The Prestige

Re-watched The Prestige recently, and very nearly forgot about this scene.

Piper Perabo co-stars in this mystery/thriller that was directed by Christopher Nolan in-between Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. Christian Bale, who played Batman in Nolan's trilogy, also stars in this film about feuding magicians in the 19th century.

Piper plays a magician's assistant who gets bound while barefoot for her act, where she escapes from a water tank.

She requests "volunteers" from the audience to tie her up. But they always wind up being Bale and Hugh Jackman, who start out playing magician's assistants who pose as audience members.

We see Piper perform this act twice in the film--the first time, everything's goes great. But the second time...well, let's say this is oneof the things that created the feud between Bale and Jackman's characters. The Prestige still holds up as a great movie fifteen years after its release.