Blaine brought the fruit with him... as someone as rich as Harrison Ford isn't going to remember what fruit he had in his bowl. So when David first gets there he places the fruit he brought on top of the bowl. He forces the card through suggestion and then Harrison simply opens the orange to find the card inside which was placed inside beforehand just like this. The real talent here is getting someone to pick the card you want. But he also had to hope that Harrison would pick the right fruit. People usually pick the one on the top so luckily he did that. If he failed I'm sure he just wouldn't air it OR David has said himself that there is no set start/end to any of his tricks he does them as he goes along, so if he failed or messed up he would just come up with a different outcome on the spot that's just as impressive. He explained it as someone playing music live and jamming.
Yes it's the same as the trick where you manipulate them to 0ick say the king of clubs then throw the cards at a shop window and the king of clubs is on the other side of the store window. You can also have someone in on it then sign the card and transfer the signature to a duplicate card by setting fire to it
This is slightly right, but wrong I believe. I believe he used sleight of hand to put a card in the fruit. I believe he had 5-9 repeating cards that are the least chosen when someone asks to pick a card. Then I bet he has decks each with just the symbol sorted so that he can easily pick the card Harrison says it is. Meanwhile he cuts the fruit not Harrison. Which is why I believe he used slight of hand to put it in there
One problem - Blaine had Harrison Ford VISUALIZE a card in his head. Ford never picked a card at all, he simply thought of it. Blaine asked what the card was and immediately cut open the fruit revealing the card. If Ford wasn't in on it, how was this done?
Most people when asked to think of a card, will pick a standard range of cards, one being the 9 of hearts that Ford chose. Blaine has several of these popular cards in various fruits, therefore the whole bowl had to be rigged. When Ford revealed it was the 9 of hearts, Blaine guides Ford to pick the Lemon because he knows that card is there. At least this is my theory, but not sure if it stacks up. Great trick though
These rich celebrities probably have maids that buy the groceries, therefore neither ford or wife watching would have noticed a rigged fruit bowl. Could easily have been planted by camera crew setting up in the kitchen.
Very creative, and much more simple than I had imagined. Also please notice - This video came out BEFORE David did the trick for Harrison Ford. Please stop ratting on the dude. Its a popular trick that's been around for some time. He explained how to do it, then later David did with some exquisite twists for Harrison.
Marcin Wojciechowski There are some shuffle tricks that keep the card on top of the deck when you shuffle it. Look up the Turkish shuffle. Also see the video on the best card trick ever that will explain a similar trick.
Joe Petruzzi Yea David had Harrison think of a card not even pick one from the deck, that's the insane part about his trick. I don't know if he used some sort of technique with the words he used or whatever to get him to think 9 of Hearts, but the fact that he got Harrison to think 9 of Hearts which was the card in the lemon is just insane
This is very clever. I like the visual effect. It's startling. Thanks. I need to learn more about forcing a card or at least cutting a chosen card and moving it to the top.
This is a cheap version. The David Blaine trick he asked the person to think of a card NOT pick a force fed card. then he tells them the card they picks has left the deck. All the time the person is holding the deck looking for the card. The card ends up in the fruit. How about a demonstration of THAT.
I never claimed to do or reveal that trick. In fact this video was released BEFORE David Blaine did that. So don't try to say anything like that. His came AFTER mine. Learn your facts.
Same trick he just MAKES you want to pick a certain card using Neuro-Linguistic Programming. NLP, look it up. It doesn't work every time, like hypnotism, but he doesn't show the times it failed.
David Blaine gave Harrison Ford the deck, asked him to pick a card in his head, then told him look for the card and that it wasn't there (Blaine didn't touch the deck), then had Ford grab a fruit and put it on its side where Blaine cut it open sideways with a knife and the card was rolled up inside _pointing vertically_... so he couldn't have stuck it in the top or bottom like this guy was doing. It was either in the fruit beforehand, or he stuck it in while cutting it (less likely), and auto-suggested the card to Ford, or Ford was in on the whole thing (not likely), or David Blaine really did read Ford's mind and teleport the card rolled up into a fruit Ford randomly picked.
it is possible that Ford picked a card that david wanted and also picked the fruit that david wanted and the card will be there and everything seems just perfect.... i think this is not random card and random fruit ...
