Oh my god it does

Duje Vuković why?

Wesley Andrews Borden's twin brother (the one that loved his assistant not his wife) is hanged at the end of the movie, while the other twin survives. Angier kills his clone(brother refers to this as well) every time he performs a magic trick, leaving everyone thinking that he teleported and no harm was done, but every time this trick is performed, his clone is killed.

Nicole Song no its the clone that lives and he dies. Right?

Actually he states in the film, that he didn't know whether he was dying or his clone was dying, and that's why he was so afraid. Either it teleported him leaving a clone behind, or teleported a clone. Truthfully though, he dies either way since the first time he tests the machine he leaves a gun for the man in the machine to use, while in his shows, it is the man in the machine that is drowned.

Wow I missed this one, thank you!

Wait so who even wrote Christian bales diary. Which twin was it

@@sebastianmcmillan3276 they both wrote it. That's why Angier says it's so hard to follow the diary bc it feels like a divided mind.

Vikash Samaga clever lad. There’s so much little information that u miss in the first viewing

Why did they keep switching though, why not have one twin with one wife and the the other twin with the other girl. Or the same twin that tied the killing knot go to the funeral, why switch the twin?? Whats the point in them switching constantly throughout the film???? Fantastic Film however as is always the case with Nolan.

I have watched it 3 times all in same day

@@strangerui4009 i watched it twice back to back

Oh shit

@@polarski2 that's my reaction tooo 😭

This is one of many of those little hints and instances

Yeah , similar to interstellar

Halfway through the film when I realized what was happening with the machine, I realized the very first shot is the prestige. Granted I had learned about the failings of teleportation, which this film exploits brilliantly.

So many good movies do this, it's quite common and it's a device from literature. It's called foreshadowing. In this movie it's quite heavy-handed and not at all subtle

@@embracethemystery stfu

@@embracethemystery there is a difference between foreshadowing and showing you ta part of the film you havent got to yet

Bruhhhhhh

Because you want to be fooled.

That's cause you wanna be fooled.

Are. You. Watching. Closely? 😉

Abracadabra

You can't go back to being unknown once you reached that high success. If he would make memento today everyone would treat it like a blockbuster movie.

Blockbuster or not it's still a masterpiece.

nah look at M.Night Shyamalan

The Prestige is way way bigger than Memento

Isn't though

🤯 Mind blown!

This is also the case with the prestige. Angier and Caldlow are two personalities played by one man while Bordon is one personality played by two men.

waaaw 🔥♥

Such bloody great re-watch value, this movie!

Cutter knew alfred's secret

Hugh's delivery was golden

It’s about fooling us making us think the crackly machine worked as a clone machine but it didn’t and the clones were wax doubles

@assaultinggravity8985 Forgive me, as I just finished watching this masterpiece for the first time an hour ago, but how could the machine not have actually worked!?

XerosXIII that's the point

Wow I get it now!

I can't believe you said this, when it was obviously why he brought it up.

just stating the obvious :P

Foreshadowing takes guts and confidence not to give away the movie.

Yeah Bale's performance in this film is absolutely incredible.

Nolans movies all have great actors. It's unfair to the rest that one gets all the praise.

@Hafidz Murshidie and keep rewatching over and over and over again and every single time you will spot something new. Something you didn't notice before. The movie is about magic tricks yet the best part is that the whole movie is actually a one big magic trick. Nolan is a magician.I have seen this movie at least 30 times and always get rewarded at the end. That is how good this movie is. true masterpiece for me :)))

@@tonyle4540 Now, take the time to read the book which this is based on. Be amazed again, differently.

@@kengruz669 dont be that guy

That also shows how far gone he became in his obsession. Not wanting to harm a dove, to drowning his clone every act

one thing that i still have doubts about is does angier clone before every act and have the clone be the showman while he hides upstage or is the clone made right during the act and the box be placed upstage from which the clone come out, the latter scenario leaves the original angier to be the showman and the one who dies in every act. If this were true then that would mean that the original angier is long dead after the first showing of the act and the machine is capable of even cloning the memories and concionsness of the former angier into the clone, which is freaking mind blowing. This makes angiers addiction for fame and notoriety even more sinsiter to go as far as deliberately killing his original self in each act, Strafing farther and farther away from the original angier after each and every act. Am i the only one considered this possibility. Cuz the clone is made when the electricity strikes the original but the movie makes it seem like that the original angier is preserved til the very end and is the one who is killed of by fallon .

