when christopher nolan makes a "small" movie 

Where did Nolan peak?

I'm in the minority as a Nolan fan who feels Prestige is his best most complete film

And remember...the machine doesn't work.

One of the best complex story narrators of last 2 decades.

This is still his best film.

I want to watch this movie every time I see anything about it. It's just that good.

This movie made me look at the movies in a completely different way & I developed mad appreciation for Nolan which has simply grown over the years.

I LOVED 99% of this movie...but the ending ruined it for me. The fact that he was (SPOILERS) literally magically cloning himself ruined the entire mystery that the movie was building towards. I truly had no idea how they were going to explain it and they went with the cheapest possible solution.

Thank you so much for putting to words everything I love about this movie, very articulate

i love The Prestige but not gonna call a "small" with 40m budget, not even his smallest.

So if you want the most creative freedom you can get make your film for less money

Jonathan Nolan stays mostly uncredited due to the larger than life auteur status of Christopher Nolan. But all the films where Nolan brothers have worked together are visibly different from the ones where Christopher Nolan worked alone.

I watched prestige as a kid and I didn't understand why I liked it so much because it wasn't the normal kids things I watched but I loved it regardless it was such an amazing story with plot twists I could never imagine it's one of the movies that started my love of film

I feel like a lot of people forget to look past the multi-million dollar aspect of Nolan movies. They're meant to provoke thought, to inspire, to make you feel things you usually wouldn't feel.

I feel he might have peaked here. I still feel that in this film this the movie where he manage to accomplish what he wanted. It manages to convey grand ideas without over exposition, and, doesn't drown character development. I really love it.

Let's not forget how far two of the best actors ever can take your film, on top of all.

Beautiful summarization of this gorgeous film, and thank you for avoiding spoilers as to not ruin the movie for others, it’s quite an impactful film really with its narrative and character focus

❌ I didn't like it. The story was good, but the execution made it hard to get lost in it. I felt like I was continually watching myself watching a movie. Which spoiled the experience.

I really like prestige...but the more I watch Dunkirk the more I think it is close to a masterpiece. About the third watch of Oppenhemier, I think it is his masterpiece. The Prestige is defiantly third in my opinion though.

It is Christopher Nolan's complete and best work without Hanz Zimmer Banging in background - Beautiful film

It's his best film, or at least my favorite.

I wish that Wally Pfister would director more full length films. I think Transcendence was such a beautiful film

if the prestige came out now it would be the biggest movie of the year

What’s the piano piece at the beginning? I’m sure it’s in my Spotify playlists somewhere but I can’t remember the name!

anyone know the name of the song in the background?

Is this the one with David Bowie as Nikola Tesla or is that a weird dream I had?

What’s the piano melody from please?

Such a soothing video, what is the piano theme you are using in the background ?

Absolutely love this movie, have lost count of the times Ive watched it.

Is it me? Or did I see this video with, like, 3 different thumbnails in the last 30 minutes?

one the few brilliant directors from the last 2 decades

I think it's also because of solid actors like Hugh Jackman and Bale who were brilliant in every scene and a superb screenplay which doesn't bore you

when i saw this in my early 20s i instantly knew it was an amzing movie

The prestige was my favorite film for much of my childhood, also the reason why Bale became (one of my) favorite actors

For me this is one of the best Nolan's movie..

whats the name of the music? its nice

One of my favorites, if not the best in my opinion.

Can anyone name the piano song please?

My favorite movie of all time! So great

This is why I’m hyped for Oppenheimer. The last time we got a Nolan film that was mostly character over spectacle we got this, which is honestly my favorite of his.

i love how these amazingly edited and high quality videos are titled like shitposts

I'm a very casual movie viewer. When I saw this movie, I loved it. But I couldn't exactly tell why. Looking back, I'm realizing that I just love Nolan movies. He's so amazingly talented at the craft of storytelling.

you all not mention TENET because you still don't get it right?? RIGHT??? THGIR??? ah shit I'm inverted again

I know this is an oldish video, but I was curious what the piano trck is (or what it's from)? Thank you. Loved the video as well!

Easily my favorite Nolan movie and I like a lot of them.

why yall always gotta say things like "half a decade in the making" 😂just say 5 years

Memento is his best and even smaller than this.

What’s the background music?

