The Prestige (2006) Movie REACTION!!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ต.ค. 2024
- After a tragic accident, two stage magicians in 1890s London engage in a battle to create the ultimate illusion while sacrificing everything they have to outwit each other. Here's Nikki & Steven's reaction to The Prestige.
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Nikki did your husband really just ask what's the big deal about David bowie. Erm it's frigging David bowie 😳 music icon
Steven, WTF man? You’ve never seen your wife’s favorite movie of all time??? You need to react to Labyrinth ASAP. 😎
Please watch Wild Things, it has a real story twist you guys will love……
100% you need to watch the "illusionist" with edward norton....brilliant movie about a magician which keeps ypu guessing all the way through.
P.S love you reactions all the way from U.K X
I still hope you guys do a reaction to an Oscar winning Korean movie “ Parasite” soon! That is a great movie .
As a magician, no other magician movie comes close. This is the most realistic portrayal of how a magician thinks in terms of techniques and audience consideration.
Much better then The Illusionist which came out around the same time. The Prestige is still one of my top 5 favorite movies of all time. And is one of the few that I can watch over and over again without getting sick of it.
Even more than "The Incredible Burt Wonderstone"? :P
@@wisewolftony the Illusionist was an excellent movie.
@@theshadowfax239 yes it was, but not better than the prestige (for me)
Tosh. I've seen the film Willow ;)
It gets even more sad if you rewatch now knowing there are 2 brothers sharing one life. When he tells his wife he doesn't love her today that's exactly what he means. The brother that actually fell in love with her is the other brother. When she told him she was pregnant he seemed a little unexcited, and that's because he's not the father, it's the other one.
he replied "we should tell Fallon about it" because he is the real father lmao
@@yohanesbobbysanjaya3541 For that exact dialogue, Nolan was clever enough to have the camera taken from behind Borden and point to Sarah's face, so as to avoid any suspicion on the former. The whole movie is a magic trick on the audience.
The moment Hugh Jackman's character said he no longer cared about his wife's death when it came to getting revenge, is the moment he become the antagonist of the movie😬
Yup, nothing but pure obsession
The wife wanted the knock there was nothing to avenge.
This is the moment he became Heisenberg.
"I want to watch it again"
They got you, Steven. That's what this movie does.
Greatest piece of foreshadowing in cinema:
The little boy: "BUT WHERE'S HIS BROTHER?"
MASTERPIECE.
Also the bird trick itself foreshadows exactly how the Tesla/tank one works.
One of my favorite things about this movie is they tell you how its done all along.
There is even more foreshadowing: The old man with the fishbowl trick leaves the interpretation open that Tesla's machine never worked and that Angier staged everything which actually fits the realistic tone of the movie better than crazy unbelievable science fiction.
@@bobbwc7011 explain that, I’m confused
@@bobbwc7011 elaborate
My favourite Nolan movie. As many have said throughout the years - Nolan wrote the movie itself like a magic trick. The first act of the movie was 'the pledge', the second 'the turn' and third 'the prestige'. And just like a magic trick all the clues were right in front of us the whole time but we just weren't watching closely. Brilliant.
Yep. Spoilers only destroy a film that isn’t that great anyway...
@@projectpat8807 the first sentence of your comment is ridiculous. I hope that you're just a child.
