As far as I know it's called entertainment,if you have a problem with an illusionist making people ooo an ahhh for money you should have a real problem with paying $200.00 to see millionaires play a kids game on ice!
My personal opinion is a guy like Copperfield is amazing, fake,yes. but far from "gay"
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Never spoil yourself by reading up on how a magic trick or an illusion is done.
We had a psychic for our christmas party, and he was so terrible that I could figure out how he was reading minds.
I think you need to suspend disbelief and pretend that there is such a thing as magic for these tricks to really awe you.
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As far as I know it's called entertainment,if you have a problem with an illusionist making people ooo an ahhh for money you should have a real problem with paying $200.00 to see millionaires play a kids game on ice!
My personal opinion is a guy like Copperfield is amazing, fake,yes. but far from "gay"
Sorry....I was trying to make a joke. I understand the concept of an illusion.
I like this guy, he's a very polished entertainer. He was born in America and speaks English and Japanese. He's been on the TV here in Japan quite a bit performing his tricks, some of them are pretty cool. His name is Cyril Takayama.
I was very impressed by a magician doing tricks at our table, so impressed I went back again and again. 3 times he preformed @ our table, and not once did I see the moves he needed to do to make the trick work. I figured out how/what he needed to do, but the hand is quicker than the eye.
edit: I am in no way on the "fake and gay" bandwagon, I think the illusions are interesting. I was just honestly curious how he did the flying one and thought I would share with anyone else who was curious.
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As far as I know it's called entertainment,if you have a problem with an illusionist making people ooo an ahhh for money you should have a real problem with paying $200.00 to see millionaires play a kids game on ice!
My personal opinion is a guy like Copperfield is amazing, fake,yes. but far from "gay"
His greatest trick was convincing Claudia Schiffer he was straight.
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I saw Lance Burton live in Vegas about 10 years ago, and the only tricks I remember were the one here with all the candles and birds (the actual routine is even longer), and one where he made a car disappear.
The reason I remember those two tricks?
I remembered the car becasue I thought, it isn't really that impressive to make a car disappear in a theatre that's designed specifically for that purpose.
I remembered the bird act because of all of the big illusions he did, that slight of hand routine was by far the one that I found the most impressive, as all he has to work with is his own hands.
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