Even though I'm not the movie plot formula machine that my mom is, it drives my wife crazy when I know how a movie will end ten or twenty minutes in.
Thankfully I can be surprised on occasion, but if a movie can be ruined by a spoiler, it is a bad movie by definition. For those curious about Ricky Jay, lots of fun videos here.
I didn't care much for The Illusionist either. But I'm female and despise "chick flicks" did I just blow your mind grumblebee? But most of us just go for the magic and don't really want to pick it apart. I personally feel that that is yet another layer that Nolan has crafted into his work, and what makes it even more of a magical masterpiece. Egad, NO! I love a good chick flick but The Illusionist ain't it.
I'm really not into movies about "cool shit" at all. Give me Pride and Prejudice. So you're either saying that there's another reasonable explanation it only SEEMED to be teleportation , or you're saying that teleportation exists in real life -- which would be a pretty odd claim. Can you elaborate? Suspected the twist, enjoyed the atmosphere. It's just a movie. I was more disappointed in knowing that I had to wait for a montage of how they faked her death or disappearance after the first 15 minutes.
Like you said, they withheld narration. There was more and more supporting evidence for what you knew was true without really a twist but more of a turn. Leads me to think that this movie under the improper expectations could ruin it. The Family Stone, which I liked, never lead me to believe it would get serious in the promos. Should have expressed more love story than thriller. I still gave this three stars. I spent the year prior to watching the Illusionist reading scripts for two production companies, so now I totally have a feel for how a given movie will play out.
I'm pretty good about not spoiling for my movie-companions, but this was a particularly painful movie to sit through without spilling the beans. I was excited to see The Prestige, but was dragged along to see The Illusionist a week earlier. I was so disappointed by the "That's It? After reading the comments above, I'll give TPrestige another chance.
It really is an insult to the Prestige to compare it with the Illusionist. The Prestige is all Batman vs. For Real! Unlike most people in this thread, I much preferred the Illusionist to the Prestige, but I would say that neither movie is particularly great. In the Illusionist, once the "murder" happened, I was suspicious. The scene that gave the ending away to me was at the train station, where the doctor walks by Giamatti's character - it's obviously Norton in makeup.
Once you figure out what that means, the ending is clear. However, to me, it didn't ruin the movie because, like others have said, it's more of a romance than a mystery.
I happened to like the Usual Suspects montage at the end, when everything was revealed - but I wasn't expecting much from the movie anyway. I feel like the Prestige tried too hard to take itself too seriously for too long, and then realized that it didn't know how to end itself. The introduction of teleportation and cloning via Tesla's machine was such an over-the-top deus ex machina cop-out, it hurt.
It hurt because it would have been such an good movie otherwise. It had just a good a romance story at The Illusionist - but it had so much more. Hate, ego, sibling rivalry, professional rivalry, murder, etc All the good things, really.
But the movie was way to realistic and hard-edged to allow the Tesla device a place in the plot. David Bowie as Tesla was still pretty f'n cool, though. Yes, grumblebee, I'm claiming that teleportation really exists—I saw it in a movie.
I was trying to say that there's two takes to the movie, The Prestige. And one for those who "want to be fooled"; the world is not solid, and the Tesla box actually works! That latter take requires a leap of faith, or suspension of disbelief, if you will. The former take is a lot of work, as the movie suggests, which is why the film opens and closes with "Are you watching closely?
Basically the movie is one big magic show for us, the audience. And like the movie itself we get to see all of the mysteries, except for the most important one.
That one we have to figure out for ourselves. What is it? It's almost impossible to explain it briefly here, but a good link for the general gist of the idea can be found in this forum thread. Feel free to MeMail me if there's any questions you got once you've looked that over.
It's almost easier if you pick a certain scene and start from there, like asking "well, if there is no magic, then why did Angier's shoot himself the first time he used the box? That entire scene was from Borden's imagination of events, made up while he sits in his jail cell reading Angier's fake diary.
Here's a good question And here's a link to a review I wrote back in June: The Prestige post. It contains some further explanation and more clues and insights on the non-magic interpretation of the film.
Happy sleuthing! Just discovered, via this fun site , that Ricky Jay was a consultant on both The Prestige which he also appeared in and The Illusionist. The impetus for this was a tribute to the popularity of the American magician Horace Goldin.
The character portrayed by Philip McGough is shown in the credits to be named Dr. Hofzinser, after a prominent sleight-of-hand artist. Neil Burger: man projected onto smoke when Uhl tries to see how Eisenheim does his 'ghost' trick.
The method for creating the ghosts as shown to inspector Uhl involved the projection of a pre-recorded image into a hazy background. Since the ghosts Eisenheim conjured could speak to and interact with the audience, he most likely used a different method popular among magicians at that time.
A fantascope was used to illuminate a real person off stage. The image was reflected off of a mirror or glassplate, creating a ghosted image. The lanterns that Eisenheim tells his assistants to leave behind when they are packing up the workshop bear a strong resemblance to fantascopes.
When inspector Uhl and his men are searching Eisenheim's workshop he picks up a glass bottle with a dark red liquid in it. This is the same bottle Eisenheim placed in the suitcase he gave to Sophie before her 'murder'. His lawyers tried to prevent the revelation of how a disappearing act trick works. Magic makers angry as Houdini spell is broken. Read more. Topics Magic Las Vegas news. Active 8 years, 3 months ago. Viewed 49k times. Improve this question. Ritzz Ritzz 2 2 gold badges 3 3 silver badges 13 13 bronze badges.
Can you add some details about what you are asking : what movie are you talking about? What precise scene of the movie? I assume you are referring to the American film , and not the French one from I am asking about the illusionist,and particularly the last trick where he calls a soul into the stage and then when policemen tried to catch him,they saw that he is also the soul not a body — Ritzz Are you asking how the special effect was done, or an in context answer as to how the trick would have been performed?
This question appears to be off-topic because it is about a movie which is not a supported genre. There are no supernatural elements to The Illusionist, it is not fantasy. There are no science fiction or steampunk elements to it either. It is a period piece or a drama, perhaps with elements of a heist movie. Show 6 more comments.
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