Seconded. One could I suppose put the posts in small faint letters to make them less noticeable, but I can't see any SPOILER tags on this forum!
On 18 June 2014 03:28, Terren Suydam <[email protected]> wrote: > On behalf of the people who haven't actually seen the film, could people > please put "Spoiler Alert" in the email before you give away crucial > details to a movie? Many of the films mentioned in this thread I haven't > seen. If I had read Chris's post before watching The Prestige I would have > been pissed off. > > Thanks, > Terren > > > On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 12:20 AM, chris peck <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> >> It makes even more mysterious your resistance to UDA >> >> Well The Prestige is a film about obsession and the lengths people go to >> meet them. Its not about the UDA. >> >> It does contain a teleport machine in it and the naughty magician keeps >> duplicating himself and killing off one of the duplicates. >> >> At one point, when arguing about what sacrifices he has made for his art, >> he points out that every night he is in a state of horror because he >> doesn't know whether he will end up at the back of the stage or drowning in >> the vat. ofcourse, he is just in a state of denial because he ought to know >> precisely what he will experience: survival to the prestige AND drowning. >> Its not as if there could be any doubt about it. The set up makes both >> experiences certain. But its not really a flaw in script, because the >> audience sees it clearly. Its why its such a macabre ending. Here is man so >> obsessed with bettering his rival that he reduces his life to a living hell >> drowning himself every night. The goody magician's sacrifices are bad >> enough, losing a finger, losing a wife, losing a brother. But the naughty >> magicians sacrifices are deliberate and knowing self annihilation and its >> this that makes his story so horrifically tragic. >> >> ------------------------------ >> Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 13:53:15 -0400 >> >> Subject: Re: Films I think people on this forum might like >> From: [email protected] >> To: [email protected] >> >> >> On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 3:55 AM, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> "The Prestige" may just be the best movie in the last 15 years. >> >> >> > So we agree on this. >> >> >> Yes. >> >> > It makes even more mysterious your resistance to UDA >> >> >> I see absolutely no contradiction between thinking that "The prestige" is >> saying something profound that rings true and thinking that the things that >> the Universal Dance Association says that are profound are not true and the >> things that it's saying that are true are not profound. >> >> John K Clark >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Everything List" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Everything List" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
