Christopher Nolan Created Pure Magic With Practical Effects in This Thriller
Movies and magic shows have a lot in common. They are meant to entertain audiences and require their momentary suspension of disbelief. The analogy between movies and magic can be found in Christopher Nolan’s 2005 film The Prestige, in which Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale play rival magicians whose series of performances increasingly become dangerous as they let their vengeance consume them. As Michael Caine narrates, “Every great magic trick consists of three parts or acts,” just like a movie.
John Cutter , a stagehand and engineer behind the scenes, proclaims, “The trick was too good, it was too simple.” But Angier refuses to call it simple. While Cutter comes to the conclusion that the Transported Man is only made possible by using a body double — that is, one man goes into one door while a different man steps out of the other — Angier thinks the trick has more to it. “This is a complex illusion,” he argues.
In the end, Angier’s actions ultimately catch up to him. Although Borden is sentenced to death for crimes he didn’t commit, Fallon enacts his own revenge, shooting Angier after the last performance of the Transported Man. While the last Angier bleeds out to death, the dead bodies of the other Angiers — the duplicates made by Tesla’s machine — are set aflame. Cutter had been right all along, the Transported Man is a simple trick.
This summer especially has shown how movies with the biggest budgets don’t necessarily garner the most attention from audiences. The long-in-development DC film set to restart the franchise universe The Flash was touted by many, such as DC Studious Co-Chair James Gunn, as one of the best comic book movies of all time. But even with Tom Cruise’s endorsement, The Flash will go down as a financial failure for Warner Bros.
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