the prestige is good but the fact that they randomly found a PERFECT double who looks exactly like him, but just drunk, is bs. Memento was a much better nolan film
Movie is a narrative magic trick. If you pay attention on several clues, you will found out that Root is not a double, but his real twin brother. Yes, they are pretending what they are not. If Fallon disguises to appear very different from Borden so no one will recognizes him, Root and Angier does the opposite and Root is disguised as an almost identical Borden, and a clumsy, drunk, unknown and indomitable one. With this disguise and behaviour, they know that Borden will found out, and that's the first part of the trick: TO FAIL in front of him to let Borden think he is just a double. Once they "fail", they can do the second part of the trick, a new show where now Root is not disguised and not acting as a double, but like what he is, his real twin brother, so they can do the twin trick using the machine as a misdirection. They know now that Borden will never think Angier could have a twin brother, because how could be if he needed a clumsy double before?. Now they do the perfect and limited show, and they know Borden soon or later will try to sneak into backstage to see what's going on. So Angier in these limited shows goes every night into the water tank, but not dying, he can be released by his team or knows how to escape. He will wait to die only the night that Borden comes to backstage, because it's a trap. This night Angier sacrifices his life because he wants to send Borden to jail, looking for justice/vengance for the death of his drowned girlfriend in the same situation. And wait, it's not over. Because if you pay attention Cutter always talks about a drowned sailor who died and said dying was agonizing... and hehehey you just heard Cutter's trick: Die and agony are terrible words, but the important thing is not about if it was like going home or it was agony, the important thing nobody pay attention is that the drowned sailor in fact got resurrected so he can tell how it was. So, did Angier died and then got resurrected and buried alive? Well, there's a scene when they say exactly this as a clue/joke in the restaurant scene with Borden. The final answer can be resolved at the final frame, where a bubble appears in the water tank. Now, Angier has done the definitive trick, to be at the same time the man in the box and the prestige.
This movie kind of got lost between the first two Batman movies. But I think this maybe his best Nolan movie.
I saw that film in the cinema, having seen no trailer and read no synopsis. I went completely blind.
One of the best cinema experiences of my life. Absolute masterpiece.
I love the reveal at the end when you realize Christian Bale's character didn't know which knot he tied in the beginning because his twin brother is the one who tied it. Also his wife not realizing Christian Bale and his twin were switching off when spending time with her hence why he acted like two different people with her.
But the twin can tell tho, which knot he did at that time
@@ArthurKnight1899 assuming the twin told him or not, probably doesn't remember either out of shock of killing her or guilt. Who knows.
@@ArthurKnight1899 - yes, but telling the truth would risk revealing the trick later on, whichever knot it actually was.
He even says at cemetery, “I keep asking myself that” meaning he keeps asking his brother which knot he tied.
Damn .... I've watched this movie so many times and I've never clicked to that part.
This is one of my all time favorite movies for sure.
I always thought Hugh Jackman's performance in this was overlooked. Everyone knows him as Wolverine but the dude can really act.
have you seen him in Prisoners?
An Australiann playing an Englishnan playing an American
@@Nummymuffincocobutter absolute masterpiece plus the torturing scenes were too good acting wise
and sing!
Should watch Prisoners
“But where’s his brother?”
“…he’s a smart lad, your son”
If both their egos weren't so overly inflated, they would've been a great team. Borden comes up with the tricks, Angier performs them onstage.
The EMOTION when Cutter says, "You have to bring it... back," and Borden comes in to embrace his daughter who needs her father and the music swells and you see the grateful tears in his eyes... So freaking good. Nolan with his absolute best payoff in a film.
The Prestige is one of my favourite movies about magic ever. So glad you guys reacted to it.
Respect to Nikki for figuring out the 2 twists before you got to the end. That always freaks people out when they realise what was happening.
They give it away in the FIRST SCENE! And they ask you, "Are you watching closely?" No. No I was not. Perfect movie
This is a movie that all mentalists and magicians swear by. In fact when Hugh Jackman was on a late night talks show around 10 years ago a magician was the next guest after him and the magician said that this movie is beloved in the magic community.
I worked on this movie as a background actor in the courtroom and scientific exposition scenes. These were filmed at an old hotel in Los Angeles. Great period clothing to wear. However the weirdness of the story trickledown to everyone. We were like, “WTH is this scene about?”.
Steven not getting the David Bowie hype 😂 the original “magician”
I love how Bale always answered the knot question with “I don’t know.” Because he didn’t actually know
This is one of those movies where it's genuinely incredibly interesting to rewatch it immediately because once you know the final twist you can actually tell apart the brothers from scene to scene (great writing and a great performance to pull that off).
This is my favorite movie of all time. Loved that you guys got to enjoy the reveal.
🤝
One of the most underrated movies ever. Incredible storytelling
I don't know if being rated #41 on IMDB's Top Movies of All Time list (with 1.3 million votes) counts as underrated.