Isn't he killing himself and isn't the clone the one who lives on

@@anuroopkm3181 If you interpret the machine as really working, my understanding is that "they are all Angier", you couldn't tell them apart. Also, there is a scene were Angier drowns himself in a sink until he sees his wife, maybe he was kind of obsessed with trying to understand what she felt

5:33 look at this scene. Before Angier got shot by burden he told borden that him and his clones kept switching and he didn’t know whether he was going to be the victim or the prestige. Which angier do you think this is?

+Mick D Could go either way. ;) By the way, I think "analog" is the correct term when taking the context into consideration..

+Kurtis C. Not quite, that's just Angier's trick being mirrored, but Borden's observation of the chinese man's trick is the metaphor for the entire movie. He's blatantly telling Angier his trick (that his entire life has been a lie), but thanks to misdirection, he doesn't even notice. The film's title and introduction even echo this misdirection, by implying that it's all about The Prestige (Angier's trick), when in reality it's all about The Pledge (Borden's trick).

Good observation. "Are you watching closely?" is also the first line in the film. That btw, everyone should keep in mind when watching the news.

He didn't just say it. He referred to the bird as a "he" which made it even more powerful

Did his brother get hanged?

+Folarin You took the words out of my mouth... or my keyboard. :D

Folarin Nolan will not be truly appreciated until he's dead. The man is an absolute legend

even when he's dead he'll be appreciated

I HAD THE SAME THOUGHT, bless you

I just watched it and that's exactly what I thought, it's like Inception, the movie is like a dream, it starts in the middle of the action, you don't know how you got there and it ends abruptly, it's like waking up

When you actually think about how many parts of the story are foreshadowed by this scene it becomes all the more impressive

It also foreshadows hugh jackman’s character who has no idea which version of him is going to die when he does his trick

White Noise what’s weird about that is that it was always the one going in that dies. Except for the very first time.. that time the guy going in shoots the other. My personal theory: it’s both him. Just in their own respective body

The Tykjen Starman being Starman

It's not an actor, it's TeslaBowie

They found him inside a meteor

@@andrewmcadam3357 lol

Tesla Death Ray oh yes

Agree

so ytue..when I saw it, many times, I had many friends watch it, who also were blown away by iy..I understand the film, but I remember with the hats shot what Michael Caine's voiceover...that is a huge method...now I have been told we r being shown a trick thruout the movie..is that where u go into the time and space explaination?

I wouldn't say underrated, just underviewed. I don't think I know someone who gives this movie less than an 8.

I am sorry but this movie is not Underrated , some of my friends overrate it too . I enjoy this movie , I love it when movie is more than entertainment and gives you something to study

Yes, I think I meant to say it's not as widely viewed as Nolan's other movies. But I get the impression people don't rate it as much as Memento, Dark Knight and Inception, probably because it's so underviewed.

absolutely

SPOILER ALERT! (Don't read the rest of this if you haven't seen The Prestige) Totally agree. I love the idea of the cloning machine twist. This movie is a scifi pure and simple, it's set up that way from the beginning. I think it bothers people because Nolan did such a fantastic job of setting up the reality of the world first that they insist that the scifi elements are tacked one. But when you think about it, that's what all great scifi does. Unlike fantasy, scifi crafts a world that you can related to and then sprinkles in something bizarre. I think that's why scifi is so closely regard to psychological horror and also makes a great platform for social commentary.

Underrated? Its widely considered one of the better films made

I agree, but it's not often mentioned and some people hated it. I think it's brilliant on so many levels. Nolan fanboys often put his other movies ahead of this with no mention, but I think it's his best (of what I've seen).

Yeah, having Bowie play Tesla was great. I just love how the entire movie unfolds. I remember when this (and the illusionist) both came out I thought they were going to be corny magician movies, but wow, was I ever surprised. Every time The Prestige was on TV when I flipped channels, I couldn't take my eyes off it. The Illusionist was pretty good too (and I'm no Ed Norton fan)..but not as good as this one.

Airma D Noctis cx in the chat

Ikr

Read the book, too.

