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It's not about the destination, it's about the top hats we made a long the way

I always saw The Prestige as a story about self destructive obsession with competition and success, how far that can drive you, and how it can prevent you from seeing the forest for the trees. These are two men who destroyed their lives, because they couldn't stop trying to one-up each other. They were willing to pay anything to win. They had so much talent and potential, and they squandered it on an obsessive and brutal rivalry, in spite of having every opportunity to just.... not.

I like how the movie itself foreshadows Tesla as a real wizard, indicating that science is the real magic of the story.

Did you catch the twist that Lord Caldlow isn't Robert Angier's alias. Robert Angier is Lord Caldlow's alias. Angier's wife stated to Robert that he was playing someone else, where he replied that he would not embarrass his family with his theatrical endeavours. He is also independently wealthy, and stated to Tesla for making his machine that "Price is not an object." At the end of the film, Robert Angier revealed his true identity with his true accent. An English lord from the prestigious Caldlow family. BORDEN: "You must be Lord Cal..." ANGIER: "'Caldlow.' Yes, I am. I always have been."

I just realized that Angier can literally just do what the Borden twins does for their magic trick the first time he clone himself

Such a great idea, i personally think the Prestige is so underrated.

I think The Prestige is Nolan's finest work

You probably won't see this for several days, if at all, because KZfaq keeps suppressing my comments, but I have a different interpretation of the movie than it would seem everyone else. My interpretation is not that the journal is fake, but rather that Borden had used Tesla's machine once and realized the implications of such a machine after which he destroyed his copy of it and vowed never to use such a machine ever again. But if I missed anything or are misremembering because it has been so many years since I saw it, I'm sure someone will see my post and comment to correct me, because that's always how it works.

Hugh Jackman's character, what an idiot! Not only does he squander the greatest technological invention mankind has ever seen, but getting back to the petty magic and rivalry bullsh!t, just keeping one double of himself alive would have been enough to do tricks repeatedly without continually creating and murdering a double of himself and risking his life every time he performed it like he has been doing. Having his secret double probably would have made _himselves_ realise that his nemesis must be using a secret twin too.

I'm reminded of Arthur C. Clarke's quote; "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Re: Wanting to be fooled, I find that most people don't want to know, but rather, to THINK they know.

Something I hadn’t noticed until my umpteenth watch is that because of the way the Tesla machine seems to work, the original copy stays in the machine, while the copy is the one that is ‘transported.’ (In fact, this makes sense, otherwise the machine would be doing two things at one, both cloning the original and teleporting the original, rather than just creating the clone at some distance away.) But … I don’t think Angier ever really understood how the machine worked. The man frustrated by being under the stage for the applause at the end of his trick ends up killing himself upon the very first night of performing the trick (not the demo, the clone is killed that time). Now there’s an argument to be made that if they have the same memories, maybe it doesn’t matter, but the reality is that the original Angier is gone long before the end of the film, clones continuing the feud because it’s just what they do at this point.

"Abracadabra" *breaks neck*

I unsubscribed from that other channel you used to be on because I didn't like that dude who took over after you. I'm very happy to have stumbled back into your work. Subbed and happy to hear your thoughts once more!

I finally found you! You were the reason I subscribed to Wisecrack, and without you I haven't been enjoying that at all. Good to find your channel!

One of my favorite movies. It just never ceases to amaze me

So wild that this was uploaded today as I've been on a prestige youtube binge rabbit hole all morning now this pops in my feed 😂❤🎉

“Sometimes, exact science is not an exact science. That’s how I got my weird eye.” - David Bowie, probably

great video...i always find it hard to have conversations about philosophical topics, but this always gives me new ideas to evaluate

Both main characters were willing to kill their souls bit by bit to be the top of their field. Thank goodness that one of the Borden twins, the twin who actually loved his family knew when it had to stop. Imagine putting your trust in your identical twin brother to treat the wife well. And he drives her to such a low she can’t live with herself anymore. Between the two twins, who was the dominate one and who was the subservient one? Was the twin who fell in love and got married to Sarah the dominant twin, and his brother was lashing out being so open about his relationship with Olivia. Or was the twin who married Sarah subservient and the dominant twin let him have the relationship to keep him happy and on side for their career. That is until Olivia came along and the dominant twin could use her. Poor Sarah being gaslight, and driven to despair. She didn’t figure it out herself in time. But she knew when she was told ‘I love you’ when it was true and when it wasn’t.

This movie blew me away

just scrolling through my recommendations and damn this is a really good video, instant sub

Jared this is brilliant. Thank you for sharing this

Very wise insights at the end. You took it beyond the text. Great video.

Nolan is a master of using time as a storytelling!

I'm looking forward to the Jared Bauer video on the analysis of "Wisecrack".

Really enjoyed this one

not sure why i didnt check for your channel earlier, bc thats what i was missing. never stop dropping! hope youre doing well!!!

