Great magic trick video

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GBH wrote:He seems very talented but is seemingly emulating a lot of what David Copperfield is doing/did many years back.

If you're "into" this kind of thing then I suggest you do a search for David Copperfield on youtube (theres a LOAD of his stuff there) and look out for his Death Saw, Flying and the one where the woman passes right through his stomach. He's also done some astounding large scale illusions like passing through the great wall of China and escaping from Alcatraz. Both were suberb.

As an illusionist on the large scale, I don't think anyone beats DC for sheer shock&awe value. I've seen some of them maybe 100 times and I'm still no wiser figuring out how he does them.

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Actually about "Fly" I found a really convincing explanation of it and it's
maybe the "easiest" of all its tricks.

Well, technically "easiest" practically requiring lot and lot of training to
perform it properly as one single movement "out of synch" and all the
trick goes bonkers.

I saw the one about the Great Wall once .. and there is really lot more
complex to understand unless he has a twin brother we don't know of :mrgreen:
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ElfQrin wrote:Which is probably more impressive than the magic trick itself, then: you need state of the art technology to walk and sit down in a such "natural" fashion and speed.
It would also be a great help for people on the wheelchair.
Not especially impressive once you realise that there are plenty of camera cuts and the person who walks over to the bench and lies down on it is clearly not the same person who is subsequently pulled in half.
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Ollie wrote:
ElfQrin wrote:Which is probably more impressive than the magic trick itself, then: you need state of the art technology to walk and sit down in a such "natural" fashion and speed.
It would also be a great help for people on the wheelchair.
Not especially impressive once you realise that there are plenty of camera cuts and the person who walks over to the bench and lies down on it is clearly not the same person who is subsequently pulled in half.
Ah right so it was'nt a trick that was done live then. Its more a camera trick that magicical illusion.
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