2007-07-22 16:51:25 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
Christian Bale has a twin brotehr to help pull off the stunts, whereas Huge Jackman actually made clones of hinself (who were killed off)
2007-07-22 17:08:50 · answer #1 · answered by Experto Credo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Prestige figured out how to clone himself before the other magician did. So he had the best magic tricks, that is why the other magician was jealous. The clone and the original magician played roles in the same life, that is why he had mood changes and his wife left him. So in the end it was the clone that was hung instead of himself, so he survived. Right before they killed him he said abra kadabra, and ended up alive still (the real him), so he made it look like the best magic trick ever made!!!
Sorry it is hard to explain chatting online.
2007-07-23 00:00:47 · answer #2 · answered by Marcus 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One of the magicians was really twins. So when he performed the "Transported Man" his twin was able to fill in for him.
The other magician was able to electronically reproduce a clone of himself. In the illusion he would drown and his body would have to be disposed of. The clone would take his place.
When the first magician discovered the second magician in the tank and tried to rescue him he was accused of and found guilty of murder and later hanged. But his twin survived.
The twin and the magician master conspired to destroy the second magician and his machine.
The movie was probably intended to be confusing as it dealt with illusions.
By the way, most magicians really prefer to be called illusionists. I thought it a very interesting movie. Very good casting.
2007-07-23 00:12:49 · answer #3 · answered by Warren D 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Alfred Borden has a twin, and "lives the act" even at home with his wife and child. He and the twin switch places often, with one portraying the other's assistant Fallon. This also explains why he seems to be two different people around his wife, who kills herself. The machine that Tesla builds for Angier turns out to be a cloning machine, which transports the clone in the process. So, each night Angier uses the machine onstage, he is actually cloning himself, with the copy falling through the trap door into a water tank and drowning. Angier uses this to frame Borden for his murder. Angier takes on the name Lord Caldlow and is granted custody of Borden's daughter after the trial, so apparently, he has suceeded in taking everything from Borden as he set out to do. At this point, Angier is still unaware that Borden has a twin. One of the Borden/Fallon twins is hanged for the crime, while the other returns to shoot Angier, setting fire to his dead body and the duplicating machine. As Angier is dying he states "You don't see where you are, do you?", and, as the fire burns, Borden/Fallon looks around and realizes that he is in the underground holding area for the water tanks with the dead Angier clones inside of them. We are then shown Borden/Fallon reuniting with his daughter who is with Cutter, (who knew that Borden was a twin the entire time). The movie ends with a quick shot of one of the dead clones in a water tank.
2007-07-23 00:05:15 · answer #4 · answered by Chelle 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
This is hilarious. I had to ask the same thing. The first answer is right.
2007-07-23 00:01:23 · answer #5 · answered by Brntte3078 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