder how you ever could have missed it. When he says he doesn't know which knot he tied, he's not lying, because it was the other one who did it. And of course, it's how he suddenly appears in Sarah's apartment after we see him walk down the stairs.
Yeah and Alfred says straight up, "The trick is simple. He has a double."
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Last lines of the movie sum it up: “now you’re looking for the secret. But you aren’t REALLY looking. You want to be fooled”
They straight up tell us Borden’s trick multiple times in the film and rewatches show how heavily it’s foreshadowed. But we don’t want that answer. Like the audience to their shows, we came for something inexplicable, not mundane
Hi Dasha!🙂Good catch noticing Andy Serkis (Gollum) in this film. Tesla was portrayed by the great musician David Bowie R.I.P. Chris Nolan did an awesome job keeping the audience intrigued thoughout this well made film. Great reactions to this great film, Dasha!!!🎬👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽P.S. - Nice to see Hugo in your last reaction.🙂
David Bowie as the real-life Nikola Tesla (who suffered from OCD, which is why they make him knowledgeable of the agonies of obsession in this film) is such indescribably good casting. So many of the American reactors on youtube I see retain an emotional distance from what they're watching as if to protect themselves & end up not understanding what they're watching (Lots of the people who react to The Prestige talk over the emotional moments as a result and are confused at the end still if Borden also had a Tesla machine when he already said at the end of his diary that he never did!) so it's cool to see someone who actually engages with the experience for a change! I noticed this with your Children Of Men video as well. So many of these films are trying to say things about our own reality, not just their own world. :)
This movie itself IS magic! It narrates in a way magics are performed. The Pledge, The Turn, and The Prestige. It shows you something ordinary (the story about two rival magicians). Then it makes one disappear, then it brings that one back. Try watching this movie again and see if you notice any 'hints' it gives you in plain sight. 😁
ever since i was a kid i loved doing card tricks. I still do learn them and I can pull off a few good ones. At times i get busted cause my fingers can't move fast enough for the cards to slide fast this way or that, but other times I leave people dumbfounded. Its so fun. Most people my age have seen a card trick or two and know to watch the hands and count cards or whatnot to prevent from being fooled. I remeber when I taught a few tricks to my cub scouts for them to perform at a senior citizens center. It was so much fun. The old people there knew every card trick in the book but they laughed and giggled when the boys showed them some simple tricks. Even when the boys messed up they still acted as if they were shocked and awed by the trick. Good memories.
There was another magician movie released the same year, that was also very good, starring Ed Norton (Fight Club) and Paul GIamati. I
The best part about the movie is that Christian Bales character explains the plot twist to the son of his girlfriend. Its hidden in plain sight.
Nephew, not son, but yeah.
I'll give you one better: Cutter earlier on told Angier that Borden had to be using a double to perform his trick but Borden just brushed it off and said that was too simple, so it couldn't be the secret to the trick, then proceeds to find someone who looks like his twin and ultimately duplicates himself over and over to complete the trick.....SMH!!!
Great to see you get to this one!- I'm a big Nolan fan, & this is my favorite of his films (& that's saying something!): perfect cast, perfect story & keeps you guessing!
This is one of those movies that came out at the same time as another one considered very similar - in this case a film called 'The Illusionist', and it's just as good and is well worth a watch! - another that will have you thinking & guessing right up til the end, hope you can fit it in your reactions somewhere! 😊
Another magic movie to react to is "The Illusionist" with Ed Norton. It has a lot of mystery that will leave you breathless by the end.
Great movie
Absolutely. They make an amazing pair to watch together.
Ed Norton is fantastic in this movie.
sorry but it was trash compared to the Prestige
I love how you immediately got that he was copying himself and killing the copies. It took me until the end of the movie to get that.
Edit: or rather, as people have pointed out, making a copy and then killing _himself._ Ever since I realised that it has bothered me. It was just about believable that he would kill a copy of himself, but committing _suicide,_ horribly, every night? It's hard to believe he would do that.
I thought the 1st copy shot him
He wasn't killing the copies. He was killing himself. The copy would then take over, and the next night, he would kill himself again. He had to perform his trick each night knowing he was about to die a horrible death.
@@grimscar no he actually thought the death was painless bc Michael Caine character told him it was. That's why at the end it's so horrifying when Caine tells him that he was lying and that it's actually very painful
Took me two viewings to get it. 🤣
He thought drowning himself was getting him closer to his wife. You see him trying to drown himself in a sink earlier on too. Makes Michael Caine's reveal at the end he was lying is that much more horrific. Also makes Angier's story all the more tragic- he was a respected aristocrat with all the money in the world, he really wasn't engaged in his petty squabble with Borden for personal gain, it was that the death of his partner was so life-ruining to him he wanted to make the world more wonderous for others (hence his speech to the less magic-obsessed Borden twin at the end). The Prestige is Nolan's take on the Victorian shilling shocker, gothic romance/sci-fi in the vein of Jekyll & Hyde or Frankenstein.
