Miscellaneous Movie Musings

Strangler Lewis · 06-11-2007, 09:03 PM

It worked. Hence the hats on the hillside. There was a garbled speech about how Hugh Jackman never knew on any given night if he'd wind up as the prestige in the balcony or the man in the tank. That whole room was full of tanks with dead Jackmans. That's why he had blind stage hands.

Alex · 06-11-2007, 09:20 PM

Spoiler:

By the way, that whole element of the movie is not in the book. A lot of people complained about the significant changes to the book in translating it to the movie. I liked both and understand the reasoning. The book's version would have been too hard to do without a lot of exposition of voiceover.

If anybody wants to read the book I'd be happy to send it along.

Strangler Lewis · 06-11-2007, 09:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Alex

Spoiler:

By the way, that whole element of the movie is not in the book. A lot of people complained about the significant changes to the book in translating it to the movie. I liked both and understand the reasoning. The book's version would have been too hard to do without a lot of exposition of voiceover.

If anybody wants to read the book I'd be happy to send it along.

Spoiler:

Alex · 06-11-2007, 10:16 PM

What page? I don't remember anything being said about this in the movie.

Spoiler:

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06-11-2007, 09:20 PM	#2
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	Spoiler: No, he knew. That is what was so creepy about it. Every night's performance was an act of suicide. And a painful one. By the way, that whole element of the movie is not in the book. A lot of people complained about the significant changes to the book in translating it to the movie. I liked both and understand the reasoning. The book's version would have been too hard to do without a lot of exposition of voiceover. If anybody wants to read the book I'd be happy to send it along. Last edited by Alex : 06-11-2007 at 09:27 PM.
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06-11-2007, 10:16 PM	#4
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	What page? I don't remember anything being said about this in the movie. Spoiler: But he did know that the body walking into the box would die. Whether the consciousness died with it or transferred to the next body would be a different issue. If there is ambiguity in the movie, there is none in the book.
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