Good morning DR Edi ... DP Kerry and I went and saw The Prestige this past weekend. I thought that it was a really fascinating story, and wonderfully complex characters were written. But each time I thought I had started to get a handle on what was going on, a new quirk or twist would happen, and I felt like yelling "..Aaaaarrgggghh !" Of course, DP Kerry had figured out most of it about a third of the way into the film !!?!
I too have found Tesla an interesting character. When I was in high school, I was definitely a semi-geek, because in addition to being in the drama department and the choir, I was also in radio club and ran projectors.
I had a step-father at the time who was a real shit of a person, and so I took an old unused neon sign transformer and built a fairly good sized "Jacob's Ladder" in our garage. It scared the crap out of the step-father and he wouldn't come near the garage.....so of course I left it plugged in and "zapping" away as often as I could!