Angier is the other main character, played by Hugh Jackman, also looking to become the single greatest magic act. Initially, Bordon and Angier are part of the same team, with Cutter leading them. It all goes well until Borden and Julia decide to take a risky decision on the type of knot he will tie on her wrist. Notice in this scene, Julia gives Borden a nod indicating that he should tie the Langford double knot.
The Langford double knot swells underwater, and Julia is unable to free her wrists. She drowns and dies before Cutter can break the glass.
One of the Borden twins tied a different knot on stage. This is shown in the end, but the other twin also has to cut his fingers off to continue playing the same persona.
This causes the entire set of shows to be cancelled. One of the Bordon twins meets a girl, Sarah played by Rebecca Hall , and falls in love.
The two of them have a baby. When the other Borden twin is with her, she feels a coldness that she cannot explain. One day, Angier follows Bordon and realizes he has been living happily with a family, the happiness that was stolen from Angier.
Finally, the two Bordens put their biggest weapon to use—they devise the Transported Man trick. They do this interchangeably. This stuns Angier and Cutter as they have no idea how Borden is accomplishing a trick this magnificently. Unable to figure out how Bordon is doing his trick, Cutter suggests using a double. They meet a man called Gerald Root who looks like Angier. In retaliation, Borden tracks down Root and gets him extra drunk. That evening, Borden sabotages the show by moving the bed where Angier lands — this causes Angier to break his leg.
She grows fond of Angier and falls in love with him. Olivia is heartbroken and decides to side with Borden. While one of the Borden twins is married to Sarah, the other falls in love with Olivia. He instructs Olivia to hand it to Angier, claiming she stole it. Angier believes her. Borden tricks Angier into thinking the secret to his Transported Man is the scientist, Tesla. In reality, Tesla is only the key to the cypher. Bordon has planned to send Angier on a wild goose chase all the way to America.
Bordon never imagines that Tesla would lead to anything. While Angier is away, Borden plans to dominate the magic show scene as he would be without any competition. However, the device ends up creating a clone in an area far outside the house. The beginning of the movie The Prestige shows a whole bunch of hats. We go back to that scene when Angier stumbles upon his many hat clones and the original cat and its clone.
Specifically, Borden, all he knew he was doing was sending Angier far away with a fake diary. Borden expected Angier to return empty-handed after spending a ton of money. Angier uses the machine on himself, knowing that the result will be a clone that spawns outside the device; Angier keeps a gun for this result by his side.
Soon as the clone appears, Angier kills him. Based on this, Angier constructs his act of The Transported Man as follows:. He is willing to sacrifice himself to a terrible death each day just so that he can put on a brilliant show. He resides in Atlanta with his wife and their dog Jack.
Image via Warner Bros. Share Share Tweet Email. Matt Goldberg Articles Published. Read Next in movies. On stage, one brother is located in each wardrobe. They take the deception so seriously that, when one brother loses a couple of fingers from a gunshot wound, the other cuts off his fingers to match. In essence, there is nothing flashy about Borden's approach here — the trick is grounded and straight to the point, backed up by the Borden twins' painstaking approach to detail.
On the other hand, Angier's mission to master The Transported Man takes him stateside to meet the famed inventor and engineer Nikola Tesla.
He believes that Tesla built a transportation machine for Borden - a belief that quickly turns out to be false - but Tesla still manages to build a transportation machine for Angier. This machine duplicates any object or living being placed inside and drops the copy a short distance away, meaning each time the trick is performed, Angier is cloned.
This means the original Angier falls through a trap door into a water tank and drowns each time the trick is performed, with the new duplicate appearing somewhere in the theater to delight Angier's audiences. The trick, or more accurately Faustian-style bargain, is what finally earns Angier's the audience's adoration, which is what his character has long been searching for. In short, Alfred and Fallon Borden don't technically exist, instead acting as two separate identities taken on by a set of twin brothers.
As one brother says in the film, they live two halves of a full life. They're so dedicated to this craft that they each sacrifice a potentially well-rounded life in order to succeed in their chosen career.
To keep up with the ruse successfully pulling off The Transported Man, each twin takes turns alternately playing Borden and his stage engineer and right-hand man Fallon. Each brother lives different lives when portraying Alfred. One is madly in love with Sarah, the woman with whom they marry and have a child with.
The other is in love with their assistant Olivia Scarlett Johansson and treats Sarah cruelly. Borden's wildly contradictory behavior actually clues in Sarah to the fact that he is two people. When one twin is wrongfully tried and hanged for the assumed death of Angier, his rival believes he's finally beaten Borden once and for all.
This is not the case when the surviving twin finds and fatally shoots Angier, as both he and the audience realize that Borden successfully pulled off The Transported Man for years by being one half of a set of twin brothers.
In essence, Angier was so caught up with the big picture that he failed to look for one of the most obvious answers, mirroring the audience's journey through Christopher Nolan's film.
The Prestige 's opening monologue describes the three acts of a magic trick, while also cleverly foreshadowing the structure of the film. The first act of a trick, the pledge, shows you something ordinary. The second act, the turn, makes it do something extraordinary, such as disappearing. The third act is called the prestige: it brings back the object - or in this case, person - that disappears.
The film's final scene shows how both men pulled off their own prestige as all is revealed when the surviving Borden twin shoots Angier. Angier immediately realizes Borden was portrayed by twins, and, with his dying breaths, reveals his own secret to Borden.
Angier so desperately wanted to be the best and dazzle his audience that he sacrificed himself to do so.
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