It was extraordinarily rundown and used mainly to house the workers of the theater and surrounding shops. This is where Alfred Borden lived. Julia took a deep breath and knocked on the door. Seconds later it was answered, Borden appeared in his work clothes a slightly wrinkled blue cotton shirt sleeves rolled up to his elbows, and brown cotton pants, his hair was combed.
Julia was utterly astounded it was as if he was expecting her. She took a deep breath and asked politely "Mr. Borden I do apologize for the early hour but I was hoping we could talk about-" Borden held up his right hand and replied courteously "This is about the Langford Double isn't?
Behind him there was a table with a pale blue silk scarf draped on it, he went over to it. With a flourish he lifted the scarf up, underneath, sat a large tank filled with water. Julia clapped and said impressed "Brilliant!
So for the next week she routinely would sneak out well before sunrise go to Borden's room and they would practice her slipping the difficult knot. Julia was very impressed by Borden's professionalism. Behind the cool and aloof exterior he showed the outside world in their practices he was kind and attentive to her and never once made un-wanted advances.
If not married she might of taken to being his mistress. Julia knew what she was doing was risky and dangerous the fact that she was keeping her early morning practices a secret from Robert didn't make her feel any better. Yet despite the risk she knew this was something she had to do not only to prove to herself she could do it but she wanted to prove it to the world and to her husband. Friday finally came and Julia was nearly bursting with anticipation.
After a whole week of practice she was absolutely certain she could un-due a Langford Double. Twenty minutes before they were to go on stage there was a knock on her dressing room door. Julia opened it, and was un-surprised to discover Borden standing in the door way.
He asked confirmedly "Julia are you certain you want me to tie a Langford? As soon as she finished there was another knock on her door. Utterly annoyed Julia threw open the door prepared to give Borden a firm tongue lashing. More FS Movie News ». View all Movies Sites. More TV News ». More FS Entertainment News ». View all TV Shows Sites. More Reality TV News ». View all Celebrities Sites. More Fantasy News ». More Gaming News ».
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View all Our Sites. When Borden ties the knot on Juiia the night she drowns, it's Freddie performing. He shares that significant glance with Julua, which tells us that he ties the Langford Double. And she wasn't able to untie it, as Michael Caine had predicted. When Angier goes to Borden's magic show. Alfred is performing that night. Angier holds the gun on him: he still doesn't know, doesn't have any better answer for Angier. So Angier shoots him.
This is kind of a cruel irony: the one who didn't do it is shot as punishment. But that means Freddie has to bite down on the stick and take the maiming in cold blood it's Freddie whose fingers are "still bleeding".
Nazgul's answer here about who's who is right on the money, as I see it, though I differ with him in that I think the twins discussed it a lot.
They fought about it. When Alfred tells us he's "asked himself" a thousand times which knot he tied, those discussions wouldn't have been any less heated. Nazgul also observes that Freddie is less mature than Alfred, and I think that's important. Freddie ties the Langford; Alfred gets shot in consequence.
Freddie starts the affair with Scarlett; Alfred loses his wife in consequence. So anyway: that's it. The smart one "Freddie" tied the knot; the nice one "Alfred" faced the questions.
Offscreen they had many an argument about it, going over the events again and again. Freddie always insisted he tied the right knot, the simple slip. Alfred didn't believe him. As if it's more important that Alfred loses someone than it is that Sarah dies. That's not my view, I'm just going for the parallel sentence construction here, for this point about Freddie compared with Alfred. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top.
Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Why doesn't Borden know which knot he tied? Ask Question. Asked 9 years, 1 month ago. Active 7 months ago. Viewed 68k times.
Improve this question. BamfTheNightAway 6 6 silver badges 20 20 bronze badges. Mani Mani 1, 2 2 gold badges 13 13 silver badges 21 21 bronze badges. If it wasn't for the entry in the diary, you could argue that Angier was asking the wrong twin each time, as it only happens 2 or 3 times in the movie. Perhaps the other twin genuinely did not know, and did not want to ask.
But to put that in a diary would be odd. ChristianRau - yes, but it would be an odd thing for the twins to put in a diary, describing the incident from the perspective of the twin who was there, but then putting the fact that he could not remember the knot from the perspective of the other twin. It would be easier to believe that the responsible twin really could not remember, or it was a deliberate deception to deflect Angier's anger at the truth that he had tied the Langford Double.
Why didn't Angier or Cutter simply look at his wifes wrist to see which knot was tied. Seems like a simple solution to see which knot was tied. Should have been the first thing they all looked for after she drowned? It's totally feasible of course that he didn't know.
In exactly the same way as suddenly you don't know if you turned the stove off before you left the house. You know you probably did, because you always do, but you can't say for sure. And that's why you're now heading back home to check.
Show 1 more comment. Active Oldest Votes. So there are different possibilities and I as well as the movie, I think cannot give you a definite answer: The statement that he didn't know which knot was a lie and he really knew it. Improve this answer. I had doubts about 2, until I read the diary entry in the script.
I've added my thoughts as an answer as it was getting too long for a comment. About 1 : We can't tell that he tied the one Julia wanted because the Borden who was speaking to Julia in the earlier scene where they argue about the Langford double knot may be different from the one who actually tied the knot In the sense that the one who tied the knot could be the twin brother and different from the one who spoke to Julia in an earlier scene.
I think I agree more with 3. Mani I meant the scene when he actually tied the knot right during the trick.
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