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Blank Check with Griffin & David

The Prestige with Alison Willmore

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Comedy, Film Reviews

4.66.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2017

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

Host of Filmspotting: SVU podcast, Alison Willmore (BuzzFeed), joins Griffin and David to discuss one of the three magician films of 2006, The Prestige. But is this movie a sequel to Twins? How does it fit into the Nolan canon? Piper Perabo tho? Together they examine Hugh Jackman’s ham, ScarJo’s career trajectory, Theseus's paradox and throwing playing cards into melons.

Transcript

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0:00.0

All you need to know is that the name of the show is my chance.

0:21.1

Every great magic trick consists of three parts or acts.

0:26.4

The first part is called the pledge.

0:29.7

The magician shows you something ordinary, a deck of cards, a bird or a man.

0:35.8

He shows you this object.

0:37.6

Perhaps he asks you to inspect it to see if it is indeed real, unaltered, normal.

0:42.3

But of course, it probably is.

0:45.2

The second act is called the turn.

0:49.2

The magician takes the ordinary, something.

0:51.6

It makes it do something extra ordinary.

0:55.5

Now you're looking for the secret.

0:58.2

You won't find it because of course you're not really looking.

1:02.4

You don't really want it now.

1:04.9

You want it before, but you wouldn't clap you because making something disappear

1:09.8

isn't enough.

1:10.8

You have to bring it back.

1:13.1

That's why every magic trick has a third act.

1:15.6

The hardest part, the part we call.

1:18.3

The podcast.

1:19.3

That's an number one word suppression.

1:22.7

I have ever done.

1:24.2

I've been avoiding doing Michael Cain all many series because I knew I couldn't do it.

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