I was watching The Prestige again, by Christopher Nolan, when a character’s name caught my attention: Chung Ling Soo. But why did it sound so familiar? That’s because this character, or similar avatars, appears in other movies or books I read or watched recently. I searched on the internet for more information and found they were all based on a real illusionist, Chung Ling Soo, “the Marvellous Chinese Conjurer”.
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