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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.

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Sign In. Edit The Prestige Robert Angier Christian Bale Alfred Borden Michael Caine Cutter Piper Perabo Julia McCullough Rebecca Hall Sarah Scarlett Johansson Olivia Wenscombe Samantha Mahurin Jess David Bowie Tesla Andy Serkis Alley Daniel Davis

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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. But of course The second act is called "The Turn". The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary.

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Sign In. Edit The Prestige Robert Angier Christian Bale Alfred Borden Michael Caine Cutter Piper Perabo Julia McCullough Rebecca Hall Sarah Scarlett Johansson Olivia Wenscombe Samantha Mahurin Jess David Bowie Tesla Andy Serkis

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A few nights later, at another performance, Borden sneaks under the stage, as we saw in the prologue, and watches Angier fall through the trapdoor into the tank and drown. Their marriage is an uneven one, and she claims that when he says that he loves her, she can tell on some days he doesn't mean it. With narration by several characters, each adding their own viewpoint to the events, and with a direction that moves between time to mystify and distract, the end result is a climax that itself is a series of puzzles that each unravel beautifully. Storytelling at its best! Edit page. Contribute to this page Suggest an edit or add missing content. Defender Mark Ryan Angier leaves for America to track down Tesla, for the second section of the narrative, while Cutter stays behind. Create account. Borden tells him what he's learned, gives him the rubber ball he sometimes uses for tricks, and tells Fallon to go "live for both of us. Staff Picks: What to Watch in March. Please enable browser cookies to use this feature. Angier and Borden are partners, up-and-comers working for an elderly magician named Milton Ricky Jay.

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Gregory Humphreys Policeman. Tim Pilleri Piano Player 1 uncredited. Alley says he can't help Angier, and Angier heads back to the hotel, disappointed. Please enable browser cookies to use this feature. Christopher Nolan. Alim Kouliev Theater Patron uncredited. See all related lists ». Robert Angier Hugh Jackman , stage name "the Great Danton," attempts a transporting trick that involves walking under a giant electrical machine with a Tesla coil and then disappearing through a trapdoor. New Customer? After whipping out the gun to silence the audience, he asks for volunteers, then hands the gun to a man who is actually a disguised Angier. Lee David Simmons Italian dubbing: Robert Angier uncredited Moira Quirk Alley warns Tesla not to harm the cat. Based on a specific incident during this stage of their relationship led to both Borden and Angier striking out, creating their own shows, and them having a feud, which was not only in the professional realm, but a personal one, where each man wanted to ruin the other. Simmons Mario Vanillo