In the movie The Prestige, two magicians rival over who can perform the best Transported Man illusion.
In the end, Alfred Borden's secret is
that he actually has an identical twin with whom he could perform the trick. He would disappear, his twin would reappear at the other end of the stage.
Robert Angier on the other hand
uses a machine that clones him and transports the clone to the other end of the stage. He drops through a trapdoor to drown below the stage and be disposed of after, while his clone reappears. Next time he does the trick, his clone is the one who drowns and a clone of the clone reappears and so on.
After watching the movie, I asked myself the question:
Why does Robert Angier not use the machine a single time to create a clone of himself and then perform the act together with his clone in a similar fashion to Alfred Borden? That way, he would not have to die every evening and there would not be a body to dispose of after every performance.
The audience would not be able to tell the difference, the sparks the machine creates could still be used only for show and the whole infrastructure of blind stagehands and transportation would be unnecessary.
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