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The prestige novel5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() The camera is predominantly handheld, rarely static, situated in interior locations with most exterior shots either blurred, out of focus or shrouded in freezing mist. Nolan’s already been vocal about how he didn’t want The Prestige to feel or look like a period movie, and it’s certainly steadfastly unconventional. But it is perhaps more of an eyebrow-raiser when you consider that The Prestige is situated in an entirely different genre. Hardly a shock when you note that his adaptation of Christopher Priest’s novel was penned with his sibling and Memento co-creator Jonathan, and that they optioned the book around the same time as Memento was released. ![]() (Unless the usual order isn’t what you’re expecting after all, he was the first director to begin the Batman story at the beginning.) So it’s no surprise that the man who brought us a modern noir about a man with short-term memory loss through a brain-straining reverse-chronological structure should present a Victorian murder-mystery tale of such beautiful convolutions that the dizzying struggle to follow it provides half the entertainment.įor, despite the return of Batman Begins’ Christian Bale and Michael Caine, and the big-name face-off promise that Nolan used to sell Insomnia, the film The Prestige most closely resembles is Memento. He’s a filmmaker who clearly believes that every story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, only not necessarily in that order. ![]() You always know where you are with Christopher Nolan, in that it’s often hard to know where you are. ![]()
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