History Fridge / ThePrestige

* Cutter insisting the trick can only be done by a BodyDouble is him understanding that StatingTheSimpleSolution is an OccamsRazor element. Angier wants there to be a grandiose and ridiculous reason for the trick because it justifies his hated rivalry versus something very easy that almost anyone could guess (even if TheTwist is impressive). Cutter as the most experienced magician among them knows that stage magic is never as impressive once explained as the reality.

** When Olivia begins working for Borden as a spy for Angier, she comes to believe Borden's trick is accomplished using a double, because she sees makeup and wigs lying around. Angier thinks that these are plants by Borden as misdirection for her. Olivia's theory was accurate, [[RightForTheWrongReasons but not in the way she expected]]: the makeup and wigs aren't for Borden's double, but for the brother posing as Fallon.

** Borden shows Sarah the trick behind the bullet catch and she immediately says that the simpleness of the trick is disappointing. Borden is a bit annoyed by that reaction.

** Angier's first version of the Transported Man involve him getting an imperfect double, which causes the trick to ultimately break down.

* Angier's insistence that The Transported Man trick is more complex than a simple body double is not only due to how identical the Borden that emerges from the box is to the one that goes in the other box, but the fact that Cutter demonstrated a way to pull off the disappearing/reappearing bird trick (essentially a smaller version of The Transported Man that normally uses two identical birds) with only one bird, using a spring loaded mechanism to drag the bird out of the cage before it is crushed. Angier most likely assumed (at least initially) that Borden was using a larger version of the mechanism to move himself between the boxes.

** When watching the same dove trick, Sarah's nephew calls one bird the "brother" of the other. Borden's version of the Transported Man trick involves brothers acting as doubles of each other.

** When Sarah tells Borden that she's pregnant, he immediately says that Fallon should have been there to hear the news. In the same scene, Sarah notes that Borden doesn't love her today, because the brother playing Fallon is the one who loves her and is most likely the real father.

* There are parallels between Julia and [[spoiler: the many clones of Angier]] who die by drowning ([[spoiler: Angier]] felt guilty and wanted to experience what Julia had experienced in her last moments) and Sarah and [[spoiler: Frederick Borden]] who die by hanging ([[spoiler: This twin]] was indirectly responsible for causing Sarah's suicide).

** More importantly, one can onlybrace themselves for what is bound to eventually happen if ''the machine'' survives the fire fine and working...