It would be great to know, if david blaine put the lemon on top of the fruits and how he reached that Harrison exactly take the same card he wanted and the same fruit. Or does he know that harrison will pick the diamond 4 because he always pick this card and he took the lemon because it was on the top?
Or he could have forced the card, and planted that forced card in more than just the one fruit so that it didn't matter which one Ford happened to pick.
so the thing about David Blaines trick is he says think of a card and then the card has disappeared from the deck before David even knows what the card is, then the card is spoken out loud and appears in the orange. That is the most important part of the trick so unless that part is staged and they are all in on it, im not sure how this is done. And your demonstration is something that is not magic, its obvious.
Ary anna This is actually very similar, if you want to know how David did it......easy! he just got Harrison Ford to focus on 1 particular card! by doing this he may have flashed that card before performing the lemon trick several times until he knew Harrison was convinced without even realizing David forced a card on him....but to perform the trick? David would have spent much time practicing this on people in order to fool Harrison and id say his trick would have failed many times, you can give it a go but unless you are good at reading peoples mind then you should probably not even attempt David's way due to you being laughed at when they see its not there card in the lemon :))
How did David Blaine do it. He asked Harrison Ford to think of a card. The card that Harrison Ford thought of turned up inside the orange. Even knowing how the trick is performed, how did David Blaine get the card that Harrison Ford thought of? Thanks much
+eliz7212 Blaine, like Chris Angel etc, use primarily television production, (camera angles, edits, scripts and actors etc) to do their tricks. Most, if not all, are fake, or faked in post production. This video shows how to do it live. There's a massive difference between illusionists and television magicians!
That was a good tutorial. My compliments on actually showing how to do the trick unlike how to do magic videos by other people that promise and don't deliver.
david blaine did it without even knowing what the card really is harisson ford selected it in his mind and david did not touch anything , then he told him that his card left the deck and then told him to cut one of his oranges which it was already in harrison's kitchen the card was in the orange , that was sick go check that
the fruit is on top so when some ask you to pick up a fruit you will most likely go for the first one you se which most likely be the most obvious one ON TOP david knew this and had the card in there already.
Great job. One additional idea that really makes it seem impossible is to put the loaded fruit into a fruit bowl of like 4 similar fruit, remembering the location of the one fruit that is loaded. Then after burning the ripped cards, have then pick 2 fruit, then narrow down to 1 with magicians choice or equivoke so when the spec “picks” the final fruit with the card inside, it will really sell it as a masterpiece.
my guess is Ford was was in on it, he's an actor after all. or some kind of subliminal technique that Blaine has mastered to influence Fords choice. And if all that failed Blaine would simply reveal the trick to Harrison Ford and they would film the trick over again with the help of his acting ability.
But this doesn't explain how David Blaine did HIS trick because how could he have known in advance that Harrison Ford would choose the 9 of hearts so that he could insert that card into the fruit???? Or for that matter, how did David know which piece of fruit Harrison would choose from the fruit bowl ???? Unless of course, the two of them were in on it together.
FΛTΛL FORCE™ - that's a rather trolling response....... that's like saying "Your puny mind wouldn't even comprehend it so there is point to me explaining it" why don't you humor us Mr. Copperfield.
not really, every magician should know how david blaine did the trick and if you know nothing about magic then there is no point explaining...i tried telling others how the trick works and they either commented back they dont understand or they wont try it because they'll probably never be able to do it! if all you want to know is the answer then its Mind Force! if you want to perform the trick on others, nobody other than david blaine himself is the only man to see in looking at how the trick is done!
snois2 What if I don't say stop while he's scrolling the deck so that means that he have to scroll through the entire deck and repeat again, and then I suddenly say stop? Also no duplicates of the same card on the deck.
***** get a deck with duplicates and dont do magic tricks to morons :D. Anyone who takes the trick seriously will ask you to stop around the middle, and even if they dont, slight of hand will make it work
Great video and presentation. Thanks. But can anyone here tell me how Blaine was able to "suggest" the card Harrison Ford picked in his head? How did Blaine know which card to earlier place inside the orange?
