Anyone watched the prestige?

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Originally posted by: BlancoNino

Originally posted by: ntdz
Hugh Jackman killed himself every night and recreated himself up above with the machine. So the machine recreated him up above and then he himself fell below into the water so he would die and they wouldn't know his secret.

I don't see how that could work. You don't re-create yourself when you clone yourself...afterall, when he first cloned himself he shot his clone...he didn't turn into his clone.

I think he cloned himself before every performance and had his clone drown (the clone didn't know he was going to drown hence the reason why he struggled) while the real Hugh Jackman appeared on the balcony.

This makes 100x more sense, IMO.

We don't know which one was the clone in the end, and Angier doesn't either.
Angier's quote "I didn't know if I'd be the one (drowning) each day" to Borden during the final minutes of the movie hints at this.

From a technical point of view, both him and his clone would believe they were the real one and both would have knowledge that they were either going to die or survive. The one that would drown would be struggling because...well he didn't want to die.

This clone thing is almost like that one Arnold Schwarzeneggar movie with clones...I forget what it was called.

 

[BlancoNino]

Originally posted by: Lifted
I thought the movie inferred that he killed himself due the line about drowning not being so bad. Hugh though it wouldn't be bad to drown each night (only have to do it once) but you saw him struggling in the tank as he is clearly a gullible fool and drowning SUCKS.

But why would he drown himself? He'd be dead then...he wouldn't take control over his clone. It just doesn't make sense.

 

[Lifted]

Originally posted by: BlancoNino

Originally posted by: Lifted
I thought the movie inferred that he killed himself due the line about drowning not being so bad. Hugh though it wouldn't be bad to drown each night (only have to do it once) but you saw him struggling in the tank as he is clearly a gullible fool and drowning SUCKS.

But why would he drown himself? He'd be dead then...he wouldn't take control over his clone. It just doesn't make sense.

Yeah but his clone IS him, an EXACT clone. So if he is determined enough to kill himself each night to get even, his clone would be too.