That was a stroke of genius casting for sure

Anza Khan I genuinely didn't realize it was bowie till I saw the casting list. it really wasn't cause he looked different but it was the way he carried the character. now whenever I imagine tesla bowie is the go to image in my head. he was just so good

I was hesitant when I first saw him in the movie, like "Oh no, they cast him for marketing purposes. His acting is gonna be poor", but I was completely drawn in to his performance and character the rest of the film.

Anza Khan i didn't even know that that was David Bowie in the role. I was pleasantly surprised.

Supposedly, Christopher Nolan wanted Bowie for the role so badly that he flew himself out to Bowie's home to personally pitch the movie to him in hopes of signing him and practically begged to get him for the role unknowing of what he would do if Bowie ultimately said no. www.cinemablend.com/new/Why-Christopher-Nolan-Begged-David-Bowie-Star-Prestige-106927.html

•••Richy_sb••• someone should look up how to do the knots and see what one he actually did. It shows him changing the knot while he was tying her

Dude. Think about it. That was probably Borden's double at the funeral (Fallon), not Borden himself. He couldn't know what knot was tied; he didn't do the tying. The complete line after, "Which knot did you tie?", goes, "I keep asking myself that and...I'm sorry I just don't know." If that was Fallon at the funeral, maybe Borden legitimately wouldn't tell him which knot he tied. Here I was thinking Borden was being a smuggy-obsessed, heartless magician in this scene, when it really could've been Fallon just being sincere.

Antonio Espinoza I always that it was Fallon who tied the wrong knot and thats why Borden doesn’t know

+•••Richy_sb••• It was Fallon at the funeral & Borden that tied the wrong knot because he was the impulsive/showy twin.

•••Richy_sb••• that scene!!

Can u explain I don't understand and now I want to...

@@nikhilpatil9337 If you have seen the movie it's the scene where Hugh Jackman's character talks to Tesla (David Bowie) about making him a machine that duplicates him,and Tesla asks him if he had considered the cost that machine would have on his life and Hugh Jackman thinks he is talking about the price,It's a very profound scene in my opinion,that scene is so great in context I don't think I explained it that well!

Nikhil Patil he assumed he was talking about money but the cost is instead himself since he dies for the trick and is replaced by a clone

@@eliana3589 This was my initial understanding of this dialogue as well, but after watching the film again, I think Tesla at this point in the film did not in fact know the machine would function this way - Angier actually wanted a machine that would simply teleport him and that was what Tesla was trying to make. This is why Tesla believes the machine is not working when testing it on Angier's hat and Alley's cat (nice pun there, Mr. Nolan); he only realizes the machine makes copies when they find the pile of hats and the two cats outside. So what I believe Tesla was referring to in the above dialogue was actually a more personal view - that having a machine that performs an unbelievable function would put Angier in the same position that Tesla was in relation to the rest of the scientific world and especially Edison, i.e. they would turn on him and try to destroy him, forcing him into the same kind of secluded existence that Tesla has. It is a great little exchange delivered perfectly by Bowie and Jackman and, when combined to the multiple references by Tesla to Angier's "obsession", which he recognizes all too well, hints that Tesla and Edison had virtually the same kind of antagonism as Borden and Angier.

@@FutureAlien also, the risks. See Cronenberg's "The Fly" which is actually about a teleportation gone wrong.

Did you like the movie?

Arkadeus who in the world wouldn't?

Same

me too

ME TOO

Oddly enough, the twist was the biggest point of contention from critics when the film came out because they felt that it was a cheat.