Nobody knows how he did it, except for Blaine and maybe five other people in the world. Don't bother to read the hundreds of comments here or in Blaine's HF video, as nobody has a reasonable explanation beyond the small-ish possibility that it was all scripted and Ford was acting.
Harrison ford could have picked any fruit and any card so how would David blain know which card and which fruit Harrison would pick. I don't think anyone can reveale his trick
I'm pretty sure Blaine "forced" him to pick that orange. If I remember right, David said pick a piece of fruit, and then as Harrison moved to grab one, he casually suggested "an orange", like it's no big deal. And I think there was only one orange right on the top of the bowl.
Lol had to watch it again and you're right! Blaine: "Grab a piece of fruit for me like one we can open up." Then he points to a fruit bowl. The only fruit he can open up is the orange sitting on top of a bunch of apples. Plus if you watch this tutorial video he mentions a "force." So that can only mean Blaine is a Jedi.
Haha, if you look at the 'most replayed' indication bar of this video, you can see that many people replayed back that part where you force the joker card to be picked, including myself, and I still don't get it how you do that part.
I tried this at a party..I let them pick orange out of fridge and they cut it open..(my friends).......It blew their freaking minds!!.......Thanks Trevor.
You could use a vanishing bag, or if making them disappear isnt an option, just get rid of them all together. Tell your audience you are throwing them away/burning them/etc. Hope this helps, -Trevor
David Blaine does Magic. This is a "trick". The difference is that magic (at least real magic) is supernatural. Anyone can do a trick. This is still a very good trick, and if you can pull this stuff off, I would consider you a magician, because there is a lot of technical stuff involved that most people couldn't pull off.. Forget David Blaine though, he's like the only magician do ever do the stuff he's done.
Nelson Le They choose any fruit, but a crew member secretly switches it while everyone is looking away, or he did it himself. That's the beauty of misdirection.
I do not know if you still perform with this trick, but why not have a bowl with lemons and then "force-select" the lemon to a spectator, then let this spectator, peel the lemon and find the card in there?
To everyone asking about how david blaine got the spectator to visualize cards, my best answer to u is: camera cuts No hate on blaine, but as magicians we all know theres no such thing as "reading your mind", blaine's trick on jaden smith's iphone was the same, i know cus i bought the trick and my guess is it was a camera cut when blaine asked smith to visualize the card. Im almost certain a camera cut was used as theres no way blaine could change the deck in the photo after smith thought of the card AFTER the picture was taken. Then again, i could be completely wrong about this and blaine may be using a certain method to do his tricks (like number guessing) As for how blaine got the random fruit, i have no idea XD
I think for the picture on the phone trick, it was not a trick with the picture but with the cards. He forced a certain order and facing of cards, and then switched them when he handed them back to show they were 'random'. Again, this is a perfect example of a common card pool choice and forcing a card on someone.
Go to penguin magic,you can buy lectures by some people and teach you memtalism tricks to look like you do read minds.For example,Daniel Garcia sometimes helps Blaine and Criss Angel.
hi @Bigbrotrev, Can I just say this is a wonderful trick. There's one thing that I struggle with in the performance which is making the pieces disappear. I will be performing this trick in a couple of days and burning the pieces isn't possible at the venue. Can you suggest any sleight of hand/ any other methods of making the pieces disappear?
+MrTomservo85 When he cut the deck in half he uses a "pinkybreak" which means he put al the cards on top of his pinky. Then when he riffle the cards and someone says "stop" he just put the topcards of his pinky. Pretty sure you can find a tutorial :)
+XavantageX late but that ain't how he did it the card was on top so when he cut the deck he put pressure on the top card then it's the top of the second half your way is also fun but I've had some dickwads wait till the bottom then say stop
So what about when he gets them to write their name on the card. And the card that gets pulled out the object is the same card with their signature on?
How about those magicians that let the spectators sign on the card? What is the explanation for that? How can you prepare a duplicate if the signing of the card occurs after the set up for the trick?
+stephen chan No people aren't in on the trick. I'm guessing they use a variation of the mercury card fold and put it in the orange as they're performing the trick.
