6/22/2023 0 Comments Priest the prestigePriest builds the tension nicely, with the added impetus - absent from the film version - of the story's present- day element, in which the magicians' descendants struggle to make sense of their fraught and ultimately violent legacy. With neither able to believe the evidence of their eyes, they are put in the same open-mouthed position as their audiences. But what really fuels their mutual obsession with one another is their inability to see how the other pulls off the 'prestige' - the moment at which the trick is finally effected. Soon, they are both attempting to confound audiences with their feats of 'bilocation' - the ability to appear in two places at the same time. But, far from being a straightforward account of the triumphs of a magician celebrated for his illusions 'The New Transported Man', Borden's book is something far more sinister: the tale of an anguished rivalry with Rupert Angier, an aristocratic amateur whom Borden first encounters fabricating sensational stunts at seances. When struggling journalist Andrew Westley receives a mysterious book in the post - the memoirs of Alfred Borden, the self-styled 'Professeur de Magie' - his interest is piqued not least because he was adopted at birth, and one of the few things he knows about his birth family is that they were called Borden.
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