After reading the answer to this question: Why doesn't Borden know which knot he tied?, in which Angler was told by the wrong twin which knot resulted in his wi
To set up his ultimate act of revenge in The Prestige, Angier (played by Hugh Jackman) asks his ingenue Cutter (Michael Caine) to help him book a spectacular ve
At the end of The Prestige, one of the Borden twins shoots Angier. Angier reveals that he's a magician for the approval of the audience. He loves to hear the pe
In The Prestige, when Angier visits Borden in prison, he asks him: Don't they know you can't escape without your rubber ball? (As can be seen in this clip
In the movie The Prestige, Borden's big magic trick relies on ensuring that everyone thinks that Borden is just one person but in reality they are twins. T
A key event in The Prestige involves magician Borden precipitating the death of his colleague's wife Julia by incorrectly tying a knot during an elaborate magic
Throughout the movie the two rival magicians perform a number of magic trick performances and during each performance both Borden and Angier call for the audien
In the movie The Prestige, Angier with the help of Tesla introduces a machine that can clone whatever falls into it in his performance. However, we also know th
This is what Angier says to Borden when the latter asks him "What do you know about sacrifice?": "It takes courage to walk into the machine..
In The Prestige, Angier and Borden's rivalry seems to be inspired by The War of the Currents. Are there any parallels between the characters of Angier and Borde
Most of the story is about two people reading each other diary, which is itself conceived as a "trap" or a "trick" for the other magician. It
Both The Illusionist and The Prestige are about turn of the century performing magicians, and were released not even two months apart from eac
In the scene where Borden was performing a bullet catch trick he gave the gun to an audience member. So, he was really expecting the audience member to shoot th
In The Prestige (2006), there is a magic trick in which a bird is made to disappear and it is revealed that the bird is secretly killed by crushing it flat to m
In The Prestige, Angier & Cutter take Fallon prisoner and bury him in a coffin, as hostage for Borden's secret. Borden comes and hands over the key to the
In "The Prestige", why does Borden keep saying (in the diary as well as to Angier) that he doesn't know which knot he tied at the scene where Julia drowns? It
When Borden is in prison in The Prestige, he receives an offer to sell his secret. Eventually he does so, but to his suprise the purchaser is Angier who
I have read other answers about this but there're still one thing on my mind that was not satisfied. Assuming Angier had achieved perfect clon
At the beginning of The Prestige, Cutter tells the court that he caught Borden backstage watching Angier drown. But at the end of the movie, it's clear that Bor
Borden sent Angier to Tesla as a misleading fake clue, but why did Tesla knew about the machine Angier was talking about if it was just Borden's crazy idea to m