Well I was showing how you would perform it live. Being a magician, you lie to the audience the entire time, that is your job. When I perform I do not say "This is a setup deck... This was not a free choice", stuff like that. Sorry if I tricked anybody, but then again that was the goal. As a magician you try to deceive people, but you also have to make them like it. I am sorry if you did not like it. Let me know what you think I should have said. Have a great day, -Bigbrotrev
in the david blaine trick he asks harrison ford to think of a card, not choose a card, i understand how the duplicate thing works but how do you do it if you ask them to THINK of a card?
dont think it is helpful that video because like bgt the magician asked to sign on the card then that card ended up in the lemon..so how would that work ?!
tina Ah He slipped the bill through a hole in the lemon. That's why he's careful enough to not show us the other side of the lemon, where he's made the hole. He did a pretty good job, and that's why it went unnoticed.
@Carlos Spiceywhiener based on what? It wasn’t even the same trick. Man people are so stupid. This guy literally did a totally different trick than David. They don’t have a single thing in common other than the end result being a card in a piece of fruit. David didn’t have anyone pick and rip a card. He had Harrison visualize a card then guided it, then some how used mentalism to guide Harrison to the Orange he chose.
@Carlos Spiceywhiener He isn't in on it. Are we talking about the same Harrison Ford? People like you amaze me. Always making the easiest assumptions. How did he do it in person, when I went to his show? Use your brain. If it was that simply, everyone would do it. It is so lazy to make an assumption then treat your assumption as fact prior to verifying it. It is the way children think.
thought this would explain how David Blaine did it...but with Harrison Ford, he doesn't choose a card, he THINKS of a card. How the hell does that work??
That's great, but how do you explain how David Blaine did it to Harrison Ford, when he just asked Harrison to think of a card, and then used a piece of random fruit from a fruit bowl containing different types of fruit, from Harrison's house?
"your gonna see at the top theres a little hole your gonna take your pen and stab it through the hole your just gonna push it in there and wriggle it around, your just gonna play with it a little bit" WTF hahahaha
What I want to know is how Jamie Raven made a Bank of Britain's got Talent 250k pound note with one of the judges's signatures on it appear in a lemon in a bag in a box in a second box that had been sitting in front of the judges the entire trick. Explain that one to me Mr. Thernes
+khubaib maqsood You need to know how to force them to pick the right card, the way you shuffle the cards and ask them to pick one is key. I don't know how to do it but I know of the method used. It's an illusion of choice were you control the outcome threw your skills with the cards.
+khubaib maqsood If you watch this guy's performance of the trick, you will notice the queen sticks out. "Let's say they choose this one"...the truth is, he forced them to choose it. Just as he did in this video, if someone said "stop" he would continue until that card...but because he'd do it so quickly, they should not pick up on it.
What about using contact glue on the stem and the orange, let the glue harden until it isn't shining anymore and them put them together. Will stick right away ;)
***** Yes, I ended up doing some research. It's all about the selection you are presented with, that's when you are lead to believe you have freedom of choice when you really don't. Crazy.
If you watch the Harrison Ford David Blaine trick the card appears to have been inserted into the orange as you show here, but what about the other parts? I guess they are in Harrisons house, Blaine shows him the deck and asks him to think of a card. Then asks Harrison to pick a fruit from his own counter.
Yeah, nice try man. lol Sorry you're ignorant, but there are forces we dont understand and David has spent his entire life devoted to showing people. He let Harrison pick the card in his head, and it was NOT in the deck. THEN he also lets Harrison pick the fruit! Try that...
This video came before that trick happened... Nothing in the title or description says that. Its a trick that has existed for sometime, he just explained how to do it. David did it later with some refined twists
Tallica 4Life probability and comfidence. Notice how as soon as Harrison was finding out that the card wasnt in the deck. David was already moving on. And notice how he casually points to that area with his body. Notice the side of the bowl facing them is all apples except for the only orange on top. David got what he wanted out of Harrison. Like a con artist. Harrison was still stunned from the card trick that he wasnt thinking about actually getting whichever fruit. He listened to David without even knowing.
+Nikolas M. you sir are wrong, its not fake and no its not a tv trick. it was david blaines magic trick snd yes sometime it requires a bit of ser up before hand
This was probably done the same way as many "visualize this" tricks. Introduce the subject repeatedly to the item you want them to think about periodically through out the day, or immediately before the trick. This does not work 100% of the time, but its pretty damn close. Especially with something as random as numbers and patterns.
