I watched The Prestige the day before yesterday. I was really suprised at how good it was. A movie about battling magicians didn't sound very good at first so I wasn't too interested in watching, but the sci-fi stuff definitely gave it an interesting edge (and of course Hugh Jackman was in it :drool). The acting was great too.
Some questions I had about the movie though, if anyone can answer:
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Why did Christian Bale's character give Jackman the name "Tesla" and then act so suprised to see a clone of Jackman later? Bale must of known about the cloning process in order to tell Jackman the name Tesla, right?
Also, was Bale's "brother" really his twin brother or actually just a clone? This never made much sense either, because Jackman was all like "Twin Brother!" at the end, even though he know Bale gave him Tesla's name for the machine. So that made no sense. Also, the "brother" had to cut his fingers off to look like his counterpart. Then again, I rationalized that Bale could of made his clone before losing his fingers, and that didn't necessarily mean that it was his twin brother.
I don't know if I'm even making sense anymore, lol.
Shit movie. Too fucking predictable.
Really, is there a reason for you to exist in my reality?
And Catz
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Borden/Fallon saw Angier at the Tesla exhibition earlier. I always thought that he gave him that hint as a red herring to occupy his time, and it just happened to work out the way it did. As far as I can tell, Borden and Fallon were actually twins.
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- Borden has a twin, plain and simple
- Borden never met Tesla, nor did Tesla build anything for him. He saw Angier at the expo, at Tesla's show, and used that for his wild goose chase
- Just by sheer luck or by Tesla's brilliance was he actually able to build Angier a machine, which cloned him
- Angier killed himself every show via drowning, while the clone became the prestige/the new Angier
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So it was just some wild coincidence that Tesla actually *could* clone, lol. Well, that is a bit deux ex machina, eh?
Movie was okay.
Hey look another twist... no wait another... wait I know you know another one is coming... here it is... okay another one... but that is it... okay one more... wait... here's one more... and... another
That would've been okay if it wasn't so fucking predictable.
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Once he copied the hats, you knew exactly what the fuck was going on.
Movie was okay.
Hey look another twist... no wait another... wait I know you know another one is coming... here it is... okay another one... but that is it... okay one more... wait... here's one more... and... another
That would've been okay if it wasn't so fucking predictable.
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Once he copied the hats, you knew exactly what the fuck was going on.
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Yeah I thought it would have been better if we didn't see the cat clone or hats, obviously we knew what was up after that
I'll add some thoughts.
More than just the difference between the two magicians, and inhuman vs human, in the end they both have to sacrifice. Getting back to the overbearing bird theme in the movie, they both squash the bird so to speak. But they don't let anyone know, because that would ruin it, that would hurt Borden's daughter. So they keep the lie/illusion to the grave. Angier's isn't inhuman all the way, he avoids squashing the dove, but eventually turns. BUT they both turn by making themself the bird, and sacrificing themselves, which is a whole idea of itself.
And there were more than two twists. Beside the two magician's prestiges at the end:
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There was the whole twist with the Tesla journal and how the girl turned on him.
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I figured Borden had a twin when he started up the Transported Man trick and Cutter said the only way was a double AND his seemingly dual personality that Sarah kept going on about.