How did Cutter know Angier's method?
About half way through The Prestige the court magistrate meets with John Cutter in Angier's warehouse. Cutter tells the magistrate that he can't let Lord Cawdlow take Robert's machine, that it is too dangerous. He says that it wasn't built by a magician but by a wizard and that there was no trick behind it.
During the show Robert Angier went to great lengths to conceal the method from Cutter and indeed later when they meet he seems shocked that Angier is still alive.
So how did Cutter know that the machine was dangerous?
Best Answer
Cutter can't know that the machine is a clone and a teleporting machine, he only knows that it teleports. If he did know that it clones, he wouldn't have testified against Borden, and also wouldn't be surprised that Cadlow was "Angier". He knows that the machine is dangerous because he believes that Borden must have done something to it when Cutter saw him below the stage. Otherwise it doesn't make since. Any other ideas?
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Did cutter know about angiers trick?
It was never revealed how Cutter found out there was a twin. Angier showed Cutter the trick only after he was duped into meeting him, so he tells Cutter the truth. However at that point no one knows of the twin. So the reason is that Cutter is mad at Angier because he let someone die?How did Angier do his trick?
In a nutshell, Angier believes that Tesla built a machine for Borden, and he demands that the inventor replicate it. Tesla finally relents, and creates a machine that allows Angier to clone himself. Finally, Angier can pull off his magic trick. Each night, he clones himself on stage by stepping into Tesla's machine.Why didnt Angier just clone himself once?
Angier's mistake was twofold: First, he didn't think through his plan before creating his duplicate, which means that he could never be sure that the duplicate would believe in that plan since it'd be developed after the point of divergence; he didn't resolve (as Borden did) that the two would work together as equals, ...Why did Angier drown himself?
Angier lost himself after Julia died, and Cutter (Michael Caine) did tell him drowning feels like "going home," so it could be each time he opts to die is like a reunion with his true love.The Prestige: Tesla was an actor
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As we clearly see in the movie it just took seconds for Cutter to find Borden's transportation magic. I think, though Angier kept Cutter out of the back stage, he was managing the things left by him. So he could have easily found the trick behind the magic which was real science. It's the curiosity of a magician.
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