I just like this movie, and I like Inception. I don't like the batman treatments as much in spite of really good casting. Keaton is my favorite and Aflack might be second

Especially after Oppenheimer, I consider Nolan one of the greatest of all time with such an impressive range of themes. Though when I talk with people about him, I think it's such a shame how overlooked this movie is.

Still my favorite Nolan film. It knocked my socks off the first time I saw it. I didn't even know Nolan had made it until the credits rolled and I remember thinking, 'ah, of course'. He lost me with the blockbuster phase, but Dunkirk and Oppenhiemer have warmed me to him again. I love the score by David Juylan too.

i fell asleep watching the video. "SO FREAKING SLOW and QUIET"

Christopher Nolan is talented in many ways. We can see how diverse and complex his characters are.

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I was very happy that they removed the supernatural ending from the book.

I preferred "The Illusionist" which was also in theatrical release in 2006.

"Following" is my favourite Nolan movie...

I used to think I fell in love with Nolan at Batman Begins, but now looking back Prestige might have been it

Not one moment is wasted in the movie. It’s to full. It’s perfect in every way. I didn’t know this was his cheapest movie. At a loss for words to describe the beauty in witnessing.

I highly and fully - can't stress that enough - feel that _The Prestige_ is, almost hands down the best, most perfect film I've ever seen. And that's saying a whole HELL of alot. It is the epitome, and truly, truly, an absolute masterpiece of story, cinematography, direction, production, acting, character study, drama, emotion, human relationship/dynamics, avarice, driven idealism/perfectionism, vengeance, destruction, multiple shapes of tragedy, lust, greed, pride, anguish, intelligence, genius - and the craft (not to mention the ontology itself) of both film _and_ magic. I've watched it many times, and always discover more about its plot detail and its extremely exquisite near-perfection. Another, unrelated comment/observation: this was such a great, educational, inspired video. I really love your content, and your stand-out delivery: especially how you've found such an appropo tone.

bruh u sound EXACTLY like MDJ.

This movie is the first film I went and saw multiple times in theaters. I remember walking out of the the theater so mind blown that I called my dad and immediately told him how good it was and asked if we could watch it the next day. We did. A week later I went to watch it a third time. The Prestige is still to this day one of the most under rated movies of all-time and seeing this film solidified Nolan as my favorite director. His next movie, The Dark Knight is still my favorite movie of all-time but The Prestige is a close 2nd.

My favorite moments begin: 2:57. If only Under the Skin came out then.

Dunkirk is currently his only film I put above this one. But I can't wait for Oppenheimer.

A great movie, BUT Hugh Jackman's character plot twist was disappointing. I was expecting something more grounded, less sci-fi. The Illusionist did it better.

Fun fact: Micheal Caines real name is Maurice Joseph Micklewhite JR… I don’t know how i know that. 😅 also I love the prestige, my favourite Nolan movie apart from interstellar.

Calling it small deserves the closure of the channel

So I guess many people don't know about the 'following'..

scarlett johansson is beautiful ❤

After watching this video, I have no idea what the fack this movie is about

Prestige is very underrated and deserves more reocgnition

Your overuse of GRE vocabs are hurting my brain

The precise definition of emulate

There is nothing small about The Prestige’s story, what are you talking about? It is genius. The entire story is a facsimile of the first scene that describes a trick. The movie itself IS the trick, one that sets up the pledge, the turn and the prestige perfectly. I would argue the story is Nolan’s most complex yet.

SPOILER ALERT! I love the prestige, but I will never get over that if “the machine” as used 3 times with 0 mortality then he would never have to use it again. If it’s good to have two dudes, why not have 3? Why kill dudes?

After watching this film, I felt so sad for Hugh Jackman. Then I realize it is a film which gives thought to audience.

Its a film about the magic of film making, shot through the lense of magicians.

Today we were talking about Nolan’s films with two friends and we all agreed upon hating Tenet. Of course it doesn’t detract from all the wonderful films Nolan has made. This one in particular is just lovely and beautiful. In this film he explores the characters as opposed to Tenet where he ignores characters and just tries to get the movie driven solely by the story. Well, I like movies like The Prestige better. I hope he is done experimenting with plot driven movies and sticks with characters. Just for my taste.

Such a clickbaty and misleading tilte:) Is this really at what level you play mr. Cinemastix?

