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Oct. 23rd, 2006 10:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hackthis_archiveThis weekend I saw The Queen, which you know, what can you say about Helen Mirren that hasn't already been said (awesome, awe-inspiring, holy-fucking-cow I thought it was a documentary, she was so brilliant, crap like that) and The Prestige.
Now, I had no expectations of The Prestige. None. Despite it being Chris Nolan and Michael Caine, and like other people -- because you know Scarlett Johannsen makes me gag, and Christian Bale may be Bruce, but holy fuck is he a scary one to look at. And well, damn.
Every now and then a movie comes along that towards the end you find yourself cocking your head to the side more and more until your head is at a 45 degree angle, and you're all '...the fuck?' Did they really just pull that off?'
Remember when you saw The Usual Supsects for the first time? Yeah, this is kind of like that. Not quite that shocking. I saw it coming, but still, it was very good.
So good that I yearn longingly for someone to write it for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
yuletide. Really. Don't make me go there on my own. Come talk to me about it in the comments if you've seen either one.
If you haven't, what are you waiting for? A goddamn invitation from the queen?!
Now, I had no expectations of The Prestige. None. Despite it being Chris Nolan and Michael Caine, and like other people -- because you know Scarlett Johannsen makes me gag, and Christian Bale may be Bruce, but holy fuck is he a scary one to look at. And well, damn.
Every now and then a movie comes along that towards the end you find yourself cocking your head to the side more and more until your head is at a 45 degree angle, and you're all '...the fuck?' Did they really just pull that off?'
Remember when you saw The Usual Supsects for the first time? Yeah, this is kind of like that. Not quite that shocking. I saw it coming, but still, it was very good.
So good that I yearn longingly for someone to write it for
yuletide. Really. Don't make me go there on my own. Come talk to me about it in the comments if you've seen either one. If you haven't, what are you waiting for? A goddamn invitation from the queen?!
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Date: 2006-10-23 05:21 pm (UTC)I'm really looking forward to the fic that may be generated from this one. :)
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Date: 2006-10-23 05:44 pm (UTC)God. What has Supernatural done to me that brothercest is A-OKAY?!
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Date: 2006-10-23 05:47 pm (UTC)Why do you come here mentioning that that THING? Infidel! I was thinking maybe incest in that sort of creepy as tone of the film, but then some pick-a-brother and Danton in a dirty alley. Oh, yes.
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Date: 2006-10-23 05:49 pm (UTC)I didn't really catch on, but in retrospect, I loved the little foreshadowing with the Chinese guy and the fishbowl. Very clever.
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Date: 2006-10-23 05:52 pm (UTC)Oh, GOD.
You're writing that, yes?KRIPKE, INDEED.Yeah... I think watching it the second time, knowing for certain what's going on, it will be even easier to see all the clues.
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Date: 2006-10-23 05:57 pm (UTC)Or just claustrophobic Victorian incest and decay - living the same life, sharing the same bed, the same woman, the same child. What's a little pleasure between brothers?
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Date: 2006-10-23 05:58 pm (UTC)Oh good, if you write it then I don't have to.
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Date: 2006-10-23 05:54 pm (UTC)Okay, 'splain to me, because I'm obviously missing this bit. Oh, about living what you're doing? Ah yes. Oh, wait, Freddy and Alfred. Perhaps Fredrick and Alfred, since they will obviously need names.
Not that I'm writing Prestige or anything. I have Entourage/SGA to write, I cannot be dallying in alleys with twin!Bales and Hugh Jackman.
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Date: 2006-10-23 05:59 pm (UTC)Yup exactly. Was the name of the other brother never revealed? I'm flaking out and forgetting.
Write it! writeit Twins! Bales! Jackman!
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Date: 2006-10-23 06:00 pm (UTC)Yup, never given. Except that Olivia called him Freddy and Sarah was all 'Freddy?!'
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Date: 2006-10-23 05:23 pm (UTC)I think I'm going to have to see The Prestige again. Maybe it was the fact that I was sitting in the third row and was sitting at a weird angle, but I feel like I kept missing things. I think I got it (and '...the fuck?' Did they really just pull that off?' is right), but I think a second viewing will clarify things, especially the whole Tesla thing.
Whoa run-on sentence.
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Date: 2006-10-23 05:31 pm (UTC)And gahh his wife. You don't mean it today - that makes the days you do mean it better.
Also that shot of the hats with the cats scurrying through them was the perfect angle of subtle creepiness. In more scattered reactioning, David Bowie! I didn't see that casting coming.
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Date: 2006-10-23 05:45 pm (UTC)The technical stuff makes me shiver - the bird in the cage? And the look on Borden's face right before Angier fires the gun during his trick. And I totally bought the emotional pay off with the daughter at the end, the moment when Cutter says, You have to bring it back and Borden reappears - I mean, set up to be so cheesy, but it just worked for me. I might be sitting on my fingers squealing for Yuletide at this point.
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Date: 2006-10-23 05:48 pm (UTC)*pauses*
You win.
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Date: 2006-10-23 06:09 pm (UTC)I am in love with this sentence.
Bwahahahaha! Fantastic!
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Date: 2006-10-23 06:39 pm (UTC)comment jumps.
Date: 2006-10-23 07:37 pm (UTC)Re: comment jumps.
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Date: 2006-10-23 09:24 pm (UTC)Plus, Bowie. Bowie was awesome. Bales and Jackman, that was nifty, but Ziggy AND Gollum make me a happy camper. Also, leaving the theater putting on Bowie's songs immediately on the ol' CD player. Maaagic.
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Date: 2006-10-23 09:42 pm (UTC)I really do think
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Date: 2006-10-23 10:04 pm (UTC)Tom Skerritt and Alan Thicke, is what I meant to say. Odd. Now LJ comments is getting all into the transported man.
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Date: 2006-10-23 10:06 pm (UTC)I knew you'd squee at the Bowie.
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