This show made me appreciate the work and creativity needed to create these illusions and tricks. I look at it more as a form of art now. I loved this show growing up and I still love coming back to it now and then.
This show provides the view on how much the assistants do. I think this is so important. Also I find the tricks to be so much more impressive when I know how they are done.
The assistants never get any credit. The only time they're noticed, is when something goes wrong. I remember when I was first doing lighting and sound for a theater, our director said to us, the best jobs go unnoticed. The biggest compliment you can get, is if nobody even knows you exist. If they do notice you, that means something went wrong.
Now I know why I liked this show as a kid, #1: I genuinely love magic #2 All of the assistants appealed to my 8 year old perverted mind(I was an early bloomer)
Anyone else think it was pretty damn obvious from the beginning how "seance room" was done? At the end when they do the big 360 reveal, you can see that not only are there lumps under the back curtain, but the back curtain is also laid out like... 3 or 4 feet away from the room, while the rest of the curtains are all covering maybe a foot of space bunched up on the floor. Although, I didn't understand why the assistant that runs in with the props had to be hiding behind the plywood. Couldn't she have just laid down under the back curtain at the beginning like she did at the end? The existence of the plywood didn't even really make sense, since it's explained that it proves there's no trap door in the floor under the chair, but it's about an 8x8 room with a 3x3 piece of plywood, which means 55 sq ft of floor space inside where there could be a trap door. And under the chair would be the worst place to have one if the blonde is meant to disappear and leave the rest behind. So the plywood serves absolutely no purpose since it proves nothing about the lack of trap doors and the assistant could have just laid down under the back curtain from the beginning.
21:39.When i saw the assistant 'tied' her to the chair,the rope was on her chest/arm level.But when they removed the curtain,suddenly,the rope is on her shoulder's level,i knew there must be something wrong with the ropes
the one with the spinning girl in the box is poorly executed. you can see the velcro straps at the bottom when she is doing the handstand and the circular pivot plate when she is being tied to the wall. on stage in a large theater the audience might not see that but with the camera so close...
Edison may have initially invented the light bulb however the version of the light bulb that is still in use today was brought about by Nikola Tesla because Edison's version was not nearly as durable or dependable as the one that Tesla came up with although it was based on Edison's initial idea he improved on the internal parts that are still in use today
Since Edison had the patent, he got all the credit. Whoever has the patent for an invention, gets the credit and not the person who came up with the idea or anyone that helped them.
I did have a comment here. I put the phone down to answer the door & after picking the phone back up a half hour latter the comment disappeared for real! No joke. Himmmmm......
I know that that's not magic but I do believe in magic because my parents swor (sorry if I spelled anything wrong) that they never put the gifts there & all of my friends have gifts too
