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Like Inception? Watch also "The Prestige" from Christopher Nolan

by kishorem
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The movie "Inception" has created a buzz around the world... ( NOT product launch buzz, haha

It is amazing & literally "mind blowing" movie... If you like this movie, go ahead to enjoy the movie "The Prestige" from Christopher Nolan also:

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  • Profile picture of the author armysurplus365
    I thought Inception and The Prestige has the same concept or something...

    Haven't seen the movie, Inception. Although, I think it's gonna be a great movie.
    I like the effects used in the movie. The used of the movie's concept also makes me want to watch it.

    I think I heard of The Prestige. I just don't remember where.
    Christopher Nolan is the director of The Dark Knight, right?
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  • Profile picture of the author CDarklock
    "Now you're looking for the secret... but you won't find it. Because, of course, you're not really looking. You don't really want to know. You want to be fooled."

    You MUST watch this movie twice. Once before you know the secret... and once after.

    You cannot truly appreciate it until you know the secret.

    Just like any magic trick.
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    • Profile picture of the author KimW
      Originally Posted by CDarklock View Post

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      You cannot truly appreciate it until you know the secret.

      Just like any magic trick.
      Absolutely incorrect.
      Most people think they want to know the secret, but in actuality once one learns the secret to a magic trick, there is an emotional letdown.
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      • Profile picture of the author CDarklock
        Originally Posted by KimW View Post

        Absolutely incorrect.
        You can't appreciate what you don't know.

        If you don't know how the magician does the trick, you can't appreciate what he does. You might appreciate the effect. You might appreciate the performance. But you cannot appreciate what he is actually doing until you know what it is.
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        • Profile picture of the author Lawrh
          Originally Posted by CDarklock View Post

          But you cannot appreciate what he is actually doing until you know what it is.
          Perhaps a failed magician might assume that. A real magician knows that knowing the method removes the magic. The joy and wonder disappear and all that is left is a mechanic performing a job.

          It becomes mundane.

          Hang out with some good magicians. The only way to impress them is to fool them completely.

          Even small children will get mad at you if you tell them "how it's done".
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          • Profile picture of the author garyv
            Originally Posted by Lawrh View Post

            Perhaps a failed magician might assume that. A real magician knows that knowing the method removes the magic. The joy and wonder disappear and all that is left is a mechanic performing a job.

            It becomes mundane.

            Hang out with some good magicians. The only way to impress them is to fool them completely.

            Even small children will get mad at you if you tell them "how it's done".
            I guess it all depends on your perspective. If you are the one being fooled, then you might enjoy remaining the fool. After all, ignorance is bliss right? JK.

            But in reality it does depend on your perspective. Only a carpenter can truly appreciate another carpenter's work. Because he has full firsthand knowledge of the complexity. The same is true w/ any trade, including magic. You and I may find it more enjoyable NOT knowing the "trick" behind the trick. But I have a feeling that CDarklock's appreciation for magic goes a little deeper than just being the fool.
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            • Profile picture of the author Lawrh
              Originally Posted by garyv View Post

              I guess it all depends on your perspective. If you are the one being fooled, then you might enjoy remaining the fool. After all, ignorance is bliss right? JK.
              I don't agree. You will be hard pressed to find a magician who believes that his audience needs to know the methods. Post this belief over at The Magic Cafe and see the response.

              The word "fooled" is perhaps a problem. A magician doesn't merely try to "fool" his/her audience, he/she wants the audience to have the experience of magic. It is entirely emotional. It is art.
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              • Profile picture of the author garyv
                Originally Posted by Lawrh View Post

                I don't agree. You will be hard pressed to find a magician who believes that his audience needs to know the methods. Post this belief over at The Magic Cafe and see the response.

                The word "fooled" is perhaps a problem. A magician doesn't merely try to "fool" his/her audience, he/she wants the audience to have the experience of magic. It is entirely emotional. It is art.
                You missed the other half of my post - where I point out that it's a matter of perspective. If you share the perspective of being another magician yourself, then you may enjoy seeing and knowing the "trick" behind the trick. But for most of us, we enjoy remaining clueless to the "trick".
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          • Profile picture of the author CDarklock
            Originally Posted by Lawrh View Post

            The joy and wonder disappear and all that is left is a mechanic performing a job.
            You don't find joy and wonder in that?

            Isn't it sad, to find no joy and wonder in watching someone display the result of all those thousands of hours spent working his arse off?

            If the magic goes out of it for you when you know how it's done, I suggest you have a poor definition of magic.

            Because I think those countless hours of work and effort and dedication are magic. Even though I know how they're done.
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            • Profile picture of the author Lawrh
              Originally Posted by CDarklock;2377258
              If the magic goes out of it for you when you know how it's done, I suggest you have a poor definition of magic.

              Because I think those countless hours of work and effort and dedication [I

              are[/I] magic. Even though I know how they're done.
              Perhaps your observation needs to be directed inwards. Appreciating art does not require understanding the mechanics of how it was created. In terms of magic, it is even less meaningful as, with rare exceptions, virtually everything can be accomplished more than one way. Variations exist for almost everything.

              Well executed magic leaves no impression that anything sneaky ever happened. That is what magicians appreciate. No trace of anything. Of course they will want to know how it's done afterwards so they can duplicate it, and put their own variations on it.

              The countless hours are expected. It is a skill and skill takes endless practice. Until the hours are put in you are nothing but a dilettante, not a professional. Do you give a second thought to hours put in by a golf pro or a machinist or a sushi chef? It's the results that matter.

              Anyone can be trained to do almost anything. Making a performance compelling, astonishing, heartbreaking or whatever is unique to the individual performer and can happen even with less than perfect mechanical execution.

              No, it is an insult to the magician to focus upon mere skill. You want to piss off a magician? Call him a juggler.
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  • Profile picture of the author TLTheLiberator
    Good movie!!


    I saw it when it first came to cable.


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  • Profile picture of the author Rick B
    I thought you were comparing two recent releases and then I realized that I saw Prestige years ago. It's a 2006 film. It is definitely worth watching not seen then.
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