The Prestige, was NOT killing his clone....?

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My last question prob wouldn't get answered. Many think that the Wolverine magician was killing his clone, he did ONLY when he shot the first one. But as you can see with the machine, when you walk in, the one in the machine is the original and the clone copy is some other place after being made. So each time he did the magic trick, he would kill himself and his CLONE would be made elsewhere. Then that clone would kill himself and another clone made. So he did not keep killing his clones, they kept killing themselves. Thats also why at the end of the movie he said how it was hard to kill himself each time. The clone would remember the fear of knowing he would drown and that fear and memory was the last thing when the new clone was made.

I don't understand why he kept killing himself. And at the end of the movie, Wolverine wasn't really killed, just clone number 50, 60, however many times the trick was done. The real one was dead after the first trick was performed.

I just watched the movie again and think I finished the puzzle. First, how did Batman know to mention Tesler, he gave his name as they key or his secret. Some said in a book that as a kid he was dropped in one of Teslers machines. If you watched the movie, the 6th day, a clone is NOT the same person, they have the same memories, looks, etc, but a different soul/mind. I think Batman was a clone and they worked together. But even if just brothers, at the end the one alive said he loved Sarah, so it was the girls real father.

As for Wolverine, it def was him killing himself, but he didn't figure it out, he didn't know if it would be him drowning or if he would be the prestige. Poetic justice, he never once got to be the pretige, first it was his double, then he killed himself.

To prove Batmans brother COULD have been a clone and why Wolverines character seemed to have the same personality. if you watch the 6th day, Arnolds cloned character thought it was the ...tobecontinued

Arnolds character /cloned one, thought it was the real one, but at the end you see the real one had decided to clone their pet, while the cloned one decided not too. The cloned one was convinced for most of the movie that is was the real one. When cloned, the memories they have make them seem to have the traits as the original, until after enough time, their different mind kicks in and start to show some uniqueness. Batmans clone if was one, worked together and was alive long enough for personality differenced to kick in.

Answer 1

Correct, the "original" was dying every night. I thought everyone knew that.

Answer 2

He kept killing himself because he couldn't figure out how the other magician was doing his trick with his "machine" .... the whole thing they explain is that the guy never actually invented a machine for Christian Bale's character, when he invented it for Hugh Jackman it was the first time he ever did that. Christian Bale's double was his REAL ACTUAL TWIN, they say that in the end. Watch it again. But it was his actual for real twin, and he cut off his fingers so that they could do their tricks together, and because Hugh Jackman couldn't figure it out, he didn't know any better and didn't know if maybe Christian Bale was killing someone every time or that there were a hundred of him floating out there in the world somewhere. Hugh Jackman kept cloning himself because he didn't realize that he could easily have just done it once, and then created a machine that didn't fully work but created the illusion, and then he could have appeared up on the side and the double could have been underneath. They could have taken turns and everything, just like Christian Bale states he did with his brother - they took turns. Christian Bale had a twin, that's why he says they loved different women - because it wasn't the same man. If he did the cloning thing he would love the same woman because he would be the same man. It's not like the movie Multiplicity with Michael Keaton, where the more of him they are the more they each have their own trait they show, and in a way that makes them all different people... this is two different people, and with Hugh Jackman cloning himself there were really honest to goodness two of himself, so he was killing himself each time. He just didn't figure out a better way to do it, so he kept killing himself.

Answer 3

This trick is 100% realistic. Tesla's machine does not duplicate Angier's (Hugh Jackman) body. Angier uses a double (possibly the double from the door trick) and it basically works just like the doors but with more flair. The flabby-faced man who views the trick along with Cutter (Michael Caine) in the first time we see the trick with Angier says "You have to give [the audience] reason to doubt it."

The scene with supposedly Angier drowning is the 100th show where the double is deliberately drowned to stage Borden (Christian Bale). There were no other drownings. Cutter never knew anything because he was told to stay upfront. All the bodies in the tanks in the basement were fake . . . after all, who's going to see them?

Tesla staged the hats and the cats because he needed more money. There was no way Angier would want doubles of himself walking around - and upstaging him. Tesla just pretended as if the machine was quirky to squeeze more money from Angiers.

Yes, Angiers tried to see what drowning was like by dunking his face in the sink - and obviously it's not the most "going home" experience.

When Angiers explains to Borden about the machine (after being shot) he also mentions that the magician always fools the audience. Angiers was just telling a story and the duplicate that Angiers shot was just all fiction. He wanted to prove that he was the better magician because he didn't use the pathetic "doubles trick" that Borden had utilized for his show. Most likely, because I haven't absolutely nailed down this section, the tanks with the fake bodies were there incase of Borden "visiting" this theatre basement, thereby creating the illusion of this mythical trick.

Answer 4

Hugh Jackman Magician

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Hugh Jackman Magician Movie

Answer 6

Has anyone considered that knowing how Tesla's machine worked, he sent the clone into the machine while he waited up in the balcony? Maybe the clone's clone ended up someplace else. Why would he drown himself when his goal was to be the prestige and not the man in the box that no one cared about?

Answer 7

There is a LOT of discussion on this topic on the imdb.com main details page for this film. There is also an interesting discussion of the subject in the FAQ for the movie. See below.

The reason Angier (Hugh Jackman) kept killing himself was because his rivalry with Borden (Christian Bale) had grown to an all-consuming obsession.

~Note to johngrobmyer~ if I hadn't read that David Bowie was in it, I probably would have puzzled over that for a while too.

Answer 8

sorry dude, that is too complicated with the entire "Clones" hehe. however I do not consider you've got the primary facet proper. Remember within the film that "The Great Danton" mentioned that he not ever knew if it might be him or his clone that might die or are living... so that's that.... :P I needed to watch that film SO typically to check out to determine matters out... and I nonetheless do not comprehend it all :( however I consider that the REAL man used to be the person who used to be left on account that he mentioned whatever to Alfred Borden on the finish proper earlier than the REAL one died... I have no idea.... now I'm fairly harassed approximately this.... I consider I ought to watch it once more!! I'll permit you to realize if I determine whatever else out :)

Answer 9

I agree with you, as I did in your last question as well. Hugh Jackman died the first time he did the trick live.

Edited: This has nothing to do with anything, but it took me awhile to realize that Tesla was David Bowie.

Answer 10

whats the question?