The Tesla machine was a pretty weird element, so I wouldn't be surprised if some people thought putting in the real twist after that was a bit much, but the twist itself is really well executed, especially, as Chris says, when you watch the movie twice.

flmvdvsrg dude I totally agree with everything you're saying. I was on board the whole movie even though I basically guessed the twist pretty early on until the Tesla machine came into play. It's a magic duplicating machine and there's no explanation for it and we as an audience are just supposed to except that when the whole movie is about magic tricks and deceit? He rubs it in Bale's characters face in prison that his trick is better when it's not even a trick! He resorted to literal magic to pull this off! How is that a better trick? That's literal magic, there's no illusion; and I thought the whole point of this was to outsmart eachother. That's like turning on god mode when you're losing to your friend in a game, you didn't REALLY win. And why should we root for Bale's character again? He did unintentionally kill his wife (I think the implication was that his twin brother didn't know which knot to tie for the act, thus tying the wrong one and killing her. You'd think after that Hugh Jackman would deserve and explanation and to know he's working with twins). And we're supposed to believe that Tesla created this priceless piece of machinery and gave it to a magician to do whatever he wants with it and to use it for his act? There's a ton wrong with this film, the twin twist falls flat considering that Hugh Jackman was literally murdering himself/his duplicate every night just frame Bale's character for murder, and considering that was literal magic. Yes there was a lot of interesting elements added to the film with the twin angle, especially rewatching the scenes, but there's also a lot of unanswered questions with that too (like when Bale and Jackman were still working together, why not let Bale in on the secret and they could have had a huge act together?). But really I was done after the magic duplication device Tesla made. That ruined the film for me. There's sooooo many things wrong with the movie when that comes in.

For me, part of the brilliance of the twist is that Jackman's character went to SO much effort and expense to try to duplicate Bale's character's trick that he practically invented magic to do it. But pretty much in the beginning of the movie we are told by Cain's character that the trick is simple, he just uses a double. It's Jackman's unwillingness to accept such a simple explanation that drives him to create something so fantastic, when it wasn't really necessary at all. It sort of underlines the basic premise of all magic acts: the explanation is right there in front of you, but you often don't (or in this case won't) see it.

flmvdvsrg Not all movies have the good guy winning in the end.

fazeel ashraf IT'S ON THE TOP 50 OF ALL TIME ON IMDB, FOR GOD'S SAKE. DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT UNDERRATED MEANS? (I aparently turned into the Hulk meanwhile)

Just under one million IMDB votes is apparently underrated now? Avatar has a similar number of votes, so is that underrated as well?

It has 76% on RT. I just don't understand that. Sorry, but Wonder Woman is not better than The Prestige. Or Iron Man. Or Thor??? WTF? According to RT, critics would suggest you watch Thor over The Prestige. Madness.

King of Uruk Gilgamesh some critics are just stupid, they gave Interstellar a 71% on RT.

Seems pretty reasonable to me.

I totally agree, but I also think that that is the brilliance of Hugh Jackmans character. He starts out unwilling to kill even a dove, something that I actually liked about his character at the beginning, and then, by the end, he's literally murdering himself during every performance. Its hard to tell how unethical that is when you think about it. Did one of the clones consent to being in the box? Or was it, "surprise! You are now going to die." Throughout the entire movie I thought that Jackman was a better guy than Christian Bale. He wouldn't get his hands dirty the same way Bale does. But by the end, you have no idea who is the better man.

Did the Tesla machine even work though? Many people believe it was all BS and all for show, and he was just using the double the entire time. But I don't think so

@@YoungYonk Yes, it worked. We saw all the hats and cats outside Tesla's house, and we saw all the dead Jackmans in the glass boxes at the end.

@@MandleRoss yes we saw all the top hats, but we only saw ONE dead Jackman in the box at the end, all the other boxes were covered up, I believe Borden didn't care to uncover the other boxes because he knew it was BS, the dead Jackman at the end very well could have been his double that he used earlier on

@@MandleRoss further more I believe all the top hats we saw was purely misdirection, a quote from the movie is that "the audience wants to be fooled"

Varun Sharma for sure

Agreed

@@jeffalver2047 Not when these blockbusters get box office success and oscar wins for his crew

Dunkirk isn't a blockbuster and it's pretty good

@@imperfect_dan7519 It did better than most blockbusters but year with a huge budget, but the style was experimental like an arthouse feature

noobslayer135 agreed! Before I could not choose a favorite movie, since I loved a whole bunch, but the prestige was just on a whole different level.

