The Prestige
Release: October 17, 2006
Posters
Quotes
Nikola Tesla:
"You're familiar with the phrase 'man's reach exceeds his grasp'? It's a lie: man's grasp exceeds his nerve."
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Robert Angier:
"No one cares about the man in the box; the man who disappears."
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Alfred Borden:
"[first/repeater] Are you watching closely?"
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Alfred Borden:
"[after showing a little boy how to do a coin trick] Never show anyone. They'll beg you and they'll flatter you for the secret, but as soon as you give it up… you'll be nothing to them."
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Cutter:
"[last] Every magic trick consists of three parts (acts). The first part is called 'The Pledge' - the magician shows you something ordinary. The second act is called 'The Turn' - the magician takes the ordinary something and makes it into something extraordinary. But you wouldn't clap yet, because making something disappear isn't enough. You have to bring it back."
[…]:
"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 work it out; You want to be fooled."
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Cutter:
"Every great magic trick consists of three parts or acts:
• The first part is called 'The Pledge' - The magician shows you something ordinary: a deck of cards, a bird or a man. He shows you this object. Perhaps he asks you to inspect it to see if it is indeed real, unaltered, normal. But of course… it probably isn't."
[…]:
"• The second act is called 'The Turn' - The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. 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. But you wouldn't clap yet.
• Because making something disappear isn't enough; you have to bring it back. That's why every magic trick has a third act, the hardest part, the part we call 'The Prestige'."
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