Timeline for How did Angier know not to appear in The Prestige?
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| Jan 1, 2018 at 18:30 | comment | added | matt_black | It can't be as simple as not turning on the machine that day as there would be no surviving Angier to appear later. Angier clearly survived and the best explanation was that the cloning worked as normal during that last performance. | |
| May 17, 2013 at 18:59 | comment | added | default locale | @Mistu4u Now that's clearer, thanks. But I thought that copy was as well an individual, not willing to die (taking into account that on each of Angier's performances original Angier died and copy left alive) | |
| May 17, 2013 at 12:16 | comment | added | Mistu4u | @defaultlocale, You got it correct. He used a copy of himself that day and fled away! | |
| May 17, 2013 at 12:14 | history | edited | Mistu4u | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 17, 2013 at 11:30 | comment | added | default locale |
by killing the present in the centre copy of himself I'm not sure I understood that part correctly. Do you mean that Angier made a copy of himself and somehow persuaded him(copy) to commit a suicide?
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| Jan 23, 2013 at 13:08 | history | edited | Mistu4u | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 23, 2013 at 13:02 | comment | added | Mistu4u | @ChristianRau, Thanks for the correction. But I am not convinced that the machine worked necessarily that day. What I am trying to say is Angier intentionally did not make the machine work when he saw Borden on-stage believing he would surely visit. He made it look like the machine worked, but in reality it didn't and so no clone was made that day. | |
| Jan 23, 2013 at 8:46 | comment | added | Napoleon Wilson | Though I don't remember this myself, Wikipedia says "He recognises Angier, who admits he has always been Lord Caldlow, but pretended to be the American Robert Angier, to spare his family the embarrassment of his theatrical career." So it didn't take much time or effort to establish the role of Lord Caldlow, as that has always existed. He didn't have that much time either. So I don't think the machine didn't work that day, he just didn't reappear. | |
| Jan 23, 2013 at 5:59 | history | answered | Mistu4u | CC BY-SA 3.0 |