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Martin

This is truly a fantastic film, I'm so happy you got to see this one. Everyone who died, falling into the water tanks, were not trained actors....they were all Danton. Replicas of Danton. The machine Tesla built actually duplicates anything put inside it & they appear a certain distance, as opposed to being purely a teleporter. The hats & the cats were earlier examples of the duplicating process. Danton was replicating & killing himself, on a regular basis, waiting & hoping for Alfred to appear. Oh yes, Alfred is also the name of Batman's butler Michael Caine plays 😆 the actors swapped names here. And I just remembered Andy Serkis (Gollum) also played Alfred in The Batman movie that came out earlier this year. But yeah, this film is top notch. Just think, how you felt about Alfred earlier in the movie vs the end, and Danton too. Absolutely one of the most mind playing, intriguing films I've ever seen.

Raga G

To add to Martin’s explanation above, while Tesla’s machine would create a clone (duplicate) of anyone who used it on themselves, albeit at a distance, the consciousness of the “original” might not always stay in the original’s body and could end up getting transferred to the cloned body. (Another, perhaps easier, way to think about it is that you can’t know ahead of time which one is the original and which one is the clone/duplicate.) So, every night, when Danton used the machine on himself, his original body would fall through the trapdoor into the tank and drown, while his cloned body would appear as “The Prestige”. HOWEVER, whether it was suicide or murder would depend on which body his consciousness ended up in! Now, the final bit of dialogue (reproduced below in part) between Borden/Fallon and Danton should make much more sense: Alfred Borden / Bernard Fallon: Sacrifice, Robert - that’s the price of a good trick. But you wouldn’t know anything about that, would you? Robert “Danton” Angier: I’ve made sacrifices… Yes. Alfred Borden / Bernard Fallon: It takes nothing to steal another man’s work. Robert “Danton” Angier: It takes everything. [Flashback to Danton cloning himself for the first time using Tesla’s machine and then he immediately shoots and kills the clone.] Robert “Danton” Angier: It took courage to climb into that machine every night, not knowing, if I’d be the man in the box, or the prestige. Do you want to see what it cost me? You didn’t see where you are, did you? Look. Look. [He jerks his head towards the numerous tanks of water containing the dead bodies of all his clones - but we are only shown one in the final shot of the film.] It was cool that the first living thing they used to demonstrate what Tesla’s machine did was a cat, because, you know, Schrödinger!

Sincerely, K.S.O.

Ohhhh my. So Tesla didn’t know because the duplicates were outside. Omgggg. That explains that scene. My mind was all over the place. I thought they were the burnt hats kept outside. Wowwwww

Martin

Yeah, I definitely think the "original" Danton is the one going through the trapdoor. Eternally the man in the box, his double always the prestige.