Russian Roullet
Well, it was'nt a dream i had long ago in August, it was actually Russian Roullet, and as i thought it was not a illusion.
Looked real to me, but what are your thoughts on Magicians such as David Blaine and Derren Brown doing stunts like these for no apparent reason other than publicity?
Looked real to me, but what are your thoughts on Magicians such as David Blaine and Derren Brown doing stunts like these for no apparent reason other than publicity?
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If they were doing it for something other than the publicity, they would go to some secluded location with just a few first aid staff. Of course its for the publicity. that is the only reason.
and the money.
dont forget about the money
Well.. Not quite.
He paused and then shot a empty slot at himself then at the bag.
1. David Blaine getting into a stupid box for 44 days and nights with no food and only "water"
2. Derren Brown playing Russian Roulette for TV
These are both really really STUPID things to do, and its all for the publicity/money
But to be perfectly honest David Blaine is an idiot for choosing London. He gets stuff thrown at him and obscenities yelled at him, if hed have gone to Times square you can bet he'd be praised.
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That's too damn true. While i've got nothing against what he's doing (whatever way you look at it, he's entertaining others by hurting himself), the way some people have been acting has been giving us British an bad name (or a worse name, depending on your views).
heres how it went.
6 chambers, 1 bullet.
so after an hour hyping the actual event, and a good deal of dramatic suspence, he puts the gun to his head, fires the first time in a exagerated manner, another pause and he does the same again;fires a second time. Then he points the gun at this dummy target and fires, no bullet in that chamber, oh dear thinks the audience, hes messed it up. Not so, just an excuse for a massively overcooked 'will he, wount he' moment, after which he fires one chamber at his head, and the last at the dummy in rapid succession.
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magician:
some one who does tricks/stunts as a way of living
so magicians are BAD now?
WTH?
btw, blaine already did a stunt in time sq as I remember (or some where in NYC I tihnk it was)
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And as for illusions with guns?
Penn and Teller have one where Penn fire a marked (by audiance member) bullet at teller through a glass windw. And he then catches it in his teeth
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(28 February 2000, Texas) A Houston man earned a succinct lesson in gun safety when he played Russian roulette with a .45-caliber semiautomatic pistol. Rashaad, nineteen, was visiting friends when he announced his intention to play the deadly game. He apparently did not realize that a semiautomatic pistol, unlike a revolver, automatically inserts a cartridge into the firing chamber when the gun is cocked. His chance of winning a round of Russian roulette was zero, as he quickly discovered.
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He was in Ice in Time Square.
I don't care for this "Stay here for X amount of days" or cheating Death. I like the small stuff Blaine usually does.
it was less of an illusion, the gun was loaded.
it was more a matter of his faith in his own psychological reading of his assistant.
(still i swear to god i could out manuver darren, forget double bluff, or tripple bluffs, ide bluff him on a prime numebr based sequence, just to make sure he dies.. *ahem* anyways)....
Yep, one trick in particular I liked. He'd asked them to take a card out of the deck, then put it back in, shuffled. Then threw the deck of cards at a glass window and the card that the guy had chosen was sticking on the other side facing him. Eerie.
watching him do coin and card tricks that I KNOW is simply amazing.
His patter (dialouge that he usses), he always plays calm and seems kinda stoned. Thus his tricks often come of that much better ;P
yah, whenever streat magic comes on I sit down and watch ;P (honestly seen it like 5 times ;P)
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The endurance stuff is kinda the:
"hey look at me I am a Magician, and these are the OTHER things I do (go buy my tape)"
its a publicity stunt, he probably didn't make any money off of it.
Want to know why? Nobody actually cares about David Blaine. He's just some American (Or wherever) magician who's come over to do some stunt. He's not even actually that popular over here at all, and especially wasn't before he started this stunt.
The only reason i can see for him choosing England is trying to sell himself to the English market.
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Street magic is pretty cool, I'll watch when I can.
I have to say I like David Blaine, because he goes down to the sort of underprivileged areas and turns tricks. AFAIK he also gives out money to people.
I think it's great for people to see something interesting in their life, and all the better if they're in a rundown area where you never really had the magic of childhood.
Sure, his "big" tricks are lacking in lustre, I'll concede that, but on the whole I think he's an ok bloke.
the glass has explosives rigged to it.
I'll try to enumerate his "tricks" as I remember them.
- The reviving of the fly.
Its a trick, if you put ice on a fly, it will sleep. If you make noise (snapping a finger) it will wake up.
- The rotating arm.
My brother can do this easily, he says all you need are long sleeved shirts.
The other tricks, where the card goes on the other side of the glass is scripted IMHO, just like the rest.
The part where he "guesses" what the person is thinking is bull----, how can we know that that was what the person was really thinking?
I'll post more as soon as I remember them.
The ram the bullet down into the gun, but the ramming rod has a magnet on the end and the magician just slides it out. He slips it into his mouth when he "is struck by the force of the bullet"
Its just the childlike joy of seeing them performed in front of you.
Or unless you're really really um... stubborn I guess is the way to put it, and you insist its supernatural magic.
I have a friend who believes David Copperfield is not an illusionist, but actually made a pact with satan to obtain black magic.. Yeah. He's a little odd.
i just get the image of blaine whoring himself in the ghetto...
David Blane is a Douch.
If I recall he won biggest Douch in the universe!
And Stan got his own show!