Talk:The Prestige

message: "It is discovered in the final chapter that the reconstructed Angier has continued to survive to the present day."
I'm not sure that this is the case. I understood from the book that the Angier present at the end was the noncorporeal version due to the description of his appearance his whisper-like voice. There is definitely ambiguity here so perhpas this sentence should be rewritten in some way to reflect this.
- Bill 11:34am 07/03/07 (GMT)
:Agreed. Maybe reword as 'some form of Angier has continued to survive' or similar? Johno000 10:51, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Good choice of words, I think, John. I have altered the text using them.
- Bill 16:11, 27/04/07 (GMT) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 213.143.134.123 (talk) 15:11, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Reconstructed Angier:

message: While it does seem that there are two Borden twins, Angier notes in his diary that he searched the birth records and could only find one birth certificate.  Are we to believe that Borden had the other destroyed? 72.72.17.94 06:10, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, you have to remember that the whole deception is Borden's Life, just like the Chinese guy pretended he couldn't walk all his life, Borden pretends that he isn't a twin, all his life. Mbatman72 05:18, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Borden's twin 

message: The junk-science Bermuda Triangle for the ignorant. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.176.5.79 (talk) 14:01, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry? Gravitor 08:26, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Tesla]], [[Area-51]], and the [[Sphinx]] 

message: When was it written? cyclosarin 18:24, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Uh... 

message: If I remember correctly, the beginning and end of the book has that lady/descendant of Angier and the last surviving member of the Bordens... Although it isn't really significant and was left out in the movie. (can't remember the names)
Istillcandream 02:34, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  What happened to the beginning? 

message: I added the infobox, but I have no idea what genre this book is, among other things, like 1st edition information required... see notes in the edit window. – Kerαunoςcopia◁galaxies 05:53, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infobox 

message: It should be mentioned in the plot section that the Tesla invention is not just electrical "fireworks" in order to make the performance spectacular, with dolls and look-alikes acting as a person and his clone (as would be the case in a theatrical magic show, of course).
If I got it right the premises of the story is that actually clones were made by "The Tesla Machine". This classifies the story as not about "real humans", real performers, prestidigitateurs, but about a fantasy-univers. It appears that the author got prizes for writing fantasy, which corroborates this perception of the category of the novel.
The setup as a epistolary story (diary / letter - based) is a way to make things more plausible, therefore it is much more relevant to point out in the introduction that it is a "fantasy" category story. However, I don't know the correct words for that, so I have only added // fantasy-novel // in parenthesis to the introduction.d-axel (talk) 17:59, 22 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  What does the book postulate about the Tesla "Invention"? 

message: "The clone has to be murdered every night by plunging it into a water-tank below the stage and leaving it to drown."  I believe it is the original that is drown -- the clone appears offstage.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jmatxx (talk • contribs) 07:52, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Film: Who is the clone