The Prestige background creation
2022-01-25 08:01
The film was adapted from the novel of the same name by. It took Jonathan Nolan for 18 months before he made up his mind to choose the content of the novel, then integrated the material and proceeded. script. From the very beginning, Carter (the mentor behind the magician who helped the magician perfect his performance) played by Michael Kane slowly explained the three steps required to complete the magic: "verification", "transfer" and "blinding". The director Christopher When Nolan made "Fatal Magic", he also quoted the same three principles to maintain the complex, contradictory and imaginative between the two protagonists Robert Angel and Alfred Borden in the story. Wonderful connection.
Christopher Nolan told his brother Jonathan Nolan what he thought of the original novel, hoping that he could write the first draft of the script based on the original novel. In addition to the complexity of the story itself, another part of the novel is made up of diaries with confessional emotions-to integrate this part into the script effectively becomes a difficult problem faced by Jonathan Nolan. He must make While magic serves the film, it must also make the film look more like a grand magic show.
Extended Reading
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Robert Angier: Would I be the man in the box or the prestige?
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Cutter: Take a minute to consider your achievement. I once told you about a sailor who drowned.
Robert Angier: Yes, he said it was like going home.
Cutter: I lied. He said it was agony.