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Nikola Tesla: Exact science, Mr Angier, is not an exact science.

This mistake occurs when Borden crashes Angier's act. Borden emerges from the trick door for the Transported Man trick, feigns surprise, and then "discovers" the bound and gagged double suspended above the stage. When Bordon says "Ah, the Great Danton" you can see the ring and pinkie fingers on his left hand moving, even though he had already lost them by this time in the movie. We know that it has to be after the time BOTH twins lost their fingers because Olivia observed Bordens trick and says that "it is the same man" because she was fooled by both Bordens having their gloves stuffed. See more...

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The Prestige (2006) - 10 corrections

Directed by Christopher Nolan, starring Christian Bale, David Bowie, Hugh Jackman, Michael Caine, Scarlett Johansson (add more)

Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-fi, Thriller

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Olivia brings Angier the notebook of Borden and Angier realizes, that it is encoded. "Even with the keyword it would take months to decode it." Furthermore, he admits to Allie in the Colorado Springs restaurant that the cypher changes with each day and is "time consuming to translate". However, after Angier received the keyword ("TESLA"), he can be seen several times reading the notebook in a speedy manner as if he already decoded the whole book. Nevertheless he reacts surprised as if he has never seen the entries when he should have, namely WHILE DECODING the book. The book he reads is actually the original notebook from Borden, not the one he uses to transcribe the translation, which is smaller. [You're basing an awful lot on the statement that Angier is seen reading "in a speedy manner as if he already decoded the whole book. That's quite a big assumption and assumptions rarely form a good basis for a mistake. The simple fact is that there is no concrete evidence that Angier has done any such thing; all the evidence in the film points in the other direction - notably Angier's own statements about the difficulty of the cypher meaning that months would be required to decode it and his evident shock [and subsequent anger at Tesla] when he finally unscrambles the last entries. Decoding the cypher is, as Angier states, a time-consuming business; any sequences involving Angier reading fast can simply be taken as him reading a newly decrypted entry in its entirety, or even reviewing old entries for anything that he might have overlooked, or looking for new revelations in the light of additional information.]

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When Angier asks Nikola Tesla to make him a machine for his magic act, Tesla makes a machine that can exactly duplicate human beings, down to their memories. Why would Nikola Tesla sell this machine to a lowly magician when it could be sold to his government for colossal amounts of money? [How is this a mistake? Tesla's motivations are his own - just because YOU feel that he should sell it to the government, it doesn't make it a mistake that he chooses to honour his deal with Angier, who, as we see in the film, is considerably more than just a lowly magician and undoubtedly compensated Tesla very well for his work.]

Edit Corrected by Tailkinker