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Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige tends to fall between the stage boards when it comes to the director’s oeuvre. It’s not as blockbuster as his Batman trilogy or as critically acclaimed as Oppenheimer (which sold so well on Blu-ray it led to a major studio shortage) but it no doubt stands as one of his finest achievements: narratively, technically and, yes, magically. And it took years to get to the screen. Distracted and delayed off and on since the days of Memento, The Prestige would end up a feat that stands alone–ironically enough when you think about it…–in Christopher Nolan’s filmography.
But this is just the Pledge. So how did Christopher Nolan turn The Prestige into a minor masterpiece? How did he pull the rabbit out of the hat? Let’s find out: Wtf Happened to this movie?!
Christopher Nolan first got wind of The Prestige – Christopher Priest’s 1995 novel,...
But this is just the Pledge. So how did Christopher Nolan turn The Prestige into a minor masterpiece? How did he pull the rabbit out of the hat? Let’s find out: Wtf Happened to this movie?!
Christopher Nolan first got wind of The Prestige – Christopher Priest’s 1995 novel,...
- 11/29/2023
- by Mathew Plale
- JoBlo.com
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1993 was a banner year for Sylvester Stallone. While he had started the nineties on shaky ground due to the failure of Rocky V and his two comedies, Oscar and Stop or My Mom Will Shoot, the back-to-back success of Cliffhanger and Demolition Man reestablished Sly as one of Hollywood’s biggest action heroes. For his follow-up, he would pick another action flick, albeit one that embraced elements of another genre quickly gaining popularity in Hollywood: The erotic thriller.
Flashback to 1992. The movie Basic Instinct was a worldwide smash and established Sharon Stone as the biggest sex symbol of the day. A veteran actress with a career going back a decade, her performance as the murderous but insanely alluring Catherine Trammel made her a cultural icon. She followed it up with another steamy thriller, 1993’s Sliver, also a hit, and The Specialist would be her last entry into the cycle of erotic thrillers,...
Flashback to 1992. The movie Basic Instinct was a worldwide smash and established Sharon Stone as the biggest sex symbol of the day. A veteran actress with a career going back a decade, her performance as the murderous but insanely alluring Catherine Trammel made her a cultural icon. She followed it up with another steamy thriller, 1993’s Sliver, also a hit, and The Specialist would be her last entry into the cycle of erotic thrillers,...
- 3/26/2023
- by Chris Bumbray
- JoBlo.com
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Though he's known for making meticulously-planned and intricately plotted films, Christopher Nolan never writes a movie with a cast in mind. Preferring to build out the character before thinking about casting, the celebrated director takes his story and its characters seriously enough to allow them to become fully formed without imposing any limits. And it was no different with his 2006 period thriller "The Prestige."
A tale of two dueling 19th Century magicians, the movie was an adaptation of Christopher Priest's novel of the same name. Nolan and his brother, Jonathan, took the liberty of rearranging the story significantly to make its three acts mirror the three stages of the magicians' tricks: the pledge, the turn, and, of course, the prestige. The result was a clever and effective fantasy thriller that made for a refreshing change of tone between Nolan's blockbuster "Batman Begins" in 2005 and "The Dark Knight" in 2008.
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A tale of two dueling 19th Century magicians, the movie was an adaptation of Christopher Priest's novel of the same name. Nolan and his brother, Jonathan, took the liberty of rearranging the story significantly to make its three acts mirror the three stages of the magicians' tricks: the pledge, the turn, and, of course, the prestige. The result was a clever and effective fantasy thriller that made for a refreshing change of tone between Nolan's blockbuster "Batman Begins" in 2005 and "The Dark Knight" in 2008.
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- 12/23/2022
- by Joe Roberts
- Slash Film
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