I can't stand this guy's narration, and the irritating "deep" piano background noise he uses to try to hypnotize the viewer. Pass.

The Prestige is a small movie? I didn't know. I thought it was pretty big, as I never heard about it cause at that time I was so busy with work and studies. I assumed oh Christian Bale, Huge Jackman, etc was in there, so it must be big.

Is the song yours? Because if not you should probably give credit to the writer instead of just coopting it for emotional effect. Prrrrrretty irresponsible behavior and just a generally bad look.

Prestige is already kind of big budget for its studded cast alone. I would argue it's a mid-sized film, Memento was much more of a "small" movie.

its interesting how the film was shot, good stuff to think about. but the film itself was poorly written, makes little sense. just one example, at the height of the film Bale is watching that Angiers guy drown in a glass tank...to get to the tank he passed a guy in a chair, who was only about 20 feet away from the tank. Also Borden was banging on the glass, yelling, in a panic trying to help, Michael Caine's character comes running because of this noise. The glass was cracked and so forth....so....we have a situation here where even the crappiest detective investigating the crime is going to ask, "who cracked the glass trying to save him?" "if this guy was trying to kill Angiers then how did he manage to set up a glass tank weighing a ton or two in that spot without anyopne seeing?" Also, they would have talked to the guy in the chair and Micheal Caine's character who both would have said a bunch of stuff exonerating Bordon...borden...however it is spelled. But the whole film is a mess from the diary to the overly dramatic "how is he doing that?!" moments, to the deal where they never explain if Bordon is twin from birth or made in Tesla's machine...and all the questions either of those create... its the same problem with Memento, both films are shot out of order. both films have some pretty decent plot holes, but because its out of order and its Nolan people seem to either miss the issues or are like to in awe or to scared to say something. Nolan can make a good looking film and has some skill for sure, but his story telling and writing aren't actually that good...Inception has issues as well, Dark Knight was pretty predictable and spent most its time talking about darkness but not actually showing any...even though the moment was supposedly super intense as a viewer you know neither of the ferries are going to blow up...like the prisoner stepping forward and disposing of the detonator was seen a mile away. It wasn't a bad film, but it certainly isn't as good as it's hype. Which i guess is Nolan as a whole...Dunkirk was a bad film...what was the McConaughey one with the space travel? had alot of the same narration issues as Inception.

This movie is why I will never watch the Edward Norton movie The Illusionist. I don’t need the memories of this experience to become sullied by the other. This movie is just too good.

The constant wobbling and hunting sucks all the joy and wonder out of the scenery, it wastes the huge effort spent in creating a lost World in Time ☹️

I love The Prestige...wasn't familiar with Nolan when I saw it years ago... but I've since come to be very impressed by his later works....cool to finally realize that one of my favorite films was made by one of my (now) favorite directors.

In my opinion this is Nolan's best sci fi film. Better than Inception and Interstellar.

This is my favorite Nolan film, yet I cannot watch it again as it is the most morally disturbing movie I’ve ever seen.

I live movies that do more than just entertain. They make you think, feel something, wonder about it for days after. This mivie was nearly perfect. I live all his films, but this had the perfect recipe of reality mixed with fiction to make it believable

The plot twist in The Prestige is worthy of a M. Night Shyamalan movie, and I don’t mean that in a good way.

It would be really nice if you could make those videos in the format of 21:9 because basically all of the video is in that format anyways

When someone asks me to give my top 10 best movies , i always reply with: I can give you 50 movies that i love but it's really hard to do a top10. However The prestige will always be present in those 50 movies

I think low budget films is how a filmaker gets the most Creative freedom because no studio is going to trust you with 200 million dollars on a passion project that's original or something different for some reason

Fantastic movie. I wish we had more films like this and less supermodels in tights.

On other aspect of the cinematography master work in this movie is the placement of Nikola Tesla in the movie and place it during his Colorado years which brings a significant level of legitimacy and mystery to the movie in one bold stroke of brilliance. Without Tesla the final illusion would fall squarely into the realm of fantasy instead of reality. Tesla is the cement that makes this story work.

It also has David bowie and the golum actor. It's a perfect movie

Just watched Memento which is great! but I think I'm going to enjoy this more. Also what was the music you used for this?

The prestige is one of my favorite movies of all time.

Ehm, it's based on a novel which is much more clever than the film. I love the film but had to be simplified to be portrayed