Totally agree with you. I can't belive i only watched it for the first time last year. I just hope Nolan keeps on making amazing movies like these and that other film makers take note. Im sick of remakes and sequels and superhero movies. We need original movies like this.

Very well said.

Just a matter of opinion, but I don't think The Sixth Sense held up especially well on a second viewing. I think it cheated in some key spots, and despite it being the more popular film I don't think this comparison does The Prestige any favors.

@@happysaffa8871 unfortunately Nolan said he'd produce 10 pieces of work (TV series or films) only, and by now I think he made 8 so there's not much left to be seen from Nolan I hope he change his mind coz i'm a die hard fun of him

@Logan Sorry dude. But you shall never have. This is the best movie ever made. There is no movie that you can even closely compare to this phenomenal art. This is a masterpiece of all the masterpieces. This is the prestige of the cinematography.

+PauLtus B Really? It was blindingly obvious to me, as a clue to the entire rest of the movie. Funny how people notice such different things from the same piece of work... .

neuralmute I am really surprised I noticed it now. I thought I knew most there was to know about the movie.

I think it just might be the most powerful scene in the movie, thinking metaphorically. The first time I saw it, my stomach tried to jump out of my body... And I can't say anything about The Prestige without mentioning the genius of casting David Bowie as Nikola Tesla, particularly with our recent loss of the greatness that was Bowie. Sometimes you need a brilliant madman to play one so perfectly.

neuralmute I wasn't aware it was Bowie at first. I just knew I loved Tesla in that movie. The man was great at taking on different faces.

PauLtus B Well, Tesla was pure genius, and Bowie was pure genius. And neither were quite entirely of this world. Could there be a more perfect match?

“Real magic”

That's the one scene that makes me think ''Really, that should have given it away". It was just so impossible. But I just accepted it at the time, and I haven't met anyone else who didn't.

When u watch second time, u just get baffled, about that scene

Just watched this movie tonight and I think the reason why you give this scene an easy pass is because you never know how close to reality and the “possible” it is keeping to and how much they’re faking through “movie magic” (ie. editing) to give the illusion of magic for the sake of the plot. So you’re never sure exactly how much weight to put on the plausibility of matters and whether you should question them or not. That and then the movie also steers completely into fiction when Angier gets his Tesla cloning machine at which point anything is possible in this now fictional world the movie is portraying and so all you can do is sit back and take everything as it is shown to you as trying to apply any real world logic to figure out ahead of time what is happening is an absolutely pointless exercise with the movie being able to do whatever it wants to achieve the end effect of surprising you.

100%. I guess I just chalked it up to "movie magic"@@craiggallagher4461

More like nonsensical pretentious gibberish.

Bazerk Explain.

Because it doesn't make any sense. It doesn't explain why the film is good, he's just saying random shit that sounds smart.

Nah he’s right. For a while I couldn’t watch a movie without always thinking about the actors and realizing how weird it would be to be taking part. But when a movie does it well you don’t even think about it

@@BadGrief you not understanding the sentence doesn't make it nonsenscial.

and we're taught that as well because at first Alfred can't put on a solo show

It should also be noted that true surprise twists or turns make for awful movies because it means the movie doesn't make any sense. Most adults have seen hundreds, if not thousands of movies and there's an implicit structure and language to them that has been established over the last 100 years within cinema and before that over thousands of years of story telling, throwing away all that structure and rules to be surprising or "fresh" is awful film making. It's a fine line between making what will happen too obvious to the audience versus not setting it all up properly. In some sense the most experienced audience members should know what will broadly happen in any given scene past the set up for the movie. And if you don't set it up then the twist might as well be that aliens invade earth at the mid point of the movie or one of the characters wakes up at the end and it was all a dream.

The machine never worked, wax doubles

Nope that was Root, no one was ever cloned the machine didn’t work

@@Davidweedlove In which case TWO doubles were killed. One shot, another drowned.

@@Davidweedlove Nah, don't buy it.

One of his best roles, to be sure

@@HORSESNDOGS9 My favorite scenes of his acting are from when he played Angier's double

His death scene delivery is pure acting

Thank you

So was Batman

No way. It should've _at least_ won best editing.

Dying Morality the departed was terrible

Oscars go to worthy films, not great ones.

