20 Things You Didn't Know About The Prestige

4. The Initials Of The Main Characters Are Hiding A Secret

The Prestige Alfred Borden Robert Angier
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Christopher Nolan loves playing with the names he chooses for his characters.

There's a cool secret behind the character names in Inception, for example, and while The Prestige is based on a novel and thus the director already had his character names spelled out for him, there's still a nifty little magic-related easter egg that reveals itself when you combine the initials of the two main protagonists.

Alfred Borden is "AB", while Robert Angier is "RA". Put those two together, and you get "ABRA", the first four letters of "Abracadabra", a word used by magicians when performing a trick. Abracadabra!

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