Revealing mistake: When one twin (presumably Alfred) is removing the other twin's fingers, "Alfred's" upper arm passes through his twin's head as "Alfred" reaches for the hammer. [Fixed on DVD.]
The Prestige (2006)
Plot summary
Directed by: Christopher Nolan
Starring: Michael Caine, Scarlett Johansson, Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, David Bowie
Alfred Borden is accused of killing Robert Angier when he dies during the execution of an amazing trick, "The Transported Man." These obsessively rival magicians' adversity begins when Borden mistakenly kills Angier's wife during a dangerous magic act. Each tries to hurt or kill the other through their own tricks, and each tries to one-up the other. Angier becomes a very successful magician, but only by copying Borden's greatest trick, "The Transported Man." Angier does it using a double, but no one knows how exactly Borden does it. The key to the whole mystery seems to be an inventor located deep in the Rocky Mountains, Nikola Tesla.
Joel Buhiire
More mistakes in The Prestige
Ackerman: We'll have to dress it up a little. Disguise it. Give them enough reason to doubt it.
Trivia: The "Chinaman" in the movie was based on a real-life magician. He wasn't Asian at all, he just dressed and lived the part. The first English he ever spoke in his career were his last words. When a bullet catch went awry, he uttered the words, "My God, I've been shot" just before his death.
Question: When Borden and Fallon are in the same scene, is someone else playing Fallon? Or does Christian Bale play both, the same way Arnie Hammer did on Social Network?
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Answer: It's Bale, at least whenever you can see Fallon's face. The same way they do twins played by the same person in any other film.
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