That was a Fascinating Video! I just Subscribed to you!

Tesla vs. Edison never really happened. It's a modern myth. In his diaries Tesla remembers his former employer Edison with nothing but kindness and never mentions any animosity. There was a conflict between Edison and Westinghouse, another Tesla's employer en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_currents

This channel is about to blow up! I can feel it

I love this take. We do often demystify very wonderous things because our desire to feel we know.

Great analysis!

I love you and the scope through which you look at things. You are probably one of the few KZfaqrs I actually click on. Thank you for sharing your thoughts with is.

Wasn't Borden brought up in a workhouse? I think Borden's secret is one he's been keeping since the workhouse. Borden understood the Chinese magician's act because he was doing something one level beyond. Angier was just as fooled by the trick as any audience member would be because of those details to which attention was paid. Angier had to go to the extreme of using his fortune to finance the research and equipment. Edit: my point is that Borden's secret was so simple and perfect, in performance. Off stage it created such strife in his own lives.

Now I gotta watch this again. A great movie

Wtf? I swear I've watched this movie twice and I don't recall half this shit.

Begun the Clone War has.

god, i love this video. bravo jb!

what a treat of a video ❤

I love this analysis

The reference to the "greatest trick the devil ever pulled" as coming from the Usual Suspect is incorrect. This was first coined over a hundred years earlier by Charles Baudelaire, a French novelist. Movies are rarely very original, anymore, and it's a safe bet that if you heard it in a movie, they're quoting someone else who, unfortunately, never gets the credit after the movie was made. The phrase is found in Baudelaire's book, Le Joueur Généreux (The Generous Gambler) published in 1864. Fifty years before Baudelaire, John Wilkenson wrote, "One of the artifices of Satan is, to induce men to believe that he does not exist." I hope you'll pardon my pedanticism, but as an author myself, I lament whenever another author is forgotten for their contributions, and a movie (however good) is cited instead.

The absolute best touch is the show promoters and trick creators who see the trick and become terrified and talk about how they don’t often see real magic. Because they know full well what misdirection and illusion can and can’t accomplish

So many personal and cultural ideas to spin from this movie. I enjoyed hearing yours!

I miss your take on things Jared. Happy to watch this drinking and smoking.

This movie has the greatest cameo role entrance I've ever seen.

i judge a movie on how it changes the minds and the world. The Prestige shows us the dark side of humans living in a modern tech world. if no most people did not learn about our folly then they are doomed to repeated it.

Great Film

You know it's a great movie when no one even mentions how hot Scarlett Johansson is in it in the comments...until now.

Stumbled on this movie on IFC when I was in high school. Probably one of my favorites of all time

The film is actually a warning about Bacon’s worldview, which sets up a vision of reality in which nature is the enslaver of humanity (which is what Bacon is suggesting when he famously declares that ‘knowledge is power’ (over nature). This invites the obvious question: is every natural restraint actually disempowering for humanity, or are there limits we shouldn’t go beyond because they will diminish, rather then empower, humanity? And, if there are limits, where should we seek the moral guidance to know and enact those limits on scientific prowess? The movie directly parallels C.S. Lewis’ warning about science without moral restraint, and he even called science ‘the magicians twin’, because, just like a magician, a scientist can do powerful things. But unlike a magician, where the so-called ‘magic’ is actually just an illusion, science actually has the ability to do extremely powerful things in the world, and Lewis warned that this makes it all the more imperative that the power of science is kept in check by moral restraint.

But there is no real Tesla. Hugh Jackman goes back and performs mediocre tricks and drinks himself to death every night - which is his greatest trick. He drinks himself until he’s okay with his second rate magic ability.

Jared never misses

It's about the Hollywood battle between practical special effects that people are bored by and high tech visual effects that impress initially but have hidden costs.

It's the wisecrack guy! Thought he gave up on content.... now I have to go watch the reasons why lol.

Easily Nolan’s best movie. Great video and analysis.

Interesting.. I was wondering what Jared from Wisecrack was up to... turns out he's been running his own thing for a while. Subscribed.

Has it really been 18 years since this movie came out? Thanks for the video

Me and a buddy once got stoned, watched the prestige, discussed it afterwards. Got so heated and annoyed at the others lack of understanding. That we had to rewatch the entire movie.

I'm terribly sorry - you've activated the pedant in me. When somebody has been executed by hanging its referred to as hanged, not hung. Most people these days forget that

The prestige is, as most Nolan's movies, mostly about how Nolan is clever. The real prestige is that the self publicity really looks like a movie, sometimes even like a great movie.

Wisecrack has never been the same without you my man i cant even watch that channel anymore

That moment Batman flips a two faced coin...

The Prestige has always been my favorite Nolan movie and yes I think Nolan's BEST work and contribution; each of our many interpretations of the same film reflects and reveals ourselves mostly, and that is whyThe Prestige epitomizes movie magic

Nothing is a bigger example of the idea that "people want to be fooled" than KZfaq,social media itself and the idea of "authenticity" and "relatability".

