[extropy-chat] A movie recommendation

[Randall Randall]

On Mar 2, 2007, at 12:20 PM, John K Clark wrote:

> If you have not already seen the great movie The Prestige do  
> yourself a
> favor and see it immediately, but don't read any more of this message.
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Leaving

spoiler

space

intact.





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> "Randall Randall" <randall at randallsquared.com>
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>> As for the movie supporting your view of copies, I don't think it  
>> did.
>> The makers clearly wanted us to see the the copykiller as a bad  
>> person -
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> But it was the original Angier who did the first killing, shooting  
> his poor
> copy the first time he used the machine just a few seconds after he
> created him.

Yes, it was (some) Angier I was referring to.  The reaction
that those I watched it with was horror, not "oh, that was
a neat trick which didn't harm anyone!", as I imagine you'd
say.


> My favorite line was when Angier said " It took courage to
> walk into that machine every night, not knowing if I'd be the man  
> in the
> tank drowning or the man in The Prestige". Of course he was both.

On the face of it, it seemed that the original was the one
killed every night.


--
Randall Randall <randall at randallsquared.com>
"[W]e ARE the market, this IS the market working, there's nothing
  external to be deferred to." -- Ian Bicking, on "let the market  
decide"