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While learning magic, he really needs to correct his British accent, British clothing, aristocratic etiquette and so on.

The daily work is quite busy.

After a busy week, at the beginning of September, the production team officially started.

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At the beginning of September, London was getting colder and colder, but the weather was getting better. It didn't rain for more than ten consecutive days.

On a nice day, the crew of "The Prestige" started filming in Wapping, the Old Town district of London.

Most of the buildings in Wapping District were built in the middle and late 19th century, with a distinct Victorian (1825-1900) classical architectural style.

In The Prestige, the story takes place after 1897.

The buildings in Wapping District are ancient, vicissitudes, and magnificent, which just meet the description in the script.

Today's shooting location is in an old theater. There are more than 20 magic performances in the movie. It is these magic performances that connect the story of the whole movie.

At the beginning, the two protagonists, Angel and Borden, were just debut magicians. After experiencing several stage magic tricks, they gradually became well-known magicians and great magicians.

There are many suspense and settings interspersed in the middle, all of which can be summarized as what happened outside the stage.

Therefore, the main shooting arrangement of this film is divided into two steps, inside and outside the theater.

The proportion of plays in the theater is very large, about one-third.

This part of the shooting work is extremely complicated, and it takes about a month before and after. During this month, most of the time is spent on preparations, scene design, rehearsal, scene matching, and positioning.

Previously, Rocca saw news that Director Nolan only took 25 days to shoot "The Prestige", but in fact all the preparatory work added up to more than a year.

In the 'Orphen' theater at noon, the crew made three days of preparations and started the first magic show.

Before the magic started, five or six hundred extras were sitting in the seating area of ​​the theater.

Angel played by Rocca and Borden played by Bell also sat in the audience for the time being, because they came to be babysitters for the magician.

Roca wore a small round hat, a dark brown coat, a red bow tie, and gray casual trousers. He sat in the crowd, watching the performance on the stage with great interest like an ordinary audience.

The people who are performing magic on stage are Carter played by the male number three Michael Caine, and the magic assistant Julia played by the female number three Piper Perabo.

Julia is also Angel's lover.

The magic performed today is water escape. After the magician on the stage, he will invite two audience members to come on stage, tie Julia’s hands and legs with ropes, lift her up and sink her into a glass water tank. Within 1 minute, Julia needs to be able to untie the rope in the water and escape smoothly.

In the first scene, Julia escaped smoothly, and in the second performance, Julia drowned in the water tank.

Because these two scenes require a lot of group performances and large scenes, it is estimated that it will take three days to complete the filming.

"Everyone, who has the guts to come up and help this beauty!"

On the stage, the lights illuminate a bright field, and Michael Caine's Carter magician stands on the stage and speaks loudly.

"I!"

"I come!"

Many men in the audience shouted excitedly.

Roca is the protagonist of this scene, and there is also a camera position beside him.

In the camera, he hooked the corner of his mouth, raised his right hand high, eager to try, and a young, pure and enthusiastic image was instantly displayed.

This scene also proves the sentence in Burden's diary, "We just met at that time, we are both magicians who just debuted, we are completely dedicated to magic, and we never want to hurt anyone"

After raising his hands, he and Bell were selected by Julia on the stage and walked onto the stage together.

Angel, played by Roca, is young and cheerful, and loves magic. He walked in front, trotted onto the stage, and reached in front of the audience. He pressed his belly and bowed down to greet the audience.

This scene had been rehearsed three times before. At first he thought he was holding his chest and saluting like a Mongolian, but the etiquette instructor said that it doesn't matter where you put your hands, the key is to bend down.

When bending over, it doesn’t look good to put your hands vertically, let alone put them in your pockets. It’s too formal to hold your chest and drag your hat. After several experiments, it’s more natural to put your hands on your waist and abdomen.

It was just a detail of saluting, and the crew studied it for more than an hour.

"Please tie her wrists and her ankles too!"

On the stage, the magician handed over two ropes.

Each of them took one and stood next to 'Julia'. Rocca squatted on the ground and tied the girl's ankles.

Before the shooting, the two learned the binding technique from a magician. Rocca was very interested in this course and studied it very seriously. He even asked for it in private. After practicing for a few days, his rope technique reached the level of proficiency .

"Are you two sailors?"

asked the magician.

"No!"

Bell said.

"no!"

Roca also turned around and responded, and continued to bind.

In magic shows, binding requires skills, and the knots should not be too tight, otherwise the rope will expand after entering the water, and the beautiful assistant will drown if she cannot untie it in the water tank.

Bale's Borden is not good at tying knots, and during one performance his tying went wrong, resulting in Julia's death.

Julia is Angel's lover.

Angel and Borden turned against each other because of this.

The whole movie can also be called 'a tragedy caused by a rope'.

The two were colleagues at the beginning. Borden made a mistake and killed Angel's lover. The two parted ways and developed independently.

Burden performed "Catching Bullets with Empty Hands" in a small theater. Angel put on makeup to tear down the stage, and succeeded in revenge. Burden's two fingers were broken by a gun.

Afterwards, Angel performed pigeon cage magic in the theater, and Borden disguised himself to disrupt the stage. Angel screwed up the performance and his reputation plummeted.

Then the two continued to compete in magic, one created a new magic, the other tried to crack and imitate it, they fought openly and secretly, and used all means. From the beginning, they didn't want to hurt anyone, but in the end they were bloody and lost their moral bottom line.

To put it simply, this movie is about the workplace competition between two magicians.

It's just that Nolan's director has a relatively high level. He shot the whole movie upside down, and forcibly shot it into a brain-burning suspense movie. You have to watch it three or four times to understand it.