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In Reply to: RE: He needed exactly 100, for each of his final 100 shows posted by geiss on September 13, 2007 at 09:17:41
I agree that movies should not be limited to reality but this movie was very careful to have a rational explanation for each and every magic trick. Cloning is not a rational explanation. My interpretation is that Algier's first test of the device was not shown, and simply resulted in his realization that he had been tricked by Tesla. At that point, he would not have given up. He was obsessed and would go to any length to outdo Borden and ruin Borden's life. The very reason he hooked up with Tesla in the first place was because Borden tricked him, not because Tesla could build anything magical.
During the final conversation between Borden and Algier, as they're talking, the screen shows all those hats piled up outside Tesla's workshop. This is a big clue. Were those hats cloned or not? It's absolutely up to each viewer to decide but I do think one interpretation is correct and one is incorrect.
I wonder if the book makes it clearer.
-------------"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back." -Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982)
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"You can safely assume you have created God in your own image when he hates all the same people you do."
Do the magicians ever reveal their real secrets in the journal entries?
Consider that, at the film's critical moment in Angier's diary when he steps into the machine for the first time, he ends his account of what happens. That's significant. He does not lie about what happened but instead simply stops telling his story before his secret is revealed.
-------------"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back." -Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982)
-------------"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back." -Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982)
and simply resulted in his realization that he had been tricked by Tesla."
LOL! Man, are you reaching.
"You can safely assume you have created God in your own image when he hates all the same people you do."
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