5:40 “Illusions, dad! You don’t have time for my *illusions*!

Enchantment may not have been vanquished but there sure have been a lot of instances of echantment that have been vanquished.

well i got the same vibe right after watching the movie in 2006. and i loved it. now, history/philosophy of science was an important thing in my school--that meant reading a lot of latour and friends. so the movie was preaching to the choir. it was only after a while that i noticed the obsession theme. btw, this is the only nolan movie i still enjoy.

Never watched it but now I get that prestige line from Rick and Morty in the vat of acid episode.

I love this movie

Just take a moment to remember Christopher Priest, the author of the novel this was built from. RIP.

I think that CS Lewis said that science was the magician's twin.

Telling each other stories is not just "something we do". Stories are vehicles for beliefs. Telling a story is a way to propagate belief, or values, through a population.

we want to be fooled explains a lot about today!

Amazing video, with every new technological advancement we believe that we finally have a newer understanding of the world, more control over the surroundings; that we are illuminated. Be it AI, Internet, Social Media - we keep lying to ourselves that the world would somehow become more rational and intelligent.

I always loved this movie. I think it is Nolan's most underrated film.

Ah, for a long form video on the same subject, but using Carnivale (from HBO). Well done, sir. Well done indeed.

One thing that’s especially interesting about you is that by leaving the fancy presentation of wisecrack behind you’ve proven that your ability to gather and present information is in fact special enough to dine on. No fancy background or fun graphics.. you’re just a guy in front of a camera at your house. You’re proof that sometimes that can be enough. It’s because you’re particularly good at what you do. I’m glad you’re still presenting these deep breakdowns of one of my favorite art forms. I think it makes me a better entertainer. So I guess what I’m trying to say is.. great job and thank you.

I see it's just a title trend but what did he finally understand about the prestige? Did he even say anything other than a recap? okay...

For sure, most of humanity feels like there's mysterious forces impacting the world.

Great Video!!! I never felt interested about this movie, until today. I can't but bring out that Tesla vs Edison is mostly a myth. Today I Found Out did a whole expose, probably the most thorough video essay on the topic you can find online to date. A good watch for those brave enough and with 4 hours of free time.

Im simple man, I see a video of Christopher Nolan and I click inmediatly

My belief is hollywood movie magic isn't pretending somebody diedc when they didn't. It's pretending somebody didn't die when they did.

Any technology suitably advanced is considered magical…

Jared, you should read Girard's work on Mimesis and Violence. Illustrates the obsessive spiral of the rivalry depicted in The Prestige.

it's not the duplicates who are being sacrificed - real (atm) angier sacrifices himself every time. ok, so, a minute later you're saying that angier sacrifices himself, so i don't get if you get this :)

I think enchantment lies in the eye of the beholder, just like beauty. Knowing how a rainbow is created doesn’t make it less beautiful and enchanting. Knowing how love is created by chemicals in the brain doesn’t make the love I feel for my family, my spouse or my friends mundane. You can choose to see anything as a rare amazing and beautiful thing even though you know precisely and mechanically how it came to be.

I always preferred The Illusionist which was released the same year. The implications of the sword trick are ones to remember in an election year.

The most magical thing about Francis Bacon is his name. 🥓

He isn't a twin lol. One of them used the machine to duplicate himself and then does the trick, the clone is the one that doesn't have a spark with his wife. ("Do you love me? Not today".) The other magician is so convinced his rival will 'do anything' to win that he imagines a method with great sacrifice.

Just realized the bird trick was the revelation

I like how this movie portrays the impractical to the practical, new to old by the simple twist in the end that Borden had a twin, a magic trick as old as time. It is comical that Angiers never deduces this but it is true he is a magician not a detective :P LOL

You may not do shorts, but please edit that Data / Numbers rant as one and I'll share it for sure

Have considered revisiting American Psycho, both the book and the movie?

9:35 - Lets not forget our other major player George Westinghouse...

The twins were just as evil and ate up by their own obsessive pursuit.

This video invokes a personal experience for me: In the past I was genuinely in awe of Mentalism, I felt it was the closest thing in the world to real magic or superpowers, because I believed their claims that they're actually using current scientific knowledge and supreme behavioral skills inorder to basically read and control people's minds. I was actually genuinely sad when I learned that mentalists are actually just liars using regular magician tricks such as audience plants and trick props (I learned via "The Wise Uncle" KZfaq channel). There's something so ironic about how menatlists say "I'm not a magician, because I use no deception, I'm actually doing the thing I claim to do", when in reality it's the mentalist (and not the magician) that has ever truely deceived me.

RIP David Bowie.😢❤

Hello jared, man where have been, been looking for you since u left wisecrack.

The real question is, do you finally understand Barbie?