@@thebacons5943 Compared to the original, Infernal Affairs... I agree.

The Bacons It was a solid film. I think it was a small apology & nod to Scorsese saying “We’ve fucked up for decades. Sorry about that” Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, Gangs of New York and arguably The Aviator. A few snubs here & there & pure day light robbery. It shouldn’t be like that but... yeah

This is good!! ^^

It's strange to me that Jackman's character doesn't want to kill doves, but is okay with killing himself countless times

​@@somecommenter4256its himself, its the same thought of hurting yourself doesnt matter as long as you dont hurt others. Its not the same

Being pretentious is not the same as being smart. Ex: Coen brothers. You got a bit confused there.I got you covered

Gonzesse You're not wrong, but the people my comment refer to are clearly mistaking smart for pretentious.

+Sonofa Preacherman I find if baffling there are people in the comment section who are forcing themselves to watch a video/listen to a person they're clearly not enjoying. No one is doing this to them against their will. It's their choice to do click on the link, wait for the video to load, and listen to the audio. Life is just way too short to waste it on making oneself worked up/unhappy with someone's choice of words or how they phrase a sentence.

Sonofa Preacherman He goes off on the most useless of tangents sometimes. Especially at the end of this video.

Sonofa Preacherman I didn't even notice that he's using big words

Ricky Carrillo it's also a metaphor for Alfred Borden "where is his brother?"

I picked up on that when rewatching that scene as well, it also explains why he was so irrate when he arrived at dinner because it was actually him who nearly go buried alive and not Fallon. Noticing the mood/personality changes between the twins across different scenes is mind blowing to realise. So effective and also so well acted by Bale.

@@callumo8156 when i first watch Prestige i was like "what is Borden's problem?, sometimes he is a sweetheart sometimes he is an arse" and then when the revelation came and Angier said that he rejected Cutler's theory because he thinks that's too easy i was speechless

Since the article was written so recently, it's possible that you came across a preview/thumbnail of the article online (e.g Facebook) without reading it but while still being subliminally influenced/inspired by the title and theme. It then gave you the idea for a video about the film. This happens far more often than we think, and people who make adverts now how to abuse this trick very well. Don't worry about it. Great video.

Totally merciless timing. When people started posting it, I clicked on the link and I was like, 'oh crap', then I looked at the publish date and I was like 'oh crap'. Then I read it and was like, 'well this is totally different than my piece but have I just awoken an internet beast?!' I honestly had zero clue of the existence of this article, but I'm genuinely worried that people won't believe that. Ugh.

+Nerdwriter1 I find it weird how a lot of people in the comment section discredit/devalue your video due to that article. When you compare the reaction people have for something like this, to how they react when artists copy photographs for photo realistic paintings. Both your video and the painting holds their own display of skill yet your video holds a much greater creative expression (idea itself, how you link the ideas etc). Yet the photo realistic painting is usually put on a pedestal by the masses and when someone hears an article with the same name posted around a similar time people jump to the assumption of intellectual theft and become angered. I believe and see the differences in the article and video however even if it was copied, your videos are so well made that you deserve a lot of credit, regardless.

+Nerdwriter1 dude, is your channel, is your work, is your time. some people just need to be mad at stuff. if you explained yourself and defended your work, that is all. at the end of the day, you do all the hard work, not them.

+Nerdwriter1 Hey Evan, hope you don't let this get to you too much. The internet is an unforgiving place many a time. Ironically, this is the same thematic reason why the YT Fair Use Policy is such a mess right now; people online are guilty until proven innocent...and it's bullshit. Most don't understand the amount of work, time and diligence it takes to produce quality content, especially in-depth analyses like these; and being so quick to denounce is pretty much an insult to all of that work. Anyone with enough of a brain can see that the only real potential "plagiarism" going on is the title, except they are relating to two very different ideas so even that falls short. The witch-hunting mob-mentality is powerful on the net. Almost always close-minded and uninformed, but powerful. People don't stop to actually think for a second. The video has barely been out for a day and people are all giddy to start pointing fingers and reprimand you. Disappointing. Not surprised (sadly), but utterly disappointed by many of you who fall or fell under this category. Just keep doing your thing and try not to get bogged down by things like this. Honest people will always receive well back. Keep up the quality work dude, and looking forward to the new things you've got coming.

