The story of The Prestige was loosely based on the story of Chung Ling Soo, one of the most famous stage magicians of the 19th century and an utterly shameless race faker (he has a brief cameo in the first act of the movie)https://twitter.com/MarieMyungOkLee/status/1301607543538683910 …
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(Ching Ling Foo had given up on the feud and moved back to China He got shot because he was doing a bullet catch trick and the person in charge of loading the fake bullet fucked it up It's why the first rule of magic is you don't fuck with tricks involving firearms)
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And as a result his whole act became a matter of a police homicide inquiry, which is the whole framing device The Prestige uses
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Was that the famed "guy in audience didn't understand why Magician didn't catch his bullet from the audience" thing?
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A fitting end, I say.
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