Borden tells Olivia that he never loved Sarah, and that he loves her more. He advises Angier to destroy it, saying it will bring him only misery.īorden's wife, Sarah, is driven to suicide by his contradictory personality, alternately loving and cold. Tesla is driven from Colorado Springs by agents of his rival, Thomas Edison, but has the machine delivered to Angier. Tesla builds a machine for Angier, but instead of teleporting objects, Tesla's machine duplicates anything placed inside it a short distance away. Angier finishes reading the diary, where Borden reveals that he has no connection to Tesla, and that he faked his diary in order to send Angier on a wild goose chase. Tesla warns Angier about the dangers of obsession, but agrees to create the machine for him. The diary takes Angier to America to meet scientist Nikola Tesla, who Angier believes built a teleportation machine for Borden. Angier acquires the keyword to decode it, "TESLA", by threatening to kill Fallon. Confronted by Angier, Olivia gives him a copy of Borden's encoded diary. With her help, Borden sabotages Angier's act, crippling his leg in the process. However, Olivia falls in love with Borden and becomes his assistant. Obsessed with figuring out Borden's trick, Angier has his assistant, Olivia, spy on Borden to learn how he performs the Transported Man. Root threatens to blackmail Angier and Cutter after being approached by Borden.
The imitation is a greater success, but Angier is dissatisfied, as he ends the trick hidden under the stage while Root basks in the applause. Unable to discern Borden's method, Angier hires a double, Gerald Root, to perform his own version of the trick. Borden develops a trick he calls the Transported Man, in which he appears to travel instantly between two wardrobes on opposite ends of the stage. Borden reciprocates by sabotaging Angier's disappearing bird act, killing the bird on stage and injuring a volunteer from the audience. Angier sabotages one of Borden's performances when he slips a real bullet into Borden's pistol during a bullet-catch trick, resulting in Borden losing two of his fingers. The two become bitter enemies and rivals.Īngier and Borden launch their own magic careers, with Angier working with Cutter, and Borden with the mysterious Fallon. When Angier asks Borden which knot he used, Borden claims not to know. Angier, devastated, blames Borden for using a riskier knot, causing her death.
During a water tank trick, Angier's wife Julia fails to escape and drowns. In 1890s London, Robert Angier and Alfred Borden work as shills for a magician under the mentorship of John Cutter, an engineer who designs stage magic. It received Academy Award nominations for Best Art Direction and Best Cinematography. The Prestige was released on October 20, 2006, to positive reviews and grossed $109 million worldwide against a production budget of $40 million. The film reunites Nolan with actors Bale and Caine from Batman Begins and returning cinematographer Wally Pfister, production designer Nathan Crowley, and editor Lee Smith. It also stars Scarlett Johansson, Michael Caine, Piper Perabo, Andy Serkis, Rebecca Hall, and David Bowie as Nikola Tesla. The film stars Hugh Jackman as Robert Angier and Christian Bale as Alfred Borden. Obsessed with creating the best stage illusion, they engage in a competitive rivalry, with tragic results. It follows Robert Angier and Alfred Borden, rival stage magicians in London at the end of the 19th century. The Prestige is a 2006 science fantasy psychological thriller film directed by Christopher Nolan from a screenplay by Nolan and his brother Jonathan, based on the 1995 novel of the same name by Christopher Priest.
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