{"id":220,"date":"2007-02-23T17:42:54","date_gmt":"2007-02-23T21:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/220"},"modified":"2009-10-09T20:22:05","modified_gmt":"2009-10-10T00:22:05","slug":"the-prestige-2006-christopher-nolan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/220","title":{"rendered":"The Prestige (2006, Christopher Nolan)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The duel of the dueling-magician movies!  Unexpectedly, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/219\">The Illusionist<\/a><\/em> won.<\/p>\n<p><em>Prestige<\/em> is pretty solid, though&#8230; a flashy angst-ridden story of magician one-up-manship.  <abbr title=\"Hugh Jackman\">Huge Ackman<\/abbr> and Christian Batman-Bale are magicians assistants when Bale ties the wrong knot and Huge&#8217;s wife drowns during the escape-from-water-tank routine.  They go their own ways, but keep sabotaging each other.  Huge messes with one of Bale&#8217;s trick causing Bale to lose a couple fingers.  Bale messes with the guy Huge hires as his double for the teleport routine, gets Huge&#8217;s audience to go watch Bale&#8217;s own teleport routine which is even better, because Bale is using his secret identical twin brother as his double.<\/p>\n<p>How&#8217;d Bale do that?  Huge sees Nikola Tesla (a mustachioed David Bowie) to find out.  Bowie makes him a crazy device&#8230; a Huge Ackman Duplication Machine!!  Huge steps into the machine and wammo, one Huge falls through a trap door and dies in the water tank, and the other Huge gets zapped into the balcony where he takes a big bow.  Christian Batman-Bale tries to get to the bottom of this and is discovered with one dead Ackman and sentenced to death.  Oh and doesn&#8217;t his wife kill herself?  I think maybe the surviving twin kills Huge at the end, too, but it doesn&#8217;t matter.<\/p>\n<p>Stylish, cool looking movie, fun trickery and all that.  Acting is all good, too.  Both movies had a big trick ending, but this one seems to live for its tricks and torture its characters.  <em>Illusionist<\/em> had a great happy ending, and nice slowly-developing story.  That&#8217;s the one I&#8217;d want to see again, not this bizarre-world flash-fest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The duel of the dueling-magician movies! Unexpectedly, The Illusionist won. Prestige is pretty solid, though&#8230; a flashy angst-ridden story of magician one-up-manship. Huge Ackman and Christian Batman-Bale are magicians assistants when Bale ties the wrong knot and Huge&#8217;s wife drowns during the escape-from-water-tank routine. They go their own ways, but keep sabotaging each other. Huge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[520,216],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-christopher-nolan","tag-magic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2062,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/2062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}