20 Things You Somehow Missed In The Prestige
18. A Summer Form Of Winter
When Robert Angier travels to Colorado Springs in search of Nikola Tesla (David Bowie) - the one man who might be able to help him in outdoing Alfred Borden - much is made of the magician travelling during winter and out of season when vacationers are at a minimum.
However, in the very first sequence, in which we see Angier's train weaving its way across the rugged mountain landscape, there is hardly a drop of snow in sight. Then, when he reaches Colorado Springs, the entire city is blanketed in snow, as is a field where Alley (Andy Serkis) shows Angier a range of lights that Tesla is testing to demonstrate that electric lights do not need wires to be able to function.
The winter setting is then temporarily maintained until Angier visits Tesla's foreboding mountainside retreat, where the inventor conducts his experiments whilst fending off the agents of his rival, Thomas Edison. However, when Tesla invites Angier onto the veranda for tea and to discuss the project that Angier wants him to undertake, it is suddenly very balmy weather once again, even though they are up in the mountains. When Angier leaves and throughout his remaining stay in Colorado Springs, it is then winter again.
Perhaps Tesla was also working on a weather machine?