...careful, spoiler coming... who kept dying in the transporting man trick? Hugh Jackman's character, or the clone. Did the one dying know he was going to die? Did I miss the answer in the movie? Help me please...
2007-03-26 14:58:24 · 5 answers · asked by Scott B 7 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
To answer this, you need to know what Tesla's machine did.
We presume that it creates a copy and then sends the copy to the other door. If that's the case, the original dies (by dropping into the water tank). Which means, the next night, the "original" is actually the clone. So, this means that the "real" man dies after the first show.
As a perfect clone, he'd have knowledge of the way the trick works and therefore would know about the death. However, part of this knowing would mean having an understanding that a clone (an exact copy) would live, giving him the knowledge that "he" will continue to live. The scary part is knowing that you would die by drowning. Not fun.
However, if you believe that Tesla's machine transports and leaves a clone in place of where the original was, then the "original" Jackman would live on, since he keeps getting transported.
Despite the fact that this is all fantasy, anyway, this second scenario seems less plausible.
As with other Nolan movies (e.g., Momento), there's a bit of ambiguity.
2007-03-26 15:11:05 · answer #1 · answered by Jay 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They both died at different times. At the end of the movie, I don't think we were seeing Hugh's original character, we were seeing one of the clones. At one point, his character says something along the line of you never knew if you would end up being the one falling through the trap door, or the one finishing the prestige. So, I think it was a clone at the end. Personally, I didn't like the ending to that movie much.
2007-03-26 22:02:25 · answer #2 · answered by Jess 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hugh Jackman died the first night. Hugh's clone died the 2nd night. Hugh's clone's clone died the 3rd night. Every night, the senior clione dies and the new clone is created.
2007-03-26 23:10:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not exactly sure who dies from the cloning. I think it's purposely left ambiguous for the audience to figure out.
2007-03-27 10:23:59 · answer #4 · answered by Bob Mc 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that he kept killing the clones. It wouldn't make sense otherwise. I don't think that they knew. Hi rigged that water tank, so he wouldn't have to deal with them afterward. He learned his lesson with that body-double actor guy.
2007-03-26 22:29:46 · answer #5 · answered by Kat 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