One Day

One day! You hear the title and start thinking what kind of story it would be, and you know its genre, you know it’s a romantic movie so your wonderment just multiplied by itself and result into a large amount. Is it love of just one day? Is it the story of the day they meet? Or is it such a title which doesn’t satisfy the story? Lots of question will arouse about the title and though I won’t like to ruin the story for you yet there is no harm in mentioning that the title of the movie fully satisfies its story.

Now the point comes that is it worth watching? I’d say it depends upon the viewer. Those who love romantic movie can go if they don’t believe that story should end perfectly, lover and beloved hand in hand walk by on the quest of living happily ever after. Other people with different believe or those who can accept the fate should definitely watch it. Even I’d loved this movie, as a romantic movie lover.

The time line of movie is huge, it starts from 1988 and goes till 2009, and does it surprise you, not one day story. For those who celebrate 15^th of July (in any way, birthday or anniversary), wouldn’t miss it. Well, other things about movie are good; Anne Hathaway did justice with her role of Emma Morley, a graduate student, a teacher, an author, a best female friend of a spoiler Dexter Mayhew (Jim Sturgess). Jim did well too, to be in his character. Story starts from 15^th July 1988 when both xb and xg got their graduation degree. Both been practically unknown for each other through whole college life but suddenly before living they becomes friend and soon become best friends.

A new unique way of representing story is used in this movie and I find not a single fault in the binding of all broken ropes, credit goes to director LONE SCHERFIG and screen play writer DAVID NICHOLLS. This movie is the adaption of David's novel of same name. I wonder how he has represented it on the piece of paper. 

I will give 7 out of 10 to this movie.

The Prestige: Movie vs. Novel

                                                                          

If somebody will ask me,what is better? novel or a movie based upon that novel, my answer would be, off course novel. Life is never perfect neither its element so how can a believe like this will always be true, off course there will be exceptions and yes! There are many and one of those many is THE PRESTIGE. Though I like novels more yet movie reaches to me earlier than novel (with exception). I watched ‘The Prestige’ movie and got mad for it, it was so so good. It was this movies effect that made me watch it twice the same day. I liked to watch scenes witch were shown 'something else' but meant 'entirely different'. Soon it came on the top of my favorite list beating ‘The Dark Knight’ and for a change,1^st time in my life I became a director's fan (of Chris Nolan) rather an actor's. Though they show in starting or in last, some details about movies, I mustn't have looked at it because the fact that this movie was based upon novel of idetical name and same name of writer and director (surname is surely different), even their country is same (England). I wondered how it have been, reading the novel first, something that cannot be achieved, though there are ways, like if I lost my memory but I wouldn't prefer it on any cost. Yet I read it and found that it wasn't better than the movie. Although I compared it with other novels I find it was better but not better than “the hundred years of solitude’.

Plot of both are un-matching and major difference I’d like to point out, which are as follows:

Robert Angier is Rupert Angier & his act in which Tesla’s machine is used is called ‘In A Flash’. Unlike movie (where 2 identical come out of machine where one is at its original position & other is at some other position, quite far from the original one) the original Angier is shifted to a different location leaving behind a dead body which is removed (as in movie after killing in the water trap tank) and collected as Prestige.

Although the story of novel proceeds through diary but  diary is read by grandchildren of magicians rather than magicians themselves.

The cause of feud between Rupert and Alfred is revealing of a trick of Rupert and his wife in public, off course the culprit is Alfred Borden. The scene of dying of Robert’s wife (in movie) was sensational and it was also worth fighting for ever and it's missing in novel.

Borden never goes to jail we don’t get that mind blowing climax as it was in movie. According to novel when Borden enters while ‘IN A FLASH’, he shut down the machine and thus transformation between bodies was incomplete this leaves with two Rupert Angier but both weak and deformed. Original returns to its original life (as a Lord Colderdale) and the clone one start living in dark, tries to kill one of the two Bordens.

Climax is not as mind blowing as it was of the movie but considering the whole plot of novel, it was best; there cannot be a better climax than it. After death of original, clone performs an experiment with his body in order to achieve everything back as it had been and finely it was shown that he was still alive in the days of his grandchildren.

   The best element of movie is its suspense, which is not alike in the novel as well as movie represents both magician as super human, both of them have quite strong character, it is also a thing that attract me toward movie rather than novel.

Finally I would like to confess that all of these I said may have been different if I’d read novel before watching movie, I may have been more attracted towards characters of novel than same of movies, who knows, still it was all that I’ve to say.