BleakVision did you know Bowie originally refused to do it and Nolan flew out to his home and told him he was the only man he pictured in the role and that only *his* larger then life persona would give believability to the character?! I mean, now that's serious!

But David Bowie looks absolutely nothing like Nikola Tesla, He could have at least hired someone who looked a little like him IMO.

Yep, that one, together with Uncharted 4.

+Sophia V I do believe Nolan's masterpiece is Inception. But The Prestige is a craftsman at his best.

Sophia V for me it's memento and this one.

Nah, Memento beats them all

Jerel Damon Yeah. But Inception's concept was taken from Paprika a Japanese animated movie by Satoshi Kon.

ferinate101 idk if this just a random thought or if it was intended, but "Angier" is one letter away from "Anger." I wonder if that was another connection to the obsession. That his anger lead to obsession?

@@HORSESNDOGS9 Damn. Never thought about this. But since you have pointed this out I would say it is on purpose. It is Christopher Nolan. He has been playing tricks with us the whole movie. I guess this is just another one. Thx for the insight :)))

@@HORSESNDOGS9 and it just made me think about Borden and burden :)))))))

@@tonyle4540 omg... that a crazy

@@tonyle4540 Sorry to burst your bubble, but Nolan had nothing to due with that. The Prestige film is based on the book "The Prestige" by Christopher Priest. Angier and Borden were names he gave them in the book. Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan's brother, adapted the screenplay.

What are your theories?

yeah, what are your theories? i love discussing theories about this film and generally the nolan films (my favorite director of all time)

Scrody McBoogerballs sleight*

Machine doesn’t work

stop being supervise and start being surprised

lol

True

Klyde Klyde justice has been made

+Bruno Rodrigues "Served," not "made." Justice has now been truly served.

I love both of your channels!

+Jason Lee Same

I was about to say almost the exact same thing.

Nolan is definitely a film director that teaches you that nothing should be taken for granted in a story.

it's from a book for god sake

@@maximea4135 I've read the book and trust me, it's really different from the movie

My mind is blown.... wow dude. Fucking. Amazing!!!!!!!

They give away most of the movie in that first shot. And yes, within 15 minutes the entire plot is told. We just don’t know it as we want to be fooled.

PlayCreatively it's an extremely good movie, don't take your eyes off the screen!!!!!

if you blink, you miss it.

PlayCreatively It's one of my personal all-time favorite films. Don't miss out on it!!!!!

garner montgomery Well if you say so. It looks intriguing!

if you wanted to see the movie you shouldn't have watched this video -____- alot of spoilers in it already.

Not really.

Ryan Grille One of Nolan's best. soo, one of the best contemporary movies. close enough

+Eric Miesbauer One of the best American contemporary movies, I wouldn't list it top 50 for my favorite movies these past 10 years if we count foreign movies

Ace shinigami we get it, you like anime. go live in japan, weeaboo

neither of those things. actually I was thinking of french movies although now that you mention it there have been some good japanese movies that have come out recently

+lptomtom lol

Z4RQUON What?! Really?! Crap, you've made me want to watch it again...

SirBungly Do it! It'll blow your mind!

Z4RQUON which twin? The one in love with the wife or the one in love with the assistant?

I think it's the one who is married, just off the top of my head, because I seem to remember one of the best scenes to see it was when he was showing her nephew the trick coin.

Mind blown

+coquio Do you imply that Nolan is a bad filmmaker?

+Chris V. please, next time write it as " >implying nolan is a bad filmmaker" tho he is also >implying we'd slay him cuz he wrong, which we won't :D of course we won't

The gloved hands give it away.

Leo King about that when My Sister saw the film she noticed that detail inmediately.

The expression on your face, that's what he does it for

+noobb1212 I think he meant easily missed in FIRST viewing..

