The Prestige (film)

The Prestige

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Christopher Nolan
Produced by
Screenplay by
Based on The Prestige 
by Christopher Priest
Starring
Music by David Julyan
Cinematography Wally Pfister
Edited by Lee Smith
Production
companies
Distributed by
Release dates
  • October 17, 2006 (2006-10-17) (El Capitan Theatre)
  • October 20, 2006 (2006-10-20) (United States)
  • November 10, 2006 (2006-11-10) (United Kingdom)
Running time
 130 minutes
Country
  • United Kingdom[1]
  • United States[1]
Language English
Budget $40 million[2]
Box office $109.7 million[2]

The Prestige is a 2006 mystery thriller drama film directed by Christopher Nolan, from a screenplay adapted by Nolan and his brother Jonathan from Christopher Priest's 1995 World Fantasy Award-winning novel of the same name. The story follows Robert Angier and Alfred Borden, rival stage magicians in London at the end of the 19th century. Obsessed with creating the best stage illusion, they engage in competitive one-upmanship with tragic results.

The American-British co-production features Hugh Jackman as Robert Angier, Christian Bale as Alfred Borden, and David Bowie as Nikola Tesla. It also stars Michael Caine, Scarlett Johansson, Piper Perabo, Andy Serkis, and Rebecca Hall. The film reunites Nolan with actors Bale and Caine from Batman Begins, and returning cinematographer Wally Pfister, production designer Nathan Crowley, film score composer David Julyan, and editor Lee Smith.

A co-production between Touchstone Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures, the film was released on October 20, 2006, receiving positive reviews and strong box office results, and received Academy Award nominations for Best Cinematography and Best Art Direction. Along with The Illusionist and Scoop, The Prestige was one of three films in 2006 to explore the world of stage magicians.

Plot

Robert Angier (Hugh Jackman) and Alfred Borden (Christian Bale) begin their illusionist careers as shills for "Milton the Magician". John Cutter (Michael Caine) works as Milton's ingénieur (stage engineer) and Angier's wife Julia (Piper Perabo) as Milton's assistant. Milton's most famous trick is to have Julia escaping from a water tank. In one performance, with Julia's consent, Borden ties her hand with a more difficult knot; she fails to undo it in time and drowns in the tank. Angier blames Borden for his wife's death and holds a grudge from then onwards.

The two go on to launch separate careers. Borden becomes "The Professor", hires a mute and mysterious man named Bernard Fallon as his ingénieur and starts a relationship with Sarah (Rebecca Hall), a woman he meets when performing, eventually marrying her. Angier becomes "The Great Danton", assisted by Olivia Wenscombe (Scarlett Johansson) and Cutter. Angier attempts to kill Borden in his bullet catch trick, shooting off two of his fingers. Borden retaliates by sabotaging Angier's bird cage act, killing the bird and maiming an audience member in front of the theater. This move severely damages Angier's reputation.

Sarah becomes pregnant and gives birth to a daughter, Jess. However, she becomes increasingly disturbed because of Borden's apparently fickle and contradictory nature. Sometimes, he is the man who truly loves her; at other times, he is emotionally distant. Borden's refusal to explain this duality leads her to depression, alcoholism and eventually suicide.

Borden begins performing the wildly successful The Transported Man trick. He enters one cabinet and exits another across the stage, seemingly having been transported across the entire length of the stage in just one second. Cutter insists that Borden uses a double to perform the trick, but Angier and Olivia disagree, pointing out that "both men" miss two fingers on one hand. Unable to figure out the trick, Angier reluctantly uses a double to perform The New Transported Man, but becomes frustrated when he has to hear the audience's applause from below the stage. He sends Olivia to discover his rival’s secret but, while she does give Angier Borden's encrypted diary, she falls for Borden. Borden then sabotages Angier's show, publicly humiliating him and also crippling his leg. Afterwards, with Olivia as his assistant, Borden's performances become more elaborate and successful.

