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The word "prestige" originally meant a trick, from the Latin "praestigium", meaning "illusion".
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Christopher Nolan's and Sir Michael Caine's second movie together.
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When Alfred is in prison, his inmate number is D-23. The movie was released by Touchstone Pictures, a Disney subsidiary. D-23 is the official Disney Fanclub; 23 refers to 1923, the year Walt Disney opened the studio.
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This was Writer, Producer, and Director Christopher Nolan's lowest-rated movie on Rotten Tomatoes, at seventy-six percent. It has since been surpassed by Interstellar (2014), at seventy-one percent.
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The cast includes two Oscar winners, Christian Bale and Sir Michael Caine, and one Oscar nominee, Hugh Jackman.
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When Alley (Andy Serkis) is introduced, he makes a reference to a magic trick in which one person guesses the item in a person's pocket. The same trick fooled Serkis' character Gollum in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012).
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Andy Serkis and Jamie Harris appeared in Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011).
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When Robert Angier (Hugh Jackman) arrives in Colorado Springs, he is actually arriving at the Darien Ranch in the Colorado town of Marble, where the scene was filmed.
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Sam Mendes wanted to do this movie as his follow-up to American Beauty (1999), which had just been nominated for seven Academy Awards. Another offer came from Newmarket Films on behalf of Writer, Producer, and Director Christopher Nolan, of whom Author Christopher Priest had never heard. Priest was prepared to close the deal with Mendes, when a VHS copy of Nolan's Following (1998) was delivered to his house by motorcycle (Memento (2000) was still in post-production). Priest was impressed, and chose Nolan (in part to also support a new filmmaker over an established one).
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This the only non-Batman movie to date, on which Christian Bale worked with Writer, Producer, and Director Christopher Nolan.
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This is one of three 2006 movies to feature magic and magicians as main characters. The other two are The Illusionist (2006) and Scoop (2006) (which also starred Hugh Jackman and Scarlett Johansson).
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Alfred Borden's (Christian Bale's) infant was played by one of Writer, Producer, and Director Christopher Nolan's children.
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Scarlett Johansson and Rebecca Hall appeared in Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) and the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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Six of this movie's stars played roles in several comic book movies. Christian Bale and Sir Michael Caine appeared as Batman and Alfred respectively in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight trilogy. Hugh Jackman played Wolverine in the X-Men film franchise. Scarlett Johansson played Black Widow in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Rebecca Hall appeared as Maya Hansen in Iron Man 3 (2013). Andy Serkis played Captain Haddock in The Adventures of Tintin (2011), as well as Ulysses Klaue in Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) and Black Panther (2018).
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The use of twins in a "transported man" magic show was, in fact, quite common when the movie takes place.
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In the bullet-catching scene, Harry Dresden is on the list of performers under "The Professor". Dresden is a fictional wizard in "The Dresden Files", a series of books by Jim Butcher, and the basis of The Dresden Files (2007).
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