The entire movie is a snore fest but this seems the most pressing issue to me.
You could just duplicate money.
Or if you're generously inclined, solve world hunger.
Or do other stuff.
"But it's about making the audience astounded"
Well they'd be astounded in any case I do believe.
Because Nolan is a hack.
shareWhere does this animosity towards Nolan come from? The guy may not be the next Kubrick or even Spielberg but he’s certainly competent at his craft, and it’s safe to say that even his not so great films are better than the majority of sludge being spewed from Hollywood.
I just don’t understand why people go out of their way to roast him.
He was overtaken with a narrowminded obsession to show up Borden with magic. He cared about nothing else.
I expressed similar thoughts on the matter on tMDB some time back:
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1124-the-prestige/discuss/5989fb579251414bd1018692
Someone commented:
"I thought the ending was pretty absurd. The technology he was using was a lot more impressive than some silly magic trick."
In other words instead of succumbing to his darker nature and using such amazing technology merely to best his rival, Angier could have put it to good use (either providing a service, or just replicating money) and made a fortune (although he was already quite rich). If only he'd learned to let go of his petty pride and ego-driven obsession he could have instead bettered humanity (perhaps by continuing to fund Tesla so that he could correct the flaw in the machine). I can only agree, with one major caveat: I see this as central to the point of the movie, that Angier's obsession blinded him to common sense and lead him down a path of self-destruction. That's not in my view a problem with the story, but with that character, and is in fact a major point of the story (e.g. human nature often doesn't follow a path of common sense, but instead selfishly-driven diminished returns, if not self-implosion)._________________________________________
Even if not replicating riches imagine what magic tricks you could do with 10 EXACT copies of yourself.
Restricting himself to the Teleporting Man was a serious lack of imagination. Plus unnecessary killing.
Yep. This was a guy with a nearly psychotic focus on his magic rival...
This is a problem that most Bond villains and super-criminals suffer from. Invent, discover or devise some staggering piece of technological wizardry... And use it to steal or attempt to blackmail nations, rather than become wealthier than Elon Musk and own everything.
Yeah you're right. But I can accept it because I can believe he was obsessive enough at beating Borden at Bordens own trick.
Also, I can believe he's morally ambivalent enough to not really mind the moral grey area of not necessarily killing other people.... just other versions of him.
Not to mention the logistic nightmare it would be to keep track of, hide, and coordinate ten versions of him, all who would have a legitimate claim to being "the prime" Angeir. If he was really quick to shoot one immediately upon meeting him, it's easy to see multiple versions existing at once will cause a power struggle between every single one.
In regards to the question, yes, it can be accurate to say the "replicator" is a new form of technology to facilitate prostitution; where the body is "fresh" for the very next use [e.g., "tricks" for cash money].
shareBecause he wanted to prove he was the better magician. Literally the entire film is about obsession.
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