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...Prestige” follows two promising apprentice magicians, the brooding yet brave Alfred Borden (Christian Bale) and the suave yet safer Rupert Angier (Hugh Jackman), as they embark on rival careers...
...Bale and Jackman have both entrancingly played ruthless characters before (Bale in “American Psycho” and Jackman in “X-Men”), but in “The Prestige” their performances are shrouded by the film’s special effects...
...First, a clarification. Confusingly, Ballard is perhaps best known for Empire of the Sun, a surprisingly sunny best seller based on his World War II boyhood in a Japanese internment camp in Shanghai - and the inspiration for Steven Spielberg's 1987 feel-good movie of that name, starring Christian Bale. But Ballard is also famous for a more sinister novel, Crash, about car-wreck aficionados in outer London, which David Cronenberg made into that notoriously creepy 1996 film, set in Los Angeles. Even typical Ballard tales, like Cocaine Nights (1996) or Super-Cannes (2000), are not exactly walks...
It’s hard to imagine a better recipe for a film as disturbing or as darkly hilarious as “American Psycho.” The 2000 adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s book follows Bateman (Christian Bale) as both a Wall Street socialite and a serial killer. Ignore the commentary on greed and narcissism; you’re still left with a beautifully polished action flick and one of the most quoted films on campus...
...certainly less simplistic: though Smith and Pocahontas, played by talented newcomer Q’Orianka Kilcher, quickly fall in love, he ultimately leaves her to undertake a new expedition, instructing the other colonists to tell her that he has drowned. In his absence, she reluctantly marries John Rolfe (Christian Bale), eventually traveling with him to England to be received by the King and Queen and serve as an example of the peacefulness and tractability of Native Americans.Though Kilcher’s Pocahontas marries Rolfe primarily out of resignation, she is anything but weak. Her true moment of self-determination comes...