So I watched a show on Netflix last week called Magic for Humans and, either this guy is really, really, good, or it's just fakery. I mean, I know that all stage magic is fakery, but there's good fakery, and bad fakery......cheating. This guy is doing some basic magic tricks, but also doing some things that would be truly amazing, or so it seems to me, if he wasn't editing film, photoshopping, doing lots and lots of cuts and only picking the ones that worked. (e.g. He has a thing where he has some folks throw a dart at a board full of notes, and it turns out that he has written the contents of the note on a chalkboard behind the dartboard. I can think of several ways to do that, but all of them would be fairly obvious to a person who was physically present for the trick.) I can also think of one way to do that trick that would look really impressive on a TV show. That would be to do enough takes with enough different volunteers, and then only show the ones where the magician got it right.
There was a another trick where a child put a cup over a marshmallow, while the child was alone in the room, and the marshmallow disappeared, and the child was amazed. Once again, I can think of ways to do that, but most of the time the kid would figure out what had happened, or at least that there was a trick cup involved, but if you only showed a few seconds of film, from selected children, there might be several seconds before they caught on.
So, anyway, has anyone seen this show? If so, for those of you who are more familiar with magic than I, is this guy a great magician, or is he just fibbing about how much editing and/or clever camera work was required to make this look impressive.
And I note that some of the tricks were quite well done, but in the realm of ordinary tricks I have seen other magicians do. e.g. He "borrows" someone's cell phone, sends it flying on a pack of helium balloons, and then it turns out that he still has their actual phone hidden on his person. It was very well done. I couldn't tell you exactly when he made the switch. However, I've seen lots of variations on that, and it was no harder than some other tricks of the same sort. However, there were some that I would declare impossible without some form of post-trick editing.
There was a another trick where a child put a cup over a marshmallow, while the child was alone in the room, and the marshmallow disappeared, and the child was amazed. Once again, I can think of ways to do that, but most of the time the kid would figure out what had happened, or at least that there was a trick cup involved, but if you only showed a few seconds of film, from selected children, there might be several seconds before they caught on.
So, anyway, has anyone seen this show? If so, for those of you who are more familiar with magic than I, is this guy a great magician, or is he just fibbing about how much editing and/or clever camera work was required to make this look impressive.
And I note that some of the tricks were quite well done, but in the realm of ordinary tricks I have seen other magicians do. e.g. He "borrows" someone's cell phone, sends it flying on a pack of helium balloons, and then it turns out that he still has their actual phone hidden on his person. It was very well done. I couldn't tell you exactly when he made the switch. However, I've seen lots of variations on that, and it was no harder than some other tricks of the same sort. However, there were some that I would declare impossible without some form of post-trick editing.
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