The Video Thread

Paranoia said:

Really like this show. Enjoy

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Reposting this here as well in case people don't see the one in the movie thread.

A Korean reporter in Russia during the World Cup has some fun due to some Russian fans interrupting his report.

Gask said:

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Big Phoenix said:

Jesus Penn looks 100x better with a haircut.

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I think it is funny that they gave him a FU essentially because he was just /that/ good - it is somewhat better than actually fooling them on one little part that during the entire act was specifically designed to be a moment of "too fast" to get a Fooled Us out of them.

I am not that great - but I could see a very /very/ visible palm at the first top down shot (bottom left if I remember) - and you could tell the entire act was like at 150% intensity of skill on skill and he was getting tired at the end, there was some sloppy palms at the end segment that lead up to the "big coins" and those were just out of nowhere that its like WTF DONT CARE - WAS AWESOME - you can also tell the coins were on the back edge of the black angled stage area for when he had to move them from hands to not hands and not under a card. But I agree with Penn and Teller, he was amazing and he totally deserved the win.

He was everything that a stage magician should be, entertaining and good and can still give even these old masters a show where they stopped and just "enjoyed the show"

and lol at "Whatever you do, know and Asian will come in and do it even more awesome!!" boooommm lol

Xadion said:

I think it is funny that they gave him a FU essentially because he was just /that/ good - it is somewhat better than actually fooling them on one little part that during the entire act was specifically designed to be a moment of "too fast" to get a Fooled Us out of them.

I am not that great - but I could see a very /very/ visible palm at the first top down shot (bottom left if I remember) - and you could tell the entire act was like at 150% intensity of skill on skill and he was getting tired at the end, there was some sloppy palms at the end segment that lead up to the "big coins" and those were just out of nowhere that its like WTF DONT CARE - WAS AWESOME - you can also tell the coins were on the back edge of the black angled stage area for when he had to move them from hands to not hands and not under a card. But I agree with Penn and Teller, he was amazing and he totally deserved the win.

He was everything that a stage magician should be, entertaining and good and can still give even these old masters a show where they stopped and just "enjoyed the show"

and lol at "Whatever you do, know and Asian will come in and do it even more awesome!!" boooommm lol

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i am by no means any kind of magic figure-outer... but i'm wondering how many times you watched that video? in all honesty. penn and teller put themselves on the spot every time they do that because they DON'T get the benefit of pausing and rewatching. they have to figure out what the trick and how it was done on the fly. generally speaking there aren't really any "new" tricks, just variations of old ones that teller knows backwards and forwards so there's that.

people who know their craft can obviously recognize what other people are doing pretty quickly, but i think basically what this dude did was functionally the ball in one of the 3 cups trick and just spun it around so fast and so frequently that at some point you just give up and applaud his tenacity.

I only watched it once. I know that they are not just going to saw "you didn't fool us, you palmed this, placed that... magic isn't real" and I know than Penn and Teller essentially know 90% of almost all "ways" of doing routines - usually the ones that truly get a fooled us are where the magicians use a "new" combo of skills or uncommon methods (usually because it's not a 'good' method ) but in a masterful way where it is done well. Rarely you get someone who comes up with a original method of doing X.

And I in no way followed every single one of his moves, the ones I followed were either fakes or passed so well I didn't see it past the first pass. I saw about three of the passes of the coin to the card out of the dozens he did and about three palmming and placements to the back ledge of the little black stage thing...

So I do agree with them, it was amazing, he was able to get who are considered the most masterful of illusion magic to just stop and enjoy a show and to be amazed, and if that happend to them, it happend to 99% of people watching and therefor is a fully successful magic act.

The giant coins are the big "how?" - most likely when his hand was behind his back - but still... its a who cares! He did an amazing job, seemed very sincere and thankful for the chance to just perform for his mentors.

Again, I am zero expert just I like trying to follow stuff and see how it's done and be amazed by the skill people have to do this stuff.

j00t said:

i am by no means any kind of magic figure-outer... but i'm wondering how many times you watched that video? in all honesty. penn and teller put themselves on the spot every time they do that because they DON'T get the benefit of pausing and rewatching. they have to figure out what the trick and how it was done on the fly. generally speaking there aren't really any "new" tricks, just variations of old ones that teller knows backwards and forwards so there's that.

people who know their craft can obviously recognize what other people are doing pretty quickly, but i think basically what this dude did was functionally the ball in one of the 3 cups trick and just spun it around so fast and so frequently that at some point you just give up and applaud his tenacity.

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For me it was the part where it looked like he was intentionally doing an obvious palming motion. He'd have his ring and pinky fingers against his palm to draw attention there. Then that hand would open up and nada. The guy was doing everything right on misdirection too, which I think P&T Also wanted to give him credit for because this is what they do a lot in their shows. They know the audience know some level of the basics and exploit that to completely go the other way with things.

His misdirection was A+ I kept having to force myself NOT to look where we wanted and even then it was a misdirect to a misdirect but then its too late- was a great show, great act, great skill.

yeah, honestly i think it was pretty clear from the get go it was asian level misdirection, to say that P&T didn't know that it was all misdirection and HOW he did the misdirection is probably giving him too much credit. they even said they knew what he was doing, and knew all about matrix tricks. the point, i think, wasn't that they didn't KNOW what he was doing, it was more that they just couldn't follow it piece by piece because his misdirection was SO good. i mean, they even said he beat them into submission and forced them to just sit back and enjoy the act. he is very clearly the exact kind of act that penn and teller LOVE, and they wanted to reward him for it

Not a hater or supporter. But gotta admit this gave me a chuckle.

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