I thought that was an important part of the first movie, that they were all trying to audition for this group called The Eye..
Did that whole story get dropped?
No it wasn't dropped.... what on earth are you talking about????????????????? 😉
• It was a plot that the auditioning for the Eye was putting its toll on the group - Jesse was trying to "defect" to them solo in his very intro. Although we learn later that he was fooled as this "Eye" he tought he met was just Harry Potter masquerading them.
• that china magic store turned out to be an actual Eye outlet and it finally helped them unite
• the final trick in London was done with assistance from the Eye
• the final scene, where we learn that Freeman was a good guy and on top of it all, happend at at the Eyes headquarters
It was an important part of this movie too. And it seemed as though they passed in the end and became members.
The essence of this story is the Eye. Not the Horsemen. Not Michael Cain. Not the police. For the most part this movie is actually about how the Eye is testing the Horsemens ability to act as one united group under harsh circumstances. Freeman's introductional speech is about this very setup. This is the essence of what unfolds. The chip etc. are all red herrings created by the Eye for this purpose.
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Yes thank you very much. I put the movie on then dropped it thinking they had lost that plot idea, then put it on again and watched it right to the end.
LOVED EVERY MINUTE OF IT.
BTW what do you think they saw when they went in that last door behind the curtain?
BTW what do you think they saw when they went in that last door behind the curtain?
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You are welcome. I hope that you decided to see it before my post above spoiling it. I got the impression that you had already seen it when you posted, otherwise I would not have spoiled it like that.
Anyway, to your BTW: The movie begins with us seeing this same spinal staircase and the camera moves from the bottom up and in doing so it appears that the staircase is an illusion of several fragmented pictures and behind it, as I remember, the movie begins back in 1984 (or whenever it was)... so we, the audience, enters this movie in the same spot that we exits it.
And I think the expression; "Don't look behind the curtain" as Freeman says in the end, means that here the truth is revealed.
So if we should be creative in our interpretation perhaps the Horsemen are looking back at us in the final shot. Full circle, we began and end at the same spot. The whole movie is an illusion, not only what happens inside the movie. The truth is that they "live" in a movie.
Or perhaps it meant that as we entered the story and the story ended looking back out at us, so are we the movie??...
Or, of course, perhaps they just saw the floor.
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** I am normally not a praying man, but if you are up there, please save me Superman **
I like your post..... That's a very interesting take on everything, and no I watched the rest of the movie and totally loved it.
Now pulling a hat out of a rabbit....... I loved that line.
Who wants to see that?
Lizzy Caplan was an excellent addition and replacement for Isla Fisher.
I wish the Eye had been "real magic" as in magic, magic not just very clever illusion.
I would have so loved that.