Angered and desperate for answers, Angier kidnaps Fallon and forces Borden to give up the keyword to the diary to get Fallon back. Conceding to him that the keyword is "Tesla", Borden leads Angier to believe that he uses an invention of scientist Nikola Tesla (David Bowie) for his trick, an invention that actually teleports Borden across the stage. Angier travels to America and convinces Tesla to create a teleporter for him also. Whilst in America, Angier finally deciphers Borden's diary, only discovering it to be a fraud that Borden had Olivia dupe him with; in it Borden reveals that Tesla has nothing to do with how he accomplishes his act and is simply the keyword. Tesla admits to having built no such device for Borden, but has managed to build a transporting machine for Angier. The transported object, however, is a duplicate of the original, which remains in the machine. Tesla departs, advising Angier to destroy the machine.

Angier electrifies audiences with The Real Transported Man, seemingly vanishing within the machine but then reappearing at the back of the hall. Baffled by the fact that the man appearing across the hall is indeed Angier, one night Borden sneaks backstage to find his secret, only to witness Angier drowning in a water tank below the machine, and no other Angier in sight. Cutter becomes convinced that Borden is responsible for Angier's drowning and the trick going wrong. Cutter testifies against Borden in court, and Borden is sentenced to death. On death row, Borden is visited by the agent of a Lord Caldlow, who offers to care for Jess in exchange for the secrets of his tricks. Borden reluctantly agrees. When Lord Caldlow shows up with Jess, Borden recognizes him as Angier. Baffled by the returned duplicate, Borden begs for his life, but Angier ignores Borden's pleas and leaves him to his demise. Borden is hanged and dies.

After learning that Caldlow has bought the machine, Cutter visits him to plead for its destruction only to find to his disgust that Caldlow is Angier, and he is still alive. Along with Angier, he delivers the machine to Caldlow's private theater. There he discovers numerous water tanks containing the duplicates of Angier that drowned each night of the performance before Borden intervened. Disgusted by Angier's elaborate plan to destroy and kill Borden, Cutter leaves, inviting another man to enter. The man fatally shoots Angier, and reveals himself as Borden.

Angier realises that "Alfred Borden" was actually an identity assumed by twin brothers, Albert and Frederick. They took turns being Borden and Fallon, each living half of Alfred's life to prepare for their "Transported Man" trick (with one twin cutting off the fingers the other lost to preserve the illusion). Albert, the calm and soft-spoken one, loved Sarah while Frederick, the hot-headed and loudmouthed one, had a relationship with Olivia. Frederick, going against Albert's wishes, went to investigate Angier's trick, thus leading him into Angier's trap. Although dying, Angier justifies his actions to Albert as having been worthwhile, since he feels that getting the audiences to suspend their disbelief during his act, even if only for moments, was the ultimate goal. Finally, he collapses backwards, toppling his lamp and setting light to the theater. Albert goes to pick up Jess at Cutter's workshop, exchanges a silent goodbye with Cutter and leaves.

A final flashback scene shows Alfred looking around hesitantly at Angier's water tanks as he leaves the theater, while Cutter narrates that we, the audience, never want to confront the truth to magic, instead we want to be fooled. The final shot is of one of Angier's drowned clones in a tank of water.

Cast

Production

Julian Jarrold's and Sam Mendes' producer approached Christopher Priest for an adaptation of his novel The Prestige. Priest was impressed with Nolan's films Following and Memento,[11] and subsequently, producer Valerie Dean brought the book to Nolan's attention.[12] In October 2000, Nolan traveled to the United Kingdom to publicize Memento, as Newmarket Films was having difficulty finding a United States distributor. While in London, Nolan read Priest's book and shared the story with his brother while walking around in Highgate (a location later featured in the scene where Angier ransoms Borden's ingénieur in Highgate Cemetery). The development process for The Prestige began as a reversal of their earlier collaboration: Jonathan Nolan had pitched his initial story for Memento to his brother during a road trip.[13]

