The Prestige

From the acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan, director of Memento and Batman Begins, comes a mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy full of bosession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.

Two 19th century stage illusionists, the aristocratic Rupert Angier and the working-class Alfred Borden, engage in a bitter and deadly feud; the effects are still being felt by their respective families a hundred years later. Working in the gaslight-and-velvet world of Victorian music halls, they prowl edgily in the background

A bloody body hung on a cross and they wondered what God was doing. Then, on Sunday morning, they said, “Ah!” The Prestige! Jesus told simple stories called parables. We hear them and hear them. Suddenly they begin to unravel, light floods in, and we say, “Ah!” The Prestige!,/p>

In The Prestige of Violence Sally Bachner argues that, starting in the 1960s, American fiction laid claim to the status of serious literature by placing violence at the heart of its mission and then insisting that this violence could not be represented. Bachner demonstrates how many of the most influential

Although somewhat more specialized than the Atlantic set because of Prestige's emphasis on jazz, this work is valuable for record collectors and researchers. American Reference Books Annual

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (films not included). Pages: 24. Chapters: The Prestige, The Illusionist, Magicians, Scoop, Presto, Death Defying Acts, Houdini, The Great Buck Howard, The Wizard of Gore, The Magician, Penn &

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2016 im Fachbereich Filmwissenschaft, Note: 2,0, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Institut für deutsche Philologie), Veranstaltung: Topologien Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts und Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts in Literatur und Film, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Es ist schon ein großer Zufall, wenn im selben Jahr (2006) zwei große Filmproduktionen erscheinen, die

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One fateful night in the club leads to more than Claire ever could have imagined...Claire Evans is going places. She's moving up the ranks as a PR strategist for the rich and famous, and she's more than happy to put her personal life on the back burner while she focuses