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Sign In Sign In. New Customer? Create account. Expand all below Add to FAQ. What is 'The Prestige' about? When Borden comes up with an act that he calls "The Transported Man", in which he bounces a ball across the stage before stepping through a door and instantly reappears from a second door on the opposite side of the stage to catch the ball, Angier becomes obsessed with finding out how the trick works. He seeks out famed inventor Nikola Tesla David Bowie who claims to have developed a teleporter but that the machine doesn't seem to work. Angier discovers that the machine actually does work but as a duplicator, not as a teleporter. Each time the machine is used, it creates a duplicate of the item being teleported and deposits that duplicate elsewhere. Angier obtains a Tesla machine and begins using it in his act, which he calls "The New Transported Man", provoking Borden's interest in learning how Angier is accomplishing his act.

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Sign In Sign In. New Customer? Create account. Jump to Summaries 5 Synopsis 1 Edit. After a tragic accident, two stage magicians in s London engage in a battle to create the ultimate illusion while sacrificing everything they have to outwit each other. Set in London in the s, two rival magicians read each others diary containing the secrets of their magic tricks and personal life.

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Sign In. Edit The Prestige Robert Angier Christian Bale Alfred Borden Michael Caine Cutter Piper Perabo Julia McCullough Rebecca Hall Sarah Scarlett Johansson Olivia Wenscombe Samantha Mahurin Jess David Bowie Tesla Andy Serkis

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As we go back in time when the diaries were written, both magicians become obsessed with their rival's best trick. As Angier walks back through the woods, we revisit the first shot of the movie: a heap of top hats on the forest floor. Alim Kouliev Theater Patron uncredited. Sign In Sign In. Johansson Victoria Wood Yet after a brief meeting they venture out to a balcony, where it is summer, with green foliage, and no breath visible. See the list. A tragic series of events pits the two performers against each other in a battle of wits that spirals further and further out of control, consuming both of them and everything and everyone they care about. Told in a narrative that jumps between various points along its time line, playing out like a magic act itself, the story is that of two magicians on the rise in their careers. Watch The Prestige: 10th Anniversary. When he questions her loyalty, she produces Borden's encrypted diary as proof that she didn't betray him. Featured review. Dancer uncredited.

The Prestige is a psychological thriller film directed by Christopher Nolan , written by Nolan and his brother Jonathan and based on the novel by Christopher Priest. In s London, Robert Angier and Alfred Borden work as shills for a magician, under the mentorship of John Cutter, an engineer who designs stage magic.

They start their own act, with Angier performing as "the Great Danton" a name suggested by his late wife and rejected at the time for being "too French". But magicians have died during the trick because of audience members sticking buttons or their own bullets into the guns. Nolan as Benjamin T. When Borden comes up with an act that he calls "The Transported Man", in which he bounces a ball across the stage before stepping through a door and instantly reappears from a second door on the opposite side of the stage to catch the ball, Angier becomes obsessed with finding out how the trick works. A tragic series of events pits the two performers against each other in a battle of wits that spirals further and further out of control, consuming both of them and everything and everyone they care about. Their marriage is an uneven one, and she claims that when he says that he loves her, she can tell on some days he doesn't mean it. The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Videos Pui Fan Lee Mrs. More like this. Angier finally realizes that the secret of Borden's "Transported Man" was simple: Borden had a twin brother, and they were switching back and forth between the double roles of Borden and Fallon. The Prestige PG 2h 10m. The quotation lends credibility to the characterization of Angier's double as a classical actor, plucked from the ranks of out-of-work actors to play his part.