Guessing that was how TELLER decided to become a Magician 🤔 When he was young and could speak He felt in love with magic thanks to Big Bang Theory 😂 Nice video 👍 Love you Wes 😊✌️
Brothers Bloom is one of my favorite movies, love the 'trick' of think of a card, he flips a card "is this your card?" 'No' "but one day it's gonna work and be the greatest trick in the world"
She learned a few things, but it was a loaded deck for her parts, the cutting was made simpler by the aces being slightly larger than the other cards. She commented on how she spent all this time learning the trick s best she could but having to do so so that the transition between her and the hand double would be "seamless". Even though you can also tell by her long gentle hands and the double's most muscular ones.
Ya dude, labyrinth is the shit, and Dark Crystal 🔮. Dude Wes, you don't know what your missing. Of course I was born in 1980 and saw the movie first when I was like 5 or 6 .... but still an all time epic watch the remastered version if possible
David Bowie admits to the hand double in an interview. And he said he didn't really like it lol because he felt bad for the guy doing it. I really enjoy watching you break these scenes down though lol it's so fun
The hand double in The Labyrinth was the same guy that pioneered contact juggling in the 80s. Michael Moschen is the name of the guy if you'd like to read more about him.
With the Now you see me integration room scene, it makes more since when you know that the guy who brought them in is also a magician and is working with them.
And in case Wes sees this and is unaware, Michael essentially invented almost all the modern contact juggling moves (in fact, it's unlikely a period character such as the magician in The Illusionist) would know that move before Michael pioneered it in the 80's. There were ball and other types of contact jugglers in that time, but the butterfly is very much Michael's baby (in fact, he was frequently enraged to see other people doing the move - mostly because he's a testy fellow). Michael earned a Macarthur Genius grant for his juggling creations and made this slightly pretentious video full of excellent and inventive juggling: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-p4yFGm5IZ_I.html
The real magic trick, is how the filmmakers about SEAMLESSLY made it look like David Bowie was the one doing the contact juggling. That was a brilliantly done illusion through purely practical effects and zero editing tricks worthy of any true magician.
Hey man, I think you really struck gold with these reaction videos. Theses have been some of the most entertaining and enjoyable videos you've made lately and they've really been making my day!
In theory. If no one ever shared we'd never have new magicians. Very few to none teach 4000 and up stage props. Especially one that's been used on multiple talent shows. Blackboard anyone?
According to wikipedia: "The card trick was the most difficult for Weisz and took her a month of practicing every day to learn.[14] The shot itself took 11 or so takes, but the one continuous shot in the film is not enhanced in any way.[15]" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brothers_Bloom)
Magicians in movies are like: - Is that your card? - Wait... of course, the whole deck is mine - Not anymore! [disappears with a smoke bomb and appears instantly in his house]
I’ve just found your reaction videos and what I love about them is that you don’t just dismiss a scene is effects or hand doubles are used, if it serves the scene. Also, when they are done well, when the join is smooth, you call it out as being well done.
People don't realize if they can do the fruit basket or bat wing, they already know how to do the balls to snake control. Well... I do the marbles to worm control but it's the same method
It’s funny how young generations use the term “CGI” for visual effects, even though computers weren’t use for that, not even digital cameras, it was literally film, so how do you do a visual effect with just film and no computers? it was all a made by painstaking photochemical process.
What's funny is Bowie really tried to learn the contact juggling for Labyrinth....but something happened with his hand(can't remember if he messed up his wrist or his finger) and they didn't have the time to for him to heal and still learn. He did in fact learn how to do alot of contact juggling after the movie.
Wes, oh man I have to tell you that these reaction videos are Fucken genius. That video was the most entertaining video I've seen all week bro. Your on to something here. I can't wait to you do another one. I'm loving your content. It's getting better and better.
Cannot think of any movies off the top of my head, but I watched The Prestige last week because of you. I think I saw it when I was younger and nothing made sense... now it did, prolly from watching so much of you and Chris.
I love these videos! 😍 But I can’t make any suggestions because I probably oversee the magic in movies and tv shows. But I think I remember there is a better scene in Labyrinth where Bowie looks like he is „juggling“ with more of these glass balls.
The BTS of labyrinth is really neat. They show the poor guy behind Bowie with his paws through his cape. Its really beautiful what he can do IRL though.
The big trick and climax of that interrogation scene in, Now you See Me, you find out later in the movie. He actually swapped the phones with Mark Ruffalo when the soda spills. Therefore him saying "Fisrt rule of Magic, always be the smartest person in the room." He now has the FBIs phone, although in a twist, if you know the movie, it is exactly what Mark Ruffalo's character wanted, hence, he is the smartest in the room.
That Michael Moschen's hands in Labyrinth, master juggler, ``invented`` a bunch of new types of juggling and playing with shapes, movement and sometimes even sound.
