20 Things You Somehow Missed In The Prestige

14. The Illusion Of Justice

The Prestige
Warner Bros. Pictures/Buena Vista Pictures

Christopher Nolan is renowned for working with the same cast and crew members where he can. For instance, Wally Pfister was his cinematographer for years; Nathan Crowley has frequently joined him as his production designer since Nolan's third feature-length film, Insomnia (2002), and actors Christian Bale, Cillian Murphy, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Tom Hardy, and Anne Hathaway frequently star in his movies.

However, Nolan's preference for returning to the familiar, even when telling a very different tale, does not purely run to the human element in his films; he also enjoys revisiting many of the same filming locations.

In The Prestige, he filmed the British-set courtroom sequences in the old Bank of America Building at 650 South Spring Street in Los Angeles. Given that the building features fine yet austere architecture, it is an ideal setting for a courtroom, complimenting the severity of the charges against Borden, despite the potentially ludicrous evidence. It also serves as a bar during the film, proving just how adaptable the location is.

The cavernous interior structure of the building had previously served as a library in Seven (1995) and as bank in Marathon Man (1976), The Mask (1994), and Spider-Man 2 (2004).

Nolan returned to the location when he filmed The Dark Knight Rises (2012), in which it served as a hideaway for various Wayne Enterprises employees, including Lucius Fox (Morgan Freeman) and Miranda Tate (Marion Cotillard).

It has since been converted into lofts known as SB Spring.

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