the prestige post

In a 200+ word post on your blog, answer one of the following questions:

1. What genre of film does this work belong in?
2. Is Borden obsessed or committed?
3. Does anything good come of the Angiers or Borden's obsessions/commitments?
4. Is there a way to scientifically explain what happens to Angiers when he's inside The New Transported Man?
5. Borden tells Sarah's nephew, "The secret impresses no one." Is this true?
6. Answer a question of your own devising.

This film should belong in a mystery genre because it keeps you wondering about how the magicians are doing the tricks and such. I think Borden is obsessed because he and his brother share wives and lives just to keep up a magic show, I think he had gone completely over the edge when he made his brother cut off his finger so they would match. If anybody told me that in order to keep my job I had to cut off my finger with a chisel id be looking for a new job. Nothing good comes from Angiers or Borden’s obsessions because in the end Angiers is literally killing himself every show and Borden ends up going to jail and is given the death penalty. There isn’t really a scientific solution to the new transported man because all that happens is Angiers falls through a hole while a drink look alike goes up through a hole in the floor by the other door.

proof post

In a 200 word post on your own blog, answer one of the following questions:

1. Is Catherine really crazy?
2. Is Hal really interested in a relationship with Catherine?
3. Did Catherine really write the proof?
4. Is Claire really an unpleasant person?
5. Maybe Catherine isn't "crazy," but how else can we explain her erratic behavior?
6. Is there really anything else you would like to write about?

Use evidence. Use the literary voices we've been talking about. Use gooder enlgish.
 

I am pretty sure that Catherine isn’t crazy that she’s just shy and super self conscious and feels that the only reason people know or like her is because of her dad. Im not sure if Hal is really interested in her or her dads work. At first I think he is just going for her work but once he really got to know her that he changed to her instead of his work. Yes I believe that cathrine really wrote that proof but didn’t want to hurt her dad so she lied and let him take the credit because he had gone crazy and he didn’t realize he was writing gibberish. I don’t think Claire is a unpleasant person I think she just cares about her sister and Catherine is just really really stubborn. Catherine’s behavior I think can easily be explained by the above shy and self conscious and it probably didn’t help that Hal came right in and insisted on going through his work.

singing in the rain post

 Does knowing more about the background of the movie (from the post below) make the film more enjoyable? How? Should knowing about the process of the filming have any bearing on the film's overall value or worth?

I think that knowing more about the background of the movie would really depend on the movie and who’s watching it to decide if it made it better or not. I personally didn't enjoy this movie and knowing more about it probably wouldn't make it better in my eyes. However somebody who really enjoyed older movies would probably love to know more about the background of singing in the rain. Knowing the process of the film shouldn't really affect what you think of the film because if a film took a lot of money to produce and lots of hard work but it sucked, it’s still going to suck in the public’s eye. A good example of this was paranormal activity. It only cost about 10,000 dollars to produce and made tons of money and people loved it so in my opinion the process shouldn't play a role in whether or not it’s a good film or not.