Josue Peña I could never pick between The Prestige, Memento, or The Dark Knight.

Yeah man Memento and the Prestige are like some next level shit ...The Dark Knight, not so much

I thought I was the only one!

noobslayer135 Yea i have it and i watched it so many times and will keep watching it.....INCREDIBLE!!!

Viet Lee But on a scale of bananas though?

Then it would be 5 out of 7 bananas

I liked the book, but the movie was just so much better. Same with LOTR and Fight Club imho

Hugo Joubert I love lotr movies but the books are better imo

Rotten Potatoes!

Nice one!

"Are you watching closely?"

Ta-da! Ah... it’s gone...

Are you paying attention? I'm going to make Matthew McConaughey disappear

There are always several lines in Christopher's movies that remind you the lines in his other movies.

was it the wrong knot though :D?

now we understand why he didnt know which knot

@@sMASHsound true, i really missed that!

Which knot?

Yooooo I completely forgot about the knot lmao now it makes sense

That Sujosh Guy abracadabra

That Sujosh Guy But... where's his brother? 😢

That Sujosh Guy im gonna make this pencil dissapear

George Black Widow shows up in the third act to help stop the villain too.

Zack Spindler and Alfred

and ziggy stardust

Ceasar!!!

And Maya Hansen from Iron Man 3

Especially if you say it with his accent.

fuucckkkk

erique johnson bro u should win the Nobel Prize

Lol

Quincy Drones u cant say it one time

The thing is who don’t want to know what really happened, you want to be, fooled

And What about Bale, ? See his realism when Lord Coldlaw shows up in the Jail

Bale was very good and he's a very good actor. But put him in a scene with Heath Ledger or Hugh Jackman and he's not the focus anymore.

@@alphatrion4365 that's just not true heath stole the show in the dark knight but bale in general is better and hugh is great too but Bale is much more diverse and dedicated than hugh

@@alphatrion4365 Yo..he plays the part as necessary and not Flashy every time like Leo. He was supposed to be the less Flashier role in all those Movies. He is the best of this Generation.

I remember watching this movie with my family..and i told them "hey that's david bowie..you know the goblin king from the labyrinth?" and they didn't believe me until i looked it up on my phone and showed them

I gotta admit I didn't either.

@@burge2695 Hold up - Your family knows David Fucking Bowie only from the Labyrinth?

I knew it was him he was great

@@rickycollins7723 Lol! That was the most shocking part of their comment for sure!

Warning_Known_Fangirl Exactly why it might be my favourite movie too. Well said.

Warning_Known_Fangirl thats how i feel like with inception

Warning_Known_Fangirl yeah same for me but only with inception

Great choice. I can say that it's definitely my favorite Chris Nolan movie and borders on my top 10 favorite movies of all time.

absolutely - me too

Kevin Stauffer wow

another dimension: each time angier did the trick, he wasnt sure if he woudl be the man in the box or the prestige. borden switched it up, angier had it switched for him

he did not kill the double, he killed himself each time

It shows that Borden is not selfish because they take turns in being the man getting applauded or the man unground, because he lives his whole life as a magician. Angier on the other hand wants the fame and attention, which let him on this crazy path of killing his double after every single trick.

I have only heard large amounts of high praise. So much for underrated. While I see the great points about it, I saw a lot of it coming. I did not see the thing coming which is the main spoiler in this video and didn't expect the totally unrealistic science fiction (also a bad thing if you are surprised with something unrealistic). But I expected almost everything else and that annoyed me throughout the entire movie. I gave the movie a break for several weeks at the "knot scene" because so much seemed obvious to me.

honestly. it really sold you on the only possible way the trick could be done. yet it wasnt the only possible way and we were told that by the elder magician from the beginning.