9:00 "For Christ sake! For Christ sake!"
i don't remember dasha saying that before.
10:40 The Great David Bowie! For me, he and Scarlett make the show 🙂 Oh, the rest of the cast are fairly good too ♥
This is an outstanding movie.
With that hat and cane I thought you were going to see the 1971 movie Clockwork Orange 😁. Greetings, I really like your reactions. I have a great time sharing films I like. I do not know if you really like classic movies, I would recommend you a very nice call: The mating Game 1959.
A Wolverine, a Bat, a Black Widow and two Alfreds walk into a theater...
20:00 The machine is a teleporter. Same as Star Trek. The problem with teleporters is that assembling a person on the other side, and disassembling the person being teleported are two unrelated processes. There is no reason to disassemble the original, you can just produce a copy on the other side.
When Tesla was trying the machine, he just implemented the teleporter and it assembled the object at the destination.
With the cat, he was hoping that the cat being a living thing and having a soul, would prevent copying it. Instead he ended up with two cats.
Love this flick. DVD is collecting dust ; ).
5:50 "Come on, come on! Get, like, CPR!" Unfortunately for the magician's assistant, this movie is set many decades before CPR became a common, well-known medical technique.
I’ve been a magic fan since I was a kid and learned sleight of hand in high school. Other than Tesla’s machine, pretty much every other trick in this movie is doable and uses the basic principles of any good magic trick.
I will say that the bullet catch is a very real, and very dangerous, trick that has cost at least a dozen performers their lives over the years. The most well known was a Scottish magician who used the stage name Chun Ling Soo (performing as Asians was in vogue at the time) who died from a piece of magic wand getting lodged in the barrel of the flintlock pistol he used for the trick. As far as I know, no one has intentionally screwed up the trick to try and commit a public murder as depicted here.
While most magicians take secrecy as seriously as any professionals do with trade secrets, it’s not as serious as shown here. Most tricks can be worked out or even looked up, several have their methods patented if you want to go through patent drawings, and virtually any card trick can be googled to find a method. However, as the movie says, “You don’t really want to know…”. Magic tricks in general do not have elaborate, interesting methods, and the few that do are revealed in various acts because they’re so clever they work even if you know how it’s done.
Dasha, you need to watch the movie called "The Illusionist" now.
The final trick of the film was in early credits reveal the author of the source novel Christopher Priest, a major British Science Fiction figure.
11:30 - price and cost are very carefully chosen words in this scene, as it foreshadows that even though these men are rich, the depth of their rivalry will take so much...
Exactly! They're often use as synonyms but in reality they mean very different things 😢
Similar to when he says "simple, maybe, but not easy.". Those two are also often used interchangeably when they really aren't.
The thumbnail kind of reminds me of Rose the Hat from Doctor Sleep (sequel to The Shining)
Liked how you pointed out that Christopher Nolan films make you pay attention to every little detail.
For someone who seems to pick up on the tiniest of details, you should do a reaction to his most recent film "Tenet". It may come off as confusing but it will keep you guessing and trying to figure out what is going on.
Keep up the good work.
Borden accidentally killed Angier's wife. It was the twin that tied the wrong knot because he wasn't present to learn it. But because Borden was chasing the prestige, he couldn't admit the truth to Angier or even his own wife.
In an oblique way, Christopher Nolan describing magic is also describing movie making. More importantly, though, the title of the movie doesn't explain how they do it, it explains why they do it.
Except Borden didn't care about the Prestige, Angier did. The Prestige is about the audience's response to the trick. Borden's concern was becoming the greatest magician and having the sheer ability to pull off the tricks themselves, not the response it creates in people.
Borden didn't know what knot he tied when Angier asked him because it was the other brother that tied it. Borden couldn't say because he didn't know for sure what his brother had done (implying that the bad brother lied to the good brother about it).
I absolutely agree with you about the metaphor for movie making and the entertainment industry.
I loved your outro, but also why was there some random magician in a Cafe showing you magic tricks? 😂 Talk about a great way to get a girls number and flirt though. A sneaking suspision that's why he came to you 😂😂
30:50 once i saw your comment i immediately wanted to hear the outro first. 🙂
Agreed 😊
Great movie for a Nolan movie. You should watch The Illusionist that came out the same year who is also about magicians and is overshadowed by this movie success.
Urk. No, that "overshadowing" was deserved; The Illusionist was no good.
@@bigdream_dreambig The Illusionist was a lyric poem of a movie, compared to this epic tragedy. Two completely different things. The Illusionist was a very good movie, in fact, it was composed more elegantly than The Prestige.