@@iceman10129 That’s interesting, since it’s not as popular as Nolan’s other movies, which it’s way better than in my opinion
@@kianhughes6309 it is, just not now a days. people these days dont go back and watch things that came out 15+ years ago - hence why these reaction channels even exist and they work for us old heads that have seen all of these. it was nominated for 2 academy awards and made over double the money from its budget. Its a highly rated movie, people just only focus on recent events these days and dont appreciate what came out when they were 5
This movie’s plot is partially based on the rivalry between Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison: the one who put in a significant amount of work and the one who had the skills to market the product.
Now you know why Borden didn't know which knot he tied on Angier's wife.
I had a thought that perhaps Borden was jealous of the life angier had with his wife. Freddie (aggressive Borden) didn’t have anyone at that time and had to share a wife he didn’t even love. Dark thought I know.
Some more clues... Sarah's nephew watched the bird trick and cries that they killed the brother. They telegraph the life dedication when they watched the old man fish bowl: The way he lived his life was the real trick.
When Bordan was asked by his wife: "Do you still love me" and he replies "Not today"
Genius.
When she says she's pregnant.
His response: "WE'RE having baby!"
Next level right there.
And he immediately said "We should've told Fallon" implying Fallon at that time was the brother who was the actual father and the one that loved Sarah
@@fly3811 Actually no. No one knows who's child is that. They shared one life. They both slept with her. To them, the child is theirs no matter who's the true father was.
@@fly3811 It was more strongly implied when Sarah said she could tell Borden didn't love her that day lmao
David Bowie as Tesla blew my mind the first time I saw this 🤯
I like that both of them are such cruel, ruthless bastards that it’s pretty much impossible to root for one or the other, but it doesn’t matter because the battle is so compelling.
First: Can we get a Steven reaction to Jim Henson’s Labyrinth please?
Second: The foreshadowing in this movie is off the charts. First time through, you can feel something is off about one these two magicians. Second time, when you pay attention to the mannerisms, it makes all the sense in the world.
Alfred. One brother named Abert, the other named Frederick.
The thing that always bothered me was how no one realized the ramifications or full potential of Tesla’s device. It replicates matter! Tesla could have replicated gold or anything else he needed to fund his research. Jackman’s character could have kept his duplicates alive and performed the most astounding magical acts ever! Tesla had achieved almost literal alchemy, but simply fulfilled a commission and never returned to the device.
Have you heard the theory that the machine didn't actually work, and it was part of Angier's best magic trick to convince everybody, including us the audience, that the machine was real? This would explain why Tesla abandoned it. Not because he thought it was dangerous, but because it didn't actually work. Angier made up the part about it actually being a cloning device so that he could trick Borden and Cutter into believing he achieved the trick via miraculous science... but he actually did it by still using Root (Root didn't leave, Angier just got better at hiding him, even from us, even from Cutter), and the only night anybody actually drowned was the night that Borden went backstage. All the other tanks are empty (you can see they're empty if you look closely... this is the real point of the narration asking us "Are you watching closely?"). It wasn't clones that drowned... it was Root that drowned. Angier didn't want Cutter to know this, so he convinced him the machine was real and he only killed a clone of himself. Teleportation/cloning isn't possible. This isn't a science fiction movie. It's a realistic movie about magicians. Us being tricked into believing the machine is real was part of the magic trick of this movie.
@@AWSVids does that theory explain the hats?
Disagree. That theory doesn’t explain the hats and cats outside. It’s not a science fiction movie, yes. But to them in that era, science itself might as well have been science fiction. Unreal. Too good to be true. Real magic. Nolan using a fictional Tesla character to create a cloning device highlights just how mesmerized Angier became with science as a means to achieve his ultimate victory, no matter the cost. At the end he even says “it’s not magic, but purely science.” By the end he doesn’t even believe in magic anymore. Only science and victory. Angier truly is the real villain of the story.
After getting burned by his double I don't think he would trust to give that power over himself to another person again, *especially* himself. He knows himself and knows himself capable of murdering himself, every night, for entertainment. That's precisely why he had that pistol at the ready after using the machine, so that he wouldn't be convinced to let him live. How long until his duplicate decides he doesn't want to share the spotlight and kills the original to take his place? If he has that thought, he knows his duplicate would have that thought too.