A year later, the option on the book became available and was purchased by Aaron Ryder of Newmarket Films.[12][13] In late 2001, Nolan became busy with the post-production of Insomnia, and asked his brother Jonathan to help work on the script.[13] The writing process was a long collaboration between the Nolan brothers, occurring intermittently over a period of five years.[14] In the script, the Nolans emphasized the magic of the story through the dramatic narrative, playing down the visual depiction of stage magic. The three-act screenplay was deliberately structured around the three elements of the film's illusion: the pledge, the turn, and the prestige. "It took a long time to figure out how to achieve cinematic versions of the very literary devices that drive the intrigue of the story," Christopher Nolan told Variety: "The shifting points of view, the idea of journals within journals and stories within stories. Finding the cinematic equivalents of those literary devices was very complex."[15] Although the film is thematically faithful to the novel, two major changes were made to the plot structure during the adaptation process: the novel's spiritualism subplot was removed, and the modern-day frame story was replaced with Borden's wait for the gallows.[12] Priest approved of the adaptation, describing it as "an extraordinary and brilliant script, a fascinating adaptation of my novel."[12]

The historic Tower Theatre in Los Angeles was used as the location for the Pantages Theatre in London[16]

In early 2003, Nolan planned to direct the film before the production of Batman Begins accelerated.[6][17] Following the release of Batman Begins, Nolan started up the project again, negotiating with Bale and Jackman in October 2005.[18] While the screenplay was still being written, production designer Nathan Crowley began the set design process in Nolan's garage, employing a "visual script" consisting of scale models, images, drawings, and notes. Jonathan and Christopher Nolan finished the final shooting draft on January 13, 2006, and began production three days later on January 16. Filming ended on April 9.[19]

Crowley and his crew searched Los Angeles for almost seventy locations that resembled fin de siècle London.[16] Jonathan Nolan visited Colorado Springs to research Nikola Tesla and based the electric bulb scene on actual experiments conducted by Tesla.[13] Nathan Crowley helped design the scene for Tesla's invention; It was shot in the parking lot of the Mount Wilson Observatory.[16] Influenced by a "Victorian modernist aesthetic," Crowley chose four locations in the Broadway theater district in downtown Los Angeles for the film's stage magic performances: the Los Angeles Theatre, the Palace Theatre, the Los Angeles Belasco, and the Tower Theatre.[20] Crowley also turned a portion of the Universal back lot into Victorian London.[21]

Osgood Castle in Colorado was used as a location.[22]

Nolan built only one set for the film, an "under-the-stage section that houses the machinery that makes the larger illusions work,"[23] preferring to simply dress various Los Angeles locations and sound stages to stand in for Colorado and Victorian England.[24] In contrast to most period pieces, Nolan kept up the quick pace of production by shooting with handheld cameras,[24] and refrained from using artificial lighting in some scenes, relying instead on natural light on location.[6] Costume designer Joan Bergin chose attractive, modern Victorian fashions for Scarlett Johansson; cinematographer Wally Pfister captured the mood with soft earth tones as white and black colors provided background contrasts, bringing actors' faces to the foreground.[25]

Editing, scoring and mixing finished on September 22, 2006.[19]

Themes

The rivalry between Borden and Angier dominates the film. Obsession, secrecy, and sacrifice fuel the battle, as both magicians contribute their fair share to a deadly duel of one-upmanship, with disastrous results. Angier's obsession with beating Borden costs him a great deal of money and Cutter's friendship, while providing him with a collection of his own suicide victims; Borden's obsession with maintaining the secrecy of his twin leads Sarah to question their relationship eventually resulting in her suicide when she suspects the truth. Angier and one of the twins both lose Olivia's love because of their inhumanity. Finally, Borden is hanged and the last copy of Angier shot. Their struggle is also expressed through class warfare: Borden as The Professor, a working-class magician who gets his hands dirty, versus Angier as The Great Danton, a classy, elitist showman whose accent makes him appear American.[26] Film critic Matt Brunson claimed that a complex theme of duality is exemplified by Angier and Borden, that the film chooses not to depict either magician as good or evil.[27]

