Prestige (film)

See also: Prestige

Prestige (original title: The Prestige ) is a film américano - British of Christopher Nolan, left in 2006. Adaptation of the Romance éponyme of Christopher Priest, published in 1995, the scenario is signed Christopher Nolan and its brother Jonathan Nolan. The British actor Christian Bale incarnates the role of a magician of the 19th century, judged for the supposed assassination of his rival Robert Angier (Hugh Jackman). Film tells years of competition which opposes the two men, competition which begins following accident fatal from woman from Angier, and who appears mainly around a turn of magic named “the man transported” that the two men dispute, with for backdrop research on the electricity of Nikola Tesla (incarnated by David Bowie).

The significance of the title of film comes from the one of the three stages (invented in the book) which comprises a turn of magic, as that is explained in film. The first stage names the “promise”, where the magician shows with the public something which seems ordinary, but is not it. The second stage consists of the execution, the “turn”, or the magician makes the act ordinary extraordinary. “Prestige”, title of film and final stage of the illusion, are the part of the turn of magic where the unforeseen one occurs.

Synopsis

The history proceeds in England, with London, during the era victorienne and partially with Colorado Springs with the the United States. Alfred Borden, magician, are shown murder of his rival and ex-friend Robert Angier. Angier drowned during a turn of magic, after being fallen from a trap door in a tank filled with water and locked, the execution of the turn having apparently turned out badly. Only witness present on the spot, Borden is condemned within sight of the old competition which opposes it to Angier. In waiting of the execution, Borden receives the diary of Angier and starts to read it.

Flashback. In 1887, Alfred Borden and Robert Angier work as assistants of a Master of the magic, called “the Milton the magician”, in a particularly dangerous turn during which the wife of Angier, Julia, bound, releases herself from a tank hermetically closed and filled with water. One day, Julia drowns under the eyes of her Angier husband, and this one shows Borden to have attached it with a node of cord new and more difficult to demolish. Borden is acknowledged unable to remember the node which it had carried out.

The men separate then, and Borden made career alone under the name of the “Professor”. He engages a " ingénieur" name of Fallon, and marries a spectator called Sarah, with whom it has a girl, Jess. Angier as for him becomes “Large Danton”, a name which had been suggested to him by his late wife. He is helped by a " ingénieur" Harry Cutter and recruiting a young named assistant Olivia. Angier, disguised, begins his revenge by drawing a shot with a true ball on Borden during a turn from magic from this one, making him lose two fingers of the hand. Borden, later, disguised also, causes to him the failure of a number of Angier of disappearance of bird, turn of magic during which the bird is killed in front of the dissatisfied public (a person will be even wounded).

At this point in time Borden installs its turn of magic of “the transported man”. In this turn of magic, where the magician is transported of a case to another, Cutter is persuaded that Borden uses a double. Angier then engages a man resembling to him, Olivier Root, in order to reproduce this new turn of magic which he baptizes “the new transported man”. But Angier is frustrated to carry out the major part of the turn and to leave the acclamations and applause of the public to its double, Root. He thus entrusts to his assistant, Olivia, the mission of being made engage by his Borden adversary and of stealing his secrecy to him. Olivia falls in love with Borden, but provides to Angier the newspaper of Borden in which it describes all its turns.

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External bonds

  • French-speaking official site
  • official site

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