Also, that theory about the machine not working and it being Root that is killed is dumb. If all the story about Tesla and the duplicate cats and hats were framed through the journal (and thus could be a story made up by Angier), then it might have a leg to stand on. However, there is a flashback outside of the bounds of the journal at the very end of the movie in which it shows Angiers shooting the duplicate. The other tanks also do seem to have bodies in them, you can see it in the row of tanks on the right just after Borden turns to look back before Cutter's final line of the film and also as the camera pans over to the left just before Cutter says "fooled."
The canary at the beginning was the ultimate reveal of the movie:
Canary had a brother that died.
The original canary died as a trade off after each performance and the replacement took the lead as the next one.
He didn't kill his wife. When they were talking about using the alternative knot both Borden and the wife think it's worth trying, and when he ties the knot you see him look her in the eye and her acknowledge it, as in, they are both argeeing to try the different knot this time. Sucks that she died, but she was in on it, it's a tragic accident. Had she not wanted the other knot, she could've easily shaken him off, or just stopped the trick, he tied it right in front of her face, literally.
@@gg8264 She willingly entered into a relationship with one person. She never knew it was two people she was getting involved with.
Yes, this was a great one! So many psychological twists. David Bowie looked so sharp. I think that was Andy Serkis with Tesla at the mansion.
From now on nikki has to give the executive order approval on all movies!!!
When he says he's never seen Labyrinth, I auto kicked into gear that I need a Nikki reacts to Steven watching it!
The Prestige is among the best of the Nolan movies. Great acting from everyone involved. The way Christian Bale plays Alfred two different ways...
4:39 The price of a good trick is sacrifice...
5:00 Rebecca Hall was in Iron Man 3...
6:50 He DIDNT know, for real...
8:02 Steve having his dreams destroyed...
Interstellar 11/10
The Prestige 10/10
Inception 9/10
This is one of my all-time favorite movies I have ever seen, and by far has one of the absolute best final plot twists that has ever been written. I'll get chills every single time I see this ending.
Best Nolan movie, for me personally, by far.
Agreed
Yep and it's not close. I love Inception, Memento, and Dunkirk, but The Prestige is so good.
And Tesla's assistant was played by Andy Serkis, who played Alfred in "The Batman", Gollum, King Kong, Ulysses Klaue in the MCU, Caeser in Planet of the Apes...all sorts of stuff.
On rewatches you realize the movie teases the big twist early on, in the bird trick when Christian Bale's character kills one bird and tries passing a look-a-like off as it. The little boy asks "But what about his brother?".
Oh kudos, Nikki - not a lot of people work out quite what's going on there with the water tank and Angier killing himself over and over and over again night after night - but you got there before the movie finished. It's utterly horriying and speaks to the depth of which his obsession drove him. This is one that's definitely worth a re-watch just to see if you can work out when Borden is Borden and when he's his twin.
Never mind Bowie's films, it's his music that is amazing! Listen to his singles collection. I saw him live at Glastonbury around 2001. He was phenomenal.
If you haven't seen Memento and Insomnia please watch them! Two other outstanding Nolan movies made before he really became the famous director he is now. Some people still call Memento his best movie ever
Memento is great, but I would recommend the original Insomnia (with Stellan Skarsgard) over the remake. The remake isn't bad at all, the original is just so much better.
I can never decide if this movie or Interstellar are my favorite movie ever. This one is probably better, but Interstellar's got that soundtrack tho. Either way, The Prestige bears basically unlimited rewatches. Aside from catching new details ever time, it's just CAPTIVATING.
This movie has way stronger plot and performances but Interstellar is one of the best spectacles in cinema history.
5 best Nolan movies
5. Memento
4. Inception
3. Interstellar
2. The Dark Knight
1. The Prestige
One of my absolute favourite movies of all time, it had me guessing at every step....And a real pleasure to watch your reaction... I heart Bowie too, and Michael Caine..
It's a movie that's even more enjoyable seeing it a 2nd time seeing all the nods and winks for what is to come. Just amazing storytelling.
This movie definitely worth the rewatch. Many scenes are really well made which make much sense when rewatching the movie. Most underrated Nolan movie.
