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Sign In. Hugh Jackman Robert Angier. Christian Bale Alfred Borden.

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.

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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. Cutter : Every great magic trick consists of three parts or acts. The first part is called "The Pledge". The magician shows you something ordinary: a deck of cards, a bird or a man. He shows you this object. Perhaps he asks you to inspect it to see if it is indeed real, unaltered, normal. But of course The second act is called "The Turn". The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now you're looking for the secret You don't really want to know.

As Angier walks back through the woods, we revisit the first shot of the movie: a heap of top hats on the forest floor.

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.

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. Cutter : Every great magic trick consists of three parts or acts. The first part is called "The Pledge". The magician shows you something ordinary: a deck of cards, a bird or a man. He shows you this object. Perhaps he asks you to inspect it to see if it is indeed real, unaltered, normal.

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Sign In. Edit The Prestige Robert Angier Christian Bale Alfred Borden Michael Caine Cutter Piper Perabo Julia McCullough Rebecca Hall

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Ball Valerie Dean Top rated movie Angier takes the box back to England and reunites with Cutter. Borden claims to have created a trick that will be his masterpiece. Theatre Patron uncredited. That's why every magic trick has a third act, the hardest part, the part we call "The Prestige". Gehrke Rebecca Edelson Scott Duran Louie Esparza Piper Perabo Julia McCullough. He died in March , when a bullet-catch trick went wrong. Christian Bale Alfred Borden.

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Simmons Mario Vanillo Please enable browser cookies to use this feature. Merrit as W. He's even rigged up his own electric fence. Recently viewed. Create account. The trial does not go well for Borden, and he faces execution. Cutter describes every magic trick as having a three-act structure which consists of the pledge, the turn, and the prestige. In Colorado, Tesla and Alley have been unsuccessfully testing the machine they built for Angier. His lovely assistant is a blonde bombshell named Olivia Wenscombe Scarlett Johansson. Julia McCullough. Lebon uncredited Tim Pilleri Chung Ling Soo was a stage character created by William Ellsworth Robinson, a white man who disguised himself as a Chinese man to cash in on audiences' enthusiasm for the exotic. What were the words mumbled by Root while rehearsing onstage?