Angier's theft of Borden's teleportation illusion in the film echoes many real-world examples of stolen tricks among magicians. Outside the film, similar rivalries include magicians John Nevil Maskelyne and Harry Kellar's dispute over a levitation illusion.[28] Gary Westfahl of Locus Online also notes a "new proclivity for mayhem" in the film over the novel, citing the murder/suicide disposition of Angier's duplicates and intensified violent acts of revenge and counter-revenge. This "relates to a more general alteration in the events and tone of the film" rather than significantly changing the underlying themes.[29]

Nor is this theme of cutthroat competition limited to prestidigitation: the script incorporates the popular notion that Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison were directly engaged in the War of Currents, a rivalry over electrical standards, which appears in the film in parallel to Borden and Angier's competition for magical supremacy.[30][31] In the book, Tesla and Edison serve as foils for Borden and Angier, respectively.[32]

Den Shewman of Creative Screenwriting says the film asks how far one would go to devote oneself to an art. The character of Chung Ling Soo, according to Shewman, is a metaphor for this theme.[12] Film critic Alex Manugian refers to this theme as the "meaning of commitment."[33] For example, Soo's pretense of being slow and feeble misdirects his audience from noticing the physical strength required to perform the goldfish bowl trick, but the cost of maintaining this illusion is the sacrifice of individuality: Soo's true appearance and freedom to act naturally are consciously suppressed in his ceaseless dedication to the art of magic.

Nicolas Rapold of Film Comment addresses the points raised by Shewman and Manugian in terms of the film's "refracted take on Romanticism":

Angier's technological solution—which suggests art as sacrifice, a phoenix-like death of the self—and Borden's more meat-and-potatoes form of stagecraft embody the divide between the artist and the social being.[34]

For Manugian the central theme is "obsession," but he also notes the supporting themes of the "nature of deceit" and "science as magic." Manugian criticizes the Nolans for trying to "ram too many themes into the story."[33]

Release

Touchstone Pictures opted to move the release date up a week, from the original October 27, to October 20, 2006.[35] The film earned $14.8 million on opening weekend in the United States, debuting at #1. It grossed $109 million, including $53 million from the United States.[2] The film received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction (Nathan Crowley and Julie Ochipinti) and the Academy Award for Best Cinematography Wally Pfister,[36] as well as a nomination for the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form in 2007.[37] Along with The Illusionist and Scoop (also starring Jackman and Johansson), The Prestige was one of three films in 2006 to explore the world of stage magicians.

Critical response

The Prestige received largely positive reviews from film critics.[38] Rotten Tomatoes reported that 76% of critics gave the film positive reviews, with an average score of 7.1/10, based upon a sample of 179 reviews.[39] At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film received an average score of 66, based on 36 reviews.[38] Claudia Puig of USA Today described the film as "one of the most innovative, twisting, turning art films of the past decade."[40] Drew McWeeny gave the film a glowing review, saying it demands repeat viewing,[41] with Peter Travers of Rolling Stone agreeing.[42] Richard Roeper and guest critic A.O. Scott gave the film a "two thumbs up" rating.[43][44] Todd Gilchrist of IGN applauded the performances of Bale and Jackman whilst praising Nolan for making "this complex story as easily understandable and effective as he made the outwardly straightforward comic book adaptation (Batman Begins) dense and sophisticated... any truly great performance is almost as much showmanship as it is actual talent, and Nolan possesses both in spades."[45] CNN.com and Village Voice film critic Tom Charity listed it amongst his best films of 2006.[46] Philip French of The Observer recommended the film, comparing the rivalry between the two main characters to that of Mozart and Salieri in the highly acclaimed Amadeus.[47]

On the other hand, Dennis Harvey of Variety criticized the film as gimmicky, though he felt the cast did well in underwritten roles.[48] Kirk Honeycutt of The Hollywood Reporter felt that characters "...are little more than sketches. Remove their obsessions, and the two magicians have little personality."[49] Nonetheless, the two reviewers praised David Bowie as Tesla, as well as the production values and cinematography. On a simpler note, Emanuel Levy has said: "Whether viewers perceive The Prestige as intricately complex or just unnecessarily complicated would depend to a large degree on their willingness to suspend disbelief for two hours." He gave the film a B grade.[50]

