Ok, so as a kid a thing me and my dad did was watch magic shows. It could be at the downtown Disney store with slight of hand, or at a show, even on TV. Remember when TV was watchable and they played magic shows on TGIF Friday and what not? So Lance Burton (check), David Copperfeild (check), David Blane (check, also let's throw in a laugh), The masked magician (check, you remember where they showed you how they did tricks). So needless to say as far as magic goes I enjoy it.
Criss Angel - Most likely the weirdest and most bashed on magician. Think what you want but lets at least agree this guy is CRAZY! But alas a great performer and well...mind freak. He even convinced his girlfriend to marry him and then hide it for four years for his own image. This guy has done pretty much everything, broken world records, set up tricks that seem impossible, knows his magic history and even put his name in the Guinness Book of World Records for 2010. Along with these feats the man has his own TV show and a show in Las Vegas. Now granted magic on TV can always be changed up, edited, put in with actors, who really knows what's real anymore on TV.
The disappearing trick is typically done with slight of hand such as a coin or card up a sleeve. Or in a larger setting with mirrors.
Criss Angel's most recent feat on the disappearing audience "100 gone" in which he had 100 people disappear on a platform that were chained together, surrounded by a group of people at the bottom of the platform chained together, in a room full of people. He proofs are in which he had a POV camera in the curtain with him and a "spectator" with a SPOV camera. Now listen, yes it was TV, yes I know. HOWEVER, the curtain goes up and then BAM curtain down and it's just Criss BY HIMSELF! Now regardless of anything I thought at the time my jaw hit the floor.
Here are some of the obvious or at least what we can assume.
-IT'S TV! The editing possibilities are endless.
-Everyone likes to be apart of something and let's face it most of this world thinks they are "the next big thing in show biz" so finding an audience paid or not, NOT HARD.
-Mirror trick still possible (except for him running around the stage because if the mirror trick was being used he would have run into someone.
-Not sure if he brought anyone on stage after but that could reinforce.
-IT'S TV! The editing possibilities are endless.
Regardless.
IT WAS SWEET! Really some part of me likes to believe in this magic and think that these people are random and some of this is just real, I mean why not, people believe in the tooth fairy!
Last point.
You never see the people come back, and no one mentions the people that don't come back. No one cares, and frankly he doesn't mention it. Both a bit sketchy and makes you wonder, what happen to those people? But regardless no one cared to know.
Watch Criss Angel it's a good time at 2 am.
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