The Prestige...

[fajrdrako]

I went to see The Prestige yesterday. Good movie. Stellar cast: with the likes of Christian Bale (who impresses me more every time I see him, and I've liked him from the beginning), Hugh Jackman, Scarlet Johansson, Andy Serkis, David Bowie, and Michael Caine.... and a setting of late Victorian London and Colorado Springs. I have been to Colorado Springs. Gorgeous place. It was fun to see it as a movie setting.

I enjoyed the twists and turns of the plot, though I guessed Alfred's secret rather early in the movie - too many clues - and that made a lot of it just fall into place. (I admit I was confused about Angier's main trick - the body in the tank - until I saw the hats and the cats on the mountainside.) By the end I wasn't sure how convincing it all was, but it was fun to be along for the ride.

Comments

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Let's pretend the Romeo and Juliet are adults with brains.

I didn't see a "Romeo and Juliet" angle to it... still don't. Could you elaborate? Do you just mean that their families would have separated them and kept them separated if they could have?

I enjoyed Leopold, mostly because I like Rufus Sewell. I couldn't believe that he didn't get his stables cleaned daily, though.

I like the parallel with Lamont Cranston, whom I have always liked.

I loved the use of the noncorporeal, the blurring of illusions into reality and back again.

[raissad.livejournal.com]

I didn't see a "Romeo and Juliet" angle to it... still don't. Could you elaborate? Do you just mean that their families would have separated them and kept them separated if they could have?


Yup, that's what I mean.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Ah - makes sense. Yes. If they'd been Montagues and Capulets - and if Leopold had been the Duke of Verona - !