Where did this come from!!!! One of my all time favs!
and the movie works like a magic trick as well. Looking back, it should have been obvious Fallon was his brother. But we are so focused on everything else, we don't even think about this random character thrown into the movie. The shiny Tesla lights, the pretty girl, etc; we are distracted. Borden and Angier dissappear, then both have a prestige.
Fantastic movie!
I graduated high-school about 6 years ago. And my teacher for my last class on the last day, played this movie instead of doing anything. I'd never seen it before and I was hooked the whole time. The final bell rang with like 5 or 10 minutes left. And my teacher let me stay to finish it. I was the only person that didn't run for the hills to celebrate their last day of school. My mind was blown. And I was super excited about David bowie. But I like his music. I'd only ever seen him in this and bands bandslam
One of my favorite movies ever :)
What a great warning about obsession. Everyone is destroyed by their out of control competition.
And we don't know if that was the original Cauldlow or if it was a double ...
I catch something new every time I watch this film. For example, just now when *Michael Caine* said to *Christian Bale* at 3:09, _"Some nights you just don't get it to you?"_
*Edit:* Steven on David Bowie, _"What's the big deal about him?"_
😱
The best movie of Nolan, IMO! Standard for story telling and film making. So much layered, so much dense, so much acting performances, so much character depth, great photography and what not!! . Most of the movies that have twists doesnt have much replay value but this is a milestonic exception. Every time you watch, you pick new stuffs, go back , replay and repeat.
I was so glad you all reacted to this movie. I love this movie and it is so underrated. Plus, love it that Nikki had a fangirl moment over David Bowie. I had the same reaction the first time I saw the movie. I'm a huge Labyrinth fan also.
Yay!! Labyrinth fans unite!!
It was refreshing not knowing immediately who we should root for. This movie changed the way and reason I watch certain films.
You root for Michael Caine
@@chand911 its oddly true
Teslas assistant = voice for Gollum
Understatement of the century. Andy Serkis is a legend.
This is one of my favorite movies and it's really underrated IMO.
When I was a kid I watched this movie in the TV every single time. Still one of my favorite, absolutely incredible. ❤️
One of my all timers right here. The movie has like 5 twists and somehow fucking works. Incredible. I kinda love that you have no idea who’s the good guy.
this is my favorite movie of all time!!! so glad you guys watched it
Such a Great Movie. I watched it so many times over the years. And this was a great reaction.
I don't know the laws at that time, but if the brothers revealed themselves in such a way that the authorities couldn't tell them apart (government didn't keep fingerprint records at that time), then I don't see the execution taking place. They can't hang both brothers since one is innocent and they can't tell which is which. Might have saved one of the twins.
You guys should consider "The Illusionist" with Edward Norton and Jessica Biel. It's an entirely different kind of story, but it was released the same year as "The Prestige".
Yes! It was amazing! 😍
The Illusionist is a fantastic film! Sadly few people know of it because it got overshadowed by The Prestige, even though an Illusionist is not the same as a Magician.
I love The Illusionist so much
I found the Illusionist to be rubbish. Not a patch on The Prestige.
I also very much recommend The Illusionist, another twist-filled movie about a 19th century magician that had the bad luck to be released at the same time as this film and got buried by it, though it's very good in its own right telling ultimately a quite different story.
that wasnt bad luck, studios do that on purpose, Armageddon/deep impact Antz/A Bugs life and so many others
@@NotmyHouse Batman v Superman, Civil War
I liked that movie too.
One of my favorite movies. It is SO GOOD on repeat too. You catch so many things on rewatch.
Clearly there's a lot of back and forth, but two character traits that stand out to me: Angiers killed himself many times, shot Borden, and even framed Borden for his murder to cause him to be executed. Borden on the other hand, even after having been shot by Angiers, still tried to save him when he saw him drowning. I can't imagine Angiers would do anything but gloat were the tables turned.
True, though Angier had a lot of revenge rage due to his wife possibly dying by Borden's hand. That's the event that set this whole rivalry off.
One of the few movies in history that truly had us stumped til the very end reveals.
Didn't know David Bowie was Nikola Tesla until like 10 years after I saw this. Dope movie.
