[PREVIEW] 🎙🧚‍♀️ #071 - The Illusionist

2006 was the year of 19th century magician movies with obsessed-over tricks and big twists. As with many twin films, one is the recipient of much love and prestige, and the other is a comparative il-loser-ist. But anything to do with magic is worth checking out, if only to be tickled by that age-old question, how did they do that? How did they convince themselves that we would sympathise with [spoilers] a pair of conspiring frauds who frame an innocent man for murder? Discussed in this episode: A stag-gering corridor [clown horn] Actors who picked the wrong twin film Impossi-pendant™ Strudel Eisenheim abandoning his family to poverty and death so he can play with oranges and butterflies The age of fanning Budapesht, and the ironic wankerage of correct pronunciation Scoop, the third 2006 magician film you've also heard of Jake Wood's famous ginger hair Puppet show actors-only lighting Planting circumstantial evidence (which proves nothing other than two people live in the same house) to frame an innocent man and manipulate him into blowing his brains out to avoid being punished for a crime that never happened. But yay - it's a good thing, because this way they don't have to run away from everything they know and hide out indefinitely. Except they end up doing that anyway so WHAT THE flQ#@(*%t????!? Not discussed in this episode: Why is Edward Norton holding a glowing sphere in all the promotional images? False advertising there. (if you want to sync it up to the film, we hit PLAY @ 04:43)