Two examples of clumsy composition in The Prestige is the scene near the end which showed Borden seeing the covered tank being removed from the theater. That scene wasn't for the sake of the Borden character; it was for the audience, to set us up to recognize the final showdown scene. This is a common movie-making technique, and is fine. But showing us that Borden saw the tank undermined the plotline, because seeing the tank would've led Borden to follow the cart to find out why they were removing the tanks and then finding all of the tanks with Angier's duplicates in them. It would have been more compelling to Borden to *not* see the tank so his curiosity would take him inside the theater to discover Angier drowning, as Angier intended.
A second example: Angier keeping all of his duplicates in duplicate tanks was visually impressive but nonsensical. Angier was an intelligent person and he would've been destroying the bodies so as to avoid them ever being found. So again Nolan's focus on concept undermined the fidelity of the character of Angier.
Undermining both plot and character damages the flow of a movie. The Illusionist was as smooth as silk, with no plot or character flaws. I'd expect Dasha to enjoy it even more than this one.
@@bigdream_dreambig The Illusionist was amazing compared to the predictable Prestige. It was so obvious from the star the use of twin brothers.
@@bigdream_dreambig The only reason The Prestige is more well know is because it is a Nolan movie. Which people today seem to lose their mind every time he make another crappy movie.
@@totomomo18 I love people who boast of how clever they are whilst not even being able to compose a proper sentence.
Christopher Nolan, Christian Bale and Michael Cane, but this didn't feel like Batman. It fell like Alfred torn on working for two eighteen hundreds' Gotham City Villains, and Black Widow trying to be a good assistant.
Having David Bowie playing Tesla was a stroke of genius. A legend playing a legend.
One of my favorite movies. Loved it.
I watched it twice at theaters. It is Christian Bale and Hugh Jackmans best acting as well in my opinion.
I loved The Dark Knight with the Joker and Two Face, but this movie to me is better, Nolan's Masterpiece.
Hilariously genius as well, how the kid asks about the birds brother, giving away the trick of the movie.
@@Christobanistan yes.
You should watch Christopher Nolan's Memento. It's a trip.
There is another trick with a sponge balls:)
My favorite movie. A man whose obsession led him to literally killing himself in the most painful way possible a hundred times, just to prove he is the better magician.
One man dedicated to the illusion of being one man, but a prisoner to the consequences.
Another man so obsessed with being “The Prestige” that he could not share the glory - even with “himself”.
A brilliant, layered movie well worth multiple watchings. If you watch it again notice how they spell out the answers to you in almost every other scene. You, as the audience, simply want to be fooled. You don’t want to know the truth.
And David Bowie as Tesla is brilliant.
He doesn't do it prove he's the better magician though, that's the final and most brutal twist. We're led to think Angier did all this for personal gain only for it to be revealed at the end he was never an American, he was a British aristocrat (Lord Caldlow) using a stage persona to avoid bringing his family into disrepute for chasing a bohemian lifestyle (as he says near the start when they're discussing stagenames). He already had all the money and standing in society he could ask for. He becomes obsessed with his craft because he wants to create art that is better than the horrible reality of real life where his wife drowned, & he's drowning himself repeatedly to feel closer to her, like when he sticks his head in the sink earlier on. This is why he gives his final speech to the less magic-obsessed Borden twin about "the look on their faces" etc.
This is such a fun way to revisit favorite movies. Particularly this channel. So, interesting.
Wait till you get to "Tenet" it still confuses me to this days but i love. Every rewatch makes it even better
I think it's awesome that They used Tesla in the story.
You should also watch Memento. It's another one of Christopher Nolan's great movies.
Thank you for reacting to this movie. I really like all Nolan movies but this one is so special. I really think that its the perfect movie.
I've been hoping and waiting for a watch and reaction to "The Prestige" by you. It's one of my favorites, along with the original novel by Christopher Priest.
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Keep up the great work Dasha!
Often, close-up magic (with sponge balls or cards) can be the most difficult to perform.
This movie is so brilliant and I really enjoyed your passionate reaction towards their obsessive rivalry.
There's a British magician named Dynamo and that man is MESMERIZING to watch perform.
One of my favorite movies EVER! 👍😎👍 LETS GO!
I love Rebecca Hall!! She's great in everything! :) 💘🥰
Incredible movie!
Dasha, the same year as this another magician movie came out, 'The Illusionist'. It isn't as highly regarded as this one, but I actually prefer it. You'd love it, I'm sure. It's a love-poem of a movie, as opposed to the epic tragedy that this movie is.
This is the first movie that I realized that there were no heroes in it, no 'good guy'.
David Bowie playing Nikola Tesla.
True creative genius, one of Art and the other of Science.
RIP you Legends
One dated pigeons and the other dated children.
@@aerthreepwood8021 not sure which is worse. One being a diseased torment on the World, the other being a bird.