The ending literally uses the stupid twin brother twist. What a joke

@@aidanlastname0187 The true twist is it's not really a twist; Nolan had clearly alluded to it several times pretty much from the beginning of the movie. One scene halfway through is a true giveaway as well! "Are you watching closely?"

big kahuna burger was waiting for the A+ rating the entire review!! ahaha

R U OK?

No.

Same here, I was on a date and I forget now what the original movie was we were supposed to see but it was over crowded. We heard some people talking how it was good, so we took a chance to see it and we were blown away. After the movie, we had no awkward conversation because all we could do was talk about how fantastic this movie was and we were piecing together all the little things we missed. That's what makes movies great.

same here, and I couldnt believe how good it was when I realized that the whole movie was a trick

King of Wakanda It's my personal favorite Nolan film.

yup mines too ,been a while since last interaction king ,good we agree on this film I honestly think its one of his unrated masterpiece.

King of Wakanda ikr. Yeah, it's in the IMDb top 250 while loads of votes etc. But I feel it's just gone under the radar.

Zack Spindler it's my personal 2nd from least favorite Nolan film. Least favorite being Interstellar

King of Wakanda me as well

Dormammu Agreed.

absolutely

movie's great but underrated is definitely not what it is

Dormammu It's my second favourite movie.

Totally

Antonio Dinklesteinburg Hahahaha

But did you watch it closely

This is exactly how I watched this movie for the first time

This, Big Fish & Honey Boy are my top 3 underrated films

Batman won

Make our heroes great again. Sad.

Neither of them really won, if you paid more attention you'd know that.

Agent Donut007 technically he died and his earth 2 counterpart avenged him.

Rip my pause finger was half a second too late

ligerrider - awww, that kinda sucks. Watch it anyway!

+ligerrider There's more than one twist. Two magicians, after all.

Really though? Personally, if I'm trying to avoid spoilers about something, I avoid reviews about that something. Just seems like common sense to me.

GameraTheBrave Ah, but I'm not trying to avoid spoilers until I see the review declaring how good it is

Exactly...the film has so many layers to it. Great film.

Franklin Phan And then batman outperforms them all and teams up with Alfred.

Franklin Phan you forgot the Goblin King and Smeagol

Rebecca Hall was some random chick in Iron Man 3 as well.

And then Wolverine walks into Ulysses Claw while he's helping Jareth the goblin king with his magical machines

Franklin Phan don't forget Ziggy stardust

Lana Yudistira lol

Boooo!

Just 10 more days!!!!!

Inception Report 8 where i live :)

Taedrem lucky bastard, definitely going to the midnight release

#EmojiMovieHype

Daniel Attrell stop that

Poppy M you think that's good, do you know about all the crazy shit in Inception?

Its my fouth of all time

Koma LOL. The Oprah effect sure is strong on this one. 😂😆

What about seven and the sixth sense? 😏

Kenan Berk se7en was pretty good, the sixth sense was very good back in the day but now most people know the twist

Afat shams let me be honest I predicted unbreakable twist. Spoilers: I already knew Elijah was the true mastermind in the train crash. But I didn’t predict the prestige twist.

Just watched the prestige last night and unbreakable the night before both for the first time and Jesus you are right

The Sixth Sense ending isn't underrated

To me it’s near perfect for the only reason that the movie could’ve had better visuals, I understand that it was supposed to have that old feel to it and that this was before Chris used imax cameras but if it had visuals on the same level as inception or interstellar then it would be a 10/10 for me and probably In my top 10 films of all time, still as it is a 9.5/10 is fantastic. This is just my opinion tho and I fully respect yours.

janncy also Black Widow and extremis Guy Pierce's assistant

Yesssss.....even I want that

Inception blows

barış aytekin something, something snapped neck

I didnt know Chris has memes

i really, really, like this thing

don't insert an overused and unfunny chris stuckmann meme here

What I really liked about this film as a kid

Same here

Amazon prime video

That's Christopher Nolan for you. Almost all of his movies are borderline masterpieces.

Adil me too

Olivia Martin Alfred is in like almost every Christopher Nolan movie

And Bruce's name in the movie is Alfred. ;)