The Prestige

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  1. 2. Christian Bale and Sir Michael Caine appeared as Bruce Wayne/________ and Alfred Pennyworth respectively in Sir Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight trilogy.
  2. 6. The word "prestige" originally meant a trick, from the Latin "praestigium", meaning "________".
  3. 9. It is hinted at in this movie and confirmed in the novel that the twins are named Albert and Frederick Borden, the ________ of their names becomes "Alfred" Borden.
  4. 11. __________ Tesla was a world-renowned inventor, physicist, and engineer. For a while, he conducted electrical experiments at his lab in Colorado Springs, where he was also known for his eccentric behavior.
  5. 12. First of 4 movies starring Hugh Jackman in 2006. The other three were _________: The Last Stand (2006), Flushed Away (2006) and Happy Feet (2006).
  6. 13. Chung Ling Soo was a stage character created by William Ellsworth Robinson, a white man who disguised himself as a Chinese man to cash in on audiences' enthusiasm for the exotic. Robinson lived as Chung, never breaking character while in public. He died in March 1918, when a bullet-catch trick went wrong. There is doubt about his last words. They were either "My God, I've been shot" or "Oh my God. Something's happened. Lower the curtain." Either way they were both his last words and the first __________ he had spoken on stage in nineteen years.
  7. 15. Early on in the movie, Sarah's nephew asks of the bird, "Where's his _________?"
  8. 16. The editing includes one hundred forty-six time _____ cuts, in which the next shot either flashes back or skips ahead to another time period of the storyline. This averages to almost one timeline jump per minute of movie.
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  1. 1. Alfred Borden takes on the stage name of "The Professor". This is the nickname that was given to many magicians at this time (Professor Hoffman, Professor Otto Hermann, Professor Tucan). Most notably, ______ Vernon bore the nickname, the man many consider to be the best modern-day sleight-of-hand magician.
  2. 3. Root, Angier's on-stage double, announces that he has played Faust and Caesar in the past. Both characters were destroyed by their own __________, as is Angier.
  3. 4. When Alley (Andy Serkis) is introduced, he makes a reference to a magic trick in which one person guesses the item in a person's pocket. The same trick fooled Serkis' character _______ in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012).
  4. 5. The main characters' initials spell "ABRA" (Alfred Borden Robert Angier), as in ___________, a common word used by magicians.
  5. 7. This is one of two Sir Christopher Nolan movies in which a character has a two-headed _______. The other one was The Dark Knight (2008), in which Harvey Dent a.k.a. Two-Face used one to decide his fate or the fate of his victims. Christian Bale played the title Dark Knight (Batman) and Michael Caine played his confidant Alfred.
  6. 8. Andy Serkis played ______ Pennyworth in The Batman (2021).
  7. 9. Bernard Falon is an _________ of Alfred Borden, giving us a hint that both are in fact the same character (twin brothers sharing a unique life). EDIT: It's almost an ________. Bernard Falon has two occurrences of both A and N, whereas Alfred Borden has two occurrences of both D and E.
  8. 10. The use of _______ in a "transported man" magic show was, in fact, quite common when the movie takes place.
  9. 14. When Tesla's machines are being exhibited in the Royal Albert Hall, a man in the audience protests that Tesla's electrical current is unstable. Later in the movie, the same man appears in Colorado Springs as one of Edison's associates, thus proving that magicians are not the only ones who ____ within their rivals' audiences.