Now you see me and the sequel are two of my favourite movies. Even I knew there was Hollywood magic involved but still very entertaining. I do like how they explain the tricks in different parts of the movie.
Suggestion: Cyril Takayama in Redbelt (2008) The Incredible Burt Wonderstone Sleight (2017) Thor: Ragnarok with Doctor Strange especially the Tea/Beer Scene The Magnificent Seven (2016) Magic Trick Scene
To be fair though, if someone told you David Bowie pulled off everything in that Labyrinth scene practically in camera by himself, you’d be like, “I’ll buy that.”
David Bowie tried his DAMNDEST to be able to learn to twirl/roll the globe, but he couldn't get consistent enough for it and had to bring in a hand double. The parts where he juggles and spins the orbs were all done by, Michael Moshen. The only part Bowie actually did was the 3 orb toss juggle when he's changing hands. Michael was a gymnast and orb juggler behind him and under his cloaks.
The contact juggling from Labyrinth was actually Michael Moshen (who invented the technique),, yes, standing behind Bowie and manipulating the crystal ball blind. Took lots of takes, according to the documentary. A better Magic shot for you to look at would have been the production of the ball later in the film, which was not CGI but a real magical production.
the scene with David Bowie was done with a hand double named Michael Motion who is supposed to be the guy that invented contact juggling .That is also the secret behind fushigi balls which at one time were sold at Walmart as a toy.By the way this movie came out in the 80s. If you look on youtube there is also behind the scenes vids of Michael trying to do these scenes while Michael messes up. David Bowie was a good sport and was very patient .Yaaay Bowie
There's a neat little trick in the movie Sneakers, where Ben Kingsley gets Robert Redford to choose which hand something is in, and (in a single shot) later shows both hands empty.
If Lex Lothor had leaned in while talking, to control the Hulk's attention while he slipped out of the cuffs, I would think the targeted cuff throw could land at least some percentage of attempts. I'd love to see someone take on that challenge.
David Merlini and Jason Latimer did a lot of consulting for Houdini. Really enjoying what you've been doing as of recent with your magic content and keeping your channel active! Much
In Now You See Me, Mark Ruffalo, is also a magician, so maybe he's in on their tricks in the interrogation room and helps to make it look like he's been had by a magician...lol.
You're going to wear your ace of spades T- shirt to the Penn and Teller show? Don't be that guy. A PCU crossover joke, prolly not as funny as it was in my head when I cracked myself up.
@@thefancystache3793 PCU Crossover ? not sure if I understand english enough to understand, but someone should find a name for those guys's universe on social media (Xavior, Wes, Alex, Eric, Chris, ...)
@@Mezzier PCU is an old movie starring Jeremy Piven. The most quoted line from the movie comes when Jeremy's character runs into one of his friends on his way to a concert wearing a T shirt of the band he's going to see and Piven says "don't be that guy". It's a great movie. You get to see bloody raw meat dumped on mouth foaming vegans 😂 it's the kind of movie that can't be made anymore due to the world losing its mind.
In the series White Coller, S02E11 (@03:40) The main actor gets tempted to play a round of 3 card monte. What happends next is pretty cool... Not sure if its real or fake, you should review it!
Spoiler alert! To be fair they are on the same side in now you see me, the integrator could technically set it up for them? Tu I do love watching your views on them, one of my fav RU-vidr right now
I doubt that a church bell would ring if shot by a bullet. You'd have to transfer enough energy to get it moving, and only so much that it rings once. The sound of the round hitting the bell would sound different, I think
Theres a new disney + movie called "Magic Camp" starring Adam DeVine. Pretty generic Disney movie but they actually use real magic tricks and even cardistry that it actually made the movie somewhat enjoyable
The Labyrinth crystal ball scene was all legit. Of course it wasn't Bowie's hands, and was a double. That's explained on the DVD bonus features. But there wasn't any CGI. It was done with optical effects, with a real magician's hands. The only CGI was the owl at the beginning. Which was also the first use of photorealistic CGI. So I don't see why that's not real "magic"? Your friend Eric did optical effects too with the packing peanuts as a cloth. How is that any different than optical effects done real time for a movie? Why is Eric's "real magic" and Labyrinth's not?
Police handcuffs used properly won't work for the throw, but from what I've heard about how often they don't use them correctly, you might get away with it. Still, just because it's theoretically possible doesn't change the fact that they almost certainly didn't do it (though they edited it to make it seem like it was really happening in the frame between)
To me smarts is a many-headed beast. There are lots of ways to be smart, and most of them don't work well on a multiple-choice test. Magicians are smart because they have to know their audience and keep up the performance part while doing the "magic" part of it. Admittedly it's a very narrow focus of smartness, but still very cool.
5:45 look at his shoulder it and the clothing he is wearing moving in a way that it would have to be attached to the hand moving the ball. the only thing that may be happening is its not him there because he is faced away from the camera otherwise it looks like its not a hand double
