These 33 Insane Details From Christopher Nolan Movies Prove He's The Best

The story is truly insane, and not too dissimilar from The Prestige. Like Angier and Borden, William Robinson was in a feud with another magician named Ching Ling Foo, a Chinese magician. When an agent was looking for a Chinese magician, Robinson created a character based off Foo's name (though he briefly went by Hop Sing Soo).

As Chung Ling Soo, Robinson never once broke character in public. Even when Foo tried exposing Robinson, the papers weren't interested in his story. Robinson died in 1918 while performing a trick where he seemingly catches a bullet. 

The trick involves guns that have real bullets loaded into them (for the audience to see), but the gunpowder explosion takes place underneath the chamber so that the bullet never fires. However, the night of Robinson's final performance, there was too much gunpowder residue in the barrel from previous performances, and the bullet was actually fired, killing Robinson. 

His final words were, "Oh my God. Something's happened. Lower the curtain," which were his first English words in public since he created the character of Soo.