The Prestige movie

Robert and Alfred are rival magicians. When Alfred performs the ultimate magic trick, Robert tries desperately to find out the secret to the trick.

The Prestige is a 1995 novel by British writer Christopher Priest. The novel is epistolary in structure; that is, it purports to be a collection of real diaries that were kept by the protagonists and later collated. The title derives from the novels fictional practiceChristopher Priest states he created the terms in 1995. of stage illusions having three parts: the setup, the turn (in which an ordinary object does something extraordinary, such as disappear) and the prestige, or payoff (when the ordinary object is restored through extraordinary means).The novel received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for best fiction and the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel.SynopsisAlfred Borden and Rupert "Robbie" Angier rise to become world-renowned stage magicians.

Early in their careers, they meet and a bitter feud develops as they constantly try to out-do, and even sabotage, the others acts. The frame story involves the great-grandchildren of Borden and Angier and their investigations into how their own lives have been affected by their ancestors conflict. The events of the past are revealed primarily through each of the magicians diaries.Borden develops an act called The Transported Man, and an improved version named The New Transported Man, which appears to move him from one closed cabinet to another in the blink of an eye and without appearing to pass through the intervening space. The act seems to defy physics and puts all previous acts to shame. Over the course of the diaries we learn Alfred Borden is actually identical twin brothers, Albert and Frederick. Both men are living the life of Alfred, committed to maintaining their secret to ensure their professional success with The New Transported Man.

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The Prestige Cast

• Andy Serkis
• Christian Bale popular
• Christopher Neame
• Daniel Davis
• David Bowie
• Jamie Harris
• Jim Piddock
• Mark Ryan
• Michael Caine
• Piper Perabo
• Rebecca Hall
• Roger Rees
• Samantha Mahurin
• Scarlett Johansson popular