Dasha...all of RUclips is waiting for you to watch Rocky 4!!!
No Dasha! He kills himself and he lets his copy lives!
Giant acting by Hugh Jackman on this film. Also he is very good at ''Prisoners''
Dasha, we need you to watch Eastern Promises. There's a lot of Russian that the subtitles won't say what it is. Think of it as your patriotic duty as a reactor :)
fantastic suggestion!!
@@YoureMrLebowski Thanks, Mr. L! And I'm still anxiously awaiting a mashup of Midsommar's Attestupa scene >:)
'Really looking forward to you reacting to
MEMENTO (2000)
Guy Pearce, Joe Pantoliano
Yeah andy serkis plays gollum, and also cesar in the planet of the apes, and king kong 2005
Oh man, I love it when reactors watch this movie, it explains my entire reason for living. All my damn mysteries explained in a 2 hour movie. What a joke 😞
You should watch memento also directed by Christopher nolan
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please enjoy 1917 (2019)
2:57 "Oh, this is the actor who was playing Gollum, right?" Yes! Good catch!
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Leave it to Dasha to cry during a movie that nobody has ever cried at while watching LOL. gotta love her
You look like Zatanna in the thumbnail.
Меддел Леуде🤘
0:44 .... "With Interstellar and Inception, you're watching it and up until the last moment, you're not sure what's going on".... Then God forbids you from ever watch "Perfect Blue"..... You'll be lost from the very beginning of the movie......
This is by far the most I've ever heard you swear
What are you saying in Russian at the start of your videos? The CC wont tell me. 8(
If you think what Tesla did was magic, what would you call the from any science fiction series or movie.....there is an episode of Star Trek the next generation were Riker was duplicated......real science is working on teleporters.......is science, magic?
I would actually say yes.....magic being the ancient term for what we today would call science, especially when you consider quantum entanglement
Nolan's best film
Interstellar (2014) said "hold my beer..." 😇
U need to see Memento
I just want to see Hugo.
agreed. isn't he about a year old now?
Great reaction to this great movie.
TY 🙏🙏
If Christian bales character (the one who didn't tie the knott) just got his twin to face Hughes and tell him to come clean then a lot of this could have been avoided.
Dasha you seem like a nice person so I'm just letting you know instead of letting you look stupid but I've never heard a man say he likes those big stupid fake eye lashes. Most men think they're stupid and trashy.
Great review ❤
If you like movies with magic like this in it... you would love "Now You See Me" and it's sequel "Now You See Me 2"
Hey Dasha is your Patreon still working? I want to join but it says you haven’t posted anything.
Never seen this movie but your thumbnail reminds me of a different movie.
A Clockwork Orange.
I think it'd be interesting to see the reaction.
I'm still on Wolverine's side. You lose, Batman.
Also check out 1917👍
Sounds like Spongeball's got Abrizz Cadabrizz
Cool reaction as always Dasha, you have a great weekend sweetie 🥰❤️
cool
I think I could watch you doing reactions just to listen to you roll RRRRRR's when you talk, incredible
Hey beautiful. I live in the DC area. Would you like to meet up?
Watch RRR
A strange conspiracy movie to be sure. I like "The Illusionist" much better.
Oh yes, I actually like it too but swapping poor Crown Prince Rudolf for some evil Leopold guy is quite a bold step from my - Austrian - point of view. 😁
Ugh. Really?!? I couldn't stand it.
The book had a plot component of a generational rivalry between their descendants as well. Their feud tainted their children and grandchildren.
That seems . . . unnecessarily grim.
@@bigdream_dreambig it's true and it isn't needed in the movie at all. In the story the plot is discovered through investigation by descendants trying to figure out what started it all. Including a sad mention of a relative who awas thrown into the device as a boy, but was pretty much disowned (likely because the relatives who knew viewed them as a subhuman copy). One of the descendants had, as a young girl, witnessed what she thought was one of twins being murdered, but there was no record of him ever having a twin. So that was her motivation to research the feud. After uncovering everything, she also realizes that the boy had been copied, and one of them was killed and the other spent his life with everyone wondering if he was just the copy or not.
@@wesbeuning1733 So the machine hadn't been destroyed, either.
@@bigdream_dreambig correct. It was kind of a mechanical representation of the century long blight on two families. Makes it almost like a Twilight Zone sci-fi tragedy with that element in.
No offence but Nolan's movies are not smart, entertaining sure but not smart. Tenet for instance is one of the worst piles of rubbish ever made. His films appear really highbrow but are, in reality, shallow and highly predictable.
I hate this film. Partly because of the story being unsatisfying to me. Secondly because the illusionist was released at about the same time, is a far superior movie, but everyone preferred the prestige.
Are u watching closely..
hey, make a reaction to Vanilla Sky 2001 movie
I like your video and you very cute 😍