tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4705300325464519504.post3684466406436920834..comments2024-03-19T15:49:30.316+08:00Comments on Zirev: The Prestige (2006) Explained: 10th year AnniversaryLiezl Ruizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02156645134553997395noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4705300325464519504.post-73868472183446149422017-06-12T08:00:49.103+08:002017-06-12T08:00:49.103+08:00This analysis mirrors my opinion as to the ending....This analysis mirrors my opinion as to the ending.<br /><br />The original clone takes Lord "Angier" Caldlow's place. The tanks are never emptied to avoid questions.<br /><br />And the trick is replicated until Borden is implicated. Ta-dah!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4705300325464519504.post-71912759505848957962016-07-28T22:23:39.386+08:002016-07-28T22:23:39.386+08:00Indeed, the movie is incredible. Christopher Nolan...Indeed, the movie is incredible. Christopher Nolan is an amazing filmmaker.<br /><br />Anyhow, according to some scientists, if only Tesla was money-driven, he would have made more than 2000 patents instead of the recorded approximate of 300. He's a genius whose works were taken advantage of by douchebags like Edison. For a light brush of knowing Tesla, <a href="http://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla" rel="nofollow">here's a nice infographic by The Oatmeal</a>.Liezl Ruizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02156645134553997395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4705300325464519504.post-81390868747905228242016-07-28T21:52:23.700+08:002016-07-28T21:52:23.700+08:00Same here. Never read the book or knew about it. J...Same here. Never read the book or knew about it. Just plain opinion from the movie itself. Not sure what Tesla actually did either, only knows he is one of those scientists which contributed a lot on electricity invention. Anyhow, we can agree that the movie is indeed incredible.Mohd Afiqnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4705300325464519504.post-73006317590011612012016-07-28T12:46:12.986+08:002016-07-28T12:46:12.986+08:00If you were to choose between the blue pill and th...If you were to choose between the blue pill and the red pill, with the red being whatever I choose to believe and the blue with the majority's interpretation, I'm explaining the red pill. Yes, I've read your interpretation about 5 times from five different writers of big websites. Basically, your opinion is what's been circulating worldwide.<br /><br />The film was an adaptation of a book of the same name by Christopher Priest. I didn't read that book. I settled with what I could come up from Christopher Nolan's masterpiece. The reason why I didn't interpret it as that Tesla in the film simply accidentally created a cloning machine was because Tesla was not known in real life to just simply commit mistakes (he's not Edison). He knows his calculations. But like most inventors, they do err but his is not major like inventing something completely different from what he originally planned. If Tesla in the film tried to create a machine that could transport (or technically, teleport) an object, then I believe just like with most of his inventions, he did just that. Only for this film, his machine clones the object in the process.Liezl Ruizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02156645134553997395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4705300325464519504.post-7954456894035981372016-07-28T03:37:03.526+08:002016-07-28T03:37:03.526+08:00Let's put it this way. A clone will be a perfe...Let's put it this way. A clone will be a perfect replication of the the original. In this movie it means that whenever Angier uses Tesla's machine, Angier will be clone into 2 individuals, the original and the clone. Both will have the same physical and mind status up to the point they are being cloned. Physical and mind status will defer after the cloning based on life experience. In my opinion, the Tesla's machine was never a transportation machine, it was a cloning machine. Logically, a transportation machine should always sent an object from point A to point B, without cloning the object itself. It will be like Nightcrawler or Azazel power in X Men. So, Tesla actually created a cloning machine instead of a transportation machine.<br /><br />1) Robert Angier has long been dead<br />In my opinion, Angier's first clone was the one who got shot. The Tesla machine was a cloning machine, not a teleportation machine. The machine will clone anything within the cage and it will create the clone at a specific pointed location. The location of the first clone was circled down by Angier before he went into the cage (instruction might have been written in the manual provided with the machine to configure the location). Then, the original one went inside the cage with a gun prepared right by his side before he cloned himself, which he then used to shot the clone after it appears. <br /><br />Why i assumed the location of the clone to emerge can be configure<br />The first clone emerged a few meters away from the original Angier, while during his magic act in the hall, the clone emerged further away, on top of the hall balcony. The original Angier possibly the second Angier to be dead, based on how he conducts his magic act by placing a tank full of water below the machine cage to drown one of himself after the cloning process done.<br /><br />2) None of Angier's clones know they are clones<br />Basically, all the clones knew that they were cloned because the original Angier knew about it. But, the idea in Angier's head was that the machine was a transportation machine. So he assumes he is being transported, instead of being cloned. So neither of the 2 Angier after the cloning will ever know the feelings of the other, being dead drowned, or being clapped by the crowds for the Prestige, since they are, by then, 2 separate individuals with different mind and experience.<br /><br />3) In the end, Angier died without knowing Borden's secret<br />The original Angier died without knowing Borden's secret, yes, but the last clone was still Angier himself.<br /><br />4) The first clone was the one living all along until he was shot by Borden<br />Angier that was shot by Borden was the last clone of his original self.Mohd Afiqnoreply@blogger.com