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Merenkov Elite user 413 Posts |
David Bowie is to star as Nikola Tesla in the Christopher Nolan-directed film, 'The Prestige', a thriller about competing turn-of-the century magicians: the link
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ed rhodes Inner circle Rhode Island 2885 Posts |
Um, who are the magicians? I know Tesla was a slightly mad genius.
(Read some of Spider Robinson's "Callahan's" series, he made Tesla a recurring character.)
"...and if you're too afraid of goin' astray, you won't go anywhere." - Granny Weatherwax
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ed rhodes Inner circle Rhode Island 2885 Posts |
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On 2005-11-30 20:40, mandrake01 wrote: OK, did the link. That I'm aware of Tesla wasn't a magician. Except in the metaphorical sense.
"...and if you're too afraid of goin' astray, you won't go anywhere." - Granny Weatherwax
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27297 Posts |
Let's see... the guy demonstrated things like transmitting power through the air and dressed up to perform experiments. Sounds about like a magician to me. And he did champion AC power systems, and got stifled by Edison, so ... also sounds like typical issues in magicdom.
...to all the coins I've dropped here
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John Tudor Loyal user Columbia, SC 209 Posts |
Has anybody else read this? I posted some info about it on Genii board a few months ago...?
It's great! I highly recommend it as a novel, and look forward to a great motion picture. Get it: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312147......ing=UTF8 Here's a quick synopsis, quoted from Amazon.com/Publisher's Weekly: "Christopher Priest's novel (the title of which refers to the residue left after a magician's successful trick) is enthrallingly odd. In a carefully calculated period style that is remarkably akin to that of the late Robertson Davies, Priest writes of a pair of rival magicians in turn-of-the-century London. "Each has a winning trick the other craves, but so arcane is the nature of these tricks, so incredibly difficult are they to perform, that they take on a peculiar life of their own?in one case involving a mysterious apparent double identity, in the other a reliance on the ferocious powers unleashed in the early experimental years of electricity. "The rivalry of the two men is such that in the end, though both are ashamed of the strength of their feelings of spite and envy, it consumes them both, and affects their respective families for generations. This is a complex tale that must have been extremely difficult to tell in exactly the right sequence, while still maintaining a series of shocks to the very end. "Priest has brought it off with great imagination and skill. It's only fair to say, though, that the book's very considerable narrative grip is its principal virtue. The characters and incidents have a decidedly Gothic cast, and only the restraint that marks the story's telling keeps it on the rails". (as posted on Genii Forum 11/23/05)
"Ars longa, vita brevis." (Life is short, the art so long to learn) -Hippocrates
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DerekMerdinyan Inner circle 1030 Posts |
I cant wait to see this movie. That and The War Magician (staring Tom Cruise?) He is playing Masklyne (sp?) the war magician.
All these movies make me want to finish writing a screen play I started years ago... Seems like the time is right. Derek Merdinyan |
John Tudor Loyal user Columbia, SC 209 Posts |
Here's info on the film I found right here on the Café:
http://www.themagiccafe.com/forums/viewt......23d5fb92
"Ars longa, vita brevis." (Life is short, the art so long to learn) -Hippocrates
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