This is one of my favorite Nolan movies. The more you watch it, the more you pick up. Nolan literally tells you the answer early on in the film. Master class filmmaking.
I've seen this movie so many times and I've never even thought about the absurdity of a magician performing the magic trick behind a curtain. Thanks for pointing that out 🤣 That's like "I'm going to catch a bullet! (Curtain closes, loud bang, curtain opens) Here's the bullet Ta-da!" 🤣🤣🤣
You have to watch The "Illusionist" now with Edward Norton Jr and Jessica Biel, which I believe is every bit as good of magic movie as this one was.
This is still one of my top 5 movies of all time!!!
I do have to say, Nikki has made a lot of good executive decisions. Loved watching you two react to this movie.
Such a great movie! Truly one of the most underrated pieces of cinema.
I do love how Rue the actor says if you’ve seen the world like I have you would drink too. Almost like seeing a warning of his future, like someone saying Ignorance is bliss.
Awesome… 2 Alfreds, a batman and wolverine …. and a black widow lol
“How’s your arm?”
“Attached.”
It sounds like a joke at first, but around the time if it got infected, it would need to be amputated
I also love that Andy Serkis is in this movie; many people overlook his performance but I just love it! ❤️
The scene with the yellow birds and Sarah’s nephew reveals what happens to Borden later on
Still one of my all time favorite movies. Even all these years later.
30:40 best part was every time he did the trick he new he was going to drown.
You need to rewatch this movie to fully appreciate it. There are so many little hints that you understand when you know the ending.
Such a wonderful movie. We were in awe after we saw it for the first time. Alfred truly didn’t know which knot because it was his brother not him that tied it.
Oh yeah, this one is one of Nolan's masterpieces, for sure - but for whatever reason, it flew under the radar and didn't become a phenomenon like so many of his other films. Always so much fun to see folks discover its twists for the first time!
I love the line in Rick & Morty
“the vat of acid” episode
“Yeah, this is the prestige!”
The more I watch this movie the more foreshadowing clues I noticed
This movie is a hugely underrated classic. Sheer genius in every frame. AND DAVID BOWIE!!!
I had the chance to watch this in theaters when it came out in 2006, it was amazing feeling
I just realized... This man was so obsessed with a magic trick that he ignored the fact that he has a magic device that can literally duplicate living creatures and inanimate objects. Like... That's the literal end of scarcity. No one would go hungry. No one would have a lack of anything.
You'd have to hide it to avoid endless war.
I remember coming out of the theater in high school after seeing it for the first time and my mind being absolutely blown. It was all I could think about for awhile, all the twists
The "they're all your hats, Mr. Angier" line is so chilling after the first watch. A ton of this movie is.
Jonathan Nolan the show runnner behind Westworld co-wrote this masterpiece with his brother Christopher. Pure genius. Masterclass in pacing, great performances, and cinematography. Oh Bowie!! One of the best rockers of all time.
Best part of this movie Nolan doesn't really doesn't hide the twist, it's there in plain view the whole time. Just too simple, for both characters... "You want to fooled "
So glad your doing a reaction for The Prestige, such an underrated movie for sure 👏 You guys are awesome 👌 much love ❤
And Magic Man? Then you better call Saul!
In no world is this movie underrated. It had multiple Academy Award nominations.
Great film. One of Christopher Nolan’s best films that doesn’t get acknowledged as much as it should, I’m sure part of that is due to it being sandwiched between Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. The acting is incredible from everyone, but man. Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman as the leads are outstanding. The writing and direction is fantastic as well. Great choice of movie guys. Take care!
"What's the big deal about him?" Almost choked when you said that.
When you rewatch it you begin to tell which brother is in the scene…example the one that kills angiers wife, is the one that falls for scarlet johhanson and the one that ends up hanged. This movie is a masterpiece
Please do a Prisoners reaction! One of the best thrillers I've ever seen.
The illusionist (2006) is another good one. I'd also like to suggest a Marvel movie - RED.
There were actually two Alfreds in this movie. Andy Serkis, who played Telsa's assistant, played Alfred in The Batman. It's funny, almost every actor in this movie has been in at least one comic book movie.