The Prestige

The Cabinet of the magician ( original title The Prestige ) is a novel by British author Christopher Priest in 1995, in Germany, since 2007, under the title Prestige - Available Master of Magic. This new title is derived from the filming of the substance from by the director Christopher Nolan.

Action

Two stage magician fight end of the 19th century in the gloomy London to win the favor of the audience.

The screenplay for The Prestige took the novel by Christopher Priest only as a basis. The novel tells a much different story. One big difference is that the novel is between present and past jumps back and forth. The introduction to the story: A young man who is in search of his life and so far only knows what he does not feel more and more obvious that he must have a twin brother. All that, however, he previously was able to find is that he never had siblings. A letter lures him into an old house that used to belong to a mage named Angier. There he meets the attractive granddaughter Angier. Never before has he clearly felt to have a twin brother. It remains to solve the mystery.

Filming

The novel was filmed in 2006 by Christopher Nolan under the actual original title The Prestige. In the role of Robert Angier Hugh Jackman can be seen, while Christian Bale Alfred Borden embodied. In other supporting roles, Michael Caine, Scarlett Johansson, Andy Serkis and David Bowie were seen.

Criticism

" Priests thrilling and at the end incredibly creepy book is a great mix of crime, SF, horror and history story, and it is the greatest strength of the novel that the reader many hinted secrets itself must unravel: Sun is about until the end the book clearly what exactly Borden's biggest secret and thus the basis of his most amazing tricks. "

" Priest tells each from the perspective of Borden and Angier, and while Angier the transmission effect, around which everything revolves, achieved with the help of emerging at that time power of electricity seems Borden to live through a split personality, which is actually a reflection of his himself, his Prestigio, sets out into the world. The conflicting accounts of the same events are focal point of the novel and at the same time its greatest weakness ... "