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re: The Prestige [SPOILERS]
Posted on 4/13/15 at 3:07 pm to HottyToddy7
Posted on 4/13/15 at 3:07 pm to HottyToddy7
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To me the whole theme was you have to live the trick.
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Just like the old asian man could realy walk but to pull off the fish bowl illusion he had to walk with that limp all the time in public. He had to literally die every time. Which is a crazy thought to think the commitment he had to live with going into every show.
Exactly. Angier was the bird that went into the cage, and he did that knowing that he would die, but "he" would live on as the clone. He knowingly sacrificed himself every time for the trick because the audience doesn't want to know the trick; they just want to see the prestige (a.k.a. the little girl being sad the bird dies only to be happy that it didn't in the end......even though we know that it really does get crushed in the cage every time).
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Posted on 4/13/15 at 3:55 pm to CocomoLSU
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Exactly. Angier was the bird that went into the cage, and he did that knowing that he would die, but "he" would live on as the clone. He knowingly sacrificed himself every time for the trick because the audience doesn't want to know the trick; they just want to see the prestige (a.k.a. the little girl being sad the bird dies only to be happy that it didn't in the end......even though we know that it really does get crushed in the cage every time).
I have only seen the movie twice, but didn't he WANT to know what the girl went through as she drowned too?
Or am I thinking of a different movie?
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