+No Google I don't want to use my real name yes it is. because it gives away the trick, the subject dies

+No Google I don't want to use my real name . Actually no, I have only watched the film once and I was caught by that scene because it revealed the trick. You see I never knew how the bird trick worked. Then when I saw the glass water boxes being moved away 'each night' and I understood what was happening, that the duplicates were drowning

+No Google I don't want to use my real name OK if you are gonna disbelieve me then its pointless to continue. I'm not trying to impress some YT stranger

+No Google I don't want to use my real name nope

It was strange how everything aligned perfectly for this movie. Bowie was multi talented

Tbh i think thatd be entertaining. Not just describing itself though, but it does sound hard to do. I'd try to describe along with him to see how far i can get with fully encapsulating the details and parts to it

but he did pick a side at the end he let Borden kill Angier. Cains character said that Borden was born to be a magician which means he either knew Borden's secret or he preferred him over Angier. Maybe he was a double agent all along and I feel like he's a parallel to the man who was rescued from drowning in his story. Maybe drowning is a metaphor for reality and he finally admits at the end that drowning is less like going home and more like misery.

Javier Pacheco No, i disagree with multiple things here, he did eventually step aside and let Borden have his revenge, but that's not picking a side, that's allowing the girl to have her father, because that was the only way she could. He couldn't have known Borden's secret, he knew the method of the trick, and that's all he looked into it. He believed Mr. Fallon was a seperate entity from Borden. But he obviously preferred Angier's stage presence and he clearly bet on Angier over Borden as he continually went with Angier...but I also think it was because he could afford Michael Caine (he was pretty big for his profession), Borden was poor so he couldn't afford to buy help, ever. the drowning metaphor was because at first he used it to comfort Angier and try to bring him back to reality from his torment and despair...but in the end there was no use for it. so he told him the grizzly truth...of which Angier was already aware of.

Ian Knight because of how notorious Bale is for being a method actor, I'm a little surprised he didn't actually cut his fingers off for the role.

JusLegit nolans best story telling

yes

No Angier has no way of knowing if he is gonna drown or not because once you have stepped into the machine you cant tell if youre the Clone or the original. Thats what the line about how It was bravery every time he stepped into the machine. «I didnt know if i was gonna be in the box or the prestige.»

Yep also because he was told that drowning feels like going home and also he wanted to frame Borden

Guys the prestige is a magic trick itself! The machine doesn’t work! He only killed once his double (the drunk guy), so that he could make batman the culprit. The solution is under your eyes, but you donkt want to see it… the scene in which you see the machine working is only told by wolverine to batman… to keep the lie alive exactly how the chinese did with the fish bowl

Not everytime. It's a 50-50 proposition as to whether he lives or dies each time.

He has literally cited his sources in the description.

Just improvise and overanalyse every single self-evident aspect of a movie, talking slowly and with the gravitas of a philosophy professor.

@@translipcorsia meta-meta-cinematic.

Online school is all we have these days, my friend.

+Jese Rocchild underrated movie :(

my future self is an idiot

still smarter than my past

RICHARD GRANNON SPARTANLIFECOACH this is deep. Are you a Russ Fan

RICHARD GRANNON SPARTANLIFECOACH mind fucking blown! Totally agree with this. Love your explanation of Nolan's films bigger picture, it's his legacy. It's like every film is a message for us for the future.

Nolan's gone on record saying he loved the underlying principles of The Matrix, the quintessential "simulation" film.

+butterflycaught900 What about an actually *good* actor who could get the accent right? That might have been nice. Love Bowie, but I'm sure there were better choices.

BakehousePictures get out

Yas

+JZT YES

+JZT I LOVE that show.

Nerdwriter1 watch his On Your Side stuff he did when he was in Canada, its on KZfaq! and his channel is awesome too

+JZT That would actually be amazing

Everyone make sure to stop by the reddit thread and see how Nerdwriter is just some plagiarizing fuck.

+Brian Larson www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/47d0kx/the_prestige_hiding_in_plain_sight_nerdwriter/

+Craparella Smørrebrød aw man.. I actually kinda enjoy his videos... this sucks.. please say it aint so!!!

+qabandiman It ain't so. As far as I see, Evan makes a different point. The AV article is about the "transported man" illusion, while this Nerdwriter video is about the language of film. The element to preserve immersion is a completely new in the Nerdwriter video. Both the article and the video have a tendency to hide points in complicated language, though.

+Craparella Smørrebrød Really? I mean, nothing Mike or Even are saying about the Prestige is new. It's not Nolan's best Nolan thing for nothing, people fell in love with it on first sight and over-analyzed it from the first month it was in theaters.