Roger Ebert gave the film three stars out of four, describing the revelation at the end a "fundamental flaw" and a "cheat." He wrote, "The pledge of Nolan's The Prestige is that the film, having been metaphorically sawed in two, will be restored; it fails when it cheats, as, for example, if the whole woman produced on the stage were not the same one so unfortunately cut in two."[51] R.J. Carter of The Trades felt, "I love a good science fiction story; just tell me in advance." He gave the film a B-.[52] Christopher Priest, who wrote the novel the film is based on, saw it three times as of January 5, 2007, and his reaction was "'Well, holy shit.' I was thinking, 'God, I like that,' and 'Oh, I wish I'd thought of that.'"[53]

In 2009, The A.V. Club included The Prestige in their best films of the decade list.[54] The film was included in American Cinematographer's "Best-Shot Film of 1998-2008" list, ranking at 37. More than 17,000 people around the world participated in the final vote.[55] As with much of Nolan's work, The Prestige is also widely popular among the general public; the film holds an average rating of 8.5/10 on IMDb, which renders it #51 on the site's list of the highest scoring movies ever released.

Music

The Prestige: Original Score
Soundtrack album by David Julyan
Released October 17, 2006
Recorded 2006
Genre Classical
Length 48:13
Label Hollywood Records
Producer Christopher Nolan
Hans Zimmer
David Julyan chronology
The Descent
(2005)		 The Prestige
(2006)		 Outlaw
(2007)

The film score was written by English musician and composer David Julyan. Julyan had previously collaborated with director Christopher Nolan on Following, Memento and Insomnia. Following the film's narrative, the soundtrack had three sections: the Pledge, the Turn, and the Prestige.[56]

Track listing

All music composed by David Julyan.

No. Title Length
1. "Are You Watching Closely?"   1:51
2. "Colorado Springs"   4:15
3. "The Light Field"   1:50
4. "Borden Meets Sarah"   2:11
5. "Adagio for Julia"   2:03
6. "A New Trick"   4:29
7. "The Journal"   2:55
8. "The Transported Man"   2:36
9. "No, Not Today"   2:31
10. "Caught"   1:39
11. "Cutter Returns"   2:13
12. "The Real Transported Man"   2:28
13. "Man's Reach Exceeds His Imagination"   2:08
14. "Goodbye to Jess"   2:53
15. "Sacrifice"   5:15
16. "The Price of a Good Trick"   5:05
17. "The Prestige"   1:40

Some critics were disappointed with the score, acknowledging that while it worked within the context of the film, it was not enjoyable by itself.[57][58] Jonathan Jarry of SoundtrackNet described the score as "merely functional," establishing the atmosphere of dread but never taking over. Although the reviewer was interested with the score's notion, Jarry found the execution was "extremely disappointing."[57]

Christopher Coleman of Tracksounds felt that though it was "...a perfectly fitting score," it was completely overwhelmed by the film, and totally unnoticed at times.[58] Christian Clemmensen of Filmtracks recommended the soundtrack for those who enjoyed Julyan's work on the film, and noted that it was not for those who expected "any semblance of intellect or enchantment in the score to match the story of the film." Clemmensen called the score lifeless, "constructed on a bed of simplistic string chords and dull electronic soundscapes."[59]

The song "Analyse" by Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke is played over the credits.[60]

Home media

The Region 1 disc is by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, and was released on February 20, 2007, and is available on DVD and BD formats.[61] The Warner Bros. Region 2 DVD was released on March 12, 2007.[62] It is also available in both BD and regionless HD DVD in Europe (before HD DVD was cancelled). Special features are minimal, with the documentary Director's Notebook: The Prestige – Five Making-of Featurettes, running roughly twenty minutes combined, an art gallery and the trailer. Nolan did not contribute to a commentary as he felt the film primarily relied on an audience's reaction and did not